What's the Last Book You Read/Finished? - Part 1 Page 1 Chapter 1 Paragraph - Part 2

[ComicChick]

just underway in Insurgent by Veronica Roth

 

[webhead9707]

Am I the only one that doesn't like John Green as writer? It seems to me that he tries way too hard. It makes no sense to me that someone who writes like a high schooler is so freaking popular. He tries too hard to give his characters "special" names, he tries WAY too hard to be deep ("I MUST FIND MY GREAT PERHAPS LOLZ") and he's just annoying. I don't mind "realistic" outcomes in literature such as TFIOS, but he just executes it all so poorly. Am I uneducated or is this a normal opinion for someone who appreciates truly well written and thought out literature? I really like him as a person, and his videos on Youtube are fantastic, I just don't enjoy his writing.

 

[TX85]

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

 

[squeekness]

Darkness take my hand ~ Dennis Lahane

 

[flower]

The Outcast by Sadie Jones

amazing novel. now one of my 3 favourite books.

 

[ComicChick]

Am I the only one that doesn't like John Green as writer? It seems to me that he tries way too hard. It makes no sense to me that someone who writes like a high schooler is so freaking popular. He tries too hard to give his characters "special" names, he tries WAY too hard to be deep ("I MUST FIND MY GREAT PERHAPS LOLZ") and he's just annoying. I don't mind "realistic" outcomes in literature such as TFIOS, but he just executes it all so poorly. Am I uneducated or is this a normal opinion for someone who appreciates truly well written and thought out literature? I really like him as a person, and his videos on Youtube are fantastic, I just don't enjoy his writing.

i actually enjoy his books for the most part. as for TFiOS, he writes like a teenager because i'd assume its because the characters in the book(s) are teens. he did a lot of research for this book and some of the character names are nods towards those people, like Esther. (RIP)

for sure, he's an aquired taste, but i'll be darned if after reading his books that some passages have stuck with me to this day. i can't say that for a lot of books

 

[ComicChick]

started Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn today for our book club

 

[squeekness]

From the ruins of extinction ~ Bradford Combs

 

[lonewriter]

I'm reading a great self published fantasy series called the Sorcerer's Ring by Morgan Rice. She has written 11 books in this series so far and they are really good.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Finished World War Z for like the third time. It's a very cool and entertaining read. I really like it.

 

[DeadPresident]

Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective

I feel like I deserve some kind of certificate or award just for forcing myself to work my way through that title.

 

[DeadPresident]

I feel like I deserve some kind of certificate or award just for forcing myself to work my way through that title.

Haha, I'm on it! Would I qualify for a certificate once I've worked my way through the book?

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Surely more than a mere certificate. They'll probably give you an island or something.

 

[Marvolo]

Started today:

Grave Peril (Dresden Files 3) - Jim Butcher

Next will be:

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

I can't wait to start Gone Girl!

 

[AnneFan]

I recently finished 'The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery'. Good fun.

 

[Lobo]

Alex Cross, Run. Really good.

I'm thinking of reading Prince of Thorns next. Has anyone here read it, would you recommend it?

 

[Anubis]

Artemis Fowl the Arctic Incident.

Not bad

 

[hammerhedd11]

Oedipus the King by Sophocles

 

[squeekness]

Innocence ~ Dean Koontz

 

[ComicChick]

Next will be:

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

I can't wait to start Gone Girl!

we are reading that now im book club and i still am not halfway through it. its been 2 weeks and i should be done with it by now

 

[Lobo]

Just starting The Siege by Stephen White and Evermeet Island of Elves by Elaine Cunningham

 

[charl_huntress]

Nalini Singh - Hostage to Pleasure

 

[Ash J. Williams]

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

 

[squeekness]

Gone Baby Gone ~ Dennis Lahane