<p>lkf725,</p>
<p>I just finished the 2nd novel in the McNally Mystery Series (McNally's Luck).</p>
<p>It is AWESOME!!!!</p>
<p>why does everyone think brave new world was disappointing? i liked it</p>
<p>I liked Brave New World too :(</p>
<p>I'll admit that it took a bit more effort to get in to at the first of it, but it's definitely one of my favorites.</p>
<p>But to answer the guilty pleasures question...other than Harry Potter, all of my book choices are somewhat thinking/learning type things. I love certain subjects, though, like the Holocaust stuff and true crime/murder/criminology stuff...so it's not a chore in the least to read them. And there's also something about getting random references to classic books that makes me happy. </p>
<p>Oh, and I LOVED The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. It's about the outbreak of a strain of Ebola in Washington in the late 80s. All true events about real people...just a few name changes. I've read it at least 5 times and it's not a small book at 422 pages. I highly recommend this one to anyone that's the least bit interested in infectious diseases...Ebola happens to be my favorite because of how deadly and downright vicious it is.</p>
<p>So yeah...most people can't usually tell by looking at me, but I'm a huge nerd :)</p>
<p>Brave New World wasn't disappointing for me, just totally unlike I had been expecting. The ending was kind of anticlimactic, I guess, but effective enough.</p>
<p>I recently reread the whole Harry Potter series, and just finished reading The Elements of Style. I am now reading The Modern Girl's Guide to Life, which is very amusing so far.</p>
<p>Fiction:</p>
<p>To the Lighthouse---Virginia Woolf
Lolita----Vladimir Nabokov</p>
<p>Non-fiction:</p>
<p>The Western Canon----Harold Bloom
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations----David S. Landes</p>
<p>life of pi, girl with a pearl earring, mcnally #1, #2, #3, lolita, abundance, da vinci code</p>
<p>Madame Bovary in Korean. I dunno why, but I am reading it in korean. ahah.</p>
<p>Lolita- I've started but I left the book in the states! (sobs) I see alot of you guys are reading Lolita, lol ^^ Good book</p>
<p>Stumbling on Happiness- I ahve the book so i'll finish it one day</p>
<p>Imperial Women-I stole this from my old local library (cough cough) and was planning on returning it one day. Ur I keep on losing track so I dun know if I'll ever finish?</p>
<p>Taking the Field-Its a book my professor wrote and its really interesting. I just keep on losing track as well. I was suppose to read this during the year (cough cough)</p>
<p>The Husband-I read it in the plane, not so bad but not amazing either. Good read, didn't take me long ^^</p>
<p>Ten Consecutive Years of Living in Cars:Living, Traveling, Camping, Attending College, and Performing Surveillance in Cars--and Loving It!</p>
<p>Craig S. Roberts, <a href="http://www.livingincars.com%5B/url%5D">www.livingincars.com</a></p>
<p>Definately worth $30, paperback</p>
<p>The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.</p>
<p>a must read</p>
<p>Saul Bellow's Herzog</p>
<p>"anyone read alice's adventures in wonderland? is it a book that kids our age (high school/college) can still enjoy?"</p>
<p>Sure, read Alice Through the Looking Glass and look for all the drug references.</p>
<p>on the road by jack kerouac
and
scar tissue (the biography of the lead singer of red hot chili peppers)</p>
<p>"One L" by Scott Turow
"Scalia Dissents"</p>
<p>I do hope to go back and re-read the majority of the Dulouz Legend by Kerouac ("On the Road", "Dharma Bums", "Visions of Cody", "Subterraneans", etc.)</p>
<p>right now:</p>
<p>Hunter's Death by Michelle West
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
月の影 影の海 by 小野不由美</p>
<p>and some random Renaissance poetry when i feel like it :)</p>
<p>btw who here uses librarything (<a href="http://www.librarything.com/profile/ioet%5B/url%5D">http://www.librarything.com/profile/ioet</a>)? it's amazing!</p>
<p>The Time Traveler's Wife</p>
<p>Some books I recommend:
"Wuthering Heights" - Emily Bronte - Someone mentioned it already, a timeless classic!
"Gone with the wind" - Margaret Mitchell - Don't get discouraged by its size, the pages fly by - amazing read!
"The curious incident of a dog in a night-time" - Mark Haddon - I thought it was touching and humorous at the same time!
"Virgin suicides" - Jeffrey Eugenides - Makes you think, a little dark maybe, but still very good.
"Beloved" - Toni Morrison - A look at the slavery, motherhood and a hint of mystery - great book!</p>
<p>Anyone read any of these??</p>
<p>i've been craving a classic romance novel for quite some time...although i don't care for the cheap trash novels...any suggestions?</p>
<p>Harry Potter 7, obviously. </p>
<p>Life of Pi, Suite Francaise, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Kite Runner</p>
<p>Summer is a time for fiction, I read enough dry stuff in the form of primary documents during the year.</p>
<p>the kitchen god's wife by Amy tan.....</p>