Oh man, I loved the Gunslinger, Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple. Just reading these titles made me smile. I opted to NOT watch the televised Eyes Were Watching God because I am not a Halle fan and I do not think that a movie could do the book justice. I saw the Color Purple before I read the book and although the movie was good, it pales in comparison to the written work.

I just finished Death Du Jour and am not going to spend any more money on K.Reich's books. The main thing I like about her books are the descriptions of Canada. Before I moved to Michigan, I always thought of Canada only in terms of Windsor (yeah, shallow me) but I like all the detail she puts into her work. What I don't like is how she always ends up getting attacked or held hostage. That has gotten old. I need a new author.

Originally Posted by tikanique:
Oh man, I loved the Gunslinger, Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple. Just reading these titles made me smile. I opted to NOT watch the televised Eyes Were Watching God because I am not a Halle fan and I do not think that a movie could do the book justice.

Ah... I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way, Tiki. I think it's often a mistake to use a "big box name" in some of these movies. And I'm not a Halle fan, either, although I would kill for her body. :lol:

Finished Gunslinger. It was a great story, even though I didn't like the writing. I doubt I'll read the other's in the series though. I'm back to my Marquez book. I've got hold on the latest book in the Ender saga, just came out this month. Gotta way for someone to return it to the library though.

Finished Fight Club yesterday. I enjoyed it. Now I need to rewatch the movie. It has been a few years.

Currently reading "Driving Blind" a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury :)

I'm currently re-reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime - Mark Haddon.

Last week i read Elanor Rigby - Douglas coupland

and the week before that I read To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee

I loved all three :)

I need to find more time to read... I got 39 books for my 15th birthday (which was in febuaary) and i have still only read four of them... I really feel like i don't read enough, even though we made a list with my friends, and I read about ten times more than all my friends put together... They only ever read books for school, which I think is quite sad... No offence to anyone else who does this.

Wow, hoofbeats, I'm impressed! I LOVE that you have a "book list" with your friends, and I LOVE that you got so many books for your birthday!
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favourite books. :yes:

Mauvais, Driving Blind is great. I really like Ray Bradbury. :)

I loved the Curious Incident too! Right now I'm on a memoir/biography bent. I'm reading Amos Oz's 'A Tale of Love and Darkness' and James Atlas' bio of Saul Bellow. The Oz book makes me feel like an uneducated, uncivilized, uncultured boob, and I think maybe I should burn my tv. Western culture just doesn't breed scholars anymore. We talk about Survivor instead. My next book is "The Accidental Connoisseur" by Lawrence Osborne, a wine journalist's tour of the wine world. I'm a sommelier-in-training, so I think I'll love that one.

Originally Posted by ellis:
Wow, hoofbeats, I'm impressed! I LOVE that you have a "book list" with your friends, and I LOVE that you got so many books for your birthday!
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favourite books. :yes:

Mauvais, Driving Blind is great. I really like Ray Bradbury. :)

Oh, we don't have a book list with my friends.. they don't read. What I meant to say was, when they came to my house and saw all my books they were so surprised, they said i must read more than all of them put together.. so they made a list of all the books they can remember reading... I didn't make mine because it would've been pages and pages long...

haha, I love the fact i got all the books too :) I feel like I want to hurry up and read them all at once.. But I also want to take it slowly, because I'm not getting any more books until Christmas!! :(

Right now I'm in the middle of "leave myself behind-bart yates" This is so brilliantly written... I loved it from the first sentence, and I kept waiting for it to weaken... Still waiting :) If you are offended by homosexuality, don't read this.

Wow, I should write some of these books down, haha so I know what to ask for when Xmas comes :p

Has anyone read anything by Jostein Gaarder that isn't Sophie's world?

Someone tell me to shut up I could talk about books for hours...

Ooh, I will have to check out that Amos Oz book! :)

Ah, I see what you mean by "book lists" now. :lol:
I've only read Sophie's World. Did you enjoy it, hoofbeats?

No, I didn't really enjoy Sophie's world, but I never got to finish it... I dind't like the long letters, and they were important to the plot...
But I have read "The solitaire Mystery" about 4 times and I am in love with it, and I also adore "The ringmaster's daughter".

Oh, I finished "Leave myself Behind". It was amazing. I won't even describe it because I am not worthy. My description would do it no justice at all. I take back about not reading it if homosexuality offends you. read it anyway. It's worth it.

Originally Posted by hoofbeats:
No, I didn't really enjoy Sophie's world, but I never got to finish it... I dind't like the long letters, and they were important to the plot...

Ah! I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who felt that way! :lol:

I don't think anyone here is offended by homosexuality. ;) I hope not, anyhow.

i'm stuck, i don't know what to read next. I have too many books... Some of them are what I call "airhead books", others are too deep for now, I have exams and stuff, and tend to get way to absorbed in interesting books and neglect my schoolwork. I can't find anything in between and will probably end up reading a couple of the airheady ones at least until i have no more exams. Hmm.

I should go now.. long definitiony exam tomorrow. haha, forgive my constant bad grammar and spelling and non existent words.

Finished the OSC Homecoming series. I've got to say it was great til the last book. Card should have just left it where he did. It was still a good book, but it kind of ruined the series for me. Of all the things I've heard about Card putting in his beliefs and LDS messeges into his books I never really picked up on it until this series. Not that it was a bad thing, especially since I don't know barely anything about the Mormon religion. Overall it's not as good as his other stuff, I give it a big fat MEH.

I've just started reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. One of those required reading books that I never got around to. It seems interesting but I'm not far enough into it yet to have an opinon.