The Good Books Thread/ATARnotes Book Club!

[charmanderp]

Fahrenheit 451 is a really good choice.

[datfatcat]

I am (slowly) reading The House of Dr Dee.  I enjoyed the first chapter

[DisaFear]

Fahrenheit 451 is a really good choice.

Reading that right now, its bloody brilliant

[VivaTequila]

I just started on Sophie's World.

If you could never be fucked reading up on Philosophy on Wikipedia, but found the whole idea of it interesting, then this book pretty much covers it.

It's an introductory course to Philosophy, but not as you know it. It's not as boring as "This was Democritus. He lived here. He thought this." Which, in my opinion is the pitfall of the pedagogy surrounding philosophy and why I'm not studying it at university.

This book is pretty good - the author is canny as.

Highly endorse it, it's a great read. I'm like 20 pages in and it's already made me change my opinions completely on what I'm doing with my life currently on the terms of studying a science degree, and it's made me realise how trivial everyday stuff is.

[brenden]

Do you think it'd be published enough to pick up from QBD?

[JellyDonut]

It's a really popular book but I'm not too sure whether QBD stocks them.
http://booko.com.au/books/search?q=sophie's+world

My dad has a signed copy whoo

[brenden]

It's a really popular book but I'm not too sure whether QBD stocks them.
http://booko.com.au/books/search?q=sophie's+world

My dad has a signed copy whoo

Thanks a lot for that! =]

[Zidane]

The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho, without a doubt one of the best books i have ever read. Actually i read it twice, i highly recommend it.

[sam.utute]

Starting Malcolm Gladwell's "What the dog saw".

I don't mind his other books (e.g. Blink, Tipping Point), but I'm not a huge fan.
It was just lying around the house so I thought I'd give it a go.

[charmanderp]

The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho, without a doubt one of the best books i have ever read. Actually i read it twice, i highly recommend it.

YES one of my all-time favourites. Got my mum to read it a couple of years ago when she kinda had no idea what she wanted to do next with her career and it really inspired her. It's that kind of novel.

Another few novels that my mum enjoyed; Shantaram and The White Tiger. Prolly because they both relate to India but regardless, amazing texts.

[VivaTequila]

The Book Thief is also a really entertaining read.

I highly recommend anyone doing 'The Imaginative Landscape' and planning on writing an imaginative piece to read it because the way it's narrated and the imagery content in the book is amazing.

You do need to understand a little bit about 20th Century German history for it to be fully accessible though, but anyone can read it and get along.

[DisaFear]

Has anyone read Neuromancer by William Gibson?
I hear it is beyond fantastic, can't find a copy anywhere

[nisha]

The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho, without a doubt one of the best books i have ever read. Actually i read it twice, i highly recommend it.

The White Tiger.

Highly endorse this book. Really opens your eyes to what the world is like, outside our first-world problems.

[Charmz]

Any one read J.K Rowling's new book, 'A Casual Vacancy'? It's not too bad.

[charmanderp]

As an enormously obsessed Harry Potter fan I tried to read the book with absolutely no judgment. It was enjoyable, that's all I'll say