i was the same way....and now i'm gobbling up the third book :)

how do you feel about happiness and any remote strand of hope? :D

That's why I'm also reading Ranma. Need something to laugh at after I lay in bed all night staring at the bleak, horrible future.

Today's score at the thrift store for a buck a piece:

The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
Slowness - Milan Kundera
Walden and Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Game of Thrones book 1

I read The Road last year. It was decent. My biggest complaint about the writing style was how McCarthy didn't use quotation marks when someone was speaking, so during long scenes of dialogue I'd forget who was saying what.

PS. Apparently, I can't quote someone who has a link in their post until I have 15 posts. So.

I am completely unmotivated to read Hunger Games.
I am somewhere in the middle of the 2nd book but I just cannot push myself to read sometimes, I'm not excited about it. What was everyone so excited about? Nothing has been going on for like 100 pages now.

Finished The Road just now. Thought it was quite good, though the writing style was a bit difficult to get into at first. No quotation marks, barely any punctuation, and some rather odd sentences. And his whole sentence structure is off kilter.

That said, I love anything that is post-apocalyptic, and thought that this vision of the future was wonderfully bleak. Good story and good characterization. On to my next book.

Reading Othello for class!

Just out of curiosity, what Shakespeare is being taught in school besides Romeo & Juliet?