Young Writers Society

Here are some of the many books I am planning on reading:

War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids by Stanley Kiesel
Up on Cloud Nine by Anne Fine
Stick and Whittle by Sid Hite
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
Our Man Weston by Gordon Korman
A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag by Gordon Korman
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
Our Gang by Philip Roth
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
Unknown Man #89 by Elmore Leonard
Airborn by Kenneth Opel
Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Life at These Speeds by Jeremy Jackson
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Early Bird by Rodney Rothman
This is Your Life by John O'Farrell
In the Lke of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
The Biggest Game in Town by A. Alvarez
Hell's Angel by Sonny Barger with Keith and Kent Zimmerman
Under and Alone by William Queen
The Writer's Survival Guide by Rachel Simon

So have you guys read any of these books? What do you think of them?

I haven't read any of those books but my friend told me that Angels and Demons is a very good book. I might read it myself.

The only book on your list that I have read is On the Road by Jack kerouac. I really enjoyed the book. I love the works written by the beat generation

I've read Angels and Demons..'tis alright...nothing special.

Isn't Angels and Deamons the prequel to the DaVinci Code?

Jack Kerouack...:dreamily stares off:

Wow, you've got two Canadian authors up there. I haven't read read any of those books, but I have read books by Korman and Oppel. Even got to meet Oppel once. He's a nice guy. For Airborn, he own Canada's highest literary honour, the Governor General's award. Which is very encouraging to me, since it was a science fiction novel and I'm a sff writer.

Yep...'tis the prequel...

To be honest, I haven't heard of any of those texts.

Every single person here needs to read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Its the most amazing book ever.

I've read Angles and Domons, and it was alright..

Yes! Gala, I agree completely. Everyone needs to read Ender's Game. Now.

I've read that! Have you read it's paralex, Ender's Shadow? To be perfectly honest, I liked Ender's Shadow more than Ender's Game.

Reichieru wrote:Wow, you've got two Canadian authors up there.

Yeah. I'm Canadian. I've lived in the U.S. all my life so far but when I'm eighteen or older I might move to Canada for a while to be a bartender (here you have to be 21). I started reading Gordon Korman when a relative in Canada sent my brother The Toilet Paper Tigers. That book's so funny. What books have you read by him?

That's cool you met Oppel.

Galatea: Every single person here needs to read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Its the most amazing book ever.

I used to go to Orson Scott Card's website (it used to have a young writers' group) and I decided to read Ender's Game when my brother read it and seemed to like it (he HATES reading normally). I read the beginning and I didn't like it. A lot of people really love it, though.

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

w00t yeah! I read that one!

Is it good? I want to read it because a long time ago some people critiquing something I wrote said it reminded them of Bret Easton Ellis.

Um...yeah...it's good. It's definitely not an upper, that's for sure. It's really depressing and sad, but I like the way it's written, and it's an interesting read, period. Gives you a bit of insight into the life of rich, bored kids in Beverly Hills in the 80's.