Eh, Books

We're reading that book in reading class now. It's not a very long book so we're almost done. The book is pretty good. It's based off of a true story. I am writing like a kindergartner. Haha, anywho, We also read "The Outsiders" in English last month. Which i must say, is one of the best books i've ever read. In truth, anyone can easily write a book and get it published even if the book actually sucks. (coughtwilightcough) But the outsiders is actually one of the good books out there that deserves to be read. I want to red Ella Enchanted. I've also tried to read "Romeo and Juliet" and "Pride and Predjudice" but i honestly cannot understand a word people are saying. Beh, i need to get those books in modern-day english. I don't know old english or shakespirenese yet. So, anyone else read any good books latley?

The Outsiders?! I loooooooved that book!!!!! The seventh graders at my school are watching the movie right now. That was an amazing book and S.E. Hinton was only sixteen when she wrote it!!!!

Other than that, we just finished "Night" by Elie Weisel today... One of the saddest books I've ever read! It's about the Holocaust. Other than that, since there are only two more weeks of school left for me, I'm not reading anything else.

Romeo and Juliet was something I wanted to read too. A lot of old literature though... And my friend who read it said it was boring and stupid. *shrugs* I have to read it in high school anyway

I haven't read "The Outsiders" but I have read "Ella Enchanted." (Honestly I didn't like the book too much. I read it in eighth grade and it seemed so easy.)

In ninth grade I got to read Romeo and Juliet. It's in iambic pentameter, so try reading it like that and it'll make more sense. (They really didn't talk the way Shakes wrote, he wrote in what I call 'poem theater style.') I personally liked a "Midsummer's Night Dream" better than Romeo and Juliet though.

I read Night once too, but that was all the way back in 6th grade. Isn't it about a family that adopts a Jewish girl into their family as their daughter to hide her from Nazi soilders?

I really want to read 'Crime and Punishment' and 'War and Peace.' Both are by a Russian author that I'm to lazy to look up his name at the moment. Also I really want to read a book called "The Accidental Mind." It's not fiction I warn you, but non-fiction. It's mainly about the evolution of the human mind. Right now I'm reading "The Choosen" a novel about two Jewish kids. It's pretty good.

I've been on a classics kick lately. I've been reading books like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Anna Karenina, Vanity Fair, The Prince and The Pauper, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, etc. etc.

I've also had to read Romeo and Juliet this year in my English class. I didn't mind that so much; it was good if you understand Olde English and iambic pentameter. I would sit at my computer and read it out loud (using the Sparknotes side-by-side comparison of the original and a modern prose version). That made it a little easier. You just have to get the flow right.

Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books! Sooo good. Watch the movie first; you might prefer the version with Keira Knightley in it. It's nowhere near as good as the novel (what movie is?) but it makes it easier to go back and understand the plot of the book. Also, Darcy is love. And I claimed him in like seventh grade when everyone else was still on an Edward Cullen kick.

I read both "Angels and Demons" and "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown last week. I much preferred Angels and Demons. It was intense, but insanely good. The DaVinci Code was kind of slow for me in comparison to its predecessor.

Oh, and Kitty, you're actually thinking of two different authors. Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, and Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment.

I read Outsiders when I was younger. XD Like sixth or seventh grade. And I'm a junior now. o: Long time ago, it feels like. XD;

I read Romeo and Juliet two years ago, along with Whirligig, To Kill A Mockingbird, and a few others. I read "Of Mice and Men" last year, and Julius Caesar, The Crucible, Raisin in the Sun, and a few others. This year, I've read I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Dr. Zhivago, Last Days of the Romanovs, and I'm going to be starting up MacBeth and Persuasion soon. (:

Right now, I'm reading 100 Years of Solitude.

Weeiirrdd stuff, man.

I officaly don't have anything to read as of when we finished "The wave.'' I have this book my friend let me borrow, but i've kind of stopped reading it.

@ES: No, the book with the Jewish girl was called "Number the Stars" and I read that in 5th grade. For some reason, my school loves having us read Holocaust books. In 7th grade I read "Devil's Arithmetic" and now in 8th grade I read "Night"

Night is about this guy named Elie and he goes through all the camps and survives. It's freaky 'cause it's a true story.

Reading "Evermore" right now--hope it'll be good!!! It's written in present tence, which isn't my favorite but I'll get over it. I'm more of a past tence kind of reader. *shrugs*

well..i haven't read a book that long but i remember i tried reading The Breaking Dawn..but gosh it has lots of pages..