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lol well if u pepul like to read normal books this one is great its called The samurai''s garden im reading it right now and its really good (its not about samurai's tho)

its about intricate relationships the characters have with each other. its great really good book.

i just wanted to add that part lol.

I read alot im reading harry potter at the momment lol its really good

OO i love harry potter lol well yea at least i like that stuff a lot better than crappy lord of the rings lotr was so boring.. and long and boring..

the last poter book i read was the third one tho (which was my fav.) i own the other two i believe i just havent gotten around ot them

the movies are crappy but the third was one of my fav. movies of last year or this year whenever it came out i forget.

I haven't really been reading, what with a ton of work at math and chemistry and this forum. But I'd recommend: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (the title alone seemed very inviting ).

i never read lotrs well my friend said that sams gay beacuse on the book he kissed frodo..........

The Lord of the Rings trilogy are the most redundant wordy crap ever. I read The Hobbit (which took me forever) and that was it. I like C.S. Lewis better. (He was said to be an old friend of LOTR creator, whatever his name is, and that's why they both wrote those fantasy series.)

yea is it about alchemy or something? lol i mean like is it a fantasy story about alchemy or what..


but yea homework bleh i hate it SOO MUCH..

and lotr i didnt eve read the entire first book it was too dumb and brogin and long..
i completly agree with u.

ok cool i thinkill check it out ! thnx

I own "The Alchemist" as well, plus 3 other Paulo Coelho titles. I actually haven't read them yet. I have a habit of buying books and not reading them until . . . circa 2 years later?

I also read Philosophy books. Currently working on Friedrich Nietzche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". It's . . . interesting. I plan to read Plato's "Symposium" some time soon. It seems to be an enjoyable read.

I have also been known to read the dictionary. Some of my friends have dubbed me the "LexiCon" (Con being the first 3 letters of my first name). And for those of you who don't know, "lexicon" is actually a word. Simply another word for "dictionary". Now you can go tell your parents that you learned something on the Internet today!

A book that I quite enjoyed was Joseph Finder's "Paranoia". It's amazingly intricate.

At least you read them. I don't think I've read any of the books I actually own. I like to read library books better. (Good thing I realized this and stopped buying books in the first place.)

The trouble with most of the books I want to read is that the libraries do not have them available. Therefore, I must buy them. And this way, even if I don't get to them right away, they'll always be there waiting for me. No overdue charges to worry about.

Yes, I adore reading. I read Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffery, J.K. Rowling, among other things. I especially adore Mercedes Lackey. anyone else read her works?

i'm going to read Aristotles Poetics soon, for a class, but i was planning on reading it on my own anyways. I wanted to read it to help out my own screenwriting works.

sometimes I read books for fun.

What sort of books do Mercedes Lackey write?

who's Mercedes Lackey? the only Mercedes I know is a car.

lol yep me too lol

LOL. The only other Mercedes I know other than the car is the one from "The Count of Monte Cristo". Anyone here read that book?

no.
anyone read books by Enid Blyton?

nope BUT i almost saw the movie lol .. but i didnt lol

another question, we're reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinston.. has anyone read or saw the movie yet?

i like sci-fi or fantasy books

books rich in detail of their surroundings and characters i could read a book with interseting characters and a detailed world and it could have almost no plot at all and i would still think it was great but for fantasy and sci-fi that doesnt work so well

but i like reading about peoples daily musings in a beautiful surrounding..kinda like the book im reading now the samurai's garden its ust about these few eople in japan that do stuff like work inthe garden and other junk like that but the detail of the world around them is beautiful and it makes me calm just thnking about where they are while im reading.

Yea, in grade school I used to read only Enid Blyton. She's from Britain or somewhere in Europe though, so her books can rarely be found here.

The Outsiders. Maybe it's every eighth grade's must-read book. Good book. There is minor pornography in the movie though.

I've read "The Outsiders" and have seen the movie, but that was way back in Grade 8. All I really remember is one passage:

"Stay gold, Pony Boy, stay gold."

Who said that? Was it Soda Pop or something like that? I remember that they had interesting names.

no but is it about these kids who like run away and find like a dead guy with a gun or something like that? i dont remember.

whats it about if i got it wrong that is.. which i think i did.

Funky names. I wish I could meet someone named Pony Boy here.

P.S. Quistis, in the spirit of being grammatically correct, books are supposed to be underlined, not in quotation.

I just read 2.5 chapters.. my friend spoil it. .she said Johnny's gonna die.

Haha! Thanks for the reminder, Gashole. I didn't even notice that I was. I've been too lazy to underline things anyway, so I usually just use quotes, as I do the same for song names and other short works.

Let me slide, just this once?

I only read books that were recommended by my friends. There's nothing worse than trying to force yourself to finish a book.

reading book supposed to be fun.. I agree with Ailuro

OK everyone my ankle is hurting pretty damned bad i gonna go now and ill cya all tomarrow hopefully i gotta lay in bed with this ice on ankle cuz it hurt soo bad i cant even put any pressure on it ok

so peace everyone cya lates.

bye! u have a lot to learn about flooding... right now I"m teaching althe to raise her ranks.

See ya then. ^^

NOO! Ailuro!! u stopped me! but I won't let u tho.. ><

I read fantasy and science fiction books. On occasion, i'll find a book from another genre that is interesting.

fantasy books are fun.. I used to read Unicorns of Balinor.

I'm ashamed to say this but . . .

I've never read the Lord of the Rings (I underlined, Gashole! ), and I've only seen the first and third movie! *runs to a corner and sobs*

Mercedes Lackey writes fantasy-scifi books. Her best well-known are the "Heralds of Valdemar" serious, which is excellent. Its a series of trilogies and dualogies set in the kingdom of Valdemar and the surrounding lands. An excellent series and one I'd highly reccommend. She also written a few other books, but I haven't had a chance to get ahold of those.


~ais

Ohh, I see. If I ever come across her in a bookstore, I'll be sure to flip through and read some of it.

authors/books i enjoyed

Lord of the Flies
erich fromm
iliad
crime and punishment

...all i can think of at the moment

I hardley read anything but manga. Not that I don't like to. Just that I own no real books and the nearest library is an hour from my house. I used to read all of the time tho. Once I finished a 500 some page book in less then a week.

where do you live? ...wyoming?

Somehow I don't think someone who doesn't read would even bother to see this thread.

I find it quite amusing that one of the choices is 'can't read'. x3

i read lots of books, that i do

I've read Lord of the Flies, Thievesvinegar. It was quite good.

anyone who like science fiction should read battlefield earth, but whatever you do, dont watch the movie, its crap of the purist quality.

Yes, but it was somewhat disturbing, too.

Yes, kind of disturbing. But you should've seen the alternate ending I wrote for it for a creative writing project! I can't believe that came out of my finger tips!