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I've never understood why education systems the world over have decided to force Of Mice and Men upon an entire generation. (It's not a terrible book), but: 1) At the time of its publishing it wasn't granted many good reviews 2) IT WAS AN EXPERIMENTAL NOVEL - it was an experiment by S. in...

Although tis often interesting to read a book through the lens of existing notions regarding it, with this novel, I reckon its a whole lot more rewarding when you read it in and for itself, ignoring the author. The descriptions were wonderful, and Wilde's wit is in a league off its own. There...

Wikipedia's great and very useful. I was reading somwhere about it, from an economist's POV. I thing he was explaining that as W. was growing it stood more to benefit from a free mode of control. But as it grows bigger and bigger, the possible benefits drop relative to the possible "threats"...

(Argentian born) Alberto Manguel (writes in English, also does translations from French) lives in Canada and is considered a Canadian author. If you like Borges (quite fittingly, considering his birth country), you'd like something like Into the Looking-Glass Woods (non-fictionish). Otherwise...

To follow the dystopian theme it might be interesting to do something like Huxley's Brave New World along with (, wait for it,) Huxley's Island. For a more human condition thing, it could be good to do, for eg. Wiesel's Night, and Primo Levi's (I favour) The Periodic Table. They both treat...

Just wanted to point out that Matheson's "I am legend" has already been a BotM.

After having bottled it up for too long, I finally saw my chance to let it all out. Of course then I read Wabbit's post, and was slightly deflated, for saying most of what I wanted to say, and quite probably clearer than I ever would. But I would like to emphasize (, yes yes, of course I...

I don't think I'll be able to get a hold of this one. Two libraries in my area are ordering it in, and both have a backlog of reserves on it. :(

Is this book worthwhile putting in the effort for? I give a book a fair go before giving up on it, but I've stopped reading after only the third chapter. I just couldn't get into it, and the author had yet to introduce any plot for me to hold onto. Secondly, I was unfortunate enough to take a...

I also loved his logic, whereby anytime one of his superstitions didn't work out, it must be because of a witch.

I loved those little gems in Tom Sawyer that you can't forget - like the scene where Tom's aunt delegates him to paint the fence, and Tom manages to coerce his friends into doing the work by charging them to be allowed to paint.

Like most people, I started off with Mice and Men. Since then I've read a couple of his other books. My favourite would have to be either East of Eden, or maybe one of his shorter works, maybe Cannery Row, or Tortilla Flat. Regarding Of Mice and Men, while I appreciate that it's a good peice...

I've been considering that for a long time - but how do you keep yourself from going over the top?

I thought that this book was absolutely brilliant. spoilerish:

Most (good) books have at least one good quote that you would love to remember. I find that mostly, I just reread the admired line or paragraph, and then just move one, most probably having forgotton it by the book's end. Occasionally I manage to coerce myself into writing the line down on...

I voted for Choke. I read it last year, but wouldn't mind reading it once more. Whilst not as good as Fight Club, its still a great book in its own right. Besides all that, I prefer joining a discussion on Choke than on the next Harry Potter novel.