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hypnerotomachia poliphili-francesco colonna it's for my dad, but i'll probably end up reading it.

with new year's and christmas approaching(and whatever other holidays you may be celebrating), I thought I'd start this thread. Are any of you buying books as presents? if so, which ones and why? I personally bought the hypnerotomachia poliphili for my dad. I think he'll like it if he ever...

i'm reading two books at the moment. or more, but i've decided to only post two sentences. le salon ou se tenait le cardinal archeveque pour recevoir les visites avait ete revetu, sous Loius XV, de lambris de bois sculpte peints en gris clair. -l'orme du mail, anatole france not a great...

glad you guys like the poems! I find that they're a bit too 'real worldly', no metaphors or anything, but i'm not a very metaphorical person. thanks for the feedback!

i'm also reading quicksilver right now. However, i'm on page 2. So I can't really comment on it, but I heard it's good.

no. not exactly. but i have a competetive personality.

so far only two people have said they read more per year than me. Well, i'll start counting more carefully once the year starts, and i will beat those records! lol. I"m pretty competetive.

about 100 books per year. I actually keep track in a little notebook and everything.

i have a tiny notebook to take with me and a big one at home that's organized and a seperate one for books i've read. i don't buy a lot of the books i read, i get them from the librar, so my to read list will never be a book pile. unless it's a pile of books i got from the library. that's why...

I rather agree with tartan skirt: while the book started out great, I don't see what the big deal is. It's not that entertaining, it's rather like reading a memoir than a novel, and it didn't provoke discussions and arguments like the Da Vinci code did. although understanding the bulgarian in...

What does your to read list look like? is it a huge pile of books? is it a notebook, or do you scribble books you want to read on postit notes and random pieces of paper? or is it completely organized in your computer? me: I have a huge notebook of to read books, which i've started organizing...

yay! you consider dumas a classic! yeah, i know, random me. but the point is debatable. all I can think to recommend is things [not] to read: i found Wicked rather dull after the first 100 pages, and Charles Dickens not much better either. I loved pride and prejudice, but all her other...

i'm not sure what you expected from 'gothic novel' but it's not a modern vampire story where everyone dresses all in black. AT the time this was written, this was an entire genre meant to be romantic and slightly scary(although to modern readers it isn't). I think the biggest problem for you was...

thanks to all these quotes, i feell like rereading the princess bride!

appolonia-what did you think of smoke and mirrors? and everyone else who read it, too. phlebas: what did you think of eragon? I personally don't like paolini at all, but i want to hear what you think first. bren-what did you think of snicket's latest books? I personally thought #13 was...

which tale is this from? i've only read the miller's tale. i remember a line that was something like "alas! my wif! myn alison! and off he went to get the kneading tubbes three" "Wow! Kitty, you're so beautiful!" "Only now?" -the bartimaeus trilogy there are no such things as...

i told my english teacher intors that give everything away 'annoy me' or some other such phrase. He got mad. Then he told me "as one becomes a more sophisticated reader one reads not for plot but for content". when i tried to object he wouldn't listen. I suppose he does have a point, but...

i know what you mean with memoirs of a geisha. i had a lot of trouble with lotr. I quite enjoyed the second book, but the first and third were just a pain to get through, maybe because i'd seen the movie before reading the book. bad idea.

nope, i read another edition..

i think webmage is a good example of the category. so if your'e interested to see what it's like, read that book. i highly recommend it.