We are all writers (I assume), and so I would assume a lot of us read a lot. So just for curiosity, what's on your reading list? Mine is a big bigger than I could want, but here goes... Currently reading: Harlan Coben - Caught Readling list: Jane Jensen - Millenium Rising Jane Jensen - Gabriel Knight: Sins of the fathers Stephen Laws - Specter Stephen Laws - Somewhere south of midnight Dean Koontz - Midnight Michael Crichton - Pirate latitude Steve Berry - The Alexandria link Mia James - By midnight Laurell K. Hamilton - Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Guilty pleasures Andy McDermott - Temple of the gods (not out until early next year, but definitely on my reading list) P.C. and Kristin Cast - House of Night 9 (I've pre-ordered already) There's tons more, but these will do for now. I hope.
Well currently I have the following queued up: Eona the Last Dragon Eye Hyperspace The Sorceress Born of Shadows I can never seem to find the time.
I don't have a reading list, really, but I've been thinking about reading Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, as well as continuing on Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
First three are for summer reading then the last two I should be done with by Nov/Dec, depending on how big Paolini's is. Lord of the Flies - William Golding Count of Monte Cristo (abridged) - Alexandre Dumas Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell Waiting for Inheritance (last book of Eragon series; read all three, just seems right to finish them). - Christopher Paolini
If you want to read Alice in Wonderland (or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to be precise), don't forget Through the looking glass. And for that matter, what about A new Alice in old Wonderland?
If you are looking for something modern, I really enjoyed, "The Looking Glass Wars". You should check them out.
I have a couple of Harlan Coben books lying around the house, and I think he's quite popular in America, but i've never really had the enthusiasm to read them. Just never really caught my imagination. Is he any good? Would you recommend him? Thanks
Borges-labyrinths Jonathan Safran Foer-Tree of Codes Mark Z. Danielewski- The Fifty Year Sword (if the price ever comes down)
On my reading "to do" list (both fiction and non-fiction): "Incognito" (David Eagleman) - currently reading "The Theory That Would Not Die" (Sharon Bertsch McGrayne) "Descartes Bones" (Russell Shorto) "The House in Paris" (Elizabeth Bowen) "A Room With A View" (E.M.Forster) "The Age of Innocence" (Edith Wharton) "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" (Helen Simonson) "The Autobiography of Mark Twain"
I had honestly never even heard of him other than just another name when I asked a girl in the bookstore to recommend something for me. She recommended Caught, so I gave it a chance. (well, she was cute...) :redface: But luckily the book was actually really good and had some great twists all the way. I haven't read anything else by him, but I'm definitely going to. But now that I finished Caught, I decided on moving down the list and ended up with John Manning's "All the pretty dead girls". And it wasn't even on the list. Geez... Great book so far, though.
Alice, Peter, and Mowgli You should also really consider reading The Jungle Book, Peter Pan, and if you want to do something modern, Gaiman's Graveyard Book. I took a Children's Literature class that focused on the 19th century, early 20th, and we read those. They actually have a lot in common, and are way too classic to miss out on. Or you could just watch the Disney versions. Super different, less dark, but there are some darn catchy tunes in there. BTW, you can listen to Gaiman reading the Graveyard Book here, totally free.
My reading list is like 20 books at this point...I have this terrible habbit of continously walking into book stores or online stores, finding a book and buying it without thought xD First of I need to finish the 3 books i'm reading at the moment...then move onto A Song of Fire and Ice, then Tomorrow When the War Began followed by The First Law trilogy and some random books I still need to read!
Ulysses: the 1922 text - James Joyce (reading now) Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe Diary of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe The Penguin Book of English Short Stories The Illiad - Homer The Odyessy - Homer The Aenid - Virgil Metamorphosis - Ovid I'm becoming really interested in classical epics.
I read Gravity's Rainbow last year and I can say it's really hard going, but really rewarding. It's amazingly funny.
Tomorrow is July 12th!!! Anyone know what that means??? DANCE WITH DRAGONS!!!! WOOOOT!!!! For the unknowing, that is the 5th book in A Song of Ice and Fire series! That's on my List next. Right now I am finishing up Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
^I wasn't going to buy A Dance with Dragons right now, since I have the others in paperback and wanted to be consistent, but I finally gave in and preordered the hardcover. So excited!
