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I just got The Corrections today....and I am SOOO envious of that red version of Jonathan Strange...it's too cool.:cool:

The Iliad...but make sure you don't get the prose version...get the verse translation (try Richard Lattimore's version).

I lay in bed face down to read. I place a good plump pillow under my arms which i fold in front of me. If the book wont stay open, I hold it instead. I think a pillow is a good tool because if you try to read laying face down without one, your arching your back too far back (to me, it hurts). A...

I went for a walk with my mom on Sunday and...wouldn't ya know there was a Barnes and Noble in the area. :D They had a green dot sale so I picked up two of those and one regular priced book. Then today after class I hit up the Salvation Army...again. That's twice in about a week....tisk...

well im pretty new here i just never made one of these threads before... but hey everyone!! its me redglazzies!!! come to join the fun round here!!! nice to see that there are other folks in this world who arent always sitting in front of the boob toob fryin their brains!!:D...

hey Stewart did you get all those Penguin books in collections or you just accumulated them one by one?? Here's my sad collection, for after I ran out room in my two dinky shelves, I stuffed them in cabinets and closets...:D Top two shelves of bookcase 1: Shelves 3 and 4 of...

i go to rock concerts, mosh and pogo and sweat and come home smelling like ass, smoke and incense...gross...crazy...i know...:cool: :cool: :cool:

it was during a statistics class..."we" were learning about independent variables and how to win $300 in a roulette wheel...or something like that.;)

I prefer to use really smooth pens. But for tests, I use lead pencils with the 'click' thing on the side rather than the bottom...its just faster i think...i know, maybe just 2 seconds faster but hey, 2 seconds is 2 seconds!

Went to the Salvation Army yesterday and left the store with a very heavy backpack. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard Until I Find You - John Irving I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley The top two I don't...

I read "Steps" by Kosinski and yeah...some parts gave me the heebie-jeebies...like that part where they beat a certain part of a male's body into a bloody pulp...:eek: :eek: :eek:

When you photocopy 20+ pages of a book just so you could discretely read during a very boring math class. (It looks like I'm reading a class handout when really it's just Animal Farm). :D :D :D :D :D

one i wouldve recommended was Going After Cacciato...a lot of boys i knew from high school loved that book.

i used to just remember the page i was on or try and find the last passage i read when i picked the book up again. now however, i used a bookmark that has pictures of Will Ferrell as the elf in the movie "Elf." The way I saw the bookmark at the store, it was stupid enough for me to think it was...

Statistics in Action by William Lepowsky......don't recommend it. LOL. Also a few books on Immanuel Kant.

Good Omens has sat on my bookshelf for a few months now......when oh when shall i get to it?? grrrrr.....so many books, so little life...:(

I LOOOOOOOOOOOVED Blood Meridian!!!!!!!! OMG I remember reading it like at 2 a.m. in my living room with just my dinky little book light and reading the passages when they went scattering out in the desert early in the book just made feel...i dunno parched and kinda depressed. i kept picturing a...

i picked up Haunted and Choke last month...now im just wondering when im gonna get to them...cant wait.:D

hehe...i've been wanting to read A Prayer for Owen Meany, so that's my pick.:)

cant wait too see sicko. if theres one thing he does that no one can look at him wrongly for doing, its making people talk about important issues.