What are you reading?

[bestbecks]

im going to start reading The Crucible for honor english...anyone read that crap before?
It's a good play that's for sure.

Anyone ever read The Rotter's Club before? Hell of a book.

[Sapphire]

im going to start reading The Crucible for honor english...anyone read that crap before?It's about the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism in the 50s, aka persecution in America. If you like political science, sociology, or history, you should be able to get into it.

My favorite book (novel) on the witch trials is by Caribbean writer Maryse Conde:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n1/n9470.jpg

Tituba gets a terrible treatment in Miller's play, and this novel is a very different perspective on her.

[sdotsom]

Reading the following

http://img.tesco.com/pi/Books/L/55/9780752889955.jpg

http://i43.tower.com/cover-art/mm111334374/white-tiger-aravind-adiga-hardcover-cover.jpg

http://www.penguin.com.au/covers-jpg/9781405333351.jpg

[johno]

just finished

knockdown from Dick Francis. It took me all of 7 hours. I devoured the book. I'll read it again before returning it to the library. He's by far the best mystery writer I've come across. If any of you enjoy a good msytery or even if you think you might like it, pick up any of DF's works.

All of his books are themed around horse racing somewhat. You don't need to have a knowledge of horse-racing to appreciate them, but as you read him more and more (and I'm damn near guarnteeing that if you read him once you will do so again) you get the hang of things and develop a base knowledge.

[JC7rox]

http://img.tesco.com/pi/Books/L/55/9780752889955.jpg



I bought this book for $12 and received it within 7 days. That made me so happy. Anyhow.....

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n4/n24084.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xbTgkFF3L._SL500_.jpg

[Teso Dos Bichos]

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6041/jacketaspxot0.jpg


Riveting.

[iDiveStevieG]

http://cdn.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/2/9780061573132.jpg

[Sapphire]

Some good election-themed alternate history.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Plot_against_usa.jpg

[erick]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/JohnSteinbeck_TheGrapesOfWrath.jpg

[johno]

Steinbeck's one of my favourite authors. You should check out Cannery Row, when you get the chance. Immensely funny.

[erick]

Steinbeck's one of my favourite authors. You should check out Cannery Row, when you get the chance. Immensely funny.

i'll try 2 look for it

[sdotsom]

His short story "The Pearl" is one of my favorite reads.

[erick]

His short story "The Pearl" is one of my favorite reads.

we dont read short stories in high school any more...

http://www.craphound.com/images/fahrenheit451coverjun07.jpg i enjoyed that book in the 10th grade

[Sapphire]

So good.

http://newhumanist.org.uk/images/0803-Dent.jpg

[sdotsom]

Just finished "White Tiger", the winner of the Booker Prize. Solid book. Also finished "Q&A" which is the basis of the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" that's about to come out.

[Vermont Red]

I gave my friend a copy of Ender in Exile in the hope that he'll finish it quick and lend it to me. I hope he hurries because I haven't picked up anything since I finished The Yiddish Policeman's Union a couple weeks ago.

[MtP07]

I'm reading Wazza's book at the moment.

[Vermont Red]

I have trouble believing that's more than a pamphlet. Or did he not write it.

[FIFARay007]

I have trouble believing that's more than a pamphlet. Or did he not write it.

Or some pop-up book with big pictures and 1 syllable words.

[Sapphire]

You're not questioning Rooney's literary prowess? :eek: I bet Tevez's is superior. . .

By the way, VR would you recommend the Yiddish Policeman's Unit?