What are u reading right now?

[Stephanie B.]

I just started Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
I've always been a fan of dumas
In a room of the Palais-Cardinal which we already know, near a table with silver gilt corners, loaded with papers and books, a man was sitting, his head was resting in his hands.
15/894
Captured me immediatly and I instantly fell in love as I have with all of his other books.

[malwethien]

I'm debating between Patrick Suskind's PERFUME or Henry Miller's TROPIC OF CANCER....After reading American Psycho I don't really want to read a book about a murderer or about some guy's sexual exploits so I'm hesitant to read either of those books. I feel I need to cleanse my "palate."

Any suggestions anyone??

[Pen&Ink]

1. Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
2. I liked Sense and Sensibility, and I liked Pride and Prejudice so I thought I'd give it a try. I thought it would be interesting to read a parody. ^_^
3. "No one who had ever seen Cathrine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her to be born an heroine."
4. pg 55 of 179
5. It's easy to read, which is good. It's quite humorous, even though I can't get all the of references and jokes because I havn't read any gothic novels. I plan to try and read The Mysterious of Udolpho sometime after i am finished reading this one, because there are so many references made to it, and since Jane Austen wrote this book as a parody of Mrs. Radcliff's work, it would be quite interesting...

[slipperyyoke]

1. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
2. I'm just revisiting an old friend.
3. "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only."
4. 80/237
5. What can I say, I love it.

[skyneel]

1. Laura Kipnis+Against Love
2. I stumbled upon a review of this book and I found the discussion on the institution of marriage very interesting.
3. page 78
5. Not as interesting a read as I thought. I find the writing style a bit simplistic. I still think the topic of discussion is very relevant and is nto talked about as much as it should be.
The book analyses the reasons why the institution of marriage still survives inspite of its evident pitfalls

[outrageous]

1.Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
2.I saw the beginning of the movie so i decided not to watch it,but to read the book.
3.Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born, and of the circumstances attending his birth.
4. 14 (i just started to read it)
5. it seems to be a good book

[brainstrain]

1. Peter and the Shadow Theives by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
2. I read the first book, Peter and the Starcatchers, and was estatic when I found out there was a sequel. I actually found it about a month ago, but my mom was desperate for Christmas presents and stole it, so I just got it on monday =D.
3. "A magno, thought Peter. The perfect weapon."
4. I finished on the way to Dallas yesterday, leaving me free to hone my Sudoku skills on the way here (little rock, arkansas).
5. Amazing! These two guys have a wonderful writing style. They make sure to add some humor when the plot gets dark, and (the main thing) they haven't followed most fantasy/sci-fi writers in giving more details than you ever thought possible. No half-page descritptions of characters or places, how the characters interact with the setting gives you all the information you need. Mollusk Island, the Aster Household, the White Tower, Stonehenge...all are described in perfect detail in the course of the characters actions.

And the climax, the Return at Stonehenge...perfection! Anyone who loves a good spin on an old story (Peter Pan) HAS to read these two books.
You'll love them, I promise ^_^

[malwethien]

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

[genoveva]

1. author + title
2. why u desided to read the book
3. first sentence in the book
4. page u are on
5. what u think of the book till now

1. Opal Whiteley The Singing Creek Where The Willows Grow: The Rediscovered Diary of Opal Whiteley Presented by Benjamin Hoff

2. This is the second time I am reading this book. I am reading it for a second time because I am "teaching" it to my high school American literature class. I originally read it because a friend of mine let me borrow her copy and suggested I read it.

3. "Today the folks are gone away from the house we do live in."

4. p. 124 (of this edition)

5. This is a fabulous diary written by a little girl between the age of 6 and 12 who grew up in the Cottage Grove, Oregon area. She has such an interesting life, and unfortunately spent the last 50 years of her life in a mental institution in England where she died about 10 or so years ago. Do read it if you can!

[thehangedman]

1. Stephen King The Waste Lands: The Dark Tower Book III
2. 3rd in The Dark Tower series of brilliantly written, captivating novels; Stephen King's epic magnus opus; Tolkien meets Sergio Leone...nuff said...
3. "It was her first time with live ammunition...and her first time on the draw from the holster Roland had rigged for her."
4. p. 144
5. I haven't fallen this deeply into a novel since I was an 8 year old boy reading Journey to the Center of the Earth! I feel like the kid Sebastian from the movie The Neverending Story...

[AutumnGal]

1. I just finished Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility. I'm thinking of starting Persuasion or Northanger Abbey next.
2. Decided to read it after watching the movie, as all books are better than the movie adaptations
3. "THE family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex."
4. [The End]
5. I liked it, though not as much at Pride & Prejudice, it was still a good read that I finished in about ten hours--not a bad way to while away the hours when trapped indoors by a howling blizzard!


AG

[Literati]

1. author + title
2. why u desided to read the book
3. first sentence in the book
4. page u are on
5. what u think of the book till now
*****

1. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the White Whale
2. I was embarassed I hadn't read it yet.
3. Call me Ishmael.
4. p 167. chapter 35
5. I had no idea it was going to be funny. Ishmael is a trip.

[Yelena]

1. Ulysses by James Joice
2. I actually have to read it for my literature class
3. Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lahter on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
4. p.25
5.so far the beginning seems an interesting book. i like its style and a couple of metaphors have really impressed me

[Miss Darcy]

1. Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
2. Why did I decide to read it? Well, to cut a long story short...I love Huxley.
3. "The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories."
4. P. 128 (out of 504!)
5. Simply put, I love it. More complexly, I love Huxley's writing style, which subtly changes from book to book...in this particular book, I love the fact that it is less cynical than some of his earlier works (however brilliant they might be). I enjoy the references to all sorts of broad fields of knowledge, particularly to art - its intellectual effervescence, typical of Huxley. Its employment of time is also noteworthy - each chapter is in a different time period, usually jumping back and forth a number of years. The book is also in some aspects autobiographical, which makes it a must-read for any Huxley fan.

[Rosalind_May]

1. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2. My English teacher said I might enjoy it and I've read a lot of classics of late and fancied something a bit more modern.
3. It's hot as hell in Martirio, but the papers on the porch are icy with the news.
4. Page 38.
5. I'm pretty impressed, so far. It's amusing and has wrenched a few chuckles out of me already, and I'm very intrigued by it.