Last book you bought/read

[nazeli]

It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. It's about this guy Craig's venture into a mental hospital after he was contemplating sucide and called a suicide hotline. it's kinda cool, i'm hoping to get around to seeing the movie.

[Psycho_Shadow]

Hunchback of Notre Dame is still on hold at Barnes & Noble for me..

I recently finished reading Stephen King's Cujo (why couldn't Donna DIE?) and got started on Slan by A.E. van Vogt. It's one of my first major science fiction reads, hopefully it won't disappoint.

[Daiya_Darko]

It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. It's about this guy Craig's venture into a mental hospital after he was contemplating sucide and called a suicide hotline. it's kinda cool, i'm hoping to get around to seeing the movie.

Saw the movie; it left me a little disappointed for leaving out a crucial details for the character development of the patients Craig meets. But Zach Galifinakis does a splendid job and in once scene, I really was close to tears. That's all I'm saying for now

On topic, however, I read both It's Kind of a Funny Story and Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini. Be More Chill is more sci-fi; this guy tries a pill that gives him Keanu's voice in his head telling him how to be cool in high school. Shenanigans ensue, and a lesson is well learned by the end of the whole thing.

I just finished reading Tales of the Madman Underground by John Barnes. It's about a kid growing up in the 1970's and he's in a therapy group at school. All he wants is to be normal, but since his father died, he has to work multiple jobs to keep his house and utilities running, since his hippie mom is well...a hippie and alcoholic. Did I mention that he's also an alcoholic? Seventeen and in AA. Yeah. This book is the best portrayal of a teenager that I've ever read and one of the best books I've read in all my years.

[Psycho_Shadow]

Finished Slan yesterday and it blew me away. I'm surprised there aren't a lot of people who have read it.. Plenty of great twists and a well thought out "superior race."

In the middle of finishing up Robinson Crusoe and Stephen King's Different Seasons (thought I was done with it but realized I skipped around and didn't read The Body).

[TheTruth]

It's been a while so I got some updates

Firs of all I read Pierre Boulle - Planet of the apes This one was lacking something, whole plot was good, but book was too short and story were a bit rushed.

Later on Mikhail Bulgakov - The master and margarita Masterpiece, books was about satan who invaded Maskov, and how he reveals our sins, like greed etc.

David Seltzer – Omen, Ira Levin – Rozmaris baby, Joseph Howard – Damien Rozmaris baby blew me away, suspence was really good and I really enjoyed it, recommendation fromme if you like horror books. Omen and Damien were good too, but too predictable. Like if one person sees a crow you know he's dead. )

[streetwiseangel]

So, I literally just finished The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I liked the writing and the story (although it was really unrealistic, but I get why). I dunno about the philosophy itself, though. Some of it I liked, some of it was too extreme.

What I did learn was that 99% of reviews I've read about the book and the philosophy, positive or negative, were pretty much inaccurate. It's like people took the parts they liked/didn't like and completely ignored the rest (which I suppose happens with most things ). I especially don't get why Tea Partiers like her so much...

Overall, I really did like it. But I think I need a break before I tackle Atlas Shrugged

[Psycho_Shadow]

Trying to slog through the remaining half of Robinson Crusoe..

Felt like I needed something a little lighter on the noggin, so I picked up Alice Cooper's autobiography and plan on buying Stephen King's On Writing at the beginning of February

[streetwiseangel]

Trying to slog through the remaining half of Robinson Crusoe..

Is that for class? I don't know anyone who read that for their own pleasure If it's for leisure then you have a far better attention span than I do.

I started reading As I Lay Dying last night. I went through 50 pages of it in an hour, so I'd say I'm enjoying it.

[TheTruth]

>I started reading As I Lay Dying last night.

I read it about 6months ago, it's pretty good book, but it took me a while to get used to stream of conciousness writing style and that whole plot is written through ~15characters perspective.

[nazeli]

this is random, but book-related; has anyone ever read the scott pilgrim series?