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What are you reading?
Posted: 3/30/2005, 9:59 pm
by reza
So right now I'm reading:
"Blink" The Power of thinking without thinking by Dr. Malcolm Gladwell.
"History of God" The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong.
"On Writing" A guide to becoming a writer (and it's actually fun to read) by Stephan King.
What about you guys?
Posted: 3/30/2005, 9:59 pm
by Rusty
Johnny got his gun by dammit I forget the author...little help someone.
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:02 pm
by happening fish
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Naked Empire - Terry Goodkind
The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
Caleb Williams - William Godwin
various poetry
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:02 pm
by Sonya
^^ Dalton Trumbo.
I'm reading "The Night Trilogy" by Elie Wiesel, "Maus" by Art Spiegelman, and "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Haddon.
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:03 pm
by reza
The only thing by Charles Dickens that I've read is Oliver Twist, I suppose I should read "A Tale of Two Cities" sometime soon, if not just for the first paragraph lol.
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:05 pm
by clumsychild_
Life of Pi
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:07 pm
by happening fish
Lotus wrote:The only thing by Charles Dickens that I've read is Oliver Twist, I suppose I should read "A Tale of Two Cities" sometime soon, if not just for the first paragraph lol.
the first sentence of that is like three pages long, just to let you know.
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:11 pm
by reza
I'll stop after "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." So I suppose I'll stop after about 12 words
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:12 pm
by happening fish
ah, but there's a semicolon there!
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:13 pm
by reza
That just changes everything!
*edits*
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:15 pm
by happening fish
no silly, i meant
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; ... "
and so forth
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:15 pm
by nelison
I plan on doing a lot of reading this summer. That's one thing that suffers in university. It's hard to read at your own leisure. One thing I have noticed in the last year since I haven't been reading as much is that my vocab has decreased noticeably.
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:16 pm
by reza
That really sucks, maybe you should take some literary or english classes to make up for it.
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:19 pm
by beautiful liar
i am reading:
"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand
"Fights of our Lives: elections, leadership, and the making of Canada" by John Duffy
"Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke
"subTerranian issue 40: Dead Things" a literary magazine
"Cut" by Patricia McCormick
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:19 pm
by nelison
I would if I wasn't a politics and psych double major and have to use all of my credits towards those courses. Even though we do get to read some good politics books a lot of them are dry and filled with theoretical approaches, rather than actual substance.
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:20 pm
by reza
Do university students actually read during "Reading Week?"
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:22 pm
by nelison
no lol well you can if you want... I didn't. It's just the British term for Spring Break (or in the case of Trent Fall and Spring break since we have two breaks during the year)
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:27 pm
by Henrietta
The Work and The Glory vol 8.
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:53 pm
by megxyz128
'Survival in Auschwitz' by Primo Levi
Posted: 3/30/2005, 10:59 pm
by namkablam
'Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life' by Amy Krouse Rosenthal!