<p>the last books that i read:
lexus and olive tree (thomas friedman) - 9/10- a pretty good book about globalisation and very informative as well as interesting.</p>
<p>kashmir-an untold story (humra quraishi) - 7/10 - a good book which gives vivid accounts of the day to day lives of an average kashmiri...but it misses out much on the history part..</p>
<p>am looking forward to reading shantaram, future of freedom :)</p>
<p>The last book I read was technically HP: Half Blood Prince, but I don't want to get into the politics/argument of trying to put a numeric rating on that one.</p>
<p>So I'll draw back to the last book before that one:</p>
<p>Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire. 9/10 - An interesting take on the life of Snow White. I really enjoyed it, but was a little weirded out by all the sexual things in it (it appeared where I didn't think it added anything to the story).</p>
<p>The Poisonwood Bible
6.5/10, waaaaaaaaaaaaay too overrated.</p>
<p>Raisan in the Sun ...I give it 2 out of 5 stars..not that interesting..I'm currently reading Grapes of Wrath..and I probably give it 4 out of 5 stars</p>
<p>I just finished
Howl's Moving Castle: 7/10... quick easy fun read. I needed a break from required reading and harry potter wasn't cutting it.</p>
<p>I'm also trying to finish
Me Talk Pretty One Day: definitely an 8/10 at least.</p>
<p>Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, 8/10</p>
<p>I read Angels and Demons... id give it a 9.5/10 only cause the ending was more of a "what the heck?" type...</p>
<p>Catch-22: 10/10
-a bitter, absurd, compassionate novel for people who do not share the society's historical unquestioning respect for military institutions and war</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice. 7.5/10. It didn't really draw me in very much, so it took me a long time to get through. And I felt there were a few chapters that needn't have been there at all. It was okay, though, for being a book I had to read for school.</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Doestoyevsky. 8/10 </p>
<p>Catcher in the Rye 10/10
Wanted to know why everyone liked this so much now I know awesome book.</p>
<p>Catcher in the Rye was sorta depressing. Id give it a 8/10.</p>
<p>Good God the Poinsonwood Bible was torture. I got so fed up/bored that I quit and read the Sparknotes....I know, that's a whole new kind of lazy.</p>
<p>elvenqueen10- have you read 'Naked' by David Sedaris? It's funnier than Me Talk Pretty One Day, and a little less disturbing in my opinion.</p>
<p>Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress = 8/10</p>
<p>It was kinda short, but a very sweet book. I loved how the characters were transformed by reading literature. The ending was quite surprising.</p>
<p>Raisin in the Sun=4/10
It was short, which I liked, but it had no point, to me. I could've read a summary, and wouldn't have missed nothing much.</p>
<p>The Grapes of Wrath=5/10
Such a classic, yet it wasn't as good as I thought. It was good at the beginning, yes. I liked the descriptiveness of the book, but it got overwhelming having to finish a chapter towards the end. It was turning more into a burden, rather a pleasure, and could've been shortened.</p>
<p>Smut: Sex in the Media=6/10
Short and to the point. I kind of liked it, except I felt the author wasn't showing the whole perspective. He was a hypocrite in my mind, as he tells the reader that he worked as a head for a pornographic magazine, and now thinks America exposes too much.</p>
<p>Warriors Don't Cry=6/10
It was short and to the point, but the problem lies that it wasn't real interesting. The sad part it, I think I would add one or two points to its score, because it turned out to be the better books of the summer. I thought it was good, now that I thought about it, so I change my score of a 6 to like a 7 or 8. </p>
<p>I'm really harsh on what I like to read and what I don't like to read, if you didn't notice by the low scores. I might not have liked these books probably because they were required reading. I actually got away with having to read another one, because I figured that The Grapes of Wrath would constitute as a historical novel (Dust Bowl of the 1930s?).</p>
<p>High Fidelity- 9/10<br>
A good read if you like sex, music, or both.</p>
<p>What's wrong with you people! I thought The Poisonwood Bible was beautifully written. I give it a perfect score. 10/10</p>
<p>There's my two cents...</p>
<p>The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - really, really good, a page turner for sure :)</p>
<p>hah well i basically agree with EJ- i loved poisonwood bible 9/10 and i genuinely enjoyed high fidelity</p>
<p>just finished reading Pride and Prejudice for the 5th time. I absolutely adore it. 9.7/10</p>
<p>Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
It was really long but definitely worth it. 9/10</p>
<p>Dr. Folkman's War by Robert Cooke
I highly reccomend this one if you are interested in science or medicine. 9/10</p>
<p>Hamlet 5/10. It was really quite boring. I had to read it for AP English.</p>
<p>1984 - 8/10
The Prince - 8/10
Importance of Being Earnest - 10/10</p>