What Are You Reading? (2 Viewers)

[**freakstar87**]

i am reading the lord of the rings-return of the king by jrr tolkien
-can't wait for the movie! (woo hoo i just made 50 posts-how fast!)

 

[sunken eyes]

im reading robert jordan too, the great hunt. but thats the second of nine. sometimes a series can go a little to far i think.

 

[dirtyboots]

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. It's not as good as Ulysses so far, doesn't have the same liveliness. But good all the same.

 

[dirtyboots]

Originally posted by Gregor Samsa
Anyone else have a similar reading/cognitive experience? I had a similar happening while reading Crime & Punishment.

Yes - Crime and Punishment as well. Right after he committed the crime. Also in Novel with Cocaine, On the Road, The Bell Jar and Ulysses.

 

[Idioteque]

I just finished reading Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

Next up I plan to find and read:

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Stranger in a Strange Land
Brave New World

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Barbara Tuchman-Bible & Sword.

 

[Macccca]

tv guide

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Marcus Aurelius-The Meditations.

 

[PoDium dAnCr]

n e one recommnd some really awesome books?

I hate Potter, and i find it so hard getting a good read.

My fav book is the beach ... the movie totally sucked tho...

 

[spam police]

Originally posted by PoDium dAnCr
My fav book is the beach ... the movie totally sucked tho...

really, woah, you're like the first person ever to like the beach as well.. i think alex garland is such an good writer, 'the beach' was so well and passionately written that i wanted to go travelling in thailand after i read the book

and the character relationships are really interesting in it too..cept yeah, freakin leonardo dicaprio ruined it, bastard!

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Tacitus-The Annals Of Imperial Rome. [Trans.Michael Grant]

Seems to be quite good so far, except that Grant has chosen to translate the military terms. It just affects the 'feel' reading of Tacitius describing brigades and battallions and so-on..

 

[Melanie Jane]

I'm reading:
Two books for Biology *yawn*
Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
The Bronze Horseman by Paulina Simons
I've got loads of other books stacked up to read - too many to list.
I've also been reading the latest yen mag.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

John Ralston Saul-Unconcious Civilization.

Also read Beowulf today, which was quite 'interesting' as they say. [May possibly ramble in a future post.]

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath, Marian Quartly-Creating A Nation 1788-1990.
A dramatic new history that challenges the conventional view of Australia's past as a creation of white men of British descent.

 

[kimmeh]

i'm reading:
tim winton : cloudstreet

i know its a pst hsc text.. but my freind read it for year 10 english and loved it [i'm in year 11]

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Ed.W.Vivian Davies & Louise Schofield-Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millenium BC.

Did you know that traces of hippopotamus ivory dating from c.2600 BCE have been found in Crete? At the very least, I found it interesting.

 

[kokeshi]

Gregor Samsa do you have a lot of free time on your hands?

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Not particularly, but I read frequently, as you may have noticed. It's something I enjoy and learn from, so it's all good, to me at least.

 

[kokeshi]

I don't think I can afford to read much but that'll be over in a few weeks.

 

[Agnes2810]

im reading the october edition of cosmo