It took me like a whole day to read Cat and the Hat. That Dr. Seuss is one hell of a novelist.
It took me like a whole day to read Cat and the Hat.
That Dr. Seuss is one hell of a novelist.
Erm, well, I haven't really read anything since late august, and even that was a forced read (The Life of Pi - had to read it for college. Not too bad, but eh, not that great, in my opinion), but I suppose you could say I've been reading a lot of stuff from my text books hah. Nietzsche, Kant, Mill, Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Buddha - good stuff! My Lit class not so much.
Favorites, however, include Orson Scott Card's Empire, Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, Max Brooks's World War Z, and Gene Wilder's Autobiography, Kiss Me Like a Stranger.
I enjoyed Ender's Game.
I am Dracula is a good book, although it upset me towards the end.
I always get upset when lovers are seperated, after they have gone through so much.
It's a pain I wish never to experience.
TheShickle wrote:It took me like a whole day to read Cat and the Hat. That Dr. Seuss is one hell of a novelist.HAHAHAIts deep real deep stuff. Touches on personal issues. For instant Do I really want green eggs and ham in a box with a fox? However there really are college course on the undertones that were used in the Dr.Seuss books. The big one was the military draft which he touched on in Green Eggs in Ham. The green eggs and ham were considered to be a G.I. "with a fox in a box" was consider to be getting stuck in a Fox hole. Crazy stuff.
Indeed, but I see the link.
Would that mean that Sam I Am is Uncle Sam?
Maybe if Seuss was alive he'd of written The Matrix.
lol
"I will not take the blue pill here or there. I will not take it anywhere."
"I will not take it on a train, I will not take it in the rain."
Currently (being forced to) read: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Next: Life of Pi
Favorites: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, and of course anything by J. K. Rowling.
Currently Reading: The Traveller, H.P. Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu and other Weird Tales, Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!)Intend to read: The Blooding, It, GunslingerFavorites: Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends, Anything by Edgar Allen Poe
Lovecraft is good. Cthulhu is creepy.
Don't read The Necronomicon. It ruins lives.
I also plan to read "I am Legend" by Richard Matheson.
Set aside everything else and make this your priority. It's just...astonishing.
Next on my list will be 'Infidel' by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. 'Collapse' is a slow read, though, so it may take me a while to get to it!
Illyria
Thought I would rez this to see what people are reading NOW!
Just finished: Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Really good book, imo.
Reading now: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
About to read: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll.
I'm pretty excited about readings these. It's one of those books that is referrenced in life almost daily and it's good to know EXACTLY what they're talking about and not just what I remember seeing in the Disney movie when I was 5. Plus, the Matrix deals with it a ton which is a nice added bonus.
