Anyone read any good books lately...?

**KelseyEffingRenee** · 03-22-2009, 05:52 AM

Or am I the only book nerd in this joint?
I recently finished three books...Yeah, I read a lot. So what?

Two of them I have already read, but I felt like rereading them.
(I was bored in the airport)

1.) Black Rabbit Summer.
I absolutely love this book. I finished it while in the airport. That was my third time reading it. What can I say, Kevin Brooks is pure genuis.

2.) It's Kind of A Funny Story.
I also finished this while in the airport. It was my second time reading it. Ned Vizzini, another one of my favorite authors. (He also wrote Be More Chill, which I also loved)

3.) Haunted.
There are no words to describe how amazing this book was. It was by Chuck Palahniuk, the same man who wrote the infamous Fight Club. Oh me, oh my...I highly recommend you get this book. But if you have an easy stomach...I would advise you to not read it. :P

4.) I am currently on; Invisible Monsters.
This one is also by Chuck Palahniuk. It is about a super model who gets in a accident and becomes hideously disfigured. She travels from state to state with a tranny she met at the hospital, stealing drugs from old ladies houses that are for sale. It is amazing, and I'm not even half way through.

So what have you been reading?
And even if you haven't read anything in awhile, what are some of you favorite books? (:

(I recently had to read "Night" for my Pre-AP English class. That is such a touching book, it made me want to cry. (,: )

**Oya-Otaru** · 03-22-2009, 07:51 AM

Last book I read was Frankenstien by Mary Shelley. It's for senior english so still reading it but that's about all I've really read lately.

I've already gone through my entire book collection [which is kinda hard seeing as there's a lot of books I own >>]. I might pick up "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" again...I need something to read that isn't school related. Either that or a Stephen King book.

As for any favorites...I love anything dark...Horror-type mainly. Vampires, witches, etc. Sometimes comedy and non-gaggy romance. And by non-gaggy I mean, not the type that are overly sexual...those kinda scare me.

**-Shiroii-** · 03-22-2009, 08:21 AM

I'm reading the fourth book of the book series of twilight.I love it!
It's about a "vegetarian" vampire and and a human girl...a dramatic love story that's exciting till the last minute the way I see it.

**Shadsie** · 03-22-2009, 09:03 AM

I just finished "Loves Music, Loves to Dance" by Mary Higgins Clark, and it was pretty awesome. I also just read "The Survivors" by Gregg Luke, which was really exciting and really touching. It actually made me cry at the end. I'm reading "Do No Harm" by Gregg Luke at the moment. Medical thrillers FTW!

As for what I normally read, most of my collection consists of fantasy, but I really like mystery as well. I'm not a huge fan of romance, and there's really only one exception for that (The Twilight series). My favorites include the Farsala trilogy by Hilari Bell, the Prydain chronicles by Lloyd Alexander, "Ender's Game" and "Ender's Shadow" by Orson Scott Card, and the Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix. There's more, but there's a lot of them, so I'm not going to list them all.

**Trinny** · 03-22-2009, 09:18 AM

The last book I finished was The Picture of Dorian Gray (which is being turned into a movie by the way, it's coming out this year), and it's simply awesome. I love old novles, and Dorian Gray was epic. I can't wait for the movie.

But yeah, other books I'm reading at the moment are:
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (I'm not usually a fan of romance and such, but I've got a good feeling about this book)
Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn (I love the Otori series)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (recommended by a friend)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe (Love his works)

....I hope this is all, because I really don't have that much time ^^" (thanks to school)

**HeavenlyFantasy** · 03-22-2009, 09:30 AM

Hmmm, the Twilight series is okay I guess. I used to like it but lately I've been losing interest in it. I personally found Breaking Dawn a huge disappointment.

IMO, Anne Rice's vampires > Stephenie Meyer's vampires.

The book I'm reading right now is Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. It's about a woman who's the only female werewolf in the world, and she's trying to live as normal a life as possible, but she discovers that the pack she used to be in needs her help. It's pretty gripping stuff, and Elena (the heroine) is an interesting character because she's torn between her independence and her want to be part of a family.

As for genres, I'm into stuff with fantasy/supernatural/sci-fi/horror themes.

**KelseyEffingRenee** · 03-22-2009, 02:55 PM

Has anyone read the books by James Frey?: A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard, Bright Shiny Morning.

They made me cry like a freakin' baby!
The first two are about his life.
A Million Little Pieces is his life in rehab...When I read the back of it, I was kind of iffy about it...but seriously, probably my favorite book ever. And that's big since I am extremely picky and indecisive. :P

My Friend Leonard is about his life right after he got out of rehab.
Leonard is his friend he met in rehab; he's basically the whole reason James Frey is still alive, which makes this book ten times more touching.
I cried so much..
And it wasn't just me; my friend cried for an hour after reading both.
I HIGHLY recommend these books.
(:

**moonlight_sonata** · 03-25-2009, 08:21 AM

@HeavenlyFantasy -Amen, Breaking Dawn completely killed Twilight. It was pretty much dying for me anyway, but then that book completely annihilated it.
@Trinny-ABSOLUTELY LOVE 'To kill a mockingbird' ITS AMAZING

Manga wise Ive been reading Tsubasa, and although it was good in the beginning, its beginning to take on a 'Fruits Basket' knid of tone...not much of a storyline and the plot is shockingly similar wherever they go. But I really like Fai and Kurogane and my friend insists it gets amazing later so i will press on.

For school, I just finished reading The Kite Runner, and IT WAS FANTASTIC!!! Starts out a bit slow, but its got great plot twists and characters and yes, I cried.

For genre types, I love supernatural stuff and sci-fi/fantasy, especially time travel. My favorite books are the Pendragon seres, Cirque du Freak, Chronicles of Narnia and The Wrinkle in Time series.

**Incognito** · 03-25-2009, 08:23 AM

Yesterday I bought V for Vendetta. Not a real book, but it's still really good. I tend not to like Western comic book art, but really, the story makes it worth it.

Real books... well, currently I'm reading the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, and that's not really worth recommending. So I'll go with the last book I read, Wangari Maathai's memoir, Unbowed. Ms. Maathai is an incredible woman, and her life story is very inspiring for anyone, even if you're not an environmentalist (I'm not). She saw something she felt she needed to do and she did it, no matter what adversity was thrown in her path (usually by the overly corrupt Kenyan government in the 70's-90's). Her ability to stand in the face of that overwhelming adversity and make a change (both in the environment and in the government) is something not many people have the guts to do.

Read it.

**KelseyEffingRenee** · 04-21-2009, 10:43 PM

I completely agree on the whole Breaking Dawn thing.
The whole Twilight series was supposed to be only TWO books, but the author never imagined how popular the first one was going to be (especially among little girls) and then relized that the second book was...inappropriate for her new fan group's age. So she finished it anyways, and gave it to her sister for her birthday. Then started writing New Moon...

Breaking Dawn was a huge disappointment. All the dilemmas from the first three books were solved in the first three chapters of Breaking Dawn. What the hell? And the whole; "And they lived happly ever after" crap...For serious?

But that's all in the past and done with. I just finished another Chuck Palahnuik book. His writing and his outlook on the world fascinates me. I recommend you read one of his books. (: