A Room With a View is actually the Forster book that I didn't like. The first book of his I read was A Passage to India and I liked that book so much that most of his other books I have read just can't compare.
This is my first time with Harry Potter. I decided that it was time to sit and read the books. In a few days I had the first three books down and then needed to take a break. My daughters and I rented the first three movies and made banana splits and sat and watched them. I am currently reading the 4th one and will continue until I am done with the series.
I read Coraline after sitting down and watching it with my kids. Since it's a novella it doesn't take long to read at all. It was a fun read on the darker side and much of what appears in Tim Burton's film is not in the book. I tried to not think of Alice as I read it though. It's hard to compare Alice to anything.
By the way, we are all excited to see Alice next year:)
I actually have not heard much hatred for it. I could ask what you found so appealing about it? A lot of people say that it was great, but no one ever states why. Do you enjoy his other books?
The one problem I come across with authors is that if I read something of theirs that I don't like it becomes hard for me to pick up another one of their works.
Flowers for Algernon (I have read this multiple times and would probably sound like a sniveling girl if I told you that I cried every time, but I did, therefore I probably am)
1984 (Also read multiple times)
Picture of Dorian Gray
Grapes of Wrath
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To Kill a Mockingbird
Never Let Me Go
Siddhartha (My first venture in Herman Hesse and I will return to him)
For history I would have to pick
The Devil in the White City
In Harm's Way
Hands down, the worst book I have gotten through this year was One Hundred Years of Solitude. I noticed that you didn't care for it either. In fact I don't know anyone who cared for it and it makes me wonder why it always turns up on those "must read" lists.
I am currently reading The Boys From Brazil~ Ira Levin.
Loved The Picture of Dorian Gray. It contained a lot of thought provoking themes. Since reading it I have bought Oscar Wilde's Complete Fairytales although I have not read it yet.
Grapes of Wrath I read in my bookclub and it really made me a Steinbeck fan. I am still a little haunted by the final scene. I have since bought two more of his books.
A Room With a View is actually the Forster book that I didn't like. The first book of his I read was A Passage to India and I liked that book so much that most of his other books I have read just can't compare.
This is my first time with Harry Potter. I decided that it was time to sit and read the books. In a few days I had the first three books down and then needed to take a break. My daughters and I rented the first three movies and made banana splits and sat and watched them. I am currently reading the 4th one and will continue until I am done with the series.
I have to say that they are actually pretty good.
I read Coraline after sitting down and watching it with my kids. Since it's a novella it doesn't take long to read at all. It was a fun read on the darker side and much of what appears in Tim Burton's film is not in the book. I tried to not think of Alice as I read it though. It's hard to compare Alice to anything.
By the way, we are all excited to see Alice next year:)
Thank you. I have many more awesome books to be read this year:)
Also, I don't think that hatred and dislike are the same thing. There are plenty of books out there that I really hate.
I actually have not heard much hatred for it. I could ask what you found so appealing about it? A lot of people say that it was great, but no one ever states why. Do you enjoy his other books?
The one problem I come across with authors is that if I read something of theirs that I don't like it becomes hard for me to pick up another one of their works.
My favorite of the ones I have read this year:
Flowers for Algernon (I have read this multiple times and would probably sound like a sniveling girl if I told you that I cried every time, but I did, therefore I probably am)
1984 (Also read multiple times)
Picture of Dorian Gray
Grapes of Wrath
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To Kill a Mockingbird
Never Let Me Go
Siddhartha (My first venture in Herman Hesse and I will return to him)
For history I would have to pick
The Devil in the White City
In Harm's Way
Hands down, the worst book I have gotten through this year was One Hundred Years of Solitude. I noticed that you didn't care for it either. In fact I don't know anyone who cared for it and it makes me wonder why it always turns up on those "must read" lists.
I am currently reading The Boys From Brazil~ Ira Levin.
By the way.. I love the authors on your list:)
Loved The Picture of Dorian Gray. It contained a lot of thought provoking themes. Since reading it I have bought Oscar Wilde's Complete Fairytales although I have not read it yet.
Grapes of Wrath I read in my bookclub and it really made me a Steinbeck fan. I am still a little haunted by the final scene. I have since bought two more of his books.
How about an over educated cook/bartender?
Nope. It's just a nickname I was given years back.