OS Book Club Pt II

[av7]

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Did you guys ever read Catcher in the Rye? Really good book. That reminds me I should find a copy and read it again in the future.

Good call, that was another one of the readings I skipped on back then, I'll end up checking that out I think this week or next.

List of books so far to read: The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, Catcher in the Rye

[Fresh Tendrils]

Good call, that was another one of the readings I skipped on back then, I'll end up checking that out I think this week or next.

List of books so far to read: The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, Catcher in the Rye

The Grapes of Wrath was one of my favorite reads in school. Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird are also great. The Great Gatsby is a good book, but some of the characters are almost too annoying.

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[eDotd]

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Speaking of high school readings..anyone read The Crucible? That and To Kill a Mockingbird are about the only books I remember reading in high school.

[av7]

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Speaking of high school readings..anyone read The Crucible? That and To Kill a Mockingbird are about the only books I remember reading in high school.

I dont think we had that. I ended up using google to see what high schools read and the titles started to sound familiar. I'll have to check that out though after skimming through the Wiki page.

Man I feel old, its been a long time since then.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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This is what I remember reading in high school:

Frankenstein
Of Mice and Men
The Pearl
Grapes of Wrath
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
The Great Gatsby
1984
A Clockwork Orange*
Lord of the Flies


*Was my final lit. analysis paper for high school, which we were allowed to pick our own book.

[oneamongthefence]

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John Dies at the End by David Wong. Crazy strange.

[SPTO]

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I also remember reading Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 during my High School years. It's one of the seminal Sci-Fi works of the '50s.

[65South]

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This is what I remember reading in high school:

Frankenstein
Of Mice and Men
The Pearl
Grapes of Wrath
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
The Great Gatsby
1984
A Clockwork Orange*
Lord of the Flies


*Was my final lit. analysis paper for high school, which we were allowed to pick our own book.

Wow, brings back memories. I'll add Great Expectations to the above list.

[Evan_OS]

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In the middle of reading The Stand. Wow, Stephen King wrote some good stuff back in the day.

[jack1535]

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Currently reading Graceland by Chris Abani for school. I also just finished Drood by Dan Simmons for book club which is an amazing book.

Since everyone is talking about what they've read in high school I'll post what I have read thru two years.

Lord of the Flies
Dracula
Inherit the Wind
Julius Caesar (Technically its a play but I read it)
Red Harvest
The Oddyssey
Baron in the Trees
1984
The Stranger
Graceland
and the last book for this year is Age of Iron

[Rawdeal28]

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i figure this would be a good place to ask, if i am wrong please excuse me.

i been thinking about getting a reading device and cant decide between THE NOOK or THE KINDLE?

i have read a little about both but which is better or is it all preference? im leaning towards the nook because its color but spending $250 is alot. thoughts?

[LionsFanNJ]

Currently reading on my kindle the fifth Malazan Book of the Fallen, Midnight Tides. Probably will end up reading the rest of the series before I move onto other stuff. I usually do when I start a series, especially fantasy

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[av7]

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Ended up with Animal Farm and Grapes of Wrath. Catcher in the Rye was all checked out so I'll have to grab it next round.

No clue what to expect this time as I remember 0% of either story, should be fun.

[SPTO]

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Well the last book I read was interesting but not exactly what I was looking for.

I have two candidates for my next library loan:



Here's the description from my library:

Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West - and what this portends for the 21st century. There are two broad schools of thought on why the West rules. Proponents of "Long-Term Lock-In" theories such as Jared Diamond suggest that from time immemorial, some critical factor - geography, climate, or culture perhaps - made East and West unalterably different, and determined that the industrial revolution would happen in the West and push it further ahead of the East. But the East led the West between 500 and 1600, so this development can't have been inevitable; and so proponents of "Short-Term Accident" theories argue that Western rule was a temporary aberration that is now coming to an end, with Japan, China, and India resuming their rightful places on the world stage. However, as the West led for 9,000 of the previous 10,000 years, it wasn't just a temporary aberration. So, if we want to know why the West rules, we need a whole new theory. Ian Morris, boldly entering the turf of Jared Diamond and Niall Ferguson, provides the broader approach that is necessary, combining the textual historian's focus on context, the anthropological archaeologist's awareness of the deep past, and the social scientist's comparative methods to make sense of the past, present, and future - in a way no one has ever done before.

The other book is from '05 and caused a huge stir when it came out in this country:



part of description:

Here, his no-holds-barred profile of Canada’s most controversial – and most reviled – prime minister breaks new ground. Compiled from years of candid, taped conversations with Mulroney and the people closest to him while he was in power, the sometimes uproarious and often disturbing interviews – 7,400 pages of transcripts totalling 1.8 million words – have been sealed until now. Stunningly indiscreet and savagely frank, Mulroney is the first prime minister to be so nakedly outspoken. Yet he is also revealed as a witty Irish charmer, ready with a quick line to raise a laugh, no matter how impudent or profane, a man as warm in private as he was defensive in the public eye. Mulroney names the names and spills the beans about what really goes on in Ottawa, which he describes as a “sick” city that runs on “goddamned incest”: “They’re all married to one another. They’re shacked up with one another. Their wives are on the payroll of the CBC. It’s just awful.” Lucien Bouchard, his one-time soulmate, he calls “bitter and profane” and “extraordinarily vain.” He writes off his constitutional foe, former Newfoundland premier Clyde Wells, as an “unprincipled son of a bitch.” His disgust for the press is as monumental as his sense of being misunderstood, and in his eyes the Ottawa press corps are “a phony bunch of bastards” who don’t give him credit even when the world applauds him for being “one of the three men who played the most important role in the collapse of the Berlin Wall.” Out of The Secret Mulroney Tapes emerges a startling picture of the politician whose reign shocked and appalled and yet also revolutionized this country. No other prime minister in Canadian history aroused a stronger emotional response than Brian Mulroney. This book provides Canadians with a unique insight into the bold politician who changed their country like no other.

BTW about the stronger emotional response line...Well Stephen Harper has surpassed Mulroney in some aspects.

Anyways it all depends on my mood when I go to the library but one of these will be picked up.

[Perfect Zero]

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Just got through reading the Karl Rove autobiography, and it's an interesting look into the Bush White House. The first few chapters where he talks about his own life are really revealing as to the person he'd become, and the middle chapters that deal with the Presidency are really well written. He ends the thing by going on about Obama and his (at the time of his writing very new) Administration. It gets to read more like Republican propaganda toward the end, but the first ten to twelve chapters are a must read, especially how he describes President Bush and the way he ran the White House. If there are any drawbacks, it might be that he doesn't really tell anything too revealing about himself, and many liberals might just burn the book instead of reading it.