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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:35 am
by TripExistence
Keero wrote:Been reading Twisted by the author who wrote Speak. Liking it, despite the 'guy' things that happen to the character when he thinks of a certain girl and some young adult stuff that wouldn't be nice for children. Fun book so far though.
Speak? As in the book about the ninth-grade girl who gets assaulted, and has to come to terms with it? I love that book.
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:45 am
by Keero
Trudogger wrote:Keero wrote:Been reading Twisted by the author who wrote Speak. Liking it, despite the 'guy' things that happen to the character when he thinks of a certain girl and some young adult stuff that wouldn't be nice for children. Fun book so far though.
Speak? As in the book about the ninth-grade girl who gets assaulted, and has to come to terms with it? I love that book.
Yeah, that's the one. Twisted is about a teen who vandalizes the school, gets a bad rap, and is seen as part geek/badboy. He gets the girl but halfway through the book his reputation is shattered even more. Gotta love the school-aged drama.
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:08 pm
by ohnolookout
Mere Christianity
It's great, although I've only read about a quarter of it.
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:56 am
by Kendrik
Mere Christianity is amazing. Period.
I'm starting up Dante's Inferno. This... should be interesting.
(I'm reading a literal translation by Kathryn Lindskoog for those of you that might want to know, Scott.)
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:41 am
by Deepfreeze32
I'm rereading the Lord of the Rings trilogy again.
Why? I have no freaking clue.......
I just had nothing else to read I guess.
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:01 am
by Strider
1984
It's pretty good...but there's quite a bit of sexual content in it, that just ruins a good book.
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:23 am
by Kendrik
tobymacdude wrote:1984
It's pretty good...but there's quite a bit of sexual content in it, that just ruins a good book.
1984 blew my mind in many ways. It's had more long-lasting effect on me than any other book I've ever read (excluding the Bible). I know what you mean about the sexual content... but... to an extent... it's absolutely fundamental to the ideology of Oceania within the book.
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:46 am
by Keero
Been reading Ceremony, a great book by a Native author. Only around page 120, but wow, real gripping and paints a realistic view of life for people.
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:58 am
by Drewsov
I'm actually really happy to see that people besides me have been influenced by Orwell's writing.
I've been trying to read Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses," but it just doesn't fit me right now. I think I'll either pick up Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" or W. Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage" next.
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:09 am
by Chozon1
The Farside Gallery.
Not really, but after reading all those titles that were hard to pronounce it seemed funny to put that there.
I'm reading Piercing the Darkness. By Frank Peretti.
Yeah, huge fan of Christian literature.
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:19 am
by Keero
I didn't really care for PtD, but his later stuff is awesome.
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:32 am
by Chozon1
Yeah...Something is missing in Piercing the Darkness the was in This Present Darkness. I like PtD but the first was far better.
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:53 am
by Saker
Just finished King Henry V for Shakespeare, and We Were Soldiers for Modern US Military History.
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:37 am
by sabre_play
I am a fan of frank perretti but right now im reading War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells Tham man is a genius!
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:55 am
by Drewsov
I just picked up Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Should be interesting.