What Book Are You Reading? - Part VIII

No. They were mainly written for kids (and we mostly all read them when we were kids) so most of the stuff is kept simple. Though she tries to get a bit more complex in the last few due to her growing audience.

Funny, my dad’s reading that book!

Anyhow, I’m currently reading “The Lion, the Witch, and the wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis. I own the entire Chronicles of Narnia series so I plan on reading it.

I have the whole series too! But I have to reread that one for a class <3 But I’ve seen the movie so much that I don’t wanna reread it’s longness. :sad:

But I love Tumnas!

Well, I began (and finished) a book on my 11 day hiatus.

I’m assuming most of you have heard of the Percy Jackson series? I mean, it was awesome. If you haven’t heard of it, then hear of it.
The books are a little childish, but they’re funny and good.

The first series ended, Rick Riordan started a direct sequel series, The Heroes of Olympus
The first book, the only one out in that series, is called “The Lost Hero”

Basically, this book adds in the Roman aspects of everything and follows the rise of the Giants who were created by Gaea after the first Titan War.

This series follows Jason, Leo, and Piper, three heroes all snatched by Camp Half Blood at the age of 15… Jason is the boyfriend of Piper and best friends with Leo except the problem is… his entire memory was wiped out to help the quest.

VERY good book, a bit more mature than the last series. Obviously he’s following the original fan base (which I perfectly fit into)

Oh… and instead of the short-ish 300 some pages, it’s more like 500 some pages. Quite a bit longer

/me is a slow reader, possibly has mild dyslexia… ends up switching lines and words when reading… can never find his place even mid-sentence


tl;dr If you’ve read Percy Jackson, read this immediately. (Well, if you liked it)

Well i am currently reading Dracula by Bram Stoker. so far its been a good read but im not to far yet bout 75 pages. the weird thing i found out is that their used to be a real guy in Transylvania named Dracula. he had his own castle but wasn’t a vampire. he was a very scary person though. he scared the crap out of his enemy’s by shoving lubed up trees basically in through the butt when they were still alive an put it into the ground. he did this to over 1000 people and he outlined the trail to his castle with them. this happened a long time ago. he wasn’t a nice person.

Shhhhhh! Have you heard of the [size=92] [color=#8b4513]LD4all Book Club :read:[/color][/size] ? They’re reading Dracula atm. <3

Currently I’m reading The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain by Charles Dickens. I just got through reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge. I found it quite sublime. It had quite a suspenseful plot and the moral was of eonian truth.

Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self. Robert Waggoner. 2008, This is my first book about lucid dreaming I think I will not find any better book about the subject!, Wagoner goes very deep in the details and explain lucid dreaming in a very different way…

I just finished the biography “Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America” which was very good! I recommend it to any Beatles fan. :smile:
I’m planning on reading “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” by Jean Dominique Bauby. Has anyone else read that? I’m mainly interested because of how he wrote the book.
It explains how he wrote it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Dominique_Bauby

Very amazing and inspiring!!

by far the best book i’ve ever read.

rise of the ogre…classic for me i guess LOL gorillaz.wetpaint.com/page/Rise+of+the+Ogre mm… XD

same! :hurray: I read ‘Alice in Wonderland’ again and again every night before trying a LD :gni:

Wise Man’s Fear by Pat Rothfuss currently

Has anyone perhaps read The Red Book by Carl Gustav Jung? I’m still looking for it and I wanna know if it is worth the effort…

Re-reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire… For the sixth or seventh or eighth time.

/me is an HP nerd.

Well, I just finished I Am Number Four… It’s rather typical though. The one good point was that its main focus was on relationships… family, friendships, enemies, and romantic relationships. Spent more focus on them than other books and gave it a new dynamic.
Of course the movie focused on action, special effects, and shirtless heroes.

Currently reading The Harry Potter series for the (!!!) first time. Currently on book 2.

:wow: :rc: By now I kinda expected everyone to have read them…

Das Parfum
Die Geschichte eines Mörders
Patrick Süskind

This story is enthralling, the main character is a repulsing phenomenon who was gifted with a unique nose in the world. Able to smell the tinest particle of scent, the man is also a cold-hearted murderer. :devil:
(i think there’s a movie too)

Gonna wait till after Spring Break to start reading that one, but it’s definitely on my list. I immensely enjoyed The Name of the Wind.

Edit: I think I’m one of the few English majors not to have read any of the Harry Potter books yet. It’s been on my list for about four years now. :razz:

I want to read it too, but surely not in German (since I don’t speak German):smiley: People say that they found the movie quiet effective :smile:

Now, I’m reading Dracula for myself, “The Taming of the Shrew” for English class and “The New World of Mr. Topmkins” for physics class. It is about relativity theory. It teaches the theory well, but I wouldn’t read it if I just want to have the pleasure of reading a book.

After Dracula, I’m planning to read one of those:

The daughter of commandant - Alexander Pushkin
Handle with Care - Jodi Picault
Sunset Park - Paul Auster (I read “City of Glass” by the same author, and it was great, I think)

but I didn’t decide yet.