what are you reading?

[PureElegance]

Evespikey, can you get me a copy of the Howl's Moving Castle book? XD

I used to have it late last year and made it into the 5th chapter, but then I lost it at school o.o...Who would steal that book? I'm afraid of asking my mom for another one because she'll be like "didnt I already get you it??" So I'm just biding my time here and hoping she forgets >.>;;;

 

[holylampposts]

Wow!!! I want to read Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs Du Mal " too!!!

You should go get it immediately. I read Hymn To Beauty, Autumnal, and Abel & Cain in 9th grade. Holy crap, I was in love. I just barely got the chance to buy the book Friday, though.

Iskanderia: I'll buy that one next time I go to the bookstore. I haven't read it yet. I don't even know what it's about, but I'm going to read it because people talk about it so much. haha.

 

[evespikey]

Evespikey, can you get me a copy of the Howl's Moving Castle book? XD

I used to have it late last year and made it into the 5th chapter, but then I lost it at school o.o...Who would steal that book? I'm afraid of asking my mom for another one because she'll be like "didnt I already get you it??" So I'm just biding my time here and hoping she forgets >.>;;;

erm...XD Well it's not a large book, so it can't cost that much. Diana Wynn Jones is a great writer though, I loved her Chrestomanchi (sp) series when I was a kid.

 

[Kyuketsuki]

Your local library should have a copy of Howl's moving castle, PE. Hell, they had it at my university and their fiction selection SUCKS. XD It should be in the kids' section.

It isn't as exciting as you're imagining it, but it's still a good read. It's just a tad bit vague is all.

 

[Es-chan]

Has anyone read Japanese literature? I have to read a lot of literature for school and I am rather curious to Japanse literature now, since Dutch literature is boring as hell. (ehm, most literature is not that exciting, but when it's from Japan I might want to read it). Does anyone have titles you think I should read?

 

[lady_toast]

Es-chan: I remember reading A Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata back when I was eight years old, but that was a loooonnnggg time ago so I can't quite remember the story. I liked it though.


During our third quarter here in school, we had in our quarterly newsletter an excerpt from a Japanese literary thingy entitled Plop! Click!, which was translated into Filipino. It's about two men, Koto and Kikuichi, who wanted to go someplace else, but the thing is - they're both blind, and a passerby uses this to his advantage, which results to fighting from the two men. It's an interesting read. ^_^

Currently reading: Ayn Rand - Atlas Shurgged

 

[Kyuketsuki]

Has anyone read Japanese literature? I have to read a lot of literature for school and I am rather curious to Japanse literature now, since Dutch literature is boring as hell. (ehm, most literature is not that exciting, but when it's from Japan I might want to read it). Does anyone have titles you think I should read?

"I am a cat" by Soseki Natsume is good, I hear. I friend of mine read it and raves about it all the time. It's a classic book that I've seen both Gackt and Mana reference before, and I think a few others now that I think about it.

 

[sailorKa]

Has anyone read Japanese literature?

Kaya: BANANA FISH~~~

LOL, I'm kidding.

Yukio Mishima & Yasunari Kawabata kicks soooo much arse!
Well, from what I've read.

Kawabata's House of The Sleeping Beauties inspired super reknown colombian author to write Memorias de mis Putas Tristes(official translated title is "Memories of My Melancholy Whores"). In fact, he said in a magazine interview that that book was "the only book he would have liked to have written".
So I throughly recommend it. (^_°)b

Who else... Well, even thou I haven't been able to read his books yet, I'm itching to get "Almost Transparent Blue" and other books by Murakami Ryu.
There's also Natsume Soseki, Banana Yoshimoto, Osamu Dazai, etc, etc etc.

--k

EDIT: I'm reading 1984(in spanish. boo hoo) and after that I want to finish Das Parfum.

 

[Kyuketsuki]

I'm currently reading, "The Philosophy of Nature, or, The influence of Scenery on the Mind and Heart." By Charles Bucke. I found it at my school library, and it happens to be a really valuable first edition circa 1813 that I'm scandalized they still allow students to check out such a delicate book. I'm going to keep it until they deem it lost and see how much they want for it. My guess is they don't know the set of books themselves are worth close to $1,000 since they still are letting anybody check them out, so if the price was reasonable, I'll buy them both from the school and keep them with my dad's collection of old books. I think these would win the 'who's got the oldest' competition, though, since they're 194 years old.

Something strange about it, though, is that it has a green cover. It looks very much like the original cover, but when I emailed a book store in england about it (their ones have a cover that is maroon apparently), they said it could be anything from a publisher's edition to a recover (which I doubt). Anyone know anything about old books? ::kisaki::

 

[BoOH]

Aquí no hay poesía by Jaime Bayly
I'm reading a lot of Bayly... the last week I read No se lo digas a nadie and last Saturday I bought La noche es virgen and this one and I'm getting Fue ayer y no me acuerdo and Los ultimos dias de la prensa this Saturday .

 

[Asdis]

Woyzeck by Georg Büchner and Dracula by Bram Stoker
Woyzeck is just for school, I'm not realy interessted in Büchner.

I want to buy something from Kafka but I'm afraid of having not enough time to read it.

 

[Kyuketsuki]

^ Kafka's irritating as hell- I advise checking it out from a library for free instead of buying it if you insist on reading it.

 

[Asdis]

^ Kafka's irritating as hell- I advise checking it out from a library for free instead of buying it if you insist on reading it.

I allready red some of his works and I'm quite good at figuring out that stuff. And we had to read Tellkamp for school once... on six pages there were several changes of view and about two full stops. (-__-)

 

[holylampposts]

State of Fear by Michael Crichton.

So far, it seems like a rip off of Dan Brown's stuff. The murder happening right at the beginning of the book, the two-page long chapters. My physiology teacher told me that I should read it before I really take a perspective on global warming. I'm only reading it because I said I would, though.

Hopefully I'll start on 1984, Animal Farm and Mein Kampf (nobody hate me) soon.

 

[Kamijo]

Season of Mists (The Sandman) - Neil Gaiman

 

[Susan]

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman (Almost done!)

*high-fives Kamijo for the Gaiman love*

The Sandman was awesome.

 

[Priss]

I got my shipment from Barnes and Noble yesterday, so soon I will start reading...

The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Confessions of an Ugly Step-sister by Gregory Maguire

Some other stuff came too, but i've already read them...

 

[PureElegance]

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte <-- Quite complex but I enjoy it.


Great Expectations by Charles Dickens <-- So boring, I would never read this without being forced to.

 

[Susan]

Finished Gaiman last night. Now I will be losing myself in...

Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson.

The first edition hardcover, not the paperback "Book One." I really don't like how the Baroque Cycle was split into 9 books when it was published in paperback, as opposed to the 3 it was originally comprised of.

Neal Stephenson is my favorite author! Weeeee!

 

[Kamijo]

I'm currently reading Taï-pan by James Clavell.. and I'm not going to finish it. I really dislike it.