<p>I want to pick up some books to read lately. any suggestions? Thanks!</p>
<p>this side of pariside!</p>
<p>Catch-22.
If you're in the mood for poetry, I'm reading some Keats right now.</p>
<p>i just read Ender's Game and loved it!! it's science fiction though so i don't know if you like that kind of stuff. i started reading it without even realizing it was science fiction (and without ever having read science fiction before) but was pleasantly surprised.</p>
<p>haha I can't believe I wrote "pariside". wow. I meant "This Side of Paradise"</p>
<p>I'm reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the 204879073247 time. I know I talk about that book ceaselessly, but it's just so good.</p>
<p>Where Angels Fear to Tread - Forster - awesome</p>
<p>p.s. j07, check your PMs!</p>
<ol>
<li>December 6th - Martin Cruz Smith</li>
<li>Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World - Donald Keene</li>
<li>Alfred Russell Wallace - Peter Raby</li>
<li>Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Sean Carroll</li>
</ol>
<p>Is anyone looking forward to the new HP book coming out?</p>
<p>YES!!! i'm going to reread the series in the summer leading up to the release date. i'm pretty excited except sad that there won't be any more HP books.</p>
<p>Shogun by James Clavell. It's got everything you want--fighting, loyalty, sex, Japanese culture, war battles, executions, blood, turmoil, subtle Japanese traditions--all in the hands of one Dutch man washed up on the shore of Japan during a time of war who rises to become the lead general of the westernized, cannon-equipped Japanese battalion--known only by the name of Shogun.</p>
<p>im not really into sci fi/action, i love creative writing
some favorites:
portraits of artist as young man-james joyce
a streetcar named desire-tennesee williams
middlesex- jeffrey eugenides
ANYTHING by flannery o connor, john updike, toni morrison, arthur miller
im sure im forgetting some
and i think hemingway is way overrated</p>
<p>Why do you think that, gruppy?</p>
<p>Shogun is a great book Merrychristmas, I read it 2 years ago and I had a great time.</p>
<p>Read 'Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail, 1972' by Hunter S. Thompson.</p>
<p>Nothing has or will ever happen in politics that didn't happen here. The players, the issues change, but the nature of it, the dynamics, remain constant.</p>
<p>Everything you need to know about the American character is in this book.</p>
<p>Everything about the nature of American journalism.</p>
<p>Everything about morality, the tension between truth and public relations, perception and reality, hypocrisy, back-stabbing, the corrupting influence of massive power and the pursuit of it, and the inherent yet repeatedly squandered potential for massive change residing in average people. </p>
<p>This book is a true life-changer.</p>
<p>It's also one of the two or three funniest books ever written.</p>
<p>A sampling of reviews:</p>
<p>"The best account yet published of what it feels like to be out there in the middle of the American political process."
-The New York Times Book Review</p>
<p>"Obscene, horrid, repellent...driving, urgent, candid, searing...a fascinating, compelling book!"
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.</p>
<p>"Gaze in awe...Hunter Thompson does in his own mad way betray a profound democratic concern for the polity. And in its own mad way, it's damned refreshing."
-Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times</p>
<p>"Hunter Thompson is the Prince of Gonzo...He is the quintessential Outlaw Journalist!"
-J. Anthony Lukas in More, the National Journalism Review</p>
<p>Security Analysis?</p>
<p>ernie, ill guess that your asking about hemingway... i understand the importance of h on literature, but personally when i read his work i was not moved as others have done to me. i read for whom the bell tolls and when the sun rises and some his short stories. i think i find his prose too sparse, too devoid of emotion...i dont like having to fill in the blanks, if you know what i mean...</p>
<p>yeah, i'm not great at appreciating hemingway either. :P </p>
<p>i love 'and then there were none' by agatha christie. it ****ed me off because when i finally thought i knew who it was, he died. but it has got a pretty interesting plot...</p>
<p>Hemingway's style is weird... It's kind of objective and emotionless, and sometimes it feels like you're reading the same page over and over again even if you actually aren't, because some of the descriptions get more than slightly repetitive. And some of the books can be disappointing, like for example in The Old Man and the Sea, you expect it to have a happy ending, but then it doesn't. I mean, not every book has to have a happy ending, but the way this ending was presented made it worse than it would normally have been. Other than that, I have to say that I appreciate how all of his books tend to have a deeper meaning, and if you consider that, and kind of ignore the annoyingness of the books themselves, Hemingway actually isn't so bad.</p>
<p>Anyways, right now, I'm reading Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.</p>
<p>never read hemingway!</p>
<p>i like Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver. it's a great book :)</p>