Abracadabra Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Lesson learned: Never buy books you know absolutely nothing about! The other day I purchased Henry James' "In The Cage" and it's so dreadfully boring and incomprehensible. I'd be happier If the money I spent on the book was stolen from me :blank: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yu-tong Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 You Are the Apple of My Eye Giddens Ko is a famous Taiwanese writer. Both of the film and the novel are amazing. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the scientist is dead Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 The stranger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Re-reading some of Agatha Christie's stories since I can't possibly finish "Moby Dick" or "In The Cage" or even "Little Dorrit" :bomb: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yu-tong Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 The Complete Sherlock Holmes! I just read to page 11. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldlocked Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Sherlock: The Sign of Four The last copy in a bookshop in Maine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubble1 Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot) by Honore de Balzac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yu-tong Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 yeah, I have to read it for my AP class... so far so meh... :thinking: I'm going to read How To Read Literature Like A Professor. My cousins (they get Master's Degree this year.) have already borrowed it for me from college library. I'm becoming a freshman in college in September. I'm in NCHU Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. The foreign language is mostly English, and so is literature. So in summer vacation, I need to read a lot of books/novels. My cousins say if you read them now, when you study in college in the future, it will be much easier to understand what professors talk about. (Sorry for my poor English. :lol:) Now I'm reading The Hound of the Baskervilles. :dance: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tash Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viva-la-coldplay Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Brideshead Revisited... It is such a brilliant book, I really love it :dazzled:! Waugh is fantastically good at character studies and his language just makes me melt into a pile of geeky English-fangirl-mush! (And, OK, this isn't *exactly* relevant, but I recently read To Kill a Mockingbird and it was just so perfect. That has to be read by everyone at least once in their lives. Loved it so much!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I finished reading "The Secret Adversary" by Agatha Christie. Tommy and Tuppence are so much more fun than Poirot or Marple :wacky: I should tackle "A Feast for Crows" next by GRRM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passenger Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Jonas Jonasson - The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tash Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 ^ Is it good? I was considering buying that book : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I was reading the flood by ian Rankin earlier when waiting for the cat to return from its walk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophieispro Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 im readin two books: Skullduggery Pleansant: Kingdom of the Wicked by Derek Landy & Immortal Remains by Rook Hastings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldplayfan_115 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 The Prince because I have to for Gov't. :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yu-tong Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 The Story of The Bible :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dany93 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Yesterday I finished The Tempest by Shakespeare... I think today I'll start The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubble1 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prospector Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Just finished Roadie by Matt McGinn and starting Esaú e Jacó by Machado de Assis (our biggest writer ever) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeartnotwar Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Cinder by Marissa Meyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubble1 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Chatterbox Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 A book about WikiLeaks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisaw23 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I just finished Slave by Mende Nazer. It is the story of modern day slavery (in Sudan). I was blown away by the fact that slavery and slave raids still occur in this age. It is a harrowing novel, but I definitely think a must read for human rights knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dany93 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I read Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (:bigcry: it's already finished!) and only now I'm starting The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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