@Taco_Rocket I've been wanting to read it. I generally like books about political commentary and Utopian societies. Have you read Orwell's short story about Burma? I forget the name.
I haven't picked up any short stories or essays. Here's what I've worked on this year. I recently got back into reading so I'm not counting anything prior to this. 2014: 1984 Brave New World Brave New World Revisited The Prince Machiavelli’s Prince: A New Reading Catch-22 IT Project Management The Hunt for Red October A Catcher in the Rye Man’s Search for Meaning The Communist Manifesto It How To Become A Straight A Student The Sun Also Rises Fight Club All Quiet on the Western Front What Every Body Is Saying American Psycho Fahrenheit 451 A Confederacy of Dunces Cat’s Cradle Jurassic Park Game of Thrones Lolita Choke
I always forget which book I have most recently read unless someone brings them up XD I don't read as much as i used to but i remember recently reading Do androids dream of electric sheep?, The curious case of Jekyll and Hyde, The Clockwork Orange, Frankenstein (again), The Bug, and The passion of new eve (This one was... strange.)
PKD is always good. Have you read anything else from Burgess? I have a copy of Earthly Powers that I'm going to get to soon. What do you consider weird?
Um, considering i read this particular book for a class I was surprised that it involved gender bending and overt sexuality (I was not phased that much as I come from the internet but others were shocked and disgusted which I found funny)
How about a book about a pedophile, murderer, and rapist? While at the same time, the way the author has written the book you're supposed to sympathize with the main character? All with tragic love twists and death? If so, read Lolita.
"Somebody has had a tough day raping and killing haven't they?" *protagonist nods* "Go take a nap." *goes to sleep* "Good boy!"
I'm reading Coming of Age in Mississippi. Autobiography :c not too enthralling for my personal taste, but it's for school. I enjoy more fictional stories. I'm super excited for The Giver coming out this month based off of the book The Giver. It was a really good book to read in middle school.
Currently, reading A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, and Roots by Alex Haley. Mainly because they're books I need to finish and write essays on for AP Literature, but hey, who cares? I love reading.
To be honest. You should focus on Hemingway for his minimalism. He got a Nobel Prize for his writing. If it's on the AP guaranteed that's what they're looking for. So many writers who keep to that style of writing owe it to Hemingway
I had a book that was missing close to the last 40 pages of the last essay. Talk about a bummer! Waiting on them to send a replacement. I do recommend the book however, http://smile.amazon.com/Supposedly-...ds=a+supposedly+fun+thing+i'll+never+do+again
I started and finished Stephen Kings "The Stand" while on my honeymoon. I never really had a favorite book, but I wish I could read it for the first time again and again.
oh, then I started to watch the made for TV miniseries, and it was a terrible shadow of what the book was.
