What are you reading at the moment?

Wolf Hunting by Jane Lindskold. Man, I love that series. They're some of the only books I reread again and again. I really should try her other books.

The United States Marine Guidebook of Essential Subjects
Good stuff.

I also picked up Return With Honor by Air Farce Captain (sorry-I meant Air Force ) Scott O'Grady, partially because I'm obsessed with military nonfic but also because I have to read it by tommorow for a test.

I'm reading "A Farewell to Arms" by Hemingway. Trying to read some Hemingway stuff -- we've got a load in my house.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Fredrich Nietzsche

I just finished Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and it was brilliant. Lol, I love Razumikhin.

I just borrowed Crime and Punishment and am about to read it.

You'll like it. ^_^ The characters are amazingly well-drawn. Hehe, (V)razumikhin reminds me of the 'Charles persona' in A Beautiful Mind for some reason.

^^i started "a farewell to arms" a long time ago, but got caught up in something else. "the sun also rises" was a great novel if you're looking for hemingway.

i'm reading "the naming" by allison craggon atm, i'm really enjoying it. i'm also in the middle of "the blue sword" by Robin Mckinley and "Captain Alatriste" by Arturo Perez Reverte. both very good so far as well.

(Myth and DD--- Crime and Punishment. ^_^ It speaks for itself.)

Rouseau and Revolution by Will Durant


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I'm reading Histories by Herodotus, and The Greeks and Greek Civilisation by Jacob Burckhardt.

Herodotus... ick... I'll bet he's fun outside of school when you can just pick out whatever tickles your fancy, but reading it for an assignment was a nightmare. He's all over the place! Plus the whole Egyptian goat thing was beyond disturbing to my little fourteen-year old mind.

I just finished Fairest, by Gail Carson Levine. It wasn't as fabulous as Ella Enchanted, but I didn't expect it to be. Her writing is incredibly succinct, but she still manages to communicate her characters and settings to the reader extremely well. Plus her dialogue's awesome.

Exodus by Leon Uris (great book)
as well as
Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing) by Lao Tzu and The Jewish War by Josephus off and on.

I just finished The Glory by Herman Wouk.

sabradan wrote:Exodus by Leon Uris (great book)

I read that last year-it was a very, very good book. As is Crime and Punishment, as talked about above.

As for my current novel choice, I just finished Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy-that was an amazing book. I just started on The Count Of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. So far, that is also an excellent novel.

I have odd tastes in books-I enjoy the classics

I just started on The Count Of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. So far, that is also an excellent novel.

I love that book!

Myth wrote:

I just started on The Count Of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. So far, that is also an excellent novel.

I love that book!

Yeah! I am not alone I admit I have only read about 300 pages, but they are very, very good. It is surprisingly easy to understand-Dumas isn't as big into lengthy extraneous descriptions as some of the other authors I have read.

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO! My favorite novel of all time! Ahh, Dumas...

But at the moment, I'm reading alternately a collection of Wilde's plays ("The Importance of Being Earnest," "Lady Windermere's Fan," "A Woman of No Importance," and "An Ideal Husband" among others) and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. The former I wholeheartedly recommend--and though the latter's growing on me, I'll warn that it's not by any means an easy read, and I'm very advanced in that area (I was reading, according to official scholastic tests, at a grad-school level in the 6th grade). But picking out the layers of meaning is just fun...