So, just out of curriousity what are you reading right now?

I just finished Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, and now I'm reading Shop Girl.

I really can't get into Steve Martins writing. He's sort of akward in a way. Maybe the more I read into it the more I'll get itno it....

1984
A Tale of Two Cities
..and I am supposed to be reading Frankenstein for my English class, but I haven't got past page 1 yet.

choke by chuck palahniuk. again.

alice's adventures in wonderland

I was gonna read dorian gray instead of it, but i'll save that for a rainy day

popular book.

umm right now Humanist Manifesto 2000 :A Call For a New Planetary Humanism is next to my bed...I find it hard to be so optimistic.

Right now I am debating between starting one of the following:

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Trial
Crime and Punishment

C to the pizzle!

That's one of the many I have lined up for this winter break (4 more hours!)..I enjoyed The Idiot immensely, and Notes from Underground...umm synonym of immensely...

I have a feeling I will relate to the protagonist's rejection of morality in C to the Pizzle...anyway, here’s my favorite quote from The Idiot.
"What does it matter for one progressive man there is such a world of backward and wicked men. My joy is that I am now convinced there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is no reason to be troubled because we are absurd, is there? For we really are: we are absurd, frivolous, we have bad habits, we're bored, we don't know how to look around ourselves, we don't know how to understand, we are all like this, all of us, you, and I, and everyone! And you aren't offended by my telling you straight to your faces that you are absurd. There is the basic stuff of life in you, isn’t there? You know, I believe it's sometimes even good to be ridiculous. Yes, much better. People forgive each other more readily and become more humble, we can't understand everything at once, and we can't begin with perfection! To reach perfection there must first be much we do not understand. And if we understand to quickly we will probably not understand very well. "

As for Kafka, I prefer Camus for my existential cry cry reads, haha...the trials wicked though, If you like that sort of reading I'd also suggest Notes From Underground, or The Plague. I wish I could read french like Lamia.

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Hey kate! No stealing my thunder. I made a thread just like this and now that I have searched for it I can't find it. WHY?

I finished the first harry potter book and am not back to reading the complete works of lewis carroll.

The anthrax mutation (some kinda crappy 70's book)

e. (an entire book written in e-mail correspondence, very annoying.)

im still reading The DaVinci Code

The Edible Woman [again] - Margaret Atwood.

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Originally posted by shadedballroom:
Hey kate! No stealing my thunder. I made a thread just like this and now that I have searched for it I can't find it. WHY?

I finished the first harry potter book and am not back to reading the complete works of lewis carroll.

did you? I don't remember it...humm intresting.

Iceberg by Clive Cussler
Book of Ti'ana by Rand Miller

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Originally posted by Red:
The Edible Woman [again] - Margaret Atwood.

Hmm, do you like it? I've read Atwood's The Handmaids Tale...Standard dystopia, totalitarian state; lose of civil liberties for the 'good' of the collective, women to body, men to mind...pretty agreeable feminism...I'd be willing to continue reading her if I got a good reference.

virgin suicides - jeffery eugenides again. absolute favorite