I'm reading Mao II by Don DeLillo (it's so weird!) and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night for uni...and flicking through a book about adolescent culture through the ages, which is interesting.

I really want to start The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown as soon as I have some spare time...pff.

get the illustrated version

Ah, my brother just told me to read the Mark Haddon one I couldnt bring myself to do so yet. Im still reading a portrait of the artist as a young man... like 2 pages a day.I dont really get it, maybe that is because it's in english and from 1916 but my mum says James Joyce's books are pretty hard to understand anyway. Some parts are really funny anyway.

-What funnel? asked Stephan.
- The Funnel trough which you pour the oil into your lamp.
- That? said Stephan. Is that called a funnel? Is it not a tundish?
- What is a tundish?
- That. The... the funnel.

As simple as it is it stills makes me smile.

Ever read any books on the subject of video game theory?

well... I didnt, I only read a book about the Sims

Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis. It's interesting. Yes.

Why not?

Do you feel that video games don't deserve the amount of study and academic attention that film, television, radio, and novels get?

eh, to each their own.

My mom told me I should read this book called, "Fat Kid Rules The World" by K.L. Going so I just started today and I am already halfway through it...sooo good even though it is for like 8th graders it is still good...a little vulgar though. Its just under 200 pages so it is like a one-two day read but it is about this fat kid who is going to committ suicide at the NY subway station and then he meets this kind of famous high school rock drop-out homless guy...err named Curt and so far it is really good, about them starting a band but the fat kid lies about knowing how to play drums... YOU should read it.

I cant remebr the full name but it's something about like the key to the golden firebird? maybe ant remeber

Don't forget the TS Eliot and WH Auden!

Mo, I feel much the same about music, or more specifically, song lyrics. I think there could at least be a module of an English literature course which deals with popular music; we study lyrics and riddles from old and middle England, so why can't we look at modern day ones?

There is a course in my school that has something similar like that, but it only goes up to the Beach Boys. I applied for it, but it got filled up and I got stuck in a Microsoft Excel class.

Pahaha, well done. That's about the opposite, isn't it?

There are actually a couple of degree courses on stuff like it in this country, but they're at places like Glamorgan, so...yes.

im reading life of pi, a book about tsunamis, and the script for man of la mancha

Is The Life Of Pi any good?

I read Don Quixote. Crazy man, he was.

I'm just reading 'Where rainbows end' by Cecelia Ahern.
Go on, beat me.

i think its quite good
im only 1/2 way though but i like it a lot
i also got to read a few chapters for history class last year
that was fun

You want to watch what you're saying; Rockonthevine27 reads this thread.

I'm still reading james joyce though.

Which?

I read some of Ulysses for this week and quite liked it. It's far too long for me to be anything but daunted by it, though. I also read some of Dubliners for a few months ago, but I'm norty, so I didn't read all of it.

I still havent finished 'portrait of the artist as a young man'. It takes me so long to read it because I just can't when I'm tired. I don't get much (reading it in english doesn't help) but what I get is awesome.

Aha, I stole that from school, but I've never read it. Let me know if there's anything you need help with. I don't mean that patronisingly, it's just that I wouldn't have much of a chance reading a very German novel, and I think Joyce is idiosyncratic enough without reading it in a foreign language.

Thanks.
I cant think of something right now obviously. But I just remember my english teacher told me to look the word 'revving' up because she cant find it.

Revving, as far as I know, is to sort of gear up...get worked up. But not worked up as in angry...y'know when you get a car engine going? That's revving it up. Or when you twist the handles on motorbikes - that's revving too. If I've understood you correctly.

edit: From dictionary.com:

v. revved, rev·ving, revs
v. tr.

To increase the speed of (a motor, for example): revved the engine.
To accelerate or increase: orders to rev up factory output.
To make livelier or more productive: revving ourselves up for the game; efforts to rev the economy.

v. intr.
To operate at an increased speed: heard the motors revving.
To accelerate in quantity or activity.

I think it's the car-thing. Thanks. I'll tell her that. I wish she could stop thinking we 're stupid. There really is no need to discuss every chapter of 'The Snakestone'. And yes, we can indeed bear reading a chapter more, full 4 pages of english. Eww...

Gaybo.

Have you read Der Vorleser? We had to do it for A-level German

No. Our german teacher was ill and we had a different one for two months. An eccentric art-teacher: "I wont read Der Vorleser with you. Fr. Thiel wanted so, but we wont! We'll read Nach Mitternacht instead." Actually that was a very good book, best book I've read in school so far. Except 'The Wave' in primary school. First book I read in english. I fell in love with Morton Rhue then.
Anyway, seemingly my actual german teacher didn't want us to read Der Vorleser either. Teachers are weird. My mum told me what the book is all about and actually it didn't sound like something I had to read. Did you like it?

Der Vorleser is RUDE. That's all I'm saying about it.

There were only three of us in the class, with a male teacher. My friend, me and the most unpopular, idiotic girl in the school, and the ridiculously timid male teacher. People used to leave their lessons just to come and laugh at us through the window

Why did they laugh?

Rude? Some folks from my class read it and said it's alright but gets boring in the 2nd half.

It's REALLY rude! For a book you read in school, anyway.

They laughed because the situation was so remarkably awkward.

But why? I mean, I know the story...
Now I'm thinking about it I remember our boys giggling when she was telling us the story.

It's rather explicitly sexual. "She rode me until she came" is one of the sentences I remember.

dat is bad bad gurl

victor kelleher- taronga.

poo.

really boring but i have to read it.

Um... our teachers said they wont read it because its actually boring. Oh well. Liars.
I still got all those books i have to read here on my desk. Like Goethe and Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing

I love what I know of Goethe, which is basically just from looking at websites. He said one of the things I like most, I think, "The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth".

It's just something I have to read for myself. Otherwise it d be like ignoring Nirvana. Well not quite.

I know what you mean

I've seen you read Kafka? Anything you can recommend?

I've only read Metamorphosis; I'd recommend it.

right now I'm reading that summer by Sarah Dessen. I really like her I usually dont go for that love crap but she really pulls it off.

I'm still reading the Da Vinci Code but I also just started The Waste Land by Eliot. Well I actually I just began the first part because the forword took me so long to understand. It was fun writing down one sentence from it on half a page. My entertainment during biology lessons (god, children, Lamarck was WRONG! Just get it!)

im reading virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides. i saw the movie and decided i wanted to read the book....i dont know why but everytime i watch a good movie, if theres a book, ill read it...

I read 'Virgin suicides' because my parents loved and I wasn't too thrilled. It's good though. Do you like it?

yeah its not bad haha, i have soo many books i want to read but every bookstore i go to has none of the ones i want and my parents wont let me buy anything over the internet, they are holding me back from my love for education!! haha jk just total drama queen

^One of my least favorite books of all time



That was one of my summer reading books last year..I was so confused in the beginning but I finally figured the Germany theme thing out when his dad threw the apple. I love confusing books.

Charles Dickens' books could be half as long and they'd be better.

Interesting (yes) fact: this is because authors of the age were typically paid a penny a page, and were then paid a further penny to cut it down.

I read it freshman year and asked why he was so damn redundant and that is when I learned of that interesting fact. I really dislike that book with a passion. The rotting wedding cake really freaked me out too...I had nightmares

I love A Tale Of Two Cities though...LOVE IT.

I've not read any Dickens other than Oliver Twist since I read abridged versions when I was about 8.

Never read The Awakening by Kate Chopin.