What book(s) have you read recently?

[faustianideals]

I'm rereading The Catcher In The Rye. Not sure what book to buy. I need to get a new one. I'm thinking Paradise Lost but I'm not sure.

[Happy_Chip]

Nonfiction I've read:

"You Gotta Have Wa" by Robert Whiting - about Japanese baseball, but in more general about Japan & the west. This will really help your insight of anime especially the 'fighting spirit'.

A related (but inferior) book is "Japan in the Land of the Broken-Hearted" by Michael Shapiro, inferior because I thought the author had a bit of an attitude problem toward Japan. Insightful nevertheless if you can get past the author's prejudices.

[AniPunke]

Tales of the otori series~
rereading for the 4th time~

[Banditopants]

Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg.

[Echoes]

I recently finished "Mort", by Terry Pratchett. It was my first Discworld experience, and I rather liked it. Might pick up more of them eventually.

[HayashiMugen]

Originally Posted by faustianideals

I'm rereading The Catcher In The Rye. Not sure what book to buy. I need to get a new one. I'm thinking Paradise Lost but I'm not sure.

I like this book! I finished it and it was great.

[nanafan]

hmm mere christianity by c.s. lewis, and how to live the life you've always wanted by john ortberg

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Woohoo! I finally finished Warfare: In the Realm of Angels by J.K. MacDonald. It got very good at the end, and was a very enjoyable read. It's fairly short, but good stuff nonetheless. I think it's a very good start to what looks to be a riveting series. Check it out if you get the chance.

[nanafan]

i will be so happy when i graduate cuz i can read more

[Cut-Tongue]

Fiction: The Rat by Gunter Grass
Non-fiction: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

And to save myself from posting in another thread, my favorite book is Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

[Rookie103]

I just finished Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

Epic Read.

[KholdStare]

I've recently finished re-reading (for the 21309487th time) my two favorite books of all time, A House Without a Christmas Tree by Gail Rock and A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Yes, they're both children's books that you can read through in one day, but to me, both of them are the most beautiful things to ever be put on paper.

No, I'm not sleepy, but very close.

[Vexx]

Just finished David Hume's Enquiries concerning Human Understanding (1748).

May have to read it again to make sure he wrote I what I think he wrote.

[BellaD]

I read...
Crossed: A Tale of the Frouth Crusade by Nicole Galland..I love this book . (I will read more of her books, the way she writes is interesting)
In the Highlander's Bed by Cathy Maxwell ...yes it is as dirty as it sounds lol.
The Thief Taker by Janet Gleeson...wasnt crazy about this one.
Indiscretion by Jude Morgan.
The Undead series by Mary Janice Davidson. Funny and worth reading.
One Night with You by Sophie Jordan...yes this one tickles (In the right places lol. ) Pardon me..

[KaNa-Kun]

Finished Der Verdacht. A rather small story, still an interesting one.

[Marina]

Just finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hossein

[Vinak]

I recommend The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
great book

Originally Posted by Cut-Tongue

Non-fiction: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

started that book, just haven't gotten around to finishing it... I'm kinda lazy when it comes to long books with words well above my vocabulary level

Originally Posted by Marina

Just finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hossein

i started that book but i couldn't get past the first few chapters.... way too sad for me
i'll have to try again soon.

[physics223]

Within the month, I've re-read Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, read Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, The Dream of the Red Chamber vol. 2 by Cao Xueqin, Sophie's Choice by William Styron, The Wars by Timothy Findley. I'll simply post or edit my post if I forgot something.

I dropped Hyperion by Dan Simmons. He reminded me how much I hated science fiction. Also, I stopped reading The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst, because it was steeped in lustful homosexual men. So far, not a bad month in terms of reading for me.

[Alleluia_Cone]

I've started reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon.

[physics223]

Love in the Time of Cholera is awesome. Unrequited love for the win.