book recommendations/BF Literacy League

[Red Lucy]

Oh man, is anyone into dark stuff, like Poe, Lovecraft, gothis litterature? And Oscar Wilde, I just love that guy.

Wilde's plays aren't dark like The Picture of Dorian Gray (going to get to that eventually, sigh) but they are hilarous and short. Read An Ideal Husband.

As for Poe, his shorts are fun stuff. The Black Cat and Murders in the Rue Morgue are among my favorites. And of course The Fall of the House of Usher. I need to read that again, seventh grade was a long time ago...

[Lasagna]

The Importance of being Earnest made me laugh.

[Ghost]

Amok I am a huge H.P. Lovecraft fan, he's one of my favorite authors.

[Reservoir]

Imo H.P. Lovecraft was ahead of his time in horror. Things from beyond our world? Beings from other dimensions? Bah, those things were nearly unthinkable in those days (19th century? I can't remember what time period he was around). And, yes, I think he's very awesome. I love how his stories are the kind that let you use your imagination to create the scene - I've seen several different, yet fundamentally similar, images of Cthulu made by all sorts of people. Hell, I even had an avatar here that was a pic of Cthulu - remember the one that had fire swirling outwards from an eye? The eye was part of a pic somebody made as Cthulu, and I just added the fire myself.

HP ranks in my top 10 artist. Period.

[Cronoss]

Imo H.P. Lovecraft was ahead of his time in horror. Things from beyond our world? Beings from other dimensions? Bah, those things were nearly unthinkable in those days

Hell no. Ever heard of a mother-in-law or tried to date a woman?

[warhog]

*cracks up* Genius.

Reads while I was in Europe:

Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
It's non-fiction that actually manages to pull me in. It's fucking hilarious, while still treating the subject with the dignity it deserves. Basically goes through what happens to bodies that are donated to science, medicine, and etc, through history and today. I highly suggest it.

Reread:
Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo
Essentially re-read this cause I picked it up while I was bored hanging about in Heathrow. I haven't read it since I was very young... I must've been 12 or so. Got through the first 500 pages on the flight and I couldn't put it down after I got home. Well worth the read.

Next up:
Probably some Vonnegut. It's been a while, and I'm returning the Mary Roach book to my friend and probably grabbing one of his Vonneguts. Some of my books have been lent to someone else and I haven't seen them all year... no surprise, she's been in Belgium all year. =D If not I have some Solzhenitsyn that I have meant to read but haven't had the time to that I should really get into. Oh those crazy Russians.

[Philosoraptor]

Holy Crap Ben how can you read stuff like that?

Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

[Lasagna]

Dude Oscar Wilde was hilarious.

[Agon]

I seriously must recommend the Enders game series. The best SCI-FI series ever IMHO! THe author Orson Scott Card is a genius. The books have great characterization I really enjoyed them. SQUASH THEM BUGGERZ! MAZER RACKHAM FTW! GO BEAN!

[Lasagna]

Only the first one was good.

[Red Lucy]

I've read bits of The Canterbury Tales; hard to understand, but that was in middle school so maybe it's time to try it again.

As for Card, the rest of the Ender series was good I think. The beef people have, I've found, is his style switch. Speaker for the Dead and so on go way in-depth and analytic. Though, personally, I enjoyed the Bean quartet a lot more, despite Petra getting annoying as hell towards the end. OHMIGAH BABIES.

[Pike]

I only read three of the Ender books (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide)-- I thought they were pretty good but they really weren't my style, I felt absolutely no urge to continue reading the rest of the books and I really have no urge to go back and re-read the ones I've read. *shrug* Still, I'd recommend them to Sci-Fi fans.

Speaker for the Dead was my favorite of the three that I did read, though I can hardly remember why because it's been so long since I read it... I just remember that it was my favorite.

[Lasagna]

I read about half of Speaker for the Dead and then had to stop. I thought it was awful =/

[ADX]

Currently reading the transformers novel and then it will be on to the dark nest triology followed by the legacy of the force series.. I am a sci-fi reader :-))

[Hunta]

The Banned and the Banished. Part 5. Wit'ch Star.

Actually, part 1 with the different storylines coming together was the most inventive and coolest to read.