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Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:16 pm**

I just finished Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. It was moderately engaging, but I found it to be too insubstantial to be called a classic, and it would have benefitted by being longer. Also, the ending was quite unexpected, but a little too disheartening and implausible to satisfy me. I don't think it would have happened quite the same in the real world.

Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 6:13 pm**

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - p.200 and taking it slowly... So far it has been a great read!

Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 7:21 pm**

I just finished 'If Only It Were True' which is going to be a movie with Reese Whitherspoon, only it will be called "Just Like Heaven". The book was really good and made me tear just a bit.

Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 7:31 pm**

Brighton Rock for school

Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 7:46 pm**

Right now I'm reading " Tall Cool One" by Zoey Dean. It's the 4th book in the A list series. It's a teen novel but what can I say? I'm a teen. I brought it a long time ago but I'm only on page 85 out of 295 pages. I don't think it's boring. I just never seem to read it when I'm bored.

Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 10:30 pm**

I'm reading Future Grace by John Piper. Great book with great theology!

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:34 pm**

The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub, really good so far.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:37 pm**

Oh I was wondering where this thread was.

I had to read Feed for my college composition class. It's a weird book. It's a satire so that's why it's so weird. But people have these implants in their brain and they get instant access to products and information. This causes people to not think for themselves and soon people die from it.

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:06 am**

I've been reading Dinotopia Lost by Alan Dean Foster. I love the world of Dinotopia so much and this is my favourite novel set on the island so far.

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:06 am**

Just finished Horse's Neck by Pete Townshend. This is a look at the world of a book editor from a different slant. Unusual reading without being boring and makes me look forward to his next book. Pete is already my most favorite guitar player, having been the lead guitarist for The Who for over 30 years.

My next read is Both Sides of the Moon, the story of The Who's drummer Keith Moon.

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:46 pm**

Along the same vein as the above post, I am currently reading Before I Get Old: The Story of The Who by Dave Marsh. An incredibly engaging read with a ton of detail about the early days of The Who, haven't quite got to the later years yet, but it's coming.

As well, I have Bass Culture by John Entwistle, the bassist for The Who, on the go right now. It's not really a standard book, it's more of a catalogue of his guitar collection before he died. Man, this guy had everything.

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:57 pm**

Last week i finished reading 'Memoirs of a Geisha', after having an urge to read it from a topic created by Prince Eric. Which was amazing!

At college, i am reading 'Flaubert's Parrot' and part of 'Chaucer's Canterbury tales' The Merchant's Tale to be exact

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2005 5:40 pm**

I'm reading Henry James' classic horror novel The Turn of the Screw. I'm so far on Chapter 8 of 24 and it has not succeeded in discomposing me at all, but it does manage to be incredibly incomprehensible. Many of its sentences seem to be mixed-up jumbles of subjects and predicates and clauses and big words that don't make any sense. But I'm expecting it to get better yet, and to be a worthwhile read in the end.

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:38 am**

I'm reading Anita Diament's The Red Tent, a retelling of the story of Dinah and her four mothers. It was recently named one of the modern pieces of fiction to be classics in the future by Barnes and Noble.

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:46 pm**

Prince Eric,
My mom has a copy of that book. Apparently it's quite good.

I am reading "What Were They Thinking? The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History" for pleasure and "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes" by Joan Ryan and "Wicked" by Gregory Macguire for school (I got to choose which books to read for both assignments)

Posted: **Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:08 pm**

orestes. wrote:I've been reading Dinotopia Lost by Alan Dean Foster. I love the world of Dinotopia so much and this is my favourite novel set on the island so far.

I read this a few summers ago. I didn't like it as much as "The Hand of Dinotopia", though.

And chaychay-WICKED is amazing! I can't recommend it enough-how far are you?

Right now I'm reading "The Historian"-I'm surprised it hasn't really been all that popular. It's an incredible (though somewhat complicated) story and the atmosphere is so incredible.

Posted: **Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:32 pm**

A Chalice of Wind (Balefire #1)

Posted: **Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:06 pm**

Prince Adam,
Currently I am in the second part of the "Galinda" chapter in the second section. I really like this book so far.

Posted: **Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:56 pm**

Ball of Fire

Posted: **Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:53 pm**

Prince Adam wrote:
orestes. wrote:I've been reading Dinotopia Lost by Alan Dean Foster. I love the world of Dinotopia so much and this is my favourite novel set on the island so far.
I read this a few summers ago. I didn't like it as much as "The Hand of Dinotopia", though.

And chaychay-WICKED is amazing! I can't recommend it enough-how far are you?

Right now I'm reading "The Historian"-I'm surprised it hasn't really been all that popular. It's an incredible (though somewhat complicated) story and the atmosphere is so incredible.

Are you going to read the sequel, out next week entitled Son of a Witch? Waldenbooks is carrying it at 40% off.

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