in further attempts to get to know everyone, i figure this would be a good thread to start...

some of my favorites include:
fugitive pieces - anne michaels
catch 22 - joseph heller
the idiot - dostoyevsky
trainspotting - irvine welsh
a heartbreaking work of staggering genius - dave eggers
player piano, cat's cradle, deadeyedick, slaughterhouse 5 - kurt vonnegut
she's come undone - wally lamb
the passion - jeanette winterson
the mars triology - kim stanely robinson
middlesex - jeffrey eugenides

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, and Other Stories - Tim Burton
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carrol
Fractured Fairy Tales - AJ Jacobs
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Anything Harry Potter - JK Rowling



So I like kids books

i just read something you might enjoy...

the bloody chamber - angela carter. she basically re-writes a few fairy tales with needless, i would say, erotic or sexual overtones. it's still quite the interesting read though.

Hahaha, doesn't quite sound my style, but sounds like an interesting read. I'll check it out if it flows in my direction.

My favorite topic.. I'm constantly in a book.

Catcher in the Rye - Sallinger (reading this at 17 seemed so right)
The Cancer Ward - Solzhinitsyn
Anna Karenia - Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamozov - Dostoyevsky
Doctor Zhivago - Pasternak
We - Zamyatin
1984 - Orwell
Brave New World - Huxley
Almost anything by Hemmingway

Bluebeard--Vonnegut
Catcher in the Rye--Sallinger
Alias Grace,
The Handmaid's Tale,
Cat's Eye--Atwood
Life of Pi--Yann Martel
East of Eden--Steinbeck
Merchant of Venice,
Hamlet--Shakespeare
all the Harry Potter books (J.K. Rowling)

that's all I can think of at the moment.

the bell jar-sylvia plath
catcher in the rye
stardust, american gods, neverwhere-neil gaiman
no logo-naomi klein
the bio/autobiographies of mick fleetwood, grace slick, melissa etheridge and tori amos
the unabridged journals of sylvia plath
rolling stone raves
she's a reble-a history of womein in rock
the harry potter seriies

Oooh... quite a few modern classics are listed here so far.

Some of my favourite books would include:

Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning - Viktor Frankl
The Power To Be - Paul Tillich
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave
Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love - Stephanie Dowrick
The Universal Heart - Stephanie Dowrick
Darkness Visible - William Styron
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Darkness Visible - William Golding
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Poems of John Keats
The Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

ahh... I forgot about Gaiman. I read Neverwhere last spring cuz that's the only one they had in the library at the time. Right now I'm trying to finish reading the sandman. so far it's good but I just haven't had a lot of time.

I also loved The Bell Jar. I haven't read any of Plath's poetry though... I also forgot to add "the most beautiful woman in town" by Bukowski.

Are there any interesting books that people are reading at the moment?

i've yet to read any of the sandman books. they're scarce around here.

between the mountains of required reading for school, i'm reading Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott.

the bell jar was good indeed. i bought her 'johnny panic and the bible of dreams' for my 19th birthday and it most certainly was one of the most depressing things i've ever read. she was very talented though.

Mine are...
Any of the Harry Potter books - Goblet of Fire is tops though.
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
A Time for Dancing - Davida Wills Hurwin
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Chrysalis - Cynthia Davis

Currently reading: Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones

The Little Prince, Wind Sand and Stars - Antoine De Saint-Exup�ry
The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Outsider (L'�tranger) - Albert Camus
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crabbe - William Bell
Not Wanted On The Voyage - Timothy Findley
...and other authors I like, W.B. Yeats and Pablo Neruda

advice on dying by dalai lama
between the stillness and the grove by erika de vasconcelos

Heave -- Christy Ann Conlin (a NS'er)
The Bell Jar -- Sylvia Plath
Sabriel -- Garth Nix (a teen novel, but oh so good if you like fantasy genre)
Shopgirl -- Steve Martin
The Cosmic Trilogy -- C.S. Lewis (fantastic religious undertones...)
Harry Potter (all of them...all things good)

I can't seem to think of others...I've read many....nothing as epic as the one's on others' lists...

Currently reading: Solar Storms, by Linda Hogan...beautiful beautiful prose.

sylvia plath <3

Actually, i'm reading "Dune".
My favorite book is definitively "1984", by George Orwell..

Just a recommendation for ya Kzrystof - seeing as how your favorite book is "1984" I'd like to point ya in the direction of "Brave New World" by Adolus Huxley and "We" by Yevgeny Zamiatin. Both books are similiar in nature (dystopian literature) to "1984" and if you already hadn't read them then they certainly could be enjoyable for ya.

Oh yah, just a little extra note. Both of those books mentioned above were written before "1984" and suposedly very inspirational for Orwell.

Franny and Zooey-JD Salinger (So much better than Catcher in the Rye, as is Nine Stories)
Timoleon Vieta Come Home-Dan Rhodes
Perks of Being a Wallflower-Stephen Chbosky
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius-Dave Eggers
Girlfriend in a Coma-Douglas Coupland

and many more that I now forget.

i probably dont even read enough to post in the thread .... but Lovely Bones was real good :lol: thats all i got.