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I distinctly remember hating The Pearl. I read it so long ago that I'm not really sure what it was about, but I remember hating the ending, and thinking there was no point to the book. Maybe if I read it now I would like it...that happens sometimes. But back in, I suppose it was 7th or 8th...

A Tale of Two Cities -- I actually kind of enjoyed that The Secret Life of Bees-- eh. Bailey's Cafe-- more eh. Night -- pretty good actually. Pride and Prejudice -- gag. I didn't like most of the books we had to read, but there were some good ones occasionally.

It's a curious thing: whenever apes are portrayed as talkative in the movies, their main topic of conversation is vengeance against humanity. ---Monkey See, by Walt Maguire

I completely agree. I thought the exact same thing: this movie felt like a prequel. By the time I felt the characters' personalities had been fully introduced, the movie was over. It was practically all about their backgrounds, which is fine, but for a first movie I felt it was too...well, I...

Sweeney Todd, the entire Harry Potter series, Enchanted, Disney classics like Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast, Finding Nemo, 300, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Repo! The Genetic Opera...haha, this is a very random variety. I pretty much watch everything at least twice.

Read 1984! I can't believe no one's recommended this yet...also, read Animal Farm. George Orwell is amazing. Lord of the Flies is good too. All three of these are very entertaining but they make you think as well.

Hm. I'd have to say I'm a Grazer and a Seeker. I absolutely love bookstores :)

Some fanfiction is amazing--even better than the actual books. Sh, don't tell Jo I said that. Yeah, there's a lot of bad stories, but there are lists out there of the best fanfics in the HP community.

Luna. She's amazing. I hoped she and Harry would get together, but alas, he only goes for the popular girls...

I think this list has good points for a beginning writer, but at the same time it's a bit silly. Sometimes cliches work, depending on how you use them. I just watched a TV show the other day (I know it's not a book, but just hear me out) in which pretty much every character was cliche. There was...

She's writing a political thriller, I believe. Also, she's going to write a Harry Potter encyclopedia, but that might be a while away. I'm pretty sure in an interview she said something like, "Harry's story is over" so an 8th novel seems unlikely, unless it's about his kids or something.

Hm...it'll definitely happen in the future. Everyone (in industrialized countries anyway) will have e-books and printing books on paper will seem wasteful and ridiculous. I'm pretty sure it's inevitable. No, there's not demand for it now, obviously. E-book readers like the Kindle are too...

I read the last Princess Diaries book in one sitting, but I usually read all leisure books at one time anyway. As for tips...I think you should just take the time to do it. Acknowledge that you will be sitting down reading for several hours, and then...do it. You have to be willing to take the...

I'm pretty sure a student spending all day in class and all evening doing homework is not going to have the urge to crack open yet another book. They probably want to relax, and if they do read it's going to be something lighthearted or simple. And on weekends they still won't want to read...

Sitting listlessly on the threadbare couch in his squalid, downtown Baltimore hovel, Dov Montana, a perpetually out-of-work documentary filmmaker, wondered how much his apartment would have rented for in 1970. ---Exec TV by David A. Brensilver AND When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced...

I really want Buffy season 8, but when I went to the bookstore they didn't have the first issue, and I like reading things in order :( I might just order them online.

I think it depends on your child's personality. I'm not a parent but I think I'd pretty much let my kids read whatever they wanted after the age of 10. Before that, books with, say, explicit sex, would be discouraged. Or, rather, I'd just hide them or something. I read several James Patterson...

I second Twilight. Also, Beloved by Toni Morrison was awful. I had to write a report on it so I was forced to read the entire book. It was torture.

I couldn't get into Twilight. The first time I read it it was okay. It was still okay the second time, but it got a bit worse. I tried reading a third and was sick of how bad the writing was. Those books are a feminist's worst nightmare. I guess it's an okay story, I just didn't like it.

I haven't read the entire thread so I don't know if someone already recommended this, but The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a good post-apocalyptic novel. It's about a father and his son and their journey to reach the coast. Practically everyone is dead and of those who aren't, some have formed...