Last book you read?

If you like Emma Goldman, I suggest you look into Voltairine de Cleyre. She's that lovely feminism/anarchism, though she's not exactly a communist like Goldman. They actually wrote each other sometimes.

"Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before." Voltarine de Cleyre, The Economic Tendency of Freethought.

 

^ Last book I finished as well, in all reality I think I should have been bored out of my mind reading it considering the lack of much happening and any real depth in the characters yet surprisingly that wasn't the case. Not amazing by any stretch of the imagination but a good enough read with some insight into the time period and people in general.

Currently reading The Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver, who is one of my favourite authors. Like most of her books I'd wager it's a love or hate sort of thing but, personally, I love her characters (rarely likable, always relatable or familiar), her insight into the human condition and willingness to face issues some might shy away from even if at times she can be long winded, get a bit lost in politics and have bouts where she will use a string of overly complex words when simpler ones might do.

 

A dance with dragons by George R.R. Martin

 

Right now mine was...The Fear by Charlie Highson. I loved it (it had zombies in it so of course I loved it). Now I'm working on The Cha0s by Rachel Ward (the second book in the Num8ers series)

 

Ellen DeGeneres's Biography "the funny thing is"

 

A Song of Fire and Ice by George R.R. Martin

I'm now readin' The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I spontaneously changed moods from 'fantasy and dragons' to 'atheism'.

 

The Last book i read was the Curque du Freak series. Amaaazing series.

 

I just finished The 120 Days of Sodom by Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade. This has been the most fascinating work of fiction I've read in a long time. It's disgusting, mentally scarring, and a clear attack on its reader, but the Marquis wrote it with such passion that it was impossible for me to break my concentration on the story.

 

The Vanguard. It's only available on ebook reader. About a gay prince who finds his love. Very good, I highly recommend it!

 

Found and Fahrenheit 451 by ray Bradbury... It's a classic

 

I ushaly don't read but right now I'm reading jurney to terror land and a Realy good book is the diary of a wimpy kid lol and I'm also reading the summer of the swans good book and another good one is farmer boy and kids in my class live reading they can gets over 3,000 AR points in a year I can get abt 50

 

Running with Scissors-
I must say I never thought I would like a memoir book but it is really good. Very funny, very real, and very oh ____ did that really happen? A co worker lent me the movie but she said it didn't do the book any good although I still have yet to watch it.

A good recommend for LGBT read.

 

The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst, also still wading through The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling

 

This thread got a bit buried...

Just finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower. So good. I didn't really know what to expect going into it, but all I can say now is I wish I had read it a lot sooner. Quality, quality read.

 

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

currently reading The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

 

Sadly....the last book I actually finished....Deathly Hallows.

 

Warm Bodies - Issac Marion.
Fairly decent, somewhat cute, but I feel it somehow got cut short. Still a fun, light read.

 

What did you think of the McCarthy? I read that last Summer, I believe, and liked it alot. The descriptions were beautiful and I was glad that the romantic (sub)plot didn't turn out how I imagined it would.

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Unfortunately, since having begun The Pickwick Papers in October I've still yet to finish it. :tears:

 

Woman in Black, read it for an assessment in English and got full marks on it! It was a great book to read in terms of a brief introduction in the present tense before it moves into the past to explain to us the entire story.

 

Loki - Mike Vasch.

So damn good. I love Norse mythology and having it come from Loki's point of view makes it all the better.