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[MisterSpook]

I prefer Machiavelli's "The Prince" actually.

But "A Book of Five Rings" is equally cool.

[Jerle]

Shakespeare. Good ol Shakespeare. I haven't read any since Theater Lit in high school though.

[Coldfire]

I'm reading Shakespeare in high school lit. haha
Actually, not yet. We're reading Othello in a couple of weeks though.

I just read Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles in school, to talk about contrasts to Shakespeare. Very cool, though very different from Shakespeare just in style - very straightforward and blunt (though who knows what it's like in Greek?).

I second The Great Gatsby. LOVED it. I just love Fitzgerald's writing. I really need to read more by him. I also really want to read The Sound and the Fury, and meant to read it over the summer, but didn't. If only I had more time to read. (damn college apps.)

I also highly recommend Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer if everyone hasn't read it already.

We kind of got away from fantasy, didn't we?

I noticed no one has mentioned Terry Pratchett yet - I'm shocked! *shakes finger at you* For a well-read fantasy forum, really. (For those who live under a fantasy book rock (. . . I mean, under a rock away from fantasy books), Pratchett writes amazing and hilarious comedy fantasy books, taking place on Discworld, a flat world that rests on the back on four giant elephants who are standing on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin, that is swimming through space. Yeah. Go read.)

I just reread Hitchhiker's again. So much love for it. (Hm, for a comparison - Terry Pratchett is like Douglas Adams but for fantasy instead of science fiction, and with more convoluted plots. And he's not dead. *ducks flying objects* sorry, that was in bad taste.)

And I'll leave you with Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. Probably THE classic science fiction series.

[Krozam]

Pratchett is generally pretty good... He's a funny case, because some of his books are hilarious and totally worth reading, while some are so boring I can't even finish them. And it's not even any kind of a trend, there are boring books among both old and new books. I haven't tried them all, though, only five or six, possibly seven. Out of those, my favourite is easily Mort.

[Silvara_Dragontear]

Hmm didn't really know where to post it so I hope nobody gets irritated with me for posting this question in this thread.
I have a question for those of us swedes that read manga, where can you get the prequel to the hellsing manga. I have found myself in great need of seeing Alucard as a girl and Walter as a young stud, but http://www.sfbokhandeln.se/ is being particular evil in this by not having it.
I even went and checked Adlibris and amazon but they didn't have it either. But I was shocked to see that Adlibris had Hellsing at all.
I will be happy if anyone has any answer at all.

[Jerle]

You might try asking around on the maximum7.net forums. Lot of manga heads there, which isn't shocking since it's a manga translation site.

[Silvara_Dragontear]

Will do...Thank you!

[Krozam]

http://www.stoptazmo.com

There's some...

Oh, and Jerle, there's Elfen Lied too.

[Jerle]

you are SO getting a cookie
*gives cookie*

[Liria]

http://www.stoptazmo.com

There's some...

Oh, and Jerle, there's Elfen Lied too.

Bah, Pretear isn't on that site. That's my currentt interest. Guess I'll wait on the Netflix. =)

[Jerle]

You guys DO know that there's a board for this now, right?
>.>
Or am I just popular?

[arasam22]

wow. that's a long list.

hmm... harry potter (i've been on a harry potter spree ever since the seventh came out, i read all the books about twice just this summer, i must've read them all about twenty times each--literally)

artemis fowl by eoin colfer, all of them... i don't really have a fav out of all of them... maybe the fifth...

the first three hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy books by douglas adams, i haven't read the last two, unforunately. although i've heard they aren't as good... but i LOVE LOVE LOVE the first three. i've practically memorized them.

Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen? i think those are the names... by Garth Nix, i read those my freshman year, and again last year, i've yet to read them this year, but i know i will.

the blue girl by charles de lint... i don't know why i love this book so much, but i've read it twice in the past year (which is hard because i have to get it from the library, i should just buy it and be done with it)

the stravaganza books by marry hoffman? i'm pretty sure that's her name... i think the second one was my fav.

lord of the rings by jrr tolkien. i've only read these once, i read t hem in four days over this last summer break... my sister's been a big fan since she was eleven, she's only read all teh books once tho, and she didn't get as much out of them as i did, i think.

oh, i read the hobbit this summer too. that was good.

airborn and (kinda) skybreaker by kenneth opal. i definitely thought airborn was better, tho.

the crucible (i guess that's kind of a play... w/e) by arthur miller was pretty good

the westing game by ellen raskin. i read this in sixth grade for school, and i recently got it for my brother for christmas, and i love it!

the molly moon books by georgia byng, i thought the first two were good, and the last two were not as good.

chronicles of narnia... i haven't actually read all of them, i keep getting stuck on prince caspian, but i really love magicians nephew and lion the witch and the wardrobe, the horse and his boy, and the boyage of the dawn treader

screwtape letters, also by cs lewis

... i've just got so many more lol! but i've got to get to bed.

it's so sad, my whole life, reading has been a big problem for me. my parents always had to get me to stop reading. they weren't trying to oppress me or anything, i mean, my dad read to me every night until i was about ten, but i would stay up till 2 on school nights reading.
not good!

[Strange Ian]

it's so sad, my whole life, reading has been a big problem for me. my parents always had to get me to stop reading. they weren't trying to oppress me or anything, i mean, my dad read to me every night until i was about ten, but i would stay up till 2 on school nights reading.

Yes, my parents used to have to do that too. But now I'm older and wiser, and they don't anymore.


My boyfriend does, sometimes by wrestling the book from my hands and hiding it somewhere. *is such a addict*

[Krozam]

Learn to take naps, and it'll no longer matter that much whether you read late or not. I love being awake at night (the atmosphere again, it's much better during nights), so I really haven't had any kind of schedule in my sleeping for years. I sleep when I'm tired and have time.

[Lea]

I read about half of what's gone before, so I won't belabor it except to agree that anyone who needs clarification on the author of the Lord of the Rings should be checked for a Martian passport.

Melanie Rawn is one of my favorites, as is Charles de Lint. I'm currently wallowing in the Kushiel series by Jaqueline Carey. It's definitely not PG, but the storyline and characterization are just fantastic.

There's always something popping up on the horizon to be read. A friend of mine once noted that she needed to go to our local temple of bibliophilia (Shameless Plug!) because she'd read out of books to read. I looked at her alarmed, expecting her to turn to dust and blow away in the wind. If you ever finish your To Be Read pile, don't you cease to exist??