What have you read this holidays? (2 Viewers)

[Gregor Samsa]

Heheheh can you post a pic of your pile of books. i think it would be impressive

I would if I could, but they have all been read. No reason to lie about this sort of thing.

Sadly, ladders aren't required to traverse my book collection. Its only a 'District Library', by those standards (A friend of mine has 6,000 books. That constitutes 'State Library'.)... Two full bookcases, and other books strewn about my room.

 

[Tenille]

Crazy boy... Crazy Crazy boy but i am impressed.

 

[PrettyNoose]

'the beauty myth' and 'a portrait of the artist as a young man'
im such a reading fiend and all

 

[veanz]

I read Jude the Obsucre.

i still have conflicting feelings about whether i 'liked/enjoyed' the novel -- hmm theyre not the words anyway.

the characters were unlikable, rather attracting my sympathy and disgust, the latter to a point where i had to put the book down for a day or two to clear my head - something thats never happened before and yet in my opinion, credits the book powerfully.

anyone read it? your thoughts?

 

[lengstar]

Harry Potter: Prisoner Of Azkaban
Harry Potter: Goblet Of Fire

 

[parfait]

Wilde, Importance of Being Earnest
Shaw, Pygmalion
Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
Latifa
Pilger, A Secret Country<- I didn't finish this one- the last two chapters on the Australian Intelligence groups were boring
Wolf, Beauty Myth
Deveson, Tell Me I'm Here
Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich
Steinbeck, Of Mice and MenFraser, Marie Antionette
Cadbury, The Lost King of France<-this is was really interesting- history with a bit of science that read more like enthralling fiction
Erickson, Carolly, To The Scaffold- The Life of Marie Antionette-reading in progress

I've been reading for pleasure but now I have to read my required school texts- The Heather Blazing and a bit of Plutarch for Ancient...I keep putting it off because there are so many more interesting books to read...

 

[Newbie]

dune the machine crusade
first book in about 9 months
omg scifi is goodstuff

 

[SmokedSalmon]

I've been quite busy during my holidays so I've managed to only read the first 200 pages of Robin Hobb's novel "The Assasin's Apprentice".

 

[Mojoman]

billy - pamela stephenson
hammer of the gods - led zeppelin biography
gridlock - ben elton
dead famous - ben elton
guiness world records 2002 (i was bored)
most of the sandmans advice for the unpopular

 

[Gregor Samsa]

The final list;

Bernard Smith-Modernism's History
George Elliot-Middlemarch
Ford Maddox Ford-The Good Soldier
Anne Summers-The End of Equality
Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer-Dialectic of Enlightenment
Ian Kershaw-The 'Hitler Myth':Image and Reality in the Third Reich
Kazuo Ishiguro-The Remains of the Day
Friedrich Nietzsche-Human, All Too Human
Peter Conrad-Modern Times, Modern Places
Ed.Clive Emsley, Arthur Marwick and Wendy Simpson-War, Peace and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Europe.
Michael A.Hoffman-Egypt Before the Pharaohs.
Lord Byron-Manfred
Henrik Ibsen-A Doll's House.
Ben Shephard-A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychatrists 1914-1994.
George Orwell-Nineteen Eighty Four
HSTY 1043 Course Reader
PHIL 1011 Course Reader (Or at least the 'Metaphysics' and 'Ethics' sections.)
Oscar Wilde-The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Not bad. The product of plenty of quality reading time.