What are you currently Reading? (8 Viewers)

[SylviaB]

Against the Modern World - Mark Sedgwick

 

[SylviaB]

Ancient Rome: A political and military History

 

[sirable1]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

 

[SylviaB]

is it just me or is there nothing more horrible than the thought of going to a book club

ughh

 

[Lentern]

is it just me or is there nothing more horrible than the thought of going to a book club

ughh

For future reference, next time you find yourself asking "is it just meor..." it's probably safe to assume it's just you. Not that I've ever been to a book club but I imagine a Coldplay concert for example would be less pleasant.

 

[halapenyo]

For future reference, next time you find yourself asking "is it just meor..." it's probably safe to assume it's just you. Not that I've ever been to a book club but I imagine a Coldplay concert for example would be less pleasant.

pretty weak comparison. there are worse things in life than going to a coldplay concert.

 

[Rixon]

pretty weak comparison. there are worse things in life than going to a coldplay concert.

like having your face eaten by a zombie

 

[Lentern]

pretty weak comparison. there are worse things in life than going to a coldplay concert.

Perhaps but no human should ever be forced to endure them.

 

[pony_magician]

yeah i've gotta agree, coldplay is pretty terrible

 

[mirakon]

Stephen King 'The Eyes of the Dragon' best book ever

So there is another dark tower book by stephen king too

Idgi as far as I understood it, the 7th one was supposed to be the last

 

[softchillisauce]

School: Emma - Jane Austen (WORST NOVEL EVARR D
Non-school: The Unloved - John Saul

 

[Lentern]

School: Emma - Jane Austen (WORST NOVEL EVARR D
Non-school: The Unloved - John Saul

If you're trying to read Austen I wouldn't start with Emma, it's the most uneventful, laboriously written, sentimental of all her works. Sense and Sensibility is the busiest, easiest read by far.

 

[Alexis Texas]

I just finished Of Mice and Men
it was incredibly upsetting

Starting Grapes of Wrath or Paris in Love tonight, not sure which.

 

[muhahahahahaha]

Of Mice and Men is a fantastic novel (we studied it for English in year 11 as a comparative study with 'American Beauty'- the movie.

And to those reading Emma, I feel your pain, my sister is reading it for Adv English as a comparative study with 'Clueless' the movie. She absolutely hates it lol, she comes home every day going "omg that is the most boring book ever, nothing is happening and there are like 5 billion characters"

 

[KatherinePierce]

Of Mice and Men is a fantastic novel (we studied it for English in year 11 as a comparative study with 'American Beauty'- the movie.

And to those reading Emma, I feel your pain, my sister is reading it for Adv English as a comparative study with 'Clueless' the movie. She absolutely hates it lol, she comes home every day going "omg that is the most boring book ever, nothing is happening and there are like 5 billion characters"

I loved Emma, haha.
I didn't even do it, but I read it to see what the fuss was about.

 

[moll.]

1984 by George Orwell for Adv
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad for Eng ext


Two very heavy readings... but they are both pretty good and deserve respect, especially 1984

Hahahaha they're not heavy kid. 1984 is an easy read, whilst Conrad just sucks balls at setting the scene through describing the world around him, but otherwise it's a simple tale. What's you definition of a 'light' read? Clifford the Big Red Dog?

 

[moll.]

Feast for Crows - Martin

 

[Lentern]

Hahahaha they're not heavy kid. 1984 is an easy read, whilst Conrad just sucks balls at setting the scene through describing the world around him, but otherwise it's a simple tale. What's you definition of a 'light' read? Clifford the Big Red Dog?

1984 is pretty dense, that you enjoyed it doesn't necessarily make it light reading.

 

[mirakon]

1984 is pretty dense, that you enjoyed it doesn't necessarily make it light reading.

only part i would consider "dense" is that part in the middle where they are reading excerpts from that guy's book and the treatise about Ingsoc

the rest is pretty simple to read imo

 

[Lentern]

only part i would consider "dense" is that part in the middle where they are reading excerpts from that guy's book and the treatise about Ingsoc

the rest is pretty simple to read imo

Dunno what you'd define as dense then frankly, it was a brilliantly convoluted story and Orwell pulls no punches in using sophisticated language. I suppose it has a fairly decent pace.