goodreads

[ashlesha]

so i've got a library card and read one book and now i'm excited maybe my attention span is returning and i can read again.

celebrate with me by being my friend on goodreads please.

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6930928-kassie

list yours.

[ashlesha]

ok dumbasses

[blackburry]

I'm reading the sequel to I hope they serve beer in hell, which is Assholes finish first.

May not be your thang tho.

I love the English Patient. All time favorite book.

[ashlesha]

i've only heard of the english patient the movie, which i never watched. i'll check it out.

the one i just read was the gates by john connolly, which was actually a young adult book, which i didn't realize at first. i got it because i loooooved his novel the book of lost things. but the gates was disappointing and not just because it was the wrong age group. it was too try-hard or something. meh.

right now what i've got checked out: harlequin valentine (my first neil gaiman and first "graphic fiction," i brought it to work today to start over lunch), siddhartha by herman hesse (upon @Gilly's reccomendation), and the alchemist.

i saw "i hope they serve beer in hell" at a bookstore awhile back and flipped through and smiled/rolled my eyes and put it back, lol.

[Capitalist Pig]

k i signed up now i am rating stuff

[Capitalist Pig]

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/11220107-justin

[strrrng]

you'd probably like in cold blood

[Gilly]

Meh, Siddhartha is Hesse's least impressive read IMO. I usually recommend Demian as a good intro to Hesse, its a little more personal than Siddhartha.

Siddhartha is still an awesome book...its just...well it's the Hesse book that gets assigned by English teachers. Its good, but he has better.

I usually recommend reading Hesse like this:

Demian
Narcissus and Goldmund
Siddhartha
Steppenwolf
Glass Bead Game

[ashlesha]

i loved siddhartha! i'll read demian next.

[Gilly]

YES

Another convert

*evil finger taps*

[Gilly]

Herman Hesse is basically a genius in the most important way. His words should be preserves forever and held as the hierophantic revalations of human nature.

[Eliza Thomason]

I you like love stories, this is one of my favorites (I have read it a few times!):
A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken http://www.amazon.com/A-Severe-Mercy...3343368&sr=1-1

A love-story-gone-wrong - an autobiographical fiction, and a real page-turner you won't want to put down and you'll never forget if you read it: The Breakable Vow by Kathryn Ann Clarke
http://www.amazon.com/Breakable-Vow-...=breakable+vow

You can get a good feel for what both of these books are like by clicking on "what's inside" on those Amazon pages. I particularly like the prologue of Severe Mercy; that beautiful sense of place is so imprinted on my mind from this description...)