StillILearn said:
Hi, veggiedog. What'dya read on your free time?
I'm a very picky reader, but have no specific genre I stick to, except I avoid contemporary fiction (I get enough of that in my own life). I'm really not that well-read, considering I'm only a freshman in high school, but I really like intellectual, multi-layered books, as well as books that deal with controversial issues (at least for their setting), such as T
o Kill a Mockingbird or
Fahrenheit 451. My favoirite book of all time in probably
The Catcher in the Rye, but I also loved
Animal Farm and LOTR.
Pride and Prejudice was good too, but Lizzie Bennet was too arrogant a character for me to actually like (I liked Darcy though, for some reason). I'm one of those people who will read a thousand reviews and have at least approx. 20 people I know endorse a book before I attempt to read it. I like both SciFi and Fantasy, but despise rip-offs and books that get so incredibly cheesy that my eyes start to bleed. I'm not so much into mystery or horror anymore, but I used to be (in 7th grade I really loved
The Da Vinci Code). I can't read Romance, it tends to make me nauseous.
I'm taking American Lit in school right now, so I don't have much of a base in classic literature outside of that (last year in 8th grade all we read was
The Pearl by Steinbeck, which I didn't like at all,
Romeo and Juliet, whose characters were kind of emptyheaded, and excerpts of
The Odyssey). I tend to judge books by their covers, I'm ashamed to say, but don't we all? I like books that aren't montrously thick (those sorts of books scare me out of my mind, you have no idea, like
Clarissa), but I suppose that's sort of generalizing. My types of books are hard to describe. I can just hold a book and tell if its for me or not. I have the book-hunting instinct.
On the nonfiction side, I don't read more than necessary for school and research purposes. I just finished eading
Feeakonomics, though, and really liked it.
So, that's me!