<p>@quidditchcat: if you want another sad book, then try impulse by ellen hopkins</p>
<p>I might have read that book already… I know I read something by Ellen Hopkins. </p>
<p>This is sad… I haven’t read in so long I’m forgetting what books I’ve already read.</p>
<p>all her books are heartbreakingly sad so that’s understandable</p>
<p>Has anyone read Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata? I love that book… and yes it’s pretty sad.
Maybe I just like books about death.</p>
<p>I mean, I don’t like Thomas Hardy and his books are extremely dark/depressing. </p>
<p>Does anyone else find it kind of amusing how many deaths Shakespeare can fit into one play? Like today in class we read the last scene of Hamlet and I was cracking up b/c all the characters say “O I am slain/dead” and then die, in rapid succession…</p>
<p>Did anyone read the Cornelia funke books I. Elementry/middle school?</p>
<p>I love reading classics during holidays, but with school works and all my appetite turns towards contemporary authors with a modern style of writing. I enjoyed The Book Thief and And the Mountains echoed, which were the last two books I have read. Inferno was not that great. I’m planning to start the mammoth A Game Of Throne series. :D</p>
<p>I can’t remember exactly what was said to me about the Game of Throne series but I remember it was something strange… But I was recommended to try it.</p>
<p>Lol… so many books to read: The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Game of Thrones, the Roman Percy Jackson series, and a ton of various YA novels… </p>
<p>The last super long series I read was Warriors. haha</p>
<p>Oh gosh you reminded me that I still haven’t finished reading The Return of the King! I really need to do that…</p>
<p>Finished The Spectacular Now. Oh my gosh, the ending.</p>
<p>Wow, I’m only 1/2way thorough but then again I only read it for about an hour yesterday.</p>
<p>Haha well I started it before I started this thread so I had a head start.</p>
<p>I probably won’t start it for 2 weeks because that’s the next time I have a 2 day weekend :(</p>
<p>I finished! The movie seems to be different…</p>
<p>yeah but shailene woodley is great!</p>
<p>Quidditchcat, yay!!! How did you like it?</p>
<p>I felt like the book’s narrator’s tone was like a mix between Catcher in the Rye and Stargirl. It was very readable. </p>
<p>Sometimes I wasn’t sure whether Sutter was drunk/high/both, well, since he’s always drinking until later. </p>
<p>It was pretty enjoyable though, since at least I didn’t feel like I couldn’t move on (i.e. when I read Grapes of Wrath for English last year, I fell asleep, and for Twilight I had no motivation to continue, and would skip to the end sometimes). Ack, that sounds kind of negative, but I guess I don’t have less extreme examples. </p>
<p>Anyways not sure how much else I can say, since I don’t really want to spoil it for people.</p>
<p>Ooh I loved Stargirl, I’m getting more excited for this book then :)</p>
<p>I tried reading Twilight once and quit on the first chapter. Then people were like “You can’t judge the book if you haven’t read it!” so I took the damn book and managed to read it for an English project in 7th grade and said “I have read this book and STILL think it’s a piece of crap.” And then I read the rest of the series so that I could support my arguments with crap from the other books and lo and behold, I am fully informed on the story and “plot” of Twilight, and I still hate it. I didn’t bother watching the movies.</p>
<p>The Spectacular Now is wonderful. Not the best book I’ve ever read, but I liked it a lot.
You see, Twilight isn’t well-written and its characters are annoying, but somehow, I still enjoy it. Guilty pleasure, I guess.</p>
<p>I have a friend who cried whenever she read Twilight because “Edward is so sweet and loves Bella and ahhhhhhhh” and I would refrain from giving her a smack-smack.</p>