what books have you been reading?

<p>^ haven't read it yet. i plan to, though. i have a million books on my "must read list"</p>

<p>Capers in the Churchyard - Lee Hall</p>

<p>100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez</p>

<p>Right now I'm reading Atonement (McEwan) as part of my summer assignment. I'm only on the second page, but it seems interesting :D</p>

<p>Okay, so I caved in, picked up a heavy book, and now I can't put it down. I'm reading Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette. It's really interesting so far and promises to be as accurate a portrayal as possible. I was lost as soon as I read the first page.</p>

<p>History Of Rome~!!o Jdsoaijdoipsajdpola</p>

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I am finding M. Shelley's Frankenstein quite entertaining.

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<p>We read Frankenstein in one of my classes this year, and spent the vast majority of our time in seminar discussing the underlying sexual imagery. It was... lovely?</p>

<p>Grendel - John Gardner
I just finished the bilingual Beowulf (I think the translator was Seamus Heanny) and I liked it a lot. Before that I read As I Lay Dying, which I had never finished for AP English a year ago and then forgot to give back to the school. Also good. </p>

<p>I made myself a list, so I'll put that down too:
Catch 22, Golden Compass (reread), Lolita, Slaughterhouse Five, Don Quixote, Atlas Shrugged, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Inferno (I read parts of it senior year and really enjoyed it), Middlesex, Blink, and Anna Karenina.
Hopefully I'll have time to finish them before Aug 28. I only work two days a week, but I've become addicted to The Biggest Loser.</p>

<p>I'm catching up on some reading...</p>

<p>I read Freakonomics today and am in the middle of the Glass Castle. After that, it's on to "The Wealth of Nations" and probably the new Harry Potter.</p>

<p>After those 2 monstrous books, I have no idea what else will catch my interest.</p>

<p>Freakonomics.</p>

<p>I just finished "The Rules Of Attraction"...from the same author of "American Psycho". It was decent; incredibly quick read.</p>

<p>Before that, I read the Fountainhead. LOVED it.</p>

<p>I guess I'll read Atlas Shrugged now.</p>

<p>Any thing by Vonnegut, for sure. </p>

<p>For anyone who cares about being wealthy later in life I would recommend, The Millionaire Next Door</p>

<p>kayrlis - unabridged?</p>

<p>I am reading Plutarch's Makers of Rome.</p>

<p>Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. Ken Kesey was cah-razy.</p>

<p>OH... I haven't read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Meh.</p>

<p>I forgot to add this to my reading list: </p>

<p>Gary Hogg, Cannibalism</a> and Human Sacrifice, Coles Publishing, 1980.</p>

<p>Here's</a> something that's less dated...
Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) (Hardcover) </p>

<p>Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece (Library Binding)
by Dennis D Hughes (Author) "'Human sacrifice in ancient Greece' does not accurately describe the scope of the material covered in this study, which includes a variety of ritual killings,..." </p>

<p>I'm free at the beginning of September... actually mornings from 5am-8am if I were so disciplined but I haven't been able to awaken that early out of laziness and sleep-deprivation. Highly disappointing at this POINT IN TIME BUT WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS!</p>

<p>Brave new World... A tad dissapointing, so far...</p>

<p>I'm happy to get some titles that students enjoy reading...and most of them are pretty intellectual. But does anybody have any guilty pleasures in reading? Does anybody here ever read a trashy romance or detective novel, or some popular fiction? Something that you would be embarassed to admit to and would never write on your college applications?</p>

<p>I used to read Sweet Valley High?</p>

<p>Brave New World was disappointing.</p>