The Good Books Thread/ATARnotes Book Club!

[ggxoxo]

Perks of Being a Wallflower... should I?

'Welcome to the island of misfit toys'--> I love Sam so much!!! Read it!!! Then watch the movie!!! Emma Watson + Logan Lerman were perfect!!!

I also like the Gone series and, for aspiring lawyers, I recommend John Grisham's novels...

[brenden]

'Welcome to the island of misfit toys'--> I love Sam so much!!! Read it!!! Then watch the movie!!! Emma Watson + Logan Lerman were perfect!!!

I also like the Gone series and, for aspiring lawyers, I recommend John Grisham's novels...

Read up a few posts

[DisaFear]

Just finished 'City of Bones', the first book in 'The Mortal Instruments' series by Cassandra Clare
Was pretty good, seemed like Harry Potter, but more urban and up-to-date

Definitely suggest for the ordinary teenagers. Forget about love triangles, we deal with pentagons here

(There's a film adaption of this in the works?)

[DisaFear]

Anyone read books by Ian Irvine? He is amazing XD

Currently reading Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, apparently this book won quite a number of awards. So far, so good, it really puts the 'sci' back in 'sci-fi'

EDIT: Just finished it, pretty good! Recommend it to anyone interested in space and science

[BigAl]

Given that you are tutoring maths, I assume you like maths...so you must read Einstein's heroes

[DisaFear]

Given that you are tutoring maths, I assume you like maths...so you must read Einstein's heroes

Was that directed at me? I don't tutor, too dumb for that
I finished Perks of being a Wallflower, it was okay, I liked the narration style. I wonder how they adapted it to film

Nearly finished re-reading The View from the Mirror quartet by Australian author Ian Irvine, love every single page of it <3

[BigAl]

Was that directed at me? I don't tutor, too dumb for that
I finished Perks of being a Wallflower, it was okay, I liked the narration style. I wonder how they adapted it to film

Nearly finished re-reading The View from the Mirror quartet by Australian author Ian Irvine, love every single page of it <3

Nope :p it was directed to the user who started this thread
Edit: I thought the person who started this thread was seeking some books to read. It turns out all the users post comments about their books. My bad

[alondouek]

Can't believe I only saw this thread now 

I didn't get to do too much reading over VCE, so I've been catching up since. Recently I've read:

• George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series (Game of Thrones, etc)
• Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet"
• Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein'

And I'm currently reading:

• Marx and Engel's 'The Communist Manifesto"
• Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island"
• Joseph Heller's "Catch-22"

And I'm planning to buy and read these, despite being dirt-poor:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/wishlist/GVPMX/Alon

[DisaFear]

Oh, forgot to mention...

Last book of the Wheel of Time series is finally out!!

23 years in the making and the original author dead, the 14th book, A Memory of Light is finally out

[slothpomba]

I have $50 bucks in library fines at Monash (again...) so i can't borrow even though i want to. The Jew inside me is torn..

And I'm planning to buy and read these, despite being dirt-poor:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/wishlist/GVPMX/Alon

So many penguin classics...

If you're reading the communist manifesto i highly recommend you read one with notes and/or commentary. Its a historical text, you really need to understand a lot of the basis behind it otherwise you'll miss so much.

I have this version and i think it's excellent. I also recommend "An Appeal to the Young" by Peter Kropotkin, you can have this version here that i lovingly ripped off the internet and formatted to match the book for a friend of mine.

It's a great piece of political literature (and chillingly appropriate for this forum):

It is to the young that I wish to address myself today. Let the old  - I mean of course the old in heart and mind - lay the pamphlet down therefore without tiring their eyes in reading what will tell them nothing.

I assume that you are about eighteen or twenty years of age; that you have finished your apprenticeship or your studies; that you are just entering into life. I take it for granted that you have a mind free from the superstition which your teachers have sought to force upon you; that you don't fear the devil, and that you do not go to hear parsons and ministers rant. More, that you are not one of the fops, sad products of a society in decay, who display their well-cut trousers and their monkey faces in the park, and who even at their early age have only an insatiable longing for pleasure at any price...I assume on the contrary that you have a warm heart, and for this reason I talk to you.

A first question, I know, occurs to you - you have often asked yourself: "What am I going to be?" In fact when a man is young he understands that after having studied a trade or a science for several years - at the cost of society, mark - he has not done this in order that he should make use of his acquirements as instruments of plunder for his own gain, and he must be depraved indeed and utterly cankered by vice who has not dreamed that one day he would apply his intelligence, his abilities, his knowledge to help on the enfranchisement of those who today grovel in misery and in ignorance.

You are one of those who has had such a vision, are you not? Very well, let us see what you must do to make your dream a reality.

[alondouek]

The Jew inside me is torn..

The Jew who is me can sympathise; I think my only motivation to try to find some form of employment during uni is to pay for these books...

If you're reading the communist manifesto i highly recommend you read one with notes and/or commentary. Its a historical text, you really need to understand a lot of the basis behind it otherwise you'll miss so much.

I have this version and i think it's excellent.

Yeah, that's the one I bought (penguin classics lol) - I love how 2/3 of the book is under 'Part 1: Introduction', while the minute remainder is the actual text. Also, $6.50 from book depository what what

[Butterscotch]

Melina Marchetta's book's! Especially Alibrandi

[Tomw2]

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, just finished re-reading The Road, also by McCarthy.

The prose is challenging and the content often grim, but it's amazing.

[alondouek]

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, just finished re-reading The Road, also by McCarthy.

The prose is challenging and the content often grim, but it's amazing.

I saw the film adaptation of The Road recently. If the book is anything like the film, then it's getting bumped up to the top of the reading list

[nacho]

Just finished fountainhead by Ayn Rand.  One of the greatest books i've ever read, very thought provoking, highly recommended it.

you should know what you're getting into before you read it, or it might bore you, but basically you will think to yourself 'What? I am allowed to do that? I CAN do that?"

Says a lot about social conditioning. Try and look past the architecture (lol pun intended).

inb4 demonised for recommending Ayn Rand literature.

moving on to atlas shrugged now.