What are you reading?

gokirk72 · Post by **gokirk72** » 9/13/2005, 5:40 pm

Yea, I barely ever read, but since I'd heard a lot of people on message boards (this one included in older posts) that 1984 was a really good book, I decided to go to the library and pick it up, right now I'm only on chapter 5, but I've been busy with a lot of hw from some of my classes, but I've been so into reading it that if I have a spare minute, I'll pick it up instead of turning on the tv (and that's like, my mom thought I was dying or something when she saw me reading a book, that's how little I read books anymore).. so far, it's really cool, like, yea, the whole idea of it, it's somewhat freaky yet seemingly plausable that it could happen, probably not in the recent future, but possibly in the far distant future .. still, I like it.

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 9/13/2005, 6:01 pm

i'm probably the only person alive who thinks that book is nothing too special

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/13/2005, 6:35 pm

I'm reading a number of surprisingly interesting text books.

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 9/13/2005, 8:50 pm

fuck off rob.

:cry:

closeyoureyes · Post by **closeyoureyes** » 9/13/2005, 9:58 pm

SCIENCE!!!

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 9/13/2005, 10:00 pm

we're two days into the semester and i already feel way way way behind. this never kicks in until about three days before a test.

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 9/13/2005, 10:01 pm

i don't think i have the work ethic to do this

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » 9/14/2005, 6:15 pm

starseed_10 wrote::crying:

we're two days into the semester and i already feel way way way behind. this never kicks in until about three days before a test.

I feel like that too, and I'm not even in university! This is clearly not good, but I'm two week into my semester.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 10/2/2005, 11:13 pm

starseed_10 wrote:i'm probably the only person alive who thinks that book is nothing too special

i used to feel that way too when i first read it when i was 13. then i read it recently about 3 months ago and it HIT me and i loved it. it has so many ideas in it, i don't think you can even call it a book, more like a bajillion ideas rolled into one quasi-plot.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 10/2/2005, 11:15 pm

oh and i am reading (again) this book because i love it so much:

as well as:

and i just finished today:

I AM ME · Post by **I AM ME** » 10/2/2005, 11:27 pm

Well outside my university texts

The Path To Leading A Meaningful Life - The Dalai Lama

The Entire University In An Atom - The Dalai Lama

both are very intresting, but dry in some parts, if you've read any of his books they're also a bit repetitive.

beautiful liar · Post by **beautiful liar** » 10/2/2005, 11:29 pm

i just finished reading "the long slow death of jack kerouac" by jim christy
and 'all day breakfast' by valerie joy kalynchuk, which was brilliant
and i'm also reading" jane eyre" by charlotte bronte
plus, i am about to embark on 'shadow of ashland' by terence green

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 10/2/2005, 11:30 pm

wow. i have respect for anyone who can survive reading jane eyre.

beautiful liar · Post by **beautiful liar** » 10/2/2005, 11:34 pm

why? it's a great read. i'm enjoying it.

i read it once before in grade 7, and now i'm reading it for school. i really dig it.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 10/3/2005, 12:41 am

it'd take me a year to read it probably.

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 10/3/2005, 12:42 am

Salinger's Franny and Zooey

Sonya · Post by **Sonya** » 10/3/2005, 7:59 am

'watership down' by... richard adams?

Post by **xjsb125** » 10/3/2005, 9:00 am

"The Seven Sleepers and Other Poems" by Mark Van Doren

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 10/3/2005, 10:18 am

^nice!

also, Jane Eyre is fantastic. It's the other Bronte's stuff you have to slog through (ie, Wuthering Heights, shudder.)

laurel · Post by **laurel** » 10/3/2005, 9:23 pm

i'm. uh. reading some book called 'still life with crows'. it's by some forgettable author, with a poopy plot, and no one will ever remember it. it's also in paperback, and set in contemporary times.
oh. it's also a horror.

i love my non-fancy reading ways, damn it. stick something stephen king-esque in my hands, and i'm in heaven. the last book i read was a dean koontz one. i've never even read 1984. i've never read jane eyre, and i don't plan on it.

you people make me feel very undereducated. or not well read enough.
i love stupid fiction paperbacks without any meaning at all, but with an entertainment value. well...and those ones that are eye opening as all hell, but disguised behind an entertaining plot. (happiness by will ferguson = example #1)
i love horror.
*goes to find stephen king thread*

disclaimer: i am not bashing big, fancy book readers. i'm just embracing my not so fancy book reading. wee!