ok.. technically you didn't lsity anything you have read =/

I'm reading Thief Lord for like the 4th time in the row. It gets more and more interesting as I read it over and over.

You guys should read Sho Gun

Very intresting.... not for kids though in both maturity level, *omfg anal* and lenght, its over 1,000 pages in small print.

yea i know, but I made a little list before.. a few pages back.. anyways I was just posting about this book, because I personally wouldn't read a book if I was attracted to it.. and well I was also told this book was pretty good, and not over done.. so thats always a good thing. Plus its a oldish book, with a old style of romance, which I really like. Good read? maybe.

sorry for the extra post but for an in depth history of Wallachia, and eastern Europe from the late 1400's as well as the man known as vald the implaer, I would suggest Vlad the Impaler, Its old, so your library probably has it.

Theres also a great book called the timtables of hsitory,

and for a fictionalized version of the space race get, Space by james Michener.

I've read Space.

I liked it but it was a little boring for me.

I also liked Texas and the Floating World by James Michener

^ well someone has just come out and shown that they have an intelligent reading ability.

You should read, Centennial, theres a tv series too.

I also have some books about sailing, and the sea, anyone intrested should PM me. id mail them to you.

I'll read Centannial, thanks for the suggestion

Some easy reads.. links for reviews/summary.

The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm - Nancy Farmer

Redwall (and series) - Brian Jacques

Ender's Game (and an the subsequent series) - Orson Scott Card

Some not so easy reads...

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

The Stranger - Albert Camus


Candide - Voltaire

The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri This is where you will find the Inferno, the most famous of the 3 books. The other books are also excellent, so read the whole thing and not just the Inferno. This is also where you will find the famous quote

"Abandon all Hope, Ye who enter here" the most used translation...

My favorite Shakespeare (I'm one of the few, sad people I know who has read his complete works =/ )

The Tempest

Macbeth (where the Sound and Fury quote comes from)

As You Like It (my fav Shake comedy)

Really I would put more, but the more I think about it - the more exhausting it seems... some authors..

Hesse, Hemmingway, more Camus!, Tolstoy, Bradbury, ASIMOV (why haven't I seen him in the thread yet?) more Palahniuk, Tom Wolfe anyone? Please someone get some Vonnegut up here... Galapagos for the win. I'm tired. Any body a philosophy fan out there? Haven't seen any DesCartes, Rousseau, saw someone recommend Plato's Republic... that's not a fun read, imo. Interesting, but defintely not fun. Get Sartre's "No Exit" or Beckitt's "Waiting for Godot" these are plays, but freakin' awesome... UH, for a fun read someone grab some Neil Simon. Biloxi Blues GO.

Hell, if you want good Plato get something short... Allegory of the Cave is a fun read.

You've read all those books?????

Devil in the White City Magic, Murder, and Mayhem by Erik Larson
I highly recommend it. It's more or less about one of America's most famous mass murderes and how he was able to get away with it because of the world fair.

Night watch by Lukyanenko Sergie
It's more of a supernatural thriller. Something I imagine Stephen King would write back in his teens

White Oleander by Janet Fitch
This book is kinda harsh

and lastly To Feel Stuff by Andrea Seigel
It's not erotic or anything. Or rather not erotic as you might think of a book that I'd read. It's pretty funny though

They sounds quite interesting. I'll read em.

It's got over 400 pages I believe.
And it is very interesting.

It's a work of non fiction which increases my likeness for it. the way larkson makes it all seem like some sorta fantasy is just amazing

I like all the Lord of the rings books but I kind of have a problem with all the movies of them.

All the movies they make from books are so corny because they leave like so many main parts and characters out of the movie that made the books really interesting.

Example: The lord of the rings had many characters in it like Frodo and Gandalf but they forgot tom bombadil out of the movie which I hated because I wanted to see what he would look like in a movie.

The Tipping Point by Malcome Gladwell.
-This is a work of nonfiction analyzing how and why certain things "tip". An example of something tipping would be the drastic drop in crime in NY during the mid-90s. The author explains the different key people/things very well and keeps your attention easily. It's also a quick and easy read. And I have to read it for AP World Geo. so joy =/

But read that if you're interested in the sociology of pop occurances (ignore all the spelling mistakes that have just happened :()

that is moses's reccomendation for the howeverlong it seems fit.

the movie is great tho.. one of my favorites of all time.

I never saw the movie but i heard a lot about it

Aye. I'm a writer so... you know, keeping well read.

Right now I've added to my list: The Communist Manifesto and Thus Spoke Zarathustra

^omfg levi..omfg... i have a KGB official watch :)

I'm reading the Aeneid and the Illiad and Dante's Inferno

it helps that I've read all of these before

im reading the inferno right now, too. it bores me. illiad is good.
also reading Phantom by Terry Goodkind

just finished with 1984. i highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good book

George Orwell always knew how to write a great book

The Illiad is my favorite out of that The Odyssey and the Aeneid.

And the Inferno is a great read. It's probably one of my favorite epics of all time.

atlas shrugged- ayn rand
lies my teacher told me- james lowen
on the road- jack kerouac

all great books, the first one is hefty and difficult to read but definitly a life changing book if you can manage to finish it.
lies my teacher told me is a critique of the Disney version of American history that they teach you in schools
and on the road is the semi-autobiographical story of kerouacs cross country trips with neal cassady

all three are must reads, if you like lies my teacher told me then you should check on some of Noam Chomsky's political science books and Howard Zinns A Peoples History of the United States. Good stuff.

I've slowed on the reading front.

Still plowing through the Bukowski collection.

i just posted this in the other thread but dhalgren (samuel r delany) owns big time. unlike, say, ayn rand.