I don't think I saw this anywhere else and it needs to be done. What book(s) are you reading? What are they about? Do you even like them?

I'm reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller right now for my American Lit class. I really love it. I had thought about reading it before the class but after looking at the summary thought it wasn't my thing but my teacher let us pick a book at and this was the only one that didn't look horid and I hadn't read so I picke dit. For those who don't know its about a Bombadier during WWII who doesn't want to go on missions to sum it up quickly. It is a bit of a crazy read and there are a lot of people to keep strait but I'm use to it.

I'm also reading The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. I haven't gotten very far because my english reading got in the way and I don't feel like reading two books at once. Its the story of a few people who live in the US after the Nazis and Japanese won WWII. One of the characters is a Jew who is opening a bussinese, one is a shop owner who sells historical objects, and one is a judo teacher. Where I left off the Jew had just told the shop owner that the historical objects are fakes.

After I finish Catch-22 I'm going to finish up High Castle then read the 10th Wheel of Time book, then I will be reading Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, then the 12th WOT Book, then I'm not sure what I will read but I think it will the one of the Song of Fire and Ice books.

I'm rereading Fellowship of the Ring. :D Catch-22 is on my list, though.

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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. - Neil Gaiman

I've started Catch-22, and I'm liking it. Its just finding time to read. I'm also trying to find time to read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I liked Anthem, so...

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You ever heard of 3x5?

Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. Third in the series started by Night Watch. It's a great series, but I'm only just getting started with this one, so I'm not sure yet if it's as good as the other two. They are Russian (which is half the fun, it's interesting to read about other cultures and Russia is one of my favorites) and it's basically like there are people living amongst us who can do magic and some werewolves and vampires and that sort of thing too, but I'm particualarly impressed by the mechanics of the magic. And there's a bit of mindmelting philosophy that's fun to read. They've made two of them into movies (the Russians did, I beleive the first movie to come out of Russia since the revolution. And they have really cool animated subtitles). Interestingly, the books and movies, while they start out the same, the plots take drastic turns apart from each other and they are almost nothing alike anymore. The books are better but the movies are lots of fun too.

I'm also reading the two Save the Cat! book and Hero with a Thousand Faces for my literature class.

theanab: You might like The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, too :)

I'm reading Serpentine by Thomas Thompson. It's about a guy who goes on a crime spree in the East, in exotic locations like Bangkok. He goes by many names and screws up many people's lives. And, it's based on a true story. Can't wait to finish it :) (Scriptfrenzy > reading, though.)

I'm reading Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, by Robert A. Heinlein. I just started it this morning but I'm about a third of the way through and really enjoying it. It's only the second Heinlein book I've read (I got through Starship Troopers in one day about a year ago) but I have a bunch of his other books and plan on picking up another of his once I'm through with this one.

I'm also skimming through my copy of This Lullaby, by Sarah Dessen, because I'm doing an adaptation of it for Screnzy. I've read it about eight hundred times and I really enjoy it every time. It's a teen romantic comedy, not much meat to it, but a good sit by the pool and read kind of a book. I really love the main character because she's not very nice, drinks and smokes too much and has terrible morals when it comes to guys, but she's still a good person - which is rare in teen books. Normally the bad girls are either bad influences or at most the best friend, rarely the protagonist.

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NaNo '04 - Three Blind Mice (complete!)
NaNo '05 - Before The Needles (complete!)
NaNo '06 - Bless You (complete!)
NaNo '07 - Disney (complete!)
NaNoWriDay 01/07 - Totally Normal (30,003)
Screnzy '07 - Galactic Warfare For Dummies

I'm one of those who has the bad habit of reading more than one thing at a time. I'm reading 'My Own Kind of Freedom' by Steven Brust, 'Burton on Burton' by Tim Burton, 'Sweeney Todd' by Robert Mack (edited by) and 'Far Country' by Alan Powell

They're all pretty fantastic too ^^ Most are though, I admit, moreso entertainment rather than a real novel though. I blame Firefly for being addictive and Tim Burton for being such a genius. And then my own morbid nature, I guess.

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I just bought Catch-22! Along with Atonement by Ian McEwan and Blindness by Jose Saramago.

I'm currently finished I Capture The Castle by Dodi Smith; I meant to read Pet Semetary by Stephen King and Pride and Prejudice during this school break, but it was so crazy busy, I barely got to read I Capture the Castle. I also have The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy for my English class.

I also have God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens, The Rebel Sell by Andrew Potter and Joseph Heath, and Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers by Alissa Quart.

Yeah, I've got a fair few.

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NaNo 07: We Folk (YA drama) - 10% completed
Frenzy 07: Untitled Thriller (teen murder thriller) - 25% completed
Frenzy 08: The Better Son - (coming out teenage light comedy) - 0%

Amazingly enough, I am only reading one thing at the moment.

It's called Sorrow Mountain by Anni Pachen. She was going to be a Tibetian nun, when China invaded Tibet. When her father died, she had to take his place as a regional leader. She ran from the Chineese, was captured, imprisoned and beaten, before escaping and reaching India. An absolutely fantastic book.

Oh, wait, I've got (one of) my religious cult books on the go as well.

"Haec credam a deo pio? A deo iusto, a deo scito? Cruciatus in crucem. Tuus in terra servus, nuntius fui. Officium perfeci. Cruciatus in crucem. Eas in crucem!"

If what I have to say is irresponsible, then I alone am responsible for the saying of it

I'm reading Warsaw Requiem by Brock and Bodie Thoene right now. And re-reading An Old-Fashioned Girl by L.M. Alcott. I'm going through the Zion Covenant (B&B Thoene) series. Warsaw Requiem is the 6th book, I think.

~~~Love from the laughing girl~~~

"Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and The Birth of The New Hollywood" by Mark Harris. Really interesting stuff. It's about the five movies contending for Best Picture at the 1967 Academy Awards: Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Doctor Dolittle, In The Heat of The Night, and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and the Old Hollywood (big-budget studio pictures, quicky comedies, European films trimmed to fit the Production Code) versus the New (Films talking frankly about sex, drugs, and other subjects considered taboo).

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Et in Arcadia Ego.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
-Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
-Dr. Johnson