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[Mongrel]

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. In English too! Amaaaaazing so far but the language is not always easy (but beautiful).

[justanothergirl]

The House Of Night Series

[Xx_pretty_venom_xX]

I'm reading the hobbit, fir literally the 7th time, next is the silmarillion by tolkien

[TheyKilledAlice]

Sense and sensibilty by Jane Austen. Although it's great, I liked Pride and prejudice better Edward sort of annoys me and I miss Mr. Bennets comments.

[O Brave New World]

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

[Prometheus]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Pretty good so far but not as amazing as everyone made me believe it would be. Oh well. Still good!

[Unicorn]

I am currently reading the following books:

• Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
• John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
• Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

I love these books a lot.

• Jane Eyre: Summary
• The Grapes of Wrath: Summary
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Since this isn;t just 1 book, I'll let you find the summaries yourselves.

[aleks arsenic]

im reading the whitewolf game books if those count lol. more like 200-300 pg manuals

[Cassy .-.]

I am currently reading "My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla".

[Queen of Hearts]

mod edit: wrong topic

[Algernon]

Now that my exams are over with, I have had the time to read a little more again. I finished two books this week:

+A.D. Miller – Snowdrops: ‘Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011, Snowdrops is the debut of 2011: A stunning novel of moral ambiguity, uncertainty and corruption. Snowdrops. That’s what the Russians call them – the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killers. Nick has a confession. When he worked as a high-flying British lawyer in Moscow, he was seduced by Masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs and intimate dachas, the human kindnesses and state-wide corruption. Yet as Nick fell for Masha, he found that he fell away from himself; he knew that she was dangerous, but life in Russia was addictive, and it was too easy to bury secrets – and corpses – in the winter snows...’

I read it in one sitting: it’s a small book with a largish font and it’s less than 300 pages. The story wasn’t great and the way in which it was written (a confession to the narrator’s soon-to-be wife) felt very forced at times, but the main story and the minor subplots were easy to follow and moved smoothly. Despite the clunky writing at times, there were also some fun phrases you just have to smile at because of their witticism. I read it in one sitting because it flowed and it was easy to read and follow. For a quiet night in, you can do a lot worse than this little book.

+Roland Bainton – Here I Stand: ‘I cannot. I will not recant. Here I stand". Accused of heresy, threatened with excommunication and death, Martin Luther spoke these fateful words as he took his unyielding position against the abuses of the medieval church. This text is a biography of the man who, because of his unshakeable faith in his god, became the instigator and chief architect of the Protestant Reformation.’

The biography of Martin Luther. I have read German biographies of Martin Luther, but I have to bitterly admit that those do not match up at all to this British-American church historian’s. I bought the hardcover, which had thicker-than-usual paper and a lot of drawings, icons and art prints of the times of Luther, which added a lot to the whole experience. It is thoroughly researched and expertly written. The author himself starts by saying he won’t bore the reader with going on and on about Luther’s childhood because it doesn’t reveal anything about his character. He does, however, go deeply into the most important moments of his life. I discovered a lot of things I didn’t know about Luther, and reading this book itself was a pleasure in itself. The writing is fluent, colourful, spirited and engaging. Highly recommended to everyone, not just to people who want to know more about Martin Luther.

Now I need to decide upon which books to start next. So many to choose from.

[Queen of Hearts]

Leave it to me to post this in the wrong fucking topic.
Damn my inability to fully read the topic -__-
P.S.- This topic was right above the "What are the listening to right now?" thread, SO IT'S ALMOST SOMEWHAT NOT ENTIRELY MY STUPIDITY.

[lonliness_impending]

'Angel dust apocalypse' by Jeremy Robert Johnson
a super awesome postmodern short story collection
"Meth-heads, man-made monsters, and murderous Neo-Nazis. Blissed out club kids dying at the speed of sound. The un-dead and the very soon-to-be-dead. They're all here, trying to claw their way free.

From the radioactive streets of a war-scarred future, where the nuclear bombs have become self-aware, to the fallow fields of Nebraska where the kids are mainlining lightning bugs, this is a world both alien and intensely human. This is a place where self-discovery involves scalpels and horse tranquilizers; where the doctors are more doped-up than the patients; where obsessive-compulsive acid-freaks have unlocked the gateway to God and can't close the door."

and


'like being killed' by ellen miller

I could never predict what was going to ruin me and what was going to rescue me..." Ilyana Meyerovich has never been very far from disaster and loss. A self-described " suicidal, strung-out, psychotic Jew under thirty," Ilyana retreats into her astonishing mind, prays to obscure Catholic saints, and seeks her equilibrium in six white lines laid out on the kitchen table of a squalid Lower East Side apartment. Masochism and nihilism form the twin poles of Ilyana's heroin blurred existence, but this was not always so.

When Susannah Lyons entered Ilyana's life via a "roommate-wanted ad," she quickly became the best thing in it. Having no precedent for genuine friendship, Ilyana can't help but destroy this one, betraying her sweet, naive friend in a way that nearly has fatal consequences for them both.

[LolaGoggles]

I am currently reading the Hobbit by JR.R. Tolkien, I just started it yesterday but it is pretty good. A little drawn out at times it seems though.

I just finished the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (for the umpteenth time) and had never read the Hobbit, so my friend bought me the book and threatened
to burn my manga if I didn't finish by the end of the week. Well needless to say I am reading it VERY quickly lol.

[TerrierChad]

Reading through the Wheel of Time. Currently on book 3: The Dragon Reborn. I did the first 5 books before although I remember very little of 4 and 5.

[Nereus]

Reading the next book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series: The Girl Who Played With Fire. He originally planned the series as having ten installments, but he tragically died in 2004 of a heart attack, so only three of the ten were completed and then published.

[Let_Love_Bleed_Red]

I'm currently reading Crossed by Ally Condie

In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky – taken by the Society to his certain death – only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake.
Cassia’s quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border. But as Cassia nears resolve and certainty about her future with Ky, an invitation for rebellion, an unexpected betrayal, and a surprise visit from Xander – who may hold the key to the uprising and, still, to Cassia’s heart – change the game once again. Nothing is as expected on the edge of Society, where crosses and double crosses make the path more twisted than ever.

[Let_Love_Bleed_Red]

For now nothing to interesting because I have to read the Great Gatsby for adv. English "/

[Impaled]

I just started reading The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. Fun so far.

[Nereus]

'Existence' by David Brin.

He is easily one of my favourite science fiction authors.