Books

[Simon]

Anyone reading any good books right now? Im about half-way through The Davinci Code. I find it quite interesting so far.

anyone got any others i can read after this?

 

[lplkassm]

These are the books that I enjoyed reading:

The Odyssey
The Iliad
How to Kill a Mockingbird
A Tale of Two Cities
Dream Merchant
Artemis Fowl
Kite Runner
Frankenstein
The Receiver

Those are just the few books that I enjoyed reading over the years

 

[Simon]

The artemis fowl series was definitely quite intriguing, mostly when I was 13-14. I have re-read it a few times however, since i enjoyed it. Especially The Eternity Code

 

[spark]

I enjoyed reading the Percy Jackson and the Olympian series.... Although they are a bit easy to read...

 

[Winston]

Lyrical and Critical Essays by Albert Camus. It sounds intimidating, but Camus is one of the few classical writers that makes difficult topics and themes easier to grasp through use of innovative and simplistic language. Trust me, I'm a doctor.

 

[Simon]

Vader, that one sounds quite good, I'll have to look st it once I'm done the davinci code. And "angels and demons"

 

[Mystery Penguin]

These are the books that I enjoyed reading:

The Odyssey
The Iliad
How to Kill a Mockingbird
A Tale of Two Cities
Dream Merchant
Artemis Fowl
Kite Runner
Frankenstein
The Receiver

Those are just the few books that I enjoyed reading over the years

Yes, very yes I loved Artemis Fowl and enjoyed To Kill.

The Sight
Fell (sequel to above)
The ear, the eye, and the arm
Series of unfortunate events (loved these in 7th grade)

 

[iEye Captain]

Twilight: Breaking Dawn.

 

[TheyCallMeC]

im re-reading the pendragon series atm

its a pretty good series

each book is between 300-600 pages though

with ten books itll take a while

 

[TheyCallMeC]

!Down iEye to the power of infinity

You deserve to have bamboo shoved under your fingernails for even suggesting that the twilight series are anything resembling books


you deserve torture that can only be dealt out in hell for saying that they are good however

 

[Simon]

I actually did read the entire twilight series. Mostly because I was hoping the girl would die. I was hoping for an unexpected ending :/

 

[Zero711]

Artemis Fowl was a really good series. My favorite book as of late was one we read in school, and then I went to go and read at home on my own time and enjoyed it a lot more as I was actually paying attention. Since I deem you old enough at 15, I'm going to recommend Catch-22, a great satirical novel by Joseph Heller about WWII pilots in Italy. Be ready for some mature content however. *Looks for confirmation from Idol*

 

[Idol]

Zero Seventy-one One speaks the truth. Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is an incredible read. It's not considered a classic yet (AFAIK) but in 100 years it will be. Despite it being a morality tale it is gut-busting funny in places. Don't get me wrong, this book is not a comedy, not even darkly. But you will find it funny because you will find it true. Here's a sample and the definition of the title phrase:

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

 

[lplkassm]

Well I decided to post a few more that I have read:

Fahrenheit 451
1984
Invisible Man
Animal Farm (easy read, but it has to do with government structure)
Lord of the Flies
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Canterbury Tales
Things Fall Apart
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Hamlet
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Color Purple
In the time of the Butterflies
Beowulf
The Stranger
The Scarlett Letter
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Crucible
Romeo & Juliet
Candide
Oedipus Rex

Its a long list, but there are the books I have read. Most of them I own and some of them I actually read in High School during my Advance Placement classes.

Enjoy iSimon

 

[Simon]

Well I decided to post a few more that I have read:

Fahrenheit 451
1984
Invisible Man
Animal Farm (easy read, but it has to do with government structure)
Lord of the Flies
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Canterbury Tales
Things Fall Apart
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Hamlet
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Color Purple
In the time of the Butterflies
Beowulf
The Stranger
The Scarlett Letter
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Crucible
Romeo & Juliet
Candide
Oedipus Rex

Its a long list, but there are the books I have read. Most of them I own and some of them I actually read in High School during my Advance Placement classes.

Enjoy iSimon

Definitely gonna have to start writing all this down! Ill be reading for months with all this

 

[Ledzo-INACTIVE]

Conte Monte-Cristo v.1 / Alexandre Dumas
v.2

 

[Split]

Monster island, Monster Nation, Monster Planet, 23 hours, 99 coffins, Vampire Zero, 13 bullets, Frostbite, and Plague Zone. They're Vampire, Werewolf and Zombie books by David Wellington, all go into deep detail about the topic, making them probably the best horror books i've read in a while... most of them are all online too, which is pretty bad ass, but if you like sitting there laying in bed, theyre all like 15 bucks per book at Barnes and Noble

 

[Carmine]

Atlas Shrugged

 

[SoldierX77]

God I hate reading, why should I be forced to pay for a 20 dollar book, when instead I could be sitting in a nice chair watching the movie.

 

[Split]

God I hate reading, why should I be forced to pay for a 20 dollar book, when instead I could be sitting in a nice chair watching the movie.

books never fail, i haven't read a horrible book since i was in junior high (god i hated tangerine)

movies can spend past 5 or 6 millions dollars and it will end up being a flop

making you spend $7.50, $20 for food and drinks, and then get stuck in a movie theater that has people in there that has seen the movie 20 or 30 times before and end up leaving disappointed because you thought they were going to show angelina Jolie naked (Damn you Beowulf)

reading puts your imagination to work