PUT THE LADIES IN A SPOILER TAG NUB

Fix’d. Sorry. I thought it was common knowledge.

Everybody already knows. Next, you’re gonna say that Edward being a vampire is a spoiler.

Edward’s a vampire?

Re: Deathnote. There were two places where I very nearly stopped reading. The first was when

The second was the same place you just mentioned, for pretty well the same reasons you gave. (and, FWIW, I didn’t know that one going in a few years ago, so it’s still a spoiler to some people… but it is true that it’s been out forever)

But I stuck with it, and… yeah. The ending is completely, totally, utterly worth it, in my opinion. I will only say that, as much as I love everyone else, Matsuda is my second-favorite character. After Ryuk, obviously. Heh.

Only watched the anime and read the last few pages of the manga to see what was different. Really, some of DN’s more ridiculous moments are only complimented with vague Latinesque chanting and and inexplicably high-quality animation.

Re: Swenson’s Spoiler:

L is obviously my favorite (how cliche, I know), but Ryuk is awesome, too.

I just read this amazing novel about teen suicide, By the time you read this I’ll be dead
It was just really moving. And well-written.
And I’m nearly half-way through The Discworld series! Yay. Except I kind of have to read them out of order, which kind of sucks.

Thanks:) That makes me feel better about it.

Ha! Wyrd Sisters is next on my to-read list. I’m trying to go through Terry Pratchett in written order, as that Discworld Reading Order guide just makes things more organised, but also more complicated than they need to be.

If you ever want to find it again, just Google.

O_O

Oh my, I never realized I’ve read all of the watch novels. Let’s see… I still need to read The Truth, Going Postal, Thief of Time, Reaper Man, and Wyrd Sisters.

(I haven’t read the Rincewind novels; I’m just not interested in them.)

Deathnote:

Re: Discworld: that’s an older reading guide, it’s missing a couple of newer books. This one’s been updated more recently, although it’s still missing Snuff (which goes on the end of the Watch novels) and I Shall Wear Midnight (which goes on the end of the Witches novels; it’s the latest Tiffany Aching book).

And that’s a much more discworldy layout, too.

Death Note:

Discworld is the amazing series created by Terry Pratchett. There are thirty something books, and they are approximately the size of your average novel. I recommend reading them because TP is an amazing writer- he’s original, and very funny, and created this outstanding alternate universe.
It’s very English humor, though. Wonderful stuff.

Is that Monsterous Regiment that you’re talking about?
And I love the opera one- Is the title Mask something?

The Phantom of the Opera one is Maskerade (pretty obviously :P), but the French Foreign Legion/Beau Geste one is when Death joins the Klatchian Foreign Legion in Soul Music.

I loved the parody of classic fantasy boy vs girl power balances in the Bromeliad Trilogy. And the whole scifi element.
I can’t wait to read Soul Music.
D’oh! hits self I apologize most profusely, Sir Terry Pratchett.
WWR, I see your point. That’s a tricky one.

I’ve read both. Ivan is wonderful, albeit sad. Kiss is… weird. Not my cup of tea, but you may enjoy it.

Well, it’s a guy telling his story by reminiscing about various (obscure) films. So the premise is weird, and the story…eh. I think it’s a little weak.

So I was listening to NPR the other day and Anthony Horowitz was on talking about this new book he’s written, called The House of Silk. It’s about Sherlock Holmes. Now I want to read it. :D

Somehow, I need to get my hands on a copy of this book. If only because reading a published novel with a main character named Tookie de la Créme is both hilarious and awful at the same time.

Blindness is actually fairly interesting, even if I don’t find the government’s actions to be all that believable so far. I also do not approve of the way Saramago writes.

Got a bunch of books at the Scholastic Book fair; I read Anya’s Ghost (which was really really good) already and now I’m on An Accidental Adventure: We Are Not Eaten by Yaks. Which is extremely strange.

It may just be that my tastes in books are becoming more selective, but it does seem as if there’s less anymore.

Not being eaten by yaks is a Very Good Thing.

Has anyone read the book that made this author famous? “The Mill River Recluse”.

I haven’t read it, either. But judging by the Amazon reviews, it looks like people either love it, or thought it was so boring they would rather have mongooses gnawing their faces.

It just doesn’t sound very interesting.

This. She might be a very talented author, but I have a low threshold for boring. That said, there are plenty of classic books written by acclaimed authors (don’t kill me, but The Good Earth springs to mind) which have bored my socks off. But “boring” is often times more a matter of taste on the part of the reader, not necessarily the author.

Yeah, I’m right there with you. Some of the stuff I read, people look at it and then say something along the lines of, “Wow, if I were you, I’d shoot myself before I read that.” Then I admit I’m reading it for fun. I’m starting to see why I have so few friends IRL. ;)

Reading Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence. Again. Not that I love it that much, but it gets so awful as it progresses that I always have to put it down long before I’m finished with it. I just want to read the whole thing because I don’t like leaving books unfinished. And yet, it starts off so well. It just starts getting a little annoying near the end as it starts to focus on three very irritating, selfish people that I really don’t care for. What a letdown.

I can’t stand Lawrence myself

Are you serious? Are the rest of his books just like this one? I’d appreciate a heads-up so that I don’t bother in future. I haven’t read any of his other stuff. Sigh. You have to admit though Sons and Lovers started off quite well. It’s okay if you disagree, but I like descriptive writing when it’s well done and I liked the imagery towards the beginning. And then he goes and ruins everything with suddenly making Paul a total selfish moron and the two girls he’s interested in absolute idiots. And so empty. The both of them. How does he have affection for two people entirely devoid of personality?

Annoyed

You know those books that are so heavy that you don’t want to do anything else after reading them, because hell, what’s the point?

Heart of Darkness is one of those books. I really like it, but it does not put me in any mind to be productive.

Finished Heart of Darkness. This definitely merits a rereading.

Oh, I liked the book. I just didn’t understand it.

Yeah, I’m aware of the language thing. Makes me wonder whether his repetitious use of certain words is SIGNIFICANT or just a sign of poor vocabulary. (I doubt it’s the later but for some reason it’s funny to think about.)

This might have been one of those occasions that would have benefited (me) to read in a classroom or book group, or just having read more about it before actually starting on my own.

I think that may have helped me like it more too. I technically read it for school in eleventh grade, but it was independent reading that we had to do from the list of AP books. We had to read four of them. I liked my other three ( Lord of the Flies, The Catcher in the Rye, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest). I wasn’t moved by it either. I was expecting to be disturbed or bothered by it, but I wasn’t. Lord of the Flies and Cuckoo’s Nest disturbed me a bit, and Catcher was just fun.

Have things started to get weird yet?

^^I remember reading some series of his…YA, I think, where this kid met the last of some symbiotic type species of dragon. It would hang out on his back like a tattoo, but since he was basically an orphan, it could take care of him. It was actually pretty interesting, though I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called.

@Thea: That was the DragonBack series, six books, really good.

The Green and the Grey is another good one. Also, read Allegiance and Choice of One, two more Star Wars books, and the Hand of Thrawn duology(two books~whatever). Basically, anything he wrote is gold.

I just read the Conqueror’s Trilogy, yes it is good. The Quadrail series is definitely interesting.

Did you know that Zahn named Coruscant?

Just finished Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

Though the viewpoint character, Ethan, still talks like a girl, and it’s like a few typical gender roles just got flipped around rather than subverted, there is some subtle Twilight bashing, a few specialness traits that I assumed were in the first book just because actually got explained, and I’m still kind of hooked. This is the sort of guilty pleasure I can get behind. Specially since it’s full of atmosphere.

I should really say, he behaves like a girl. He notices girls’ clothing (and knows what the local formal dress shop is called and the type of stuff it stocks), he hangs out with his aunts on Sundays, he’s really b*tchy about the two most popular girls in school in the way that you’d expect a jealous or outcast heroine to do (he talks like Janis Ian does about the Plastics).

I mean, I’m grateful for the information because I actually am interested in clothing descriptions, but it’s not generally in character for a guy (and isn’t commented on by him) and thus does more harm than good. Plus, I wish he’d just get over the tainted descriptions of the popular girls. He used to be popular, but cares more about the narky popular slutty girls who now hate him than his old jock friends’ opinions (who aren’t mentioned at all in the second book).

Can’t believe I’m saying this, but at least Ethan still stares at girls. One glaring thing, though—he seriously thinks his girlfriend’s the hottest girl in school. And apparently she is pretty good looking—but her sister is a Siren and therefore by definition hotter. Kind of smacks of a guy written by two women.

And guys don’t do that, do they? I knew a guy who was head over heels for his dark-complexioned Mexican girlfriend and had been twitterpated since forever. She was very pretty—but he still told me he thought the hottest thing in the world was bleached blonde. (Though I hasten to add, he also said he’d still rather have his girlfriend.) So yeah. That’s the only conversation I’ve had with a guy about this kind of thing, but I’m willing to bet this state of things is the norm.

Yes, Steph that is correct.

Which part? The hot thing or the clothing thing?

I read some more of Blindness (even though the class that assigned it is over, I still want to finish it). I think I have been desensitized to reading about violence (at least the fictional kind) because when I got to the scene that is supposed to be so awful and that one girl in the class said made her cry, I was like, “Is that it? That can’t be the scene. It must come later.” But I’m pretty sure now that that was the scene and that I’m just dead inside.

Just started the Reformed Vampire Support Group, which has a good concept but it’s so far impossible to tell how it will pull it off.

Yeah, so I’m reading four books right now. >_>

the Reformed Vampire Support Group

I loved that book. Catherine Jinks is the shiz. Except for that lame ending to the Genius trilogy. I wanted to throw The Genius Wars across the room when I’d finished.

Mara Jade is awesome. :D

I finished Blindess. It was okay. I got used to the style, but it was still annoying at times.

The end drags a bit, but the middle is fairly exciting. It is quite graphic, but like I said before, I must be desensitized because I wasn’t really bothered by it. There are a lot descriptions of how certain bodily functions are dealt with when one cannot see to clean up and whatnot, which I found to be mostly unnecessary and just plain gross. The actions of the main characters were usually believable, but those of the background characters and government were not so much, at least not all the time.

It’s a pretty slow read, mostly because of the formatting (there was at least one five-page paragraph). Yeah. I probably wouldn’t read it again, but I’m not really sorry that I did or anything.

5 page paragraph??? That doesn’t even make sense to me. How is there not even one possible break in ideas or sub-topic?
Just finished 1984 for the first time. Pretty good book, although rather depressing. I do enjoy the implicit attack on revivalism- if there is no ultimate reality beyond the senses, then by controlling your senses, we reshape reality itself.

Reading Infinite Jest. Yes, it’s weird and quite inconvenient using 2 bookmarks at once, thank you.