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So, what is everyone reading right now?

After all, this is the reading room. It needs a thread like this!

Please tell us its title, author, and what you think of it!
 

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My notes on ethics for College and "Blood Canticle" by Anne Rice.
 

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Schoolish: "The Anatomy of Satire", Gilbert Highet, Princeton, 1967. :D, and John Clarke, The Howard Miracles. God John Clarke is an absolute genius.

Non-schoolish: picked up a copy of Oliver Twist/Great Expectations/ A Christmas Carol from a nearby shelf for an idle read, so it appears to be Dickens time.
 

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Finished George Eliot's Middlemarch last night... left me sobbing. I hate the day/s after you finish a really powerful book, because I generally need to read before going to bed at night, and I don't like to start a fresh book when my mind's still turning over the previous one. So I'll spend the next few nights flicking through already read pages of Middlemarch and reminiscing before I can bring myself to start another book...
 

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I'm reading Australin political institutions, absolutly thrilling.

Other than that the Theban trilogy by Sophocles and the Emperor series by Conn Iggulden (sp?)
 
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butterflies- susanne gerway

tempest- shakespeare himself
 

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hmm i think there's already a thread like this in entertainment

umm currently, frankenstein o_O for uni.
 

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Originally posted by bubz :D
hmm i think there's already a thread like this in entertainment

umm currently, frankenstein o_O for uni.
I know, but like I said, this is the reading room! Plus the one in Entertainment is like 29 pages long....

Btw, I'm reading Frankenstein too. The introduction in my book takes upapprox. 1/3 of it and it's really boring me!
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I'm also reading LotR and Dragon of Autumn Twilight, the first book in Dragonlance Chronicles.
 

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Originally posted by sukiyaki
is that the one about the girl who has burns?
yeah thats the one, do you like it?
i cringe wen i read it, its like i can feel her burns :(
 

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For school: Patrick White - trying to find a book from his that ISNT boring
Non-School - English Patient (Michael Onda....something)
- The Penal Colony (Kafka)
- Nietschze - The Vicious Circle
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

zZzz...
 

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Originally posted by dark`secrets
yeah thats the one, do you like it?
i cringe wen i read it, its like i can feel her burns :(
yup i like it. Yeh the book is saddening :(
 

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just finished reading "A child called 'it'" by Dave Pelzer, has anyone else read it?
Great book, a tear-jerker for the girlies, and a powerful memoir of one kid's survival for the guys...
Some of the stuff is truly horrible and sometimes quite graphic, don't read if u r queasy.
I'm about to start reading the sequel, "The Lost Boy".
These are nice, short books, easy to read, for if u like to read on the bus/train etc.
 

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Originally posted by JazzaT
just finished reading "A child called 'it'" by Dave Pelzer, has anyone else read it?
Great book, a tear-jerker for the girlies, and a powerful memoir of one kid's survival for the guys...
Some of the stuff is truly horrible and sometimes quite graphic, don't read if u r queasy.
I'm about to start reading the sequel, "The Lost Boy".
These are nice, short books, easy to read, for if u like to read on the bus/train etc.
I've read all of the Pelzer books (and I didn't cry - no stereotyping me thank you!)

I'm currently reading "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", and also this book called "My Language is Me", a non-fiction written by the therapist of this teenager with schizophrenia recording six years of his treatment.
 

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October Horse - Colleen McCoullagh. Middlemarch :O! that book was like reading in a different language.
 

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