I liked Ender's Game and A Child Called It.

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I'm rereading The Bell Jar, because I adore Sylvia Plath, even though she married Ted Hughes. Mad Girl's Love Song (are poem titles supposed to be in italics?) is my absolute favorite poem.

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That's one of my favorite poems too. I wasn't too crazy on The Bell Jar, primarily because I had to do this huge project on it. School ruins everything.

I keep starting John Steinbeck's East of Eden, but I never seem to get past chapter three.

That's a tough one but I love to read so...
The Great Gatsby is good, Les Miserables is good, Pride and Prejudice is awesome Jane Austen in genius umm lets see Night is really good as well. But I am a totally book person so...
OMG we are reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair it's so gruesome and gross. It makes you want to be a vegetarian but then i see a cheeseburger and think differently. But seriously it's disguisting, vomit worthy ok now i am done

We had to read Pride and Prejudice.

Its such a sweet book. The BBC series thing is great. *sighs* Aaah, Colin Firth mmmmmm....

Gats all the way

------"""Ugh. I hated Lord of the Flies. Then again, it's always worse if you have to read it for school."""

Yes, I hated it too. That would never actually happen. I wanted to rip the evil kid's head off, especially when he killed Piggy. Better books for a school to make it's students read include: Of Mice and Men, The Woman Warrior, Animal Dreams, or The Great Gatsby.

Ugh. I hated Lord of the Flies. Then again, it's always worse if you have to read it for school.

The Lord of the Flies was only worth reading for the social commentary. It was quite slow, otherwise.

I wish I had read The Giver and Lord of the Flies when I was older for that reason... I don't think I truly understood them because they were not properly analized.

------""I read the Hork-Bajir Chronocles. Actually, that was the only animorphs book I ever read. Thoroughly enjoyed it, though""

Good. My gosh, it is good. Despite all the great books I've read, somehow, a "kids book" manages to make it to the top of my list. Go rent it from your library. It's only 200 pages, but it goes so fast because it is sooooo good.

Short summary of The Hork-Bajir Chronicles: An alien belonging to a powerful race visits an alien planet with some of her species, and discovers that there is a terrible conspiracy of another race of parasitic aliens bent on enslaving the natives of the planet and amassing enough power to take over the galaxy. All her people are killed and she is the only one on the planet who can warn and protect the natives of the planet from being enslaved. Sounds like an adventure (which it is) but it has a lot of emotional stuff, for those of you who need something deeper in a story also.

I read the Hork-Bajir Chronocles. Actually, that was the only animorphs book I ever read. Thoroughly enjoyed it, though.

The Giver was just...off. I could think of a few better endings than someone sledding down a hill. It's kind of like Lord of the Flies, which is, not meant to be read for the sake of getting to the end, but to analyze.

I read The Giver in elementary school, if I recall correctly. I thought it was too mediocre and a bit to dull, even though I was fairly young. Hopefully I'm thinking of the right book (there's a character named Jonah, I think..).

Ah, well. Everyone's taste in literature is different.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The first dozen pages don't make much sense, but when you get past that, it's excellent. Unless you're not cool. Then you'll be all confused, and the cool kids (me and three others) will laugh at your puzzled expression and mock you for being so unworthy of this excellent book.

This is what happens when they don't feed me: I ramble.

ok, i might.


OMG. Animorphs was the best series. Truly great. They got the reputation as little kids books, but they were damn good for being that, way better writing than any other young reader/young adult books out there. Especially the Hork-Bajir CHronnicles (amazing) and The Ellimist.

"Give a Boy a Gun" by Todd Strasser was pretty good.

I don't know, they just were. They were so unusual and the stories were very personal. The ending was completely unexpected. Completely unpredictable. If you have time, I suggest you read them all.

I'm reading Dracula by Bram Stoker atm. It's really weird.

cheesegratingshed, yes, My Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things is a good book, I finished it in like 2 days.

Oh dear LORD! Catherine, Called Birdy is a horrible book! Horrid!

The Giver was uh... boring.

The Da Vinci Code was ok. I thought it was sorta boring. I stopped in the middle of the book. I'm going to try to finish it over the summer.
-Sunset

I considered reading the Windsinger, but i was pressed for time and never got around to it. What's so good about the books?

I like The Lord of the Rings...even though they're kinda boring.

Has anybody read 'The wind on fire' trilogy?
It has The Windsinger, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong. They are such good books!


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