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currently reading muhammad assad's "road to mecca" and that is one of the finest writing i've seen...

I finished Game of Thrones...rather intense I thought. Not sure if I can continue with the whole series (clash of kings, storm of swords etc.)

was TRYING to read Jelinek's "the piano teacher...." ... but after 40 pages or so, I just can't stand how she writes and her characters.

finished franny and zooey by jd salinger what a load of crap!! I've concluded I'll never like this writer. starting on "Dead Europe" by Tsolkias

franny and zooey by jd salinger

alan paton's "cry, the beloved country"

read niccolo ammaniti's "I'm not scared", for all the reviews I assume it must've been brilliant in Italian, and Jonathan Hunt's translation didn't do it justice at all I suppose

almost finishing steinbeck's 'grapes of wrath', what a well written book.

currently reading Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath"

currently reading "The Help"

currently halfway through murakami's 'norwegian wood'. I'm sorta dreading what comes after, just because the book's already kinda depressing

Ive already pre ordered the final Inheritance book, comes out tomorrow :weee: Just finished Clive Barker's "Absolute Midnight", 3rd instalment of his Abarat series - its predecessor came out when I was 15 so that might explain the young adult genre ... Anyhoo, wasn't flawless and felt rushed...

does anyone follow the inheritance series? (eragon), final book coming out next week.

also... if anyone reads clive barker.... new abarat book coming out soon :wheee:

finished david millar's autobiography - I don't know, I get that he wants to redeem himself and all from doping but it just seems... pretentious...but perhaps I'm being unkind finished amy chua's "battle hymn of the tiger mother" - ha, nothing none of us don't already know and no idea why I...

Books I've read recently: 1. (graphic novel) Maus by Art Spiegler. I think this is a must read for anyone really. It was simple, and tells things the way it is, it seems like Art (and I think he said something along similar lines) just wanted to tell his father's story with the holocaust and...

quite difficult at the start but I'm getting the hang of it, so not quitting just yet. I have 'picture of dorian grey' as a backup :D

Ulysses by James Joyce. Anyone survived this?

just finished catcher in the rye - I enjoyed it, thought it very light, probably would enjoy it more if I read it as an angry teenager the great gatsby - I liked it simply because it was a story (especially the end bit), readable, enjoyed the language to kill a mockingbird - fucking...

catcher in the rye. tried looking for leonard michaels' "sylvia", they didn't have it at the local bookstore.