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[lala2]

I've wanted to enter this forum since Year 12 started, and now HSC's finished. Yay! I've got so many books I want to read it's not funny...a snippet:

- Mystic Rose by Stephen LAwhead (finishing the Celtic Crusades trilogy)
- An Echo in Time: Atlantis, Masters of Reality by Traci Harding (finishing the Ancient Future trilogy)
- Mostly Jules Verne, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Stephen King, John Marsden, John Grisham, Isobelle Carmody, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Dan Brown
- Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (before I go and watch the movie!)
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Deltora Quest 3 by Emily Rodda
- Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- The Portrait of a LAdy by Henry James
- Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LeRoux
- The Silmarillion by Tolkien

And many others...I have to catch up on classics, since I was brought up in a most ignorant education system overseas before coming here, and Eng Ext has inspired me to read them!

Go fantasy, sci-fi, horror...everything (except romance--just too mushy for my liking)

Now I know what these post-HSC hols are for...

 

[m0ofin]

- Deltora Quest 3 by Emily Rodda

Great series.

- Shadows of the Wind
- Bridget Jone's Diary by Helen Fielding
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Chain of Hearts by Maureen McCarthy
- Checkers by John Marsden
- Cloudstreet by Tim Winton (i never really liked his books but this seems interesting)
- Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffeneger

 

[nwatts]

I've only asked for a few this year -

How to be Good - Nick Hornby
Troublesome Words - Bill Bryson
The Divine Comedy - Dante (i've only ever read Inferno)
Assorted Poetry (Penguin) - Keats

And I think I'll add Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder to the list.

 

[anti]

I tend to buy books which aren't on my wishlist before I do buy the ones which are.. something to do with perfection (perfect cover, perfect price, perfect font.. long list). A few books I want:

* Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
* Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
* any of the Thursday Next series which I don't already have - Jasper Fforde
* A Portrait in Sepia - Isabel Allende

Bit of this, bit of that. And the Gaarder books are lovely.

 

[shimmy&shine]

well for christmas i got...

'wuthering heights' by emily bronte
'the fashion pack' by marion hume (very unexpected, and not my type of book but anyway, it's a book i got for christmas- surprise!)

but i really wanted 'Memoirs of Geisha', 'Girl With a Pearl Earing', 'the Bronze Horseman', and 'the turning'

 

[shimmy&shine]

oh and i want all the Jane Austen books and Jewel's "a night without armour"- a collection of poems.

 

[absolution*]

Mr. Chomsky.

 

[Bookie]

bourne identity - ludlum
bourne supremacy - ludlum
bourne ultimatum - ludlum
bourne legacy - van lustbader

time to kill - grisham
street lawyer - grisham

brief history of time - hawking

 

[Riviet]

Currently only need to finish off Matthew Reilly's 7 Ancient Wonders.

 

[!! CaR`JiE !!]

The Nostradamus Code: World War III 2006-2012

 

[nwatts]

Troublesome Words - Bill Bryson
The Divine Comedy - Dante (i've only ever read Inferno)

I got these two (or, these four).

I'm going to buy Sophie's World when i'm done with Bryson's Mother Tongue, which I also got for Christmas.

 

[karoooh]

Boccaccio: The Decameron
E. M. Forster: Howard's End
Plato: The Republic
Plutarch's Lives
Plutarch: On Sparta

I also want to finish Catch 22 and I plan to re-read Cloudstreet: An extremely great read... So go read it!

 

[Not-That-Bright]

Mr. Chomsky.

The Audio is much better... he has quite a hot voice.

 

[absolution*]

The Audio is much better... he has quite a hot voice.

Yeah true. Well actually, it sends me to sleep. Its quite erm, soothing. *swoons*

 

[raspberry-sauce]

- The Spiderwick Chronicles (I forgot the author)
- Magician Series by Raymond E. Fiest
- Harry Potter Series
- The Bride Stripped Bare
- The Hobbit/ Silmarillion

 

[MissSavage29]

i've been compiling this for a while...

-the lord of the rings
-pride and predjudice
-the lovely bones
-the hobbit
-bridget jones diary
-cloudstreat
-ice station
-gone with the wind
-the hitchikers guide to teh galaxy
-the notebook
-five people you meet in heavan
-1984
-fight club
-animal farm
-anna karenia
-the illiad
-the oddyssey

 

[Mr Lovepony]

My wish list has over 200 books, so I'll just post the first five:
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams- Sylvia Plath
Lord of the Flies- William Golding
The View from the Ground- Martha Gellhorn
Face of war- Martha Gellhorn
The Tin drum- Gunter grass

 

[karoooh]

The Politics of Ecstacy by Timothy Leary
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

And I guess Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - but who doesn't know that? I can't find my copy anywhere!

 

[overtlyanxious]

ahh, reading, it's a joy..
there are so many!!
but they'll probably have to wait until after hsc unless i can justify reading them for english...

war and peace - tolstoy
lots of shakespeare, poe and c.s lewis (not just narnia, all of it)
pilgrim's progress - bunyan
ulysses - joyce
tristram shandy - sterne
tom jones - fielding
leviathan - hobbes
catch 22 - heller

so many more!

 

[Emma-Jayde]

The only book I really, really want more than any other is Robert Jordan's A Memory of Light, the 12th and final book in The Wheel of Time series. But I'll have to wait about 18 months for the 2000-page bonanza.

Yeah. I'm in the same boat.
Waiting for KoD was bad enough.