What you reading? Your fav books? The book thread

[Lady Ashba]

Certainly Stephenie Meyer is no Shakespeare... They are just books for entertaining, not one of them will become classics of literature! I say take them for what they are... 

Reminds me, I hate Shakespeare as well

As well? I didn't mean to say I hate Shakespeare, I actually think he was simply amazing and I've read most of his stuff.

[Annie]

Certainly Stephenie Meyer is no Shakespeare... They are just books for entertaining, not one of them will become classics of literature! I say take them for what they are... 

Reminds me, I hate Shakespeare as well

As well? I didn't mean to say I hate Shakespeare, I actually think he was simply amazing and I've read most of his stuff.

I love Shakespeare.  The only class I never cut in college was Shakespeare.  I even spent a summer abroad studying Shakespeare at the University of Warwick. My classmates and I were Royal Shakespeare groupies! Hey, I brought my fav actor at the time, Roger Allam, flowers and he kissed me on the lips. My lips tingled for 2 days.

[Lady Ashba]

Thats awesome! Any other fav British authors? To me, Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde are incredible. Gotta love an Austen love story and Wilde's ironies...

[Annie]

Thats awesome! Any other fav British authors? To me, Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde are incredible. Gotta love an Austen love story and Wilde's ironies...

The Bronte sisters and Jane Austen. My fav American author is James Steinbeck. EAST of EDEN is epic!!!

[gilee7]

Just recently finished reading The Lovely Bones, which fucking sucked. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I hated the book. It's an interesting premise--- girl is raped and killed, then narrates from heaven as she watches over her family and friends and how her death affects the community. But the writing was extremely poor, imo. Way too contrived, unreleastic characters, horrible dialogue. And it just gets embarrasingly stupid near the end. (Ghost sex? Especially when the "ghost" is a 14-year-old girl? C'mon.) One of the worst books I've read in a long time.

[Annie]

Just recently finished reading The Lovely Bones, which fucking sucked. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I hated the book. It's an interesting premise--- girl is raped and killed, then narrates from heaven as she watches over her family and friends and how her death affects the community. But the writing was extremely poor, imo. Way too contrived, unreleastic characters, horrible dialogue. And it just gets embarrasingly stupid near the end. (Ghost sex? Especially when the "ghost" is a 14-year-old girl? C'mon.) One of the worst books I've read in a long time.

I tried to read that book, but I couldn't get past the first few chapters. I never finished it, and I never saw the movie.

[Katie.B]

Certainly Stephenie Meyer is no Shakespeare... They are just books for entertaining, not one of them will become classics of literature! I say take them for what they are... 

Reminds me, I hate Shakespeare as well

As well? I didn't mean to say I hate Shakespeare, I actually think he was simply amazing and I've read most of his stuff.

I love Shakespeare.  The only class I never cut in college was Shakespeare.  I even spent a summer abroad studying Shakespeare at the University of Warwick. My classmates and I were Royal Shakespeare groupies! Hey, I brought my fav actor at the time, Roger Allam, flowers and he kissed me on the lips. My lips tingled for 2 days.

Arrgh no I really don't like reading Shakespeare, or writing essays on his work. Just finished one on Hamlet. I'm so fed up of writing essays on tragic heros. Arthur Miller's plays as well. All lecturers/teachers seem to think, "I know what's never been done before! We can compare tragic heros in Arthur Miller's more modern play to tragic hero's in Shakespeare!" *Yawn*. Don't get me wrong I appreciate it ...might just be that I'm a little bored of it.

Also...Lady Ashba...I meant "as well" as in "as well as twilight"

[Lady Ashba]

Also...Lady Ashba...I meant "as well" as in "as well as twilight"

After I put my computer away and went doing something else I realized what you meant! My bad!

[AxlReznor]

Alamut by Vladimir Bartol. Very interesting so far.

[Jdog0830]

I am going to be reading Catcher in the Rye.

I was hoping that my school would have it as required material to read but they didnt.
Fuckin stupid school.



Joe

[jarmo]

This week I finished I am Ozzy' and 1984 which I've been reading since I went to Asia.




/jarmo

[CheapJon]

how was I am Ozzy?

[jarmo]

A lot of drugs......

Makes you wonder how accurate it is. I'm sure the events happened in that order, or somewhat close.

Interesting read though.




/jarmo

[Jdog0830]

Yeah I got to get a copy of Ozzy!


Joe

[Ignacio]

I'm reading AGAIN Complete Prose of Woody Allen. My gf gave it to me almost 2 years ago and I have already lost the count on how many times I read it   

[zihuatenajo]

Currently reading Hearts in Atlantis for the second time. Much better after you've read the DT series 

[Krok1]

Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and the making of Appetite for Destruction by Marc Canter 

++ old Classic Rock Issues and Metal Hammer..

[AxlsMainMan]

Under the Dome - Stephen King

[Axlspants]

Pillars of the Earth is fucking ace as is the sequel World Without End both by Ken Follett.

Aslo Last Light by Alex Scarrow and Infected by Scott Sigler is one of the sickest books I've read! In a good horror story kinda way

[kaasupoltin]

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