Boo! It's October. From Which Books Shall You Never Return?

Oh... wow... priceless.

I'm almost done reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. I liked it, but Freedom was definitely better.

I have Freedom but haven't read it yet. I should get to that soon.

Hunger Games was so disappointing.

I thought, this is kind of clever.

*watches Battle Royale*

Never mind.

*reads up to second to last chapter in the third book*

Wow, everything's not going to wrap up in a neat little bow.

*reads last chapter and epilogue*

Never mind.

Herniated Roots.

I finally finished one of the two books I started early this year. I forgot to take a book with me to school so I bought an Edgar Allan Poe book from school...the Murders in Rue Morgue. It's a short read but of course I fell asleep in one of the hallways by class while reading.

Time's Arrow - Martin Amis

...although I am craving some good old trash.

Drive by James Sallis. It's quite a bit different to the film.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - R.L. Stine.

A Passage to India - E M Forster and BPD: A Clinical Guide.

I finished The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. There were a lot of things I liked about it, but also some things I didn't like. It got more depressing as the story went on, and it left me feeling quite sad. Books are supposed to make you feel something though, so that's good.

Started reading King of Lies now, by John Hart.

Imke, the passage I'm working on for translation class is from The Corrections! That's funny. He also gave us a passage that has one LONG ASS FUCKING SENTENCE!! And I'm translating it into French. Fun stuff haha!

I don't know what to read next.

Oliver Twist
Life on the Mississippi
Bar Scars
A Fuckload of Shorts
No Easy Day
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

The Battle of the Sun by Jeanette Winterson.

The Swamp Thing by Alan Moore

Barry Gifford- Wild at Heart.

I had to read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and do a book report in high school (aka home school and it was the only "classic" book my mom had lying around) and i remembered it was really good. I still have that copy actually...

Also i'm rereading Blood Meridian because i never finished it the first time.

Were you home schooled your whole childhood or just for a bit?

Just high school. It was lame.

Hahaha! DWEEB!

How come you were home schooled?

The Battle of the Sun was awesome! She totally pulls off writing for children, too.

My parents said i was being "annoying" and they blamed public schools. It was mostly because my brother was getting into lots of trouble at school so they had to take him out. Then they decided to take me and my sister out of school too. It was kind of fun at the time but now i tend to be a little bit socially stunted and i took about 6 semesters of math before i was even at the college level. I feel like my potential was squandered.

Wtf? I was plenty annoying and I still had to go to school! Well, I didn't go...but I was spose to!

I read Bar Scars and it was pretty amazing.

But now I'm back to my previous quandry.

I am fucking tired and read that as Bear Scars. My night is ruined now.

Now, you damn-well know I'd never be as subtle as that.

I'm on to No Easy Day; someone here needs to read it.

Oh, I know. I was just saying.

I have no idea what book to start tomorrow. I'll be doing a lot of waiting around the uni so I have to pick something entertaining. Maybe some John Saul. I haven't read anything by him in years, and I was obsessed with his books in my teens.

Me too, Irina. I remember reading Comes the Blind Fury a few times when I was a young teenager. I think "Uninvited" or maybe "Unloved" was another one of his that I really liked.

I'm reading The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon.

I haven't read any King in who knows how long so it is a nice change of pace.

I just bought a copy of Hannibal and Thousand Cranes at the thrift store, so I will read one of those next, probably Thousand Cranes.

It'll be Darkness by John Saul. Alecia, I loved everything I've read And according to Goodreads, that's 17.

The Blackstone Chronicles is still on my extended favourites list.

The Never Enders by Michael Sonbert.

I still need to read that.

I read that on a train to the beach last summer. Good one.

Yeah, I liked that one too.

Right now I'm reading Fatal Vision, by Joe McGinniss. It's about that murdering son of a bitch, Jeffrey MacDonald.

Yakuza Moon by Shoko Tendo.

Yeah... Now I need to read A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Second: The Reptile Room to even things out.

I really liked the unfortunate events books, they are all terrible, as the warning claims. I never quite finished the series though. I think I left off at the very last one.

What is this No Easy Day book? I looked it up on Amazon but there were a couple with that title. It's not the one about the Navy and Osama Bin Laden is it?

Have you read any of Daniel Handler's other books? They're really quite good.

I have not. Maybe I should look into them.

Are they children's books too or are they aimed at a more adult crowd?

The series of unfortunate events may be good ones for Zachariah right now.

Alecia, you know what Saul book really impressed me? Brainchild. I was so amazed at the time.

Of course I'm over halfway through Darkness, as today I had a lot of waiting time at uni, too.

'Tis indeed.

Noir at the Bar Vol 2. So far it rules, depraved and funny.