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Post by legrande on Feb 26, 2012 0:49:24 GMT
Well, I think that the title's pretty self explanitory... I'm always looking for something new to read, so I thought this would be a good way to share book titles (and promote them I suppose, if you think they're good...)
At the moment I'm reading The Catcher in the Rye. I'm halfway through, and all I can really say is that the protagonist is really, really getting on my nerves...
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Post by Samantha on Feb 26, 2012 1:31:29 GMT
Great thread! I always love to hear what other people are reading.
I felt the exact same way when read The Catcher in the Rye. Holden's so whiny, but I loved him (and the book) in the end.
In order to maintain my dignity, I will not mention that I spent a couple of hours last weekend reading the latest installment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, which I may or may not have asked my mother to take out of the library for me. Well, there's some paralepsis for you right there...
I'm in between books right now. I finished reading Wuthering Heights Thursday night. Personally, I didn't love it, and I found it very hard to get through (it was an assignment for class). I also just finished reading A Fault in Our Stars, which was highly recommended to me by two of my friends. I found it a bit unbelievable in places, but it was enjoyable nonetheless, and Augustus was an adorable male lead. I didn't much care for Hazel, though.
Currently I'm reading Speak Softly, She Can Hear, which was another recommendation, this time from my mother's friend. It's a very twisted book (to give you an idea, the other book which she recommended to me was of the same genre and about a brother and sister who fell in love with each other. This one is supposedly "even better), but I do like it so far. I'm a little less than halfway through.
After finishing A Fault in Our Stars, I also started A Separate Peace again.
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Post by LadyofShalott on Feb 26, 2012 1:57:57 GMT
I'm a little over halfway through on the last book in the Percy Jackson series, The Last Olympian. It's pretty sweet. I love Percy Jackson. <3
I just finished re-reading The Hunger Games a week or so ago. Now that my facts are refreshed, I'm ready for the movie!
My two books in waiting are Forever by Michelle Stiefvater and Nightshade, by an author whose name I forgot. I think I'm on a werewolf kick or something, but I'm really excited to start reading them.
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Post by Laura on Feb 26, 2012 22:45:44 GMT
I agree about The Catcher in the Rye, which I had to read recently for my course. Holden was a bit too much of a moaner for my liking. Far from the worse book I've read though. I read several books all at once, which makes picking one to mention difficult! Though when I go home for the weekends, I attempt to get through a book called Angelology, by Danielle Trussoni. Not making much progress, but it's a slow moving plot (so far) anyway so I feel I can take my time.
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Post by Zoe on Feb 27, 2012 4:01:19 GMT
I'm trying to force myself to read Mein Kampf, the most unbearable and redundant book ever written by a crazy person. I was going to quit, since I finished the report I was reading it for, but I'm making myself read at least twenty pages, just to be able to say that I read Hitler's book.
I'm almost done with The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch. It was good in the beginning, but then the main character Stephen got really annoying by doing something that was really annoying with a character that's REALLY ANNOYING. [/trying to be discreet]
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Post by mylittletoygun on Feb 27, 2012 4:23:03 GMT
I'm Re-reading The Hunger Games Series ( Read it a long time ago, and re-reading it makes me love it even more!) before the movie comes out. I hope it's good, and I really hope people don't become overly obsessed with it like Twilight T_T
Also, I'm not reading this at the moment, but It's my absolute favorite book. It's called 'Willow' By Julia Hoban. I've read it 4 times. It's super great and I love it.
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Post by legrande on Feb 27, 2012 16:43:56 GMT
Mein Kampf? Wow. :L
I've finished The Catcher in the Rye, now. I'm probably going to have to read it again at some point, to really get it, but not right now.
I've started David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, which I've read before, but when I was ten. As you can imagine, it made very little sense to me back then, so I'm giving it a go again now. I also read more than one book at once, and I'm reading Room by Emma Donahague which, so far, is...odd. I'm fairly near the beginning, though.
I'm also thinking there's a Skulduggery Pleasant book on my shelf with my name on it right now...
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Post by Laura on Feb 27, 2012 18:03:32 GMT
^ SKULDUGGERY. What a series, I love those books. They get labelled as children's books but, much like Harry Potter, I think a person of any age can read and enjoy them. The War of the Worlds, by HG Wells, is what I have to read (and give a presentation on) next. I'm finished the first 'book', moving onto the second. It's slow going but I'm enjoying it. Doesn't seem like a book that came out of the 1800s!
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Post by Zoe on Feb 27, 2012 22:46:19 GMT
I read about fifteen pages of Mein Kampf, so now I'm going to start on a book by the name of Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson. It's for a book group I have in English. Looks promising.
OHMIGOSH. Skulduggery Pleasant was delightful. I've only read the first, because when I showed it to some of my friends, they ended up reading all the books and obsessing over them, and it got to the point where it was no fun to have this awesome book to myself. ... I'm such a hipster.
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Post by Caitlin on Feb 28, 2012 23:53:06 GMT
I have a lot of books on the go at the moment, but the one I'm working on right now is The Vampire Diaries #1 by L. J. Smith. I've read it before but I never even started the third book, and that was about two years ago. So, refreshning my mind and hopefully finishing the series :)
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Post by Samantha on Mar 29, 2012 22:46:07 GMT
I've been reading Peace Like a River yesterday by Leif Enger, and I just finished it yesterday. The book was amazing, one of the only that I've enjoyed reading reading for my lit class all year.
I want to re-read They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch because it's been coming up a lot in conversation lately and making me really sentimental and whatnot.
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Post by Zoe on Mar 30, 2012 3:22:53 GMT
I'm in the middle of reading The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey, which is brilliant and terrifying at the same time. It's brilliantly terrifying. It gave me horrible nightmares, and I had only read two chapters then. I also just finished a novella called Adventures in Funeral Crashing, by Milda Harris. Absolutely fantastic. Eagerly awaiting its sequel. I've recently dove back into reading, because I go through fazes where reading is my ultimate enemy, but now it's my getaway. Ah, books, how I love you so.
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Post by Caitlin on Mar 31, 2012 13:48:12 GMT
I just finished The Vampire Diaries numbers one and two, and just started on the third. I don't believe I'll be finishing the third one though because its just extremely stupid. A while back I read The Hunger Games and now since I'm content with The Vampire Diaries (it really should have ended with the second book) I'll finish that series, or finish this other vampire series I own.
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Post by LadyofShalott on Apr 1, 2012 23:29:50 GMT
I'm trying to work my way through Frankenstein. I'm actually suprised by how much I'm enjoying it. Usually really old stories of the sort bore me. :/ But I really like Frankenstein. It takes a long time to read, but I like it. I also just now started on Nightshade. It's going very slowly.
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Post by legrande on Apr 28, 2012 10:50:09 GMT
I recently got a book called By Midnight out of the library. I was on a mission to find bad YA vampire romance, and I believe I found some. I'm two chapters in, and I had to put it down because I was laughing so hard. There are lines in it which could literally be lifted straight out of Twilight, which wasn't a book I enjoyed in the first place. (Got to say, it didn't bode well when the first page in the book said "Forget Edward and Bella, Gabriel and April are the new top couple.") That aside, I'm currently working my way through The Hobbit by J R R Tolkein again--in preperation for the film in December.
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