What book(s) have you read recently?

[Utter_iMADNESS]

I just finished Eric Walter's Shattered and it's the greatest book that I've ever read. I started a couple of hours ago and just finished it the same night.

Shattered is a novel about a 15-yr old privileged boy who ends up in a soup kitchen for his civics volunteer hours. There he meets a former French-Canadian peace keeper, Jacques, who now lives on the streets. Ian learns a lot about ignorance being a part of human nature. He learns about the tragedy in Rwanda and that Jacques had actually witnessed the many horrors that took place. Through the people around Ian, he learns that ignorance is not always bliss and surprisingly is able to turn Jacques' life around for the better.

I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys stories of human nature, life lessons learned, and books in which one may actually shed a tear or two.

P.S. If you like this book then you may also like Orbit by John J. Nance.

[KickHopper]

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

Still great no matter how many times I read it. <3

[qtipbrit]

Originally Posted by xia

The last book I finished was "Pet Semetary"

Waitaminute!
Is this what the Ramones song is named after?
I thought it might have just been a spelling error, since I'm pretty sure that they didn't just use conventional illegal drugs, so I wouldn't put it past Johnny to accidentally misspell "cemetary" and never care enough to fix it.

Originally Posted by KickHopper

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

Still great no matter how many times I read it. <3

Oh goodness, it's the funniest book I have ever read.
Except maybe Welcome to the NHK, but probably not.

[Marina]

Finished reading Nectar in a Sieve

[xia]

Originally Posted by qtipbrit92

Waitaminute!
Is this what the Ramones song is named after?
I thought it might have just been a spelling error, since I'm pretty sure that they didn't just use conventional illegal drugs, so I wouldn't put it past Johnny to accidentally misspell "cemetary" and never care enough to fix it.

Oh goodness, it's the funniest book I have ever read.
Except maybe Welcome to the NHK, but probably not.

Well.. that song was played in the credits for the movie.. perhaps it was made for the film?

[Kang Seung Jae]

Attempting to read World War Z.

[NorthernFallout]

Read the whole Rama series by Arthur C.Clarke

Rama
Rama II
Garden of Rama
Rama Revealed

[nanafan]

since i am out of school, forever i hope i have been reading
christy
catherine marshall

[Pileus]

Catch-22 is definitely the funniest book "of literary merit" (as my English teacher liked to say) that I've ever read. It is also a good book from a literary point of view. I heard that the sequel sucks, however.

Recently, I've read Xala (another supposedly funny book, but not really) and Uncle Tom's Cabin. And yes, they were all assigned reading (though I read Catch-22 twice because it was so good).

[nanafan]

i liked uncle tom's cabin a really good book. haven't read catch 22, but did read catcher in the rye it was okay.

[Irenicus]

Originally Posted by nanafan

i liked uncle tom's cabin a really good book. haven't read catch 22, but did read catcher in the rye it was okay.

Trust me, it's hilarious. I loved Catcher in the Rye in its "whoa, bullseye" portrayal of teenage disillusionment and the amusing wild adventure the (goddam ) protagonist went through -- the kind you want to have once in your life so you can tell it to your friends and family. But Catch-22 is on a whole 'nother class in its wit and irony. The 20th century received a headshot of a lifetime in that book, and you just can't stop laughing at the satirical characters and nonsensical events that surround that crazy bastard Yossarian, who's probably the sanest person in the whole ordeal.

[UltimaWolf]

His Dark Materials.

[The Undertaker]

Kite Runner - Highly recommended

[shelter]

Originally Posted by The Undertaker

Kite Runner - Highly recommended

Agreed. Although Hosseini can be a bit over-dramatic sometimes.

I'm reading 2 collections of short stories: Goodbye Columbus, by Phillip Roth & A Multitude of Sins, by Richard Ford. Unfortunately long novels put me to sleep these days.

[maymay]

Currently reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky and re-reading The Master and Margarita. Highly recommending both if your up for a little heavy reading ^_^

[physics223]

Originally Posted by maymay

Currently reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky and re-reading The Master and Margarita. Highly recommending both if your up for a little heavy reading ^_^

I read those a while ago. Good choices.

I just read Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner. It's a great novel, but it doesn't have the scope, the novelty, or the power of The Sound and the Fury.
For those who have read Faulkner: what do you think is his masterpiece: The Sound and the Fury or Absalom, Absalom!?

[Terrestrial Dream]

Originally Posted by The Undertaker

Kite Runner - Highly recommended

I just read it and thought it was great book.

Spoiler:

I loved the last scene where he ran after the kite for Sohrab, at that scene you could finally know that Amir redeemed himself.

[nanafan]

i hope to read that soon, is the book better than the movie?

[Terrestrial Dream]

Originally Posted by nanafan

i hope to read that soon, is the book better than the movie?

Never saw the movie so I can't say much but I heard that like all other movie base on book it is not quiet good as the movie.

[physics223]

I've recently read Under the Volcano and I've written a review that hopefully grounds it in anime here.