The Good Books Thread/ATARnotes Book Club!

[Lolly]

I guess at that party, all guests will be equal, but some will be more equal than others?
I can see it now.

"The partiers looked from sober people, to drunk people. And from sober people to drunk people again... But already it was impossible to tell which was which."

LOLOLOLOL OF COURSE

[Professor Polonsky]

Trot propaganda

[JellyDonut]

"Alcoholics of the World Unite!"

@lollymatron: You'd probably already guessed this but the part where Marx touches upon Hegelian Dialetics is in Das Kapital (don't ask me where). The CM is really non-technical in what Marx espoused. Don't even think surplus value was even mentioned

[DisaFear]

Started reading 'Ship of Magic' by Robin Hobb, not liking it as much as the Farseer Trilogy but it's still okay

[ealam2]

Read "Heart of Danger" by Eliot Schrefer about one girl's courage to save a young bonobo (type of great ape) in the Democratic Republic of Congo from rebels and other people. It was a really good read. Heartwarming and I have learned more about the world from this than I would have from class.

[brenden]

I have learned more about the world from this than I would have from class.

Ugh, my whole life in a sentence. (Too bad I decided to learn about the world via novels during class)

[spectroscopy]

The giver by Lois Lowry goes off , we had to read it in year 8 and everyone still re-reads it LOOOL
bear Grylls autobiography is nice too if you like that sort of stuff

and if you dont mind crude humor, and have never experienced laughing out loud literally from a book before, read - "dont tell my mum i work on the rigs, she thinks im a piano player in a whorehouse" by Paul Carter
good insight into the petroleum industry

[DisaFear]

Finished The Liveship Traders trilogy, was pretty good! Every single thread just collided in the last book to make a massive mess, loved that

Going to move onto The Tawny Man trilogy, after I finish Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond (we watched the doco in astro lectures, quite interesting)

[pi]

Dan Brown is releasing Inferno soon and I am sure it is going to be a great book.

I just finished it and I loved it!

Now to start the A Song of Ice and Fire series

[Lolly]

I just finished reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson. ^_^

[brenden]

To continue the John Green books - I've read Looking For Alaska and Paper Towns these holidays and both were provoking in a good way. Have also sort of started reading Walden  (two pages) and need to get going on that lol.

[Lolly]

To continue the John Green books - I've read Looking For Alaska and Paper Towns these holidays and both were provoking in a good way. Have also sort of started reading Walden  (two pages) and need to get going on that lol.

Both are beautiful books. Next up, my friend, you must read TFioS. Get on it.

I think I'm going to make a John and Hank Green appreciation thread.

Also, I haven't read Walden, but it's definitely on my list of things to read.

[brenden]

Just called Mum (she's at the shops) and told her to pick up WG, WG and TFioS

[Lolly]

Just called Mum (she's at the shops) and told her to pick up WG, WG and TFioS

Awwww yisssssss

[Professor Polonsky]

I've heard very different opinions about TFioS. Might have to read it myself (*gasp*) at some point.