What have you read this holidays? (1 Viewer)

[nick1048]

Just write the title and author of what you have read this holidays and as soon as we get a few comparisons we can discuss the books

I've read:

The Wave - Morton Rhue
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Started reading: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Also started: Understanding The Present - Bryan Appleyard

I was thinking about a few Austen books
"Persuasions" "Emma" "Pride and Prejudice"

But they seem a bit "out" of what I usually enjoy reading

 

[astro]

I've read a couple of biographies on James Dean and there's also 'Jessica' by Bryce Courtneay which i've already read before and also Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

 

[Sarah168]

North and South - Gaskell

Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzche

Tuck Everlasting - Babbit

 

[walrusbear]

only read 100 years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez so far
about to start sputnik sweetheart by haruki murakami and probably oryx and crake - margaret atwood

 

[_muse_]

pygmalion and macbeth... but only because i had to

 

[kpq_sniper017]

halfway through the da vinci code - good so far.
i might read dan brown's other books as well - if i get the time.

 

[Josie]

I only read two books these holidays, amazing... two of my favourite books too

Four Fires- Bryce Courtenay
Threshold- Sara Douglass

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Bernard Smith-Modernism's History
George Elliot-Middlemarch
Ford Maddox Ford-The Good Soldier
Anne Summers-The End of Equality
Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer-Dialectic of Enlightenment
Ian Kershaw-The 'Hitler Myth':Image and Reality in the Third Reich
Kazuo Ishiguro-The Remains of the Day
Friedrich Nietzsche-Human, All Too Human
Peter Conrad-Modern Times, Modern Places
Ed.Clive Emsley, Arthur Marwick and Wendy Simpson-War, Peace and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Europe.

Think thats it so far...

 

[pc_wizz]

i started a bit before the holidays started ... but i read through all 5 Harry Potter books again ... and i read all the airborne thrillers i could get my hands on ...

 

[iambored]

the da vinci code

 

[porge]

Bryce Courtenay - mathew flinders cat
started looking for alibrandi again
waiting to be back at school untill i can raid the library again

 

[Loz#1]

I've started to read Pride & Prejudice. I'm swamped under work and I don't goto bed till late, so I haven't gotten through much. Plus, it's one of those books but picturing Colin Firth as Mr Darcy helps alot.

 

[jhakka]

I haven't read as much as I would have liked to.

 

[kpq_sniper017]

Bernard Smith-Modernism's History
George Elliot-Middlemarch
Ford Maddox Ford-The Good Soldier
Anne Summers-The End of Equality
Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer-Dialectic of Enlightenment
Ian Kershaw-The 'Hitler Myth':Image and Reality in the Third Reich
Kazuo Ishiguro-The Remains of the Day
Friedrich Nietzsche-Human, All Too Human
Peter Conrad-Modern Times, Modern Places
Ed.Clive Emsley, Arthur Marwick and Wendy Simpson-War, Peace and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Europe.

Think thats it so far...

are u by any chance a speed reader coz:
1. that's a lot of books for two/three weeks
2. i'd like to learn how to speed read.

 

[.:b-me:.]

blood letting
adventures of the artificial woman
33 snowfish
sophie's world- jostein gaarder

 

[Loz#1]

are u by any chance a speed reader coz:
1. that's a lot of books for two/three weeks
2. i'd like to learn how to speed read.

Gregor owns the reading forum.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

are u by any chance a speed reader coz:
1. that's a lot of books for two/three weeks
2. i'd like to learn how to speed read.

Not really. I'm just dedicated, and manage to make plenty of time in which to read.

Any ownership of this forum on my part is figurative.

 

[Tenille]

Heheheh can you post a pic of your pile of books. i think it would be impressive

 

[Loz#1]

Heheheh can you post a pic of your pile of books. i think it would be impressive

I'm imagining one of those huge libraries with one of those ladders you push along the bookshelf

 

[Tenille]

heheh i know, i just wnat to see if he is lying about all the books he read.
But if its true i think it would be a bit "whow"