flipstress
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- Joined
- Jun 23, 2004
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I love to read, too. I read a lot of paperback fiction in my teen years as an escape from our boring family life: Catcher in the Rye, Valley of the Dolls, The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings, The Carpetbaggers, Catch-22, The Day of the Jackal, Barbara Cartland and Mills & Boon love stories, some Mark Twain works, Stephen King's horror stories, etc.
I have read only one book by Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. That was just summer of last year, and I fell in love with her writing so I ordered a set of her books in cheap hardcover.
I would like to have the time in the future to read some works by Shakespeare. The only one I kind of read was The Merchant of Venice for high school when I was 13 or 14 and the words did'nt make sense to me and my classmates, so we bought the comic book version.
I read Atlas Shrugged when I was about 17. I can't remember much about it. I have The Fountainhead on loan from a friend. I also have Waiting by Ha Jin received as a gift, and that's what it's been doing, waiting to be read for the last four years or so. I want to finish reading A Brief History of Time and The Big Bang. I would also like to read more books by Ken Wilber.
I tried reading The World is Flat but I couldn't connect with it, so I will put it off.
I recently read The Number by Lee Eisenberg, and I was entertained. Even more recently, I read Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and was in a semi-morbid mood for a couple of weeks afterwards.
I am currently reading:
- Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
- Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment
- PHP and MySQL Web Development
I have read only one book by Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. That was just summer of last year, and I fell in love with her writing so I ordered a set of her books in cheap hardcover.
I would like to have the time in the future to read some works by Shakespeare. The only one I kind of read was The Merchant of Venice for high school when I was 13 or 14 and the words did'nt make sense to me and my classmates, so we bought the comic book version.
I read Atlas Shrugged when I was about 17. I can't remember much about it. I have The Fountainhead on loan from a friend. I also have Waiting by Ha Jin received as a gift, and that's what it's been doing, waiting to be read for the last four years or so. I want to finish reading A Brief History of Time and The Big Bang. I would also like to read more books by Ken Wilber.
I tried reading The World is Flat but I couldn't connect with it, so I will put it off.
I recently read The Number by Lee Eisenberg, and I was entertained. Even more recently, I read Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and was in a semi-morbid mood for a couple of weeks afterwards.
I am currently reading:
- Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
- Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment
- PHP and MySQL Web Development