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Currently reading the gossip girl series.
Im over it!!! im up to book 5 i think and i was over it by book 3! but i have to know what happens to the characters :( what i plan to read next is "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer i read the first few chapters on her website and it was very intriguing! anyone read it? whats your review without spoilers!! :p
 

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nicolerachford said:
Twilight series - Stephenie Meyer (I know, not academic, but a damn good read)
i completely agree about twilight
just finished "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer, excellent!!
 

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meh who cares if its not academic! as long as you enjoy it!!

peregrinus - you recommend the host?
 

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reading Deception Point by Dan Brown

its awesome so far :rofl:
 

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1984, George Orwell

...for school, but it's hardly a chore - I've actually been meaning to read it for a couple years now.
 

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sca said:
1984, George Orwell

...for school, but it's hardly a chore - I've actually been meaning to read it for a couple years now.
I love that book. Read it twice in a row!

At the moment I'm reading 'If On a Winter's Night a Traveller' by Italo Calvino. I'm loving it but it's quite difficult. So many things happening at once!
 

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lisajf said:
meh who cares if its not academic! as long as you enjoy it!!

peregrinus - you recommend the host?
definitely!
by the looks of your pic, id say you're a fan of Stephenie Meyer, so i suggest you read it
 

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Hysterik said:
I love that book. Read it twice in a row!

At the moment I'm reading 'If On a Winter's Night a Traveller' by Italo Calvino. I'm loving it but it's quite difficult. So many things happening at once!
What's it about? (As simply as you can put it, lol).

(And dw, even if I wasn't studying 1984 for school I'd read it again just because of the depth and complexity of it all... and the need to understand a good book... you know? All those little details you miss on the first reading).
 
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Taking a break from war and peace to read We Need to Talk About Kevin while travelling. Heard v. good things about this book.
 

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Reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer. Veryy intriguing and i cant keep my nose out of it!!
 
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fight club by chuck palahniuk.

it's amazing.

not sure if i want to see the movie. hollywood wrecking things and all ...
 
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aside from king lear for school, i decided i'd read the chronicles of narnia... didn't read them when i was younger but i wanted to. i don't really like lewis' style of storytelling, or the obvious religious symbolism, but the whole fantasy element and the ideas in the novels are enough to compensate for that.

yesterday i read the magicians' nephew, today i read the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, so tomorrow i'll read the horse and his boy if it's at the school library.
 

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For Ext. 1 English I am reading Jane Austen's Emma and Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand. I've finished Emma and found it horrendously boring compared to Pride & Prejudice. Tannen's work is quite interesting and entertaining.

Right now, for pure enjoyment I am reading Tim Winton's Cloudstreet and am about 50 pages from finishing. Cloudstreet will definitely be put onto Penguin's Modern Silver Classics in about 50 years time: it is excellent. I plan to start reading Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf once I finish.
 

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Tess of the D'urbevilles - Thomas Hardy
quite interesting but a book revolving round feminism

Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
great book so far, pretty deep, intense

next book to tackle: Anna Karenina - Tolstoy; any thoughts?
 

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