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oh my god i am sorry i dont know the name but that whole paragraph was really difficult to read and i wonder if you know what is a period a comma or a question mark becuase it would make your whole thing easier to read and my head wouldnt hurt so bad right now :(

All I can say about Wuthering Heights is that it is on my bookshelf, and I vaguely remember reading it, but I don't remember any of the story. Nuff said. But Pride and Prejudice is one of my faves. :)

Haha.... I didn't, but that's only because I spent approximately 5 months of my youth attempting this feat, until I finally satisfied myself once and for all that I couldn't do it.

This is almost completely off-topic, but I saw the movie and I am so glad I did... I think I am the exact demographic they were aiming for. I looooooooove my diamonds, and I love to buy them as cheaply as possible. But after seeing the movie and the companion documentary on CNN (Blood on the...

I actually like a few of those books you mentioned (especially 1984), but I agree 100% with the Da Vinci Code being highly overrated. It was well-researched, and while some of the theories presented were interesting, the writing was completely amateur IMO. I recently read John le Carre's The...

2 birds, 1 stone: A great book is "In Cold Blood," by Truman Capote. It's the story of a murdered family in 1950s Kansas and the search for and eventual capture of their killers, but written more like a novel than like a typical non-fiction book. I feel like that blurb doesn't do the book...

OMG Bush reads?? I'm flabbergasted.:p I think the book was meant to be shocking, and geared towards an older demograhic. I guess I'm not far removed enough from my college days to appreciate his motives for writing the book fully, but I did find the satire amusing. I'll look forward to your...

*raises hand* I'm a big fan of her first 2 novels, Birdman and The Treatment. I also liked Tokyo, though not as much. Pig Island was nowhere near as good as any of those. On a positive note, I remember being shocked by the twist at the end, which is always a good thing. Because the main...

This might just be ignorance on my part, but I recently learned that Hebrew and Yiddish are 2 completely different languages. I had always assumed they were the same, or at least similar in the way that American and British English are, but they are in fact quite different. Yiddish is descended...

I read this last year on a recommendation from a friend, and I really enjoyed it. I won't say too much because I'm not sure if everyone has read it yet, but I initially felt sorry for the narrator because her life was so empty. Ultimately, though, I loved to hate her snobbery, pushiness...

Agree on both fronts. I loved the quirky characters and their insecurities, especially contrasted with the anarchist (Oyster) who was so very self-assured and driven. But some elements of the book were just too strange for me to swallow, I would suggest sticking with the library, if...

LOL!!! Excellent, those 2.

Here are mine: Marketing Plans, by Malcolm MacDonald- sooooo boring, but I had to read it for work. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer- I was completely charmed by the main character, a 9-year-old who loses his father on Sept 11. A sad, funny, and very unique...

*mutter grumble mutter* [this is me trying not to use profanity] I'm not convinced, but I'm also mad at JJ Abrams this week. I'll check back in after I watch the next episode of Lost.... LOL

I would love to know how JJ Abrams plans to fit approximately 5000 pages of text into a 2 hour film. But, as a former-hardcore-but definitely-losing-interest Lost fan, I bet he will probably just make an overly long movie centering on all of the storylines that have no actual bearing on the core...

I love Mo Hayder, who is a relatively new author. She has written 2 books (Birdman and The Treatman) that are detective stories. They are quite graphic, so if you don't mind a bit of gore, they are great books.

I watched it on a flight and I loved it! A really charming film.

I just finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and all I can say is WOW. It may have just become my favorite book of all time. I read it once, cried a few tears, then flipped back to the beginning and immediately started all over again. My favorite part: "For eight months I followed...

Great list! That takes me back to my misspent youth...

I completely agree. I tried to read American Psycho a couple of years ago, and it is one of the very few books that I didn't bother to finish. I just couldn't; the excessive stream-of-consciousness may have been fitting for the character, but I came to a point where I just couldn't sit through...