What are you reading right now?

Just finished The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka a minute ago. I'll start In The Penal Colony next.

 

Kafka is a genious. The metamorphosis is a great story, written very intelligently.

 

How was the metamorphosis? I want to read that...

I just finished Bluebeard by vonnegut last friday...

I am currently looking to get a new library card so I don't have to depend on my fav teachers for books...(our school library sucks)

 

Summer of Love by Lisa Mason <---- FOR FUN my head needed a breather
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf for a seminar on Woolf
Orlando by Virginia Woolf for a seminar on Woolf
Some Mary Oliver poems for my poetry class
Some short stories for my fiction class

 

I LOVE KAFKA! I've read a lot of his books. Of courese Metamorphisis is great. but I liked "THe Trial" he never finished it so it has an odd ending but its great.

 

I read mrs. Dalloway..I loved it ^_^

 

I am reading some posts at hip forums

 

Bhagavad Gita As It Is

 

Im reading a book I cant find.
LOL
I started reading it.. and misplaced it somewhere in my messy room. The author is Umberto Eco and the book's name is really long is like the queen of.....
it was very interesting.. just read the first chapter.. wish i could find it. I have other books that go next but really want to keep reading that one.

 

The Metamorphosis was okay. If I wasn't already a fan of Kafka I doubt I would like it. It seems very lazely written, and slightly simple. I got the feeling that Kafka didn't actually no how metaphorical and 'deep' his work was, until critics started giving their theories of Existentialism and of the hundred of other interpretations.

The Trial is far, far more better the both The Metamorphosis and In The Penal Colony. The Trial shows the actual maturing of Kafka in his own writing.

I find Kafka slightly overrated, but he's one of my favourite authors nonetheless.

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana.

It looks a very interesting book. Could you give a small plot summary for it, please?

I'm currently finishing In The Penal Colony, but I'll be on Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange after.

 

A clockwork orange is a much better book than movie, you'll enjoy it. ^_^

I'm reading Slapstick by Vonnegut

 

A Clockwork Orange is a much better book than movie, you'll enjoy it. ^_^

I'm reading Slapstick by Vonnegut

 

"The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three" By Stephen King

 

A man without a country-vonnegut ^_^

 

I'm currently reading "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. One of the most beautiful and riveting books I've had the pleasure of reading in years. The last book that left me feeling this awe struck was "Life of Pi" by Yan Martell.

 

Nisa: Diary of a !Kung Woman

 

"Existentialism is a Humanism" by John-Paul Sartre.

 

The essential Spike Milligan

 

I just finished Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton for English class. It sucked the big one.

I'm about to start Sometimes a Great Notion by good ol' Ken Kesey. I've been dying to read it for a while, and I just bought it at Barnes & Noble this weekend, so I'm pretty excited to start it.

 

oh man....I blew through that series in no time.....quite a page turner....


well, when I am not studying, im finishing the last 10 or so pages of Orwell's 1984, then I cant decide what to start on next.....(hold on, Ive got quite the stack of books right next to me.....) Im open to suggestions, guys!

what should I read next?

On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Children of Men - PD James
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

I'll be reading all of these eventuall, but cant decide what to read next.....