Books!

z[En]O.oV wrote:

read a lot fantasy books, recently starting the A Song of Ice and Fire series finished quite a few trilogies by robin hobb finished the coldfire trilogy but i aslo enjoy reading non fantasy books um A Fine Balance comes to mind- GREAT book!

read the sword of truth series

My favourite book, at the moment, is the series of Darren Shawn's Cirque du Freak! I love it. At first I thought it was a book about the circus people until I read more and more and it's a great vampire book!

Another author I love it Margret Atwood. Her book "Handmaids tale" was amazing! I didn't know this author until our book club at my school XD

I don't read a lot of autobiography but I'm reading "Somewhere Inside" about a woman being kidnap by Norht Koreans. It's a good book but not something I'll read again.

I'm more of horror/romance/fiction reader. Do you have any suggestions? I was going to order The Grudge novel... Until they said out of stock -.-

I love reading books <3
My favourite books are about Fantasy (Christopher Paolini,Licia Troisi, Tolkien, Tamara Deroma,...) but I read also books that are autobiographic

The bed that I made by Lucy Whitehouse, not a great book . I was quite bored reading it . So I wouldn't recommend it. Before that I read all series of the 'Hunger games' now that's something I greatly enjoyed and would highly recommend!!

Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - I have read it more than ten times and have never came across anything better than this book.
For anyone who likes political grotesque dressed in mystery and magic and erotica.

"But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita"

My second favourite is 1984 bu George Orwell- probably the best political fiction ever written.

"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."

and also very beautiful "love and loneliness in times of war" novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
when I was younger I dreamed of being Lara

I recommend all Russian literature

Phinn wrote:

Thank you all for replying!

I recently read Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy...

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I had been put off reading these books as they were often displayed near the Twilight series and I thought they might be the same kind of drivel.

It was only after a friend told me they were a good read that I gave them a go.
I thoroughly enjoyed them. Real page turners. I read them all rather quickly as I needed to know what happened next!

The books are not for the faint hearted though. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was originally titled "Men Who Hate Women" and the books do contain sexual violence against women. But it is certainly not in a titillating way.

Two of the books are now films.
I watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and it is a good adaptation...

Sadly Hollywood has plans for a remake already.

I agree with you! I thoroughly enjoyed reading those books! Brilliant ones!

I've been getting in the festive spirit by reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

And I'm about to start reading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.
My brother enjoyed it so much he bought a copy for me too.

"I've been getting in the festive spirit by reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens."

Read it a few times in high school, good book

jasonwyz98 wrote:

"I've been getting in the festive spirit by reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens."

Read it a few times in high school, good book

It's wonderful, I love reading it at this time of year!

It's been about five years since I've read fiction. Yikes... But lucky me got a shiny Kindle for Christmas. Maybe my new toy will end this drought.

So I'm not up-to-date on any current books. But my favorites are The Razor's Edge and The Great Gatsby .

Seems like I need to read a bit more. At the very least, recommend something outside of a typical high school curriculum!