^I like reading a certain book about humanity’s first contact with Vogons.
TSS- I was going to see Aida once, but I forgot why but had to decline the offer. It’s one play I’ve been meaning to see.
In NYC, I went to the Columbia University Book Store. There, I bought two books. An encyclopedia called ‘The Founding Fathers’ and a copy of ‘The Federalist Papers’ (written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, of course.)
Anyone ever read Ender’s Game or any other books by Orson Scott Card? 
I could not stand the characters with potty mouths in that book.I do like a book series that Orson Scott Card recommends…the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica. He aays that he doesn’t know anybody who doesn’t like those books and is sure that if he met anyone who didn’t, he wouldn’t like them.
Orson Scott Card also has a review on Fablehaven, which he also likes.
Sorry, I had the last post on here and thought it was against the rules to bump.
Anyway, I’m reading Goethe’s Faust and I have gleaned from it that it is wrong to desire anything, because if you obtain what you desire on Earth, you will have to pay for it in the afterlife. And while earthly pleasure certainly has its perks, most people only have at most 80-90 years on this planet, maybe a little more by the time young people today get to that age. And the afterlife is forever. Of course, this is assuming there IS an afterlife, but it’s better not to take the chance.
The Lighthouse Land. Its very good 1sh of series of 3 
I have to read Crime and Punishment for school, and I tell ya, that book is a killer. I do not like it one bit. I should probably be reading it right now but…
Right now I’m reading Ron Chernow’s detailed 1,000 page biography of Alexander Hamilton.
I just finished Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. I had to read it for school. It was pretty good, but to be honest, I was expecting it to be a lot better. 
Crime and Punishment is an awesome book, unlike Faust by Goethe, which I have to read for class. If nothing else, there is a woman named Sonia that is worth lusting for. Maybe you haven’t encountered her yet?
At least you didn’t say this about War and Peace. If you ever question the merit of that book, you will see a huge wall of text asking you how you could not stand such and such.
I read a fair 300 or so pages of that before I realized how useless nonfiction is to me.
Well, I was expecting it to be worse…I was not forced to read, unlike you, poor unforunate soul that you are. But I had first tried to read One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a TERRIBLE book that does not deserve the hype. And because that book was bad, I thought Slaughterhouse Five might be too, since they seemed to hold the same fans. But when I read Slaughterhouse Five, I found it was amazing.
And I had reason to think so about that beforehand, because BOTH Catch novels, Catch-22 and The Catchers in the Rye, were not to my liking, although Catch-22 was at least a little funny. But the main character irritated me.
Anyway, Cat’s Cradle, another book by Vonnegut, was good, so I gave Slaughterhouse Five the chance at last, and I loved it.
^ I’m not that far into it and it’s not even the book that I don’t like so much as the time it’s taking to read it. I’m getting stressed just thinking about it 
I finished reading One Flew Over the Cukcoo’s Nest. I loved the book. But it took me a while to get into it because it’s so weird. I knew that the book going to be from Chief Bromden’s perspective when I started it. But I thought it was going to be something similar to the way The Lion King 1 1/2 was from the perspective of Timon and Pumba. 
Well, I guess it was. What I really mean is that I didn’t expect it do be so weird. But once I got use to it, I loved the book. But I have a feeling that there’s a lot to the book that I didn’t catch on to.
I was about to read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. But I decided to read Unforgivable Blackness The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson instead when it came in the mail from Amazon.com yesterday.
^ Your name is after the book? I loved that book!
I absolutely love In Cold Blood.
It isn’t after the book. It’s after how I always feel everyday. But I also love the book and I enjoyed the movie. The ending with the Stevie Wonder song playing makes me tear up.
Yeah, reading, understanding, and comprehending the life of the man who built Modern America, and how our country and finanical system affects our daily lives and the world, is useless. Try expanding your mind a bit.
theoutsider- Ooo! I need to read that book, I love the movie.
A book I enjoyed reading (and I was surprised) was a Brave New World. Read that in my Senior year in High School.
I loved that book. I read it for the first time last year. The ending was shocking to me. Only because it seemed like something that was written in recent years. I was thinking that the only thing missing is TMZ! 
I finished The Girl Who Played with Fire over the weekend and I am now halfway through The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. I read 73 pages today at work.
Has anyone ever read Island of the Blue Dolphins?