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I'm reading "Nord contre Sud" of Jules Verne ! It's really good !

2 books:

Bambi: a life in the woods(it´s my fourth or fifth time) and the munk who sold his ferrari(el monje que vendió su ferrari)

I'm reading through the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series for the first time. Right now, I'm on Dark Journey, so I'm about halfway done.

i'm reading two books right now: Life of Pi and Good to Great. Although i haven't gotten very far in either of them since I'm also reading my economics book, my mechanics:dynamics book, and my mechanics of materials book. I don't like hw.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy

It was weeks ago, but I finished Books I and II of the Once and Future King: The Sword in the Stone and The Queen of Air and Darkness. I watched SITS recently and found a lot of scenes that were moved or redone. THere were also a lot of missing scenes, but they really were unimportant to the main plot. The Disney version is a fine adaptation and I found I appreciated it more, knowing the real story and major theme of education. The whole wizard/witch duel, which was my favorite part, was totally invented by Disney! Anyhow, fans of the movie and genre should definitely read O&FK (cue music snippet from "Reading Rainbow", lol).

Right now I am trying to read Book III: The Ill-Made Knight or something like that. I'm also reading textbooks too, but I don't think those count

Hey Mark, that Goofy avatar returns!

I've read three novels since my last post:

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize (the highest literary honor in Britiain), the hardback version says it's a book that will change your life! I'm not sentimental enough to say any book has changed my life, but this is an extraordinary attempt at fusing subjecs that normally don't cross paths. The premise almost sounds adolescent, but the adult evil is so vivid in this man's prose. It's such an elation and I gurantee the last chapter will bring any reader an epiphany of sorts. A beautiful fusion of zoology, religion, philosophy, culture, and survival fiction.

The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck

Everybody! Go out and get this book! It's one of the best novels of the 20th century. An extraordinary look at pre-revolutionary China and the two protagonists are some of the most endearing characters in all of English literature. If you don't like this book, or at least feel something when you read it, you're simply not human, and I have nothing to say to you. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in the 1930's.

Waiting, by Ha Jin

Only a third of the way through this. Simply amazing. Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction.

[sigh] I love fiction.

Prince Eric wrote:
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck

Everybody! Go out and get this book! It's one of the best novels of the 20th century. An extraordinary look at pre-revolutionary China and the two protagonists are some of the most endearing characters in all of English literature. If you don't like this book, or at least feel something when you read it, you're simply not human, and I have nothing to say to you. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in the 1930's.

I had to read that for Summer Reading in 1999! I was able to get through the entire first half over the course of three or four days (we were road-tripping to Michigan), but the second half kinda fell flat for me. I wouldn't say it's a bad book, but more of an acquired taste in literature.

Anyways, last time I posted here, I think I was saying I started Lonesome Dove. Well, I'm still reading it (Up to Chapter 84/102).

Escapay

I'm about to start A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill and either Dracula or Frankenstein, you know to get in a Halloweeen type mood.

Just finished The Snow Falcon by Stuart Harrison (a little ronchy, but very good) and hope to start The English Patient today.

I'm reading The Cobra Trilogy by Timothy Zahn.

I'm reading two novels alternatively:

Anna Karanina, by Leo Tolstoy
I love the attention to detail. There's about 20+ characters in this 800+ page book, and they all get attention and good characterization. I appreciate Tolstoy's views of Russian society at the time of its publication and its comforting to see that women's civil liberties have come such a long way.

Mona In The Promised Land, by Gish Jen
Gish Jen is probably most synonymous with Amy Tan, but Jen's writing delves deeper into the human psyche and examines such issues as assimilation, race relations, and religions - all with drama and laughs! She's a gifted writer - her 1995 short story entry in The Best American Short Stories of 1995 was crowned one of the best short stories of the 20th century, by the one and only John Updike.

Wow-it's been forever since I read The English Patient: I've read tons since the last post of mine in this thread.

Now I've just finished reading The Graft by Martina Cole and have started into Progeny by Becky L. Meadows.

im A Series of Unfortunate Events:#5 The Austere Academy

I'm reading Dragonlance Chronicles-Dragons Of Autumn Twilight.
And I'm also reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

I've got about 110 pages left to go in Eragon. Then I'm going to start The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and The Gunslinger.

Been on an Elmore Leonard kick lately:

Read Get Shorty and Be Cool last week, gonna start Rum Punch at some point.

DDMAN26 wrote:I've got about 110 pages left to go in Eragon. Then I'm going to start The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

I'm really looking forward to reading this, if it ever comes in from the library...until then, I'm concentrating on studying and homework (books take up a lot of my time...)

Well, I just finished reading the W.I.T.C.H. book called Heartbreak Island. Currently, I am reading the book The Golden Compass