Internet is great...but there's nothing like a good read

[Discoteque]

....and my book list groweth ever longer....

I think everyone in the world who has any interest in religion/philosphy/theology MUST read the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

*adds to already lengthy list* Can't wait to read those too, along with TGBHF!

I'm also a voracious reader. Unfort. it seems my life has become so busy lately that my favorite pasttime has sadly fallen by the wayside. Akorse, being on this blasted computer till all hours doesn't help.

BUT.... I am (hopefully) about to crack open:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (classic I never read)
Lord of the Flies - ditto classic-ness above
The Prayer of Jabez
Mists of Avalon

Highly recommended: Till We Have Faces and the Prince Caspian/Aslan books by C.S. Lewis (pretty much anything by CSL is absolutely amazing)

LVE BOOKS!

 

[mad1]

Im about to, possibly tomorrow, dig into a book called 'Canoupe Hell', by fuked-if-I-know.

 

[hippy]

LMFAO Maddie!

 

[MonaVox]

Did I mention Thomas Hardy?

 

[Jam Jar]

letsee:
1. Les Miserables- very good, by Victor Hugo
2. Narcissus In Chains- by Laurell K. Hamilton- part of the anita blake series..
3. Life With Jim by linda ashcroft (yet ANOTHER Jim morrison book, muahahha)
4. I too, am reading the Poems of Jim Morrison ( would i not?)

 

[ZooEuropa]

I'm not reading any right now! LOL how bad is that?

Although I was thinking of reading Lord Of The Rings and seeing how far I get....

I tend to read magazines though.

 

[AngelofLarrydom]

I love reading too!
I read during the ride home on the elevated train better known in Chicago as the "L" train and during lunch. I started reading again about 2 years ago. Since I didn't know what to start reading, I started with the Oprah book club - almost finished- have about 5 books to go.
Here are the ones I thought were very good.

• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
• Where the Heart is by Billie Letts
• I know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
• The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
• Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy
• Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
• Songs in Ordinary Time by Marry McGarry Morris

I just finished "The Nanny Diaries" - it was good but not great for all the hype it got.

I think we should create a PLEBA book club with subcategories for fiction & non-fiction.

 

[hippy]

I think we should create a PLEBA book club with subcategories for fiction & non-fiction.

I love this idea! Who else is in?

 

[wertsie]

I love this idea! Who else is in?

*raises hand* That sounds cool! I'm in too!

 

[anitram]

I'm currently reading Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart." He is a Nigerian writer, and the story centres just before and during the arrival of the white man in Nigeria. It's beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.

Books I would recommend:

"Man's Search For Meaning" - Viktor Frankl
"Night" - Elie Wiesel
"Ishmael" - Daniel Quinn
"Memoirs of a Geisha" - Arthur Golden
"Light in August" - William Faulkner
"As I Lay Dying" - William Faulkner
"Too Loud a Solitude" - Bohumil Hrabal
"The Crooked Man" - Philip Davison
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" - Betty Smith

 

[Stories for Boys]

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" - Betty Smith

i LOVE that book.....when it was over i was mad cause i wanted the story to keep going...i wanted to know more...and several nights (this was back when i actually slept...piff...) i stayed up til 2am just reading it cause i didn't want it to stop. i actually read it for a book report in school, but i loved it anyway...