Yeah, that's where I started, absolutely tremendous. Then since I didn't want to read his two "Masterpieces" in a row, decided to read his newest one, which I liked also, not in the same league though.

I just picked up H.G. Wells' The Time Machine last night.

Yeah it goes into some very serious detail and explanations about agriculture being the birth of our demise. When we started agriculture, we started our stance against "nature" and demanded that we will get what we want when we want it, to hell with the rest we wont live at nature's mercy type of deal.

Some say this way of life will be our downfall, some insist it is our rising into godhood :P

I'd say a garbage heap the size of Texas in the middle of the ocean is proof enough this system is not working but that's just me.

If anyone is into that kind of thing and actually takes it seriously, read Ishmael.. though be prepared to have some very conflicted feelings!

Ishmael was a great book and very insightful, especially it's take on biblical history. I might just have to re-read that.

La Vita Nuova- Dante


I read it in Italian first before reading the English. It was interesting the difference on how I translated it verse the official translator.

You speak Italian well enough to read books in it? I did not know this...

poor show. i thought it was excellent. of course it was unrealistic. i found it evoked a range of emoticons, very emotive.

I absolutely love books. Not possibly enough time to read all the ones i want to. just putting that out there.

Right now I'm reading Dracula for my AP lit class, and we'll be reading Frankenstein around halloween. I've been looking forward to this for a long time, but its never as good if you HAVE to read it. In my "free time" ill be plowing my way through crime and punishment. *sigh* i miss the days when i actually had time to read for pleasure. (says the girl who spent her entire day on MusicBanter rather than doing her calc homework. ah hypocrisy).

I also just finished 1984 (also for AP lit) and Steinbacks Of Mice and Men. Steinback has such a twisted sense of plot...i would have loved to have met him. Both books were incredibly depressing and completely void of hope...perhaps thats why i've been in such a ****ty mood lately. oh well, life will go on.

Are you reading Crime and Punishment for AP English or on your own? If you're in Senior AP English it might be on your required reading, at least it was for ours around Solstice time.

1984 I found worse than Lord of the Flies, for much the same reasons. Dracula I enjoyed a lot though it mightn't go amiss to skim through the "and then they went here, and then they went here". Page upon page of walking through scenery is not my preferred reading subject but unfortunately Bram Stoker created much of this for the book. When stuff is happening, however, it's good.