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I'm also reading Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels, which the movie Gettysburg was based on. Though it isn't fiction, it IS a novel. An interesting book.
Well, I just finished my last Tolkien book "The Tolkien Reader" tonight. So afterward, I ran to the book store to pick up "Wicked, The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West."
it is the behind the scenes tale of the Wicked Witch of the West from the OZ story. I heard great things about this book...so I look forward to a fun, carefree read.
I just finished 'Under Drakes Flag, A tale of the Spanish Main', its about the english sea captain Francis Drake. It is very good I'd recommend it because its not like most biographys.
Originally posted by Rhiannon Thoronder, is that book really harsh, ie does it get personal and nasty? My family (especially my dad) are pretty solidly right (and he reads Ann Coulter and listened to Rush religiously and all of that), but I like to keep things in perspective. But I usually hate anything political because half the time it's like being beaten over the head.
Is it harsh? Yes. Is it nasty? Well some chapters are called: "Ann Coulter: Nutcase," or "You Know Who I Don't Like? Ann Coulter," or "Bill O'Reilly: Lying, Splotchy Bully," or "Vast Lagoons of Pig Feces: The Bush Environmental Record." But it is one thing to just have ad hominem personal attacks, but quite another to back them up with actual documented facts. If your dad likes reading Ann Coulter or Limbaugh(or as Franken calls him: a Big Fat Idiot) this book would make his blood boil. But Franken is a satirist, I think it made it an interesting read, but critics will try to dismiss it as liberal name calling
Everyone I know says it's great- I was drooling over it last night myself. But I have his Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister waiting for me at home Mm, sounds like a good way to spend my afternoon....
Actually not, I have never read any of his books before.
I was just wandering through some old boxes of mine and found the book, which was given to me at the end of 2001. I started to read it yesterday, and I've been loving it so far.
That's good, it's a book I'd recommend to anyone. I seem to remember getting myself into some bother with some Christians on here after quoting from Merlin in my signature, which I thought quite funny
I'm currently rereading each and every Oscar Wilde book... I never realized there so great when I read them in French... and I'm also reading "La part de l'autre" by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, if anyone knows him.
Originally posted by CraigSmith That's good, it's a book I'd recommend to anyone. I seem to remember getting myself into some bother with some Christians on here after quoting from Merlin in my signature, which I thought quite funny
I'm already at page 180-something. I could have read more, but these were busy days. The more I read, the better it gets. Artur rocks, and I loved how Derfel 'became a man'.
I've just read it too. Actually I'm trying to persuade my drama teacher to let me play Cecily as second scene for my exam in March (as the first is from Macbeth ) I can't find the movie. Is there a DVD?
And I must read "Des grives aux loups" for History class. And after that "Germinal". I'm fed up with realist literature. It's depressing.
You should read the other C S Lewis ones as well, especially Screwtape Letters, which is very thought-provoking.
I'm actually fed up with reading at the moment, I work so much that when I get home there's all the housework to be done and no time for reading... I'm trying to read the latest Wheel of TIme book, but its massive, I bought it four months ago and I have read about 200 pages... but I'm going away for the christmas period so I expect I'll catch up then... plenty of time to do nothing but read