I'm now re-reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding - I read it for GCSE, and studying it so intensely really turned me off the book - but I read a few pages and remembered how good a book it was. So I'm reading it again :)
'Lord of the Flies' is great - I read it for Standard Grade and hated it at the time but re-read it and also really enjoyed it =]
I'm very nearly finished 'Lolita' but I'm struggling with it now, tbh. Have started 'Mrs Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf as well.
I'm reading a book called Hey! Nietzche! Leave Them Kids Alone! by Craig Schuftan.
It's this really cool book about how today's music is a continuation of the romantic literary period, and instead of de-valuing today's music, it talks about how great it is as another 'artistic' movement. For example, it compared Goethe to My Chemical Romance.
It's really weird and interesting, and it always distracts me because it has all this insightful comments about how a lot of music today is accepting that the world sucks, and artists turning within to find something they can be positive about. It feels like when I read it I get all these insights into my life, but in a positive way, like it opens up a whole new angle that I can look at things from and it makes me feel better.
Also still reading Insomnia - Stephen King, it's very slow.
I have the Poppy Shakespeare book but I've not read it yet.
I am in the middle of reading a star wars book and Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher.
"John, being brave is going where no man has gone before and with Lizzy Stark, that is NOT what you'll be doing!" - Aunt Polly.
“I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.”
Finished my collection of Clive Barker stories, Books of Blood and found it pretty interesting, i think it was a little boring towards the middle but otherwise strong if not a little weird how he goes off way too much about sex and some weird stuff, but generally great! Now resuming one of my favourite novels, The Shining by Stephen King, a definite modern masterpiece.
~ 'Paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night'- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
~ We'll float around, hang out on clouds, then we'll come down and have a hangover... ~ Feel free to PM ^.^
invisible monsters is a great book, 'birds ate my face' is possibly the best line from abook ever.
yes yes yes! that is my favourite palahniuk quote. forget all the dark nihilism & sarcastic commentary & all of it, "birds ate my face" is just amazing.
i had it in my signature for ages.
yes yes yes! that is my favourite palahniuk quote. forget all the dark nihilism & sarcastic commentary & all of it, "birds ate my face" is just amazing.
i had it in my signature for ages.
Haha now i am definitely looking forward to reading this one
~ 'Paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night'- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
~ We'll float around, hang out on clouds, then we'll come down and have a hangover... ~ Feel free to PM ^.^
FINALLY finished 'Lolita'.
Now I'm reading 'Telling Liddy' by Anne Fine. Which seems alright, I just wanted something easy to read & I remember liking her children's books :)
Oh, and also the Qur'an. Because I realised I know nothing about it, and it seemed like a good idea?
I read a couple more chapters of The Shining whilst on ze bus to and from town earlier, good stuff.
~ 'Paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night'- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
~ We'll float around, hang out on clouds, then we'll come down and have a hangover... ~ Feel free to PM ^.^
I just read The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. Actually, I've read it before. I can relate very well to Holden Caulfield, the teenage boy who is having a breakdown :P
Now I have started to read Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.
I have had Catcher in the Rye for years but not gotten onto reading it yet, i hope to soon!
~ 'Paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night'- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
~ We'll float around, hang out on clouds, then we'll come down and have a hangover... ~ Feel free to PM ^.^
'Telling Liddy' was okay, hated the ending. Just read a couple of books by Lisa Gardner, they were okay, entertaining anyway. Now I'm reading 'Far From the Madding Crowd' by Thomas Hardy.
and Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher.
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