The End Of Faith; religion, terror and the future of reason - Sam Harris.


awesome book, proper eye opener about religion and the world in general.

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I just started Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz

Mark Frankland-Red Zone.

Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger.




highly overrated.

I just finished that a couple of days ago. I do agree it is highly overrated, but it is still a great book. I really like how Holden calls everyone else a phony yet he is just as phony himself. Not to mention J.D. Salinger is a hermit and watches over the publishers shoulder to see when his next pay check will be.

Anyways I am now reading Moby Dick and I am going to read Paradise Lost after I finish it.

I can see where you would think that, cause there are definitely better books out there. But I wouldn't discredit it just because there are huge fanatics out there.

I'm not doubting it's value as a work, I'm merely saying that I was mislead as to how good it would be.
I definately see some of myself in Holden, especially the qualities that exemplify a general disdain for all mankind.

almost everybody sees themselves in Holden. In my English class this year we did an exercise in which everybody wrote down what character out of school required literature we most related to. 95% of the class put down Holden. It was ridiculous.

We have to read Catcher, and write a psychoanalytical report about him, with full diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment recommendations.


i was like
lulzwut!??!?

I think the only treatment Holden needed was medicine for hypocrisy and immaturity. Other then that he was perfectly fine.

as a suggestion, never become a therapist.

I have that covered. ;)

I'm reading Kite Runner after some friends recommend it, and so far, it's terribly depressing.

I just read it like a month ago. It gets worse.

Ugh, I'm like 20 pages past the rape part, I hate Amir more than the kid who raped Hassan.

I've just finished Candide by Voltaire.



it was probably one of the best books i've ever read.

Tell me when you finish it, i'm curious if you will think it is as contrite as I did.

Atm I'm reading some information in getting some work experience abroad. Where to go, ohhh where to go?

im reading shake hands with the devil: humanitesy failure

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Has loads of short stories based on Fall song titles , some of them are very odd indeed.

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac, its hot.

bed by tao lin

mmm...that's a good book.

we're starting huckleberry finn in engrish.




i'm going to kill myself with sleeping pills.

Murphy by Samuel Beckett

Finished "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami. It finished with some loose ends, and as a whole was relatively fragmented. I liked it though; I'd say it's one of my favourite books.

Looking to read some other of his books.

Midnighters and instensity
 

finished "Intensity" last week by Dean Koontz,and jsut finished Midnighters about 5 minutes ago.

christine by stephen king

Lord of Light- Roger Zelazny

This book probably has the most confusing first chapter ever, but the book has been highly recommended by the boy who lives under my locker.

The Picture of Dorian Gray.

And Lord Henry is really getting on my nerves.

The the sisters by Anton Chekhov

:shycouch:

Eclipse!!!

Interview with a Vampire. I enjoyed the movie and heard the book was better.

The next two books were better, though I'm not a big Anne Rice fan anymore.

I remember seeing the next two along with the Tale of the Body Thief, I guess I will give them all a shot if I like Interview w/ a Vampire. Out of curiosity did you just grow out of Anne Rice? Or did she pull a Mel Gibson and therefore you don't like her anymore.

Grew out, I guess.

Oh dear. I thought we were on the same wave length? The book is airport reading and the film is terrible hollywood fluff.

I read mostly on the toilet.

Thought I'd share that.

Reading Kerouac's 5OTH anniversary edition of On The Road. Have to say I prefer the "normal" version.

^ Reading a book of haikus by Jack Kerouac for my writing course.

Pretty interesting stuff - not too fond of the haiku format at first, but when you read them continously it doesn't flow so bad.