Where’s Waldo books used to be at every barber shop…they were fun at that time. It would be cool to have a Pixar version of that…maybe Where’s Woody? on pages filled with Pixar characters?
^I saw what was essentially a Toy Story 3 version of Where’s Waldo half a year ago when the movie was in theaters. Not sure if they exist with other Pixar movies, though.
I have every Where’s Wally? book except the latest two. They’re fun!
I loved Wastersip Down! I read good things about it before I read it, but I didn’t think I would love it as much as I did. Wastership Down, Flowers for Algernon and The Giver are three books that I’ve read this year, loved all three and after finishing all three, I wondered how is it that I didn’t know about these books while I was in middle school, because that’s when it seems like that’s when everybody else read them.
I didn’t read The Giver till I was a freshman in college. Flowers For Algernon I read earlier than that, of course, but some people that I’ve spoken to only seem to know about the short story, not the novel. One girl in my Academic Decathlon team during my junior year in high school scoffed at the fact that at another school we were visiting, the students were reading Flowers For Algernon…I think she was thinking of only the short story, which she read in middle school. The kids in that class were reading the novel. (I’m sure she read the short story, not the novel, because the book we had for Reading class included Flowers For Algernon, which is how I found out about it, looking for a story to read the summer after eighth grade.)
I read The Giver my freshman year of high school.
I just started One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I’m really interested in reading this book since it about it’s about what went on from Bromden’s perspective. For the most part, movie wasn’t like that. At least from what I remember.
I’m currently reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Awesome! I love those books for the nonsense!
I have to pick a fiction and nonfiction book for my school summer reading assignment, so I picked Slaughterhouse Five and Into Thin Air. They’re shipping from Borders now!
This book is on my to read list. I love the movie, so I should read the book to! I hope you enjoy it.
I’m bringing ‘Grey Fox’ a book about Confederate General Robert E. Lee on the plane ride with me. I’ve been in a Civil War mood recently.
I have read the first two Lord of the Rings but not the third.
The third is great, but I think the one I enjoy the most, besides The Hobbit, is the first one.
I’m reading Aida for my commmunity theatre musical. I’ve read it over three times already.
Slaughterhouse Five is fun. I almost didn’t read it because of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which two books I thought were similar, somewhat, but thankfully, Slaughterhouse Five is a good book, which can’t be said of the cuckoo one.
I can’t get past page 70 of “The Fellowship of the Ring” because it reads too much like “Eragon.” And yes, I liked “The Hobbit,” but that is as far in Tolkien as I could go.
It reads too much like Eragon? What do you mean?
The part when the humans enter the Shire looking for Frodo and passes them like shadows is the EXACT same scene as the one in Eragon where the Ra’zac hunt for Eragon and Saphire…the only difference is the words used.
Yes, Lord of the Rings was written first, and Paolini probably took that scene from it. But still, I read Eragon first and reading the exact same scene from two different authors is no fun.
Paolini stole everything from every famous franchise.
It’s unfortunate you gave up Tolkien for a lesser author. You should give it a try, cause the text is much richer than anything in Eragon, even if it stole some scenes.
Besides, it’s a classic. You should read it, being a lover of fiction, and those things 
Currently reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. I did a really big project on her last year in my American Literature class. If you’re a fan of her short story “The Lottery,” I think you’ll really like her novel We Have Aways Lived in the Castle. It’s actually one of my favorite books.
I’m actually in between books right now. I have a list of Star Trek books that I’ve been wanting to read and now that school’s done I have time to finish them. I just finished one called Planet of Judgement which was really weird, even for Trek, and am waiting for one to come in from the library called Strangers From the Sky. Its supposed to be about humanity’s first contact with Vulcans