What are you reading at the moment?

I'm reading The Once and Future King by T.H. White in English right now, and I hate it. I've resorted to Spark Notes because the storyline is extremely hard to follow, and I can only take so much information in a few days (we're reading between 3-5 chapters per day, WAY too much for me to read.

The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova.

Addie stole it from me after I bought it in March, and I was only about 80 pages in. But now I'm coming up on 300 pages, and it is getting soooo good. I'm actually having to hide it from myself because if I see it I am physically incapable of stopping myself from reading it. Much awesomeness abounds.

Ringworld, By Larry Niven. Well, at home anyway. I'm too lazy to bring it in to college to read during my free periods, so I'm reading Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem.

writer_chick_13 said:

I'm reading...
Ode of Billy Joe by Herman Raucher

I love Ode To Billy Joe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That book changed my life and the way I see people. I cried, I laughed....it was just such a meaningful and great book. My copy is falling to bits as it used to belong to my mum who passed it down to my sister, then my other sister and now me.

How are you finding it? I would absolutely recommend it any day!!!!!!!

Alainna
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I'm still reading The Amber Spyglass, haven't had much time to read with school and testing and stuff. Still loving it though.

I'm also reading A Morbid Taste For Bones by Ellis Peters (I think that's her name), and re-reading The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding, which would also explain why I haven't gotten through much of TAS. I'm still ticked at Philip Pullman for killing Lee. *still pouting*

Where the Red Fern Grows...I know most kids read it in fifth grade or whatever, but I've never read it, so yeah. *shrug*

Literary Converts - Joseph Pearce

...terribly interesting, certainly articulate, narrative.

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. It is very good.

Pawn Of Prophecy- David Eddings.

Brilliant, amazing. My mother got me hoooked on the Belgarion series. (This is teh forst one)

Cassandra wrote:Where the Red Fern Grows...I know most kids read it in fifth grade or whatever, but I've never read it, so yeah. *shrug*

Then of course you have to read it! I remember really liking this book. I think it made me cry... I want to say it was the first book that made me cry, but I'm not sure. It was definitely one of the first though. Let me know how you like it!

The unabridged version of Les Miserables 1,643 pages of Victor Hugo brilliance. I must say, I will never settle for the abridged version =D.

I just finished Watchmen by Alan Moore and David Gibbons. It was irritating me, because everyone kept telling me to read it, and it kept leering at me at work. So I read it. In one reading session, with breaks for food and drink. It's brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I might read it again in a few days, just in case I missed some of the references, which is extremely likely.

Otherwise, I think I'm still struggling through History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. Fifteen pages of one speech does not get too exciting.

I am reading The Belgariad: Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings. I am about half way through it and it is quite good, not fantastic, but good.

Bjorn wrote:My, my... The Idiot was simply brilliant! A rather predictable ending, yet one you certainly did not want to happen! Poor, poor Myshkin... I feel for him very much ^_^;;

Precisely!

That's the first book that ever had me close to tears - I didn't end up crying over poor Myshkin after all, but he would have certainly deserved it. ^_~ I think it nearly beats out Crime and Punishment for brilliance, and that's saying something.

I seem to be rereading Faust by Goethe.

Firestarter wrote:Otherwise, I think I'm still struggling through History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. Fifteen pages of one speech does not get too exciting.

Oh my goodness, Jack. Are you reading this for fun? Wow. Just... wow.

We had to read it (well, selections of it; there was no way were getting through the whole thing) for school. Some of it is amazing, but it's just so dang long!