Books

Good lord textbooks are so expensive. Have you tried buying them online EJE?

I need to get my books.

I don’t need to get my books for a while, but I need to start looking for ones I need for the upcoming semester.

One book I really enjoyed, and made me try to put less importance on my own petty problems, is A Child Called It.

I have some questions for you guys. Has anybody read Gravity’s Rainbow and Infinite Jest? If so, do you have to be well read and really, REALLY smart to understand those books? My last question is can anybody recommend a good book on Napoleon?

Right now I’m reading “The Catcher in The Rye” by J.D. Salinger, and The NIRVANA Biography by Dr. Evrett True. Good stuff!!

Currently, I’m reading Jack Black by Osamu Tezuka, just got done reading the first volume and it is excellent. It progressively gets more and more compelling as it goes on. After that I’m considering reading Devilman (since apparently I have a thing for 70’s manga). 8D

I just started Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hurbert Selby Jr.

I wanna startreading the hunger games again I never got through the first one but I think i could now that im older.

I can’t decide if I want to read, Danny Boyle In His Own Words or A Home at the End of the World. I love Danny Boyle’s films and I’m interest in reading about his life. But I really enjoyed the movie based on A Home at the End of the World, and I read that the book is way better.

Edit: I decided to read In Cold Blood.

Wow, this thread became pretty popular! Anyway, right now I’m reading The Giver

It’s good so far but it’s a bit overrated. Its definitively not as good as people have been saying it is. I’m almost done with it :smiley:

Currently reading some short stories from Edgar Allan Poe. I like his style for stories and poetry making them creepy and weird.

I thought it was a great book. It brought tears to my eyes. I think it had to do with me seeing babies all day everyday at work and imaginig something like what happens to kids in the book happening to the kids I see.

I enjoyed The Giver as well. What can I say, I’m a sucker for a good dystopian novel. It’s a fascinating book and it’s well written- you don’t have to struggle through it.

I’ve got limited book access, as I haven’t figured out my college’s library yet, so I’m rereading The Princess Diaries, which is one of the few books I brought with me to school. Quite a bit different from the film version, and it’s certainly YA fluff, but I love the series anyway :smiley:

I have just read Agamemnon and Oedipus the King for my Drama class.

Right now I’m reading a book called Homeboyz by Alan Lawrence Sitomer.

So far I really like it, but its definitively not for kids cause it has lot of violence and a lot of F bombs.

Reading Oedipus the King in my drama class.

I’m currently reading David Weber’s Honor Harrington series.
It’s space opera at its finest, and we will even get to see this on the big screen in a few years (see signature link).
This is going to be the best thing to happen to sci-fi since WALL-E. :mrgreen:

Btw. the first book has been made available for free online by the publisher in the Baen free library.

I just started The Age of Innocence.

I just finished the Hunger Games trilogy!

It was pretty good, really depressing, and I cried a whole darn lot at the end of the last book. I liked a lot them, but didn’t love them like Harry Potter. I don’t think anything will ever get to that point in books for me again :confused: