The Book Review Thread

I've been reading a ton of Douglas Coupland novels lately. He's a Canadian author and he's fantastic! I've read a few of his books and they're all been great.

So far I've read jPod, Microserfs, Girlfriend in a Coma, and will be starting on Hey Nostradamus! tonight.

If you like intelligent, geeky and humourous books you should defintely check him out. Everyone I know who's read his books has never read just one.

I just finished reading 'A Quiet Belief In Angels' by JR Ellory, I really enjoyed it.

I have now started reading Atonement, has anybody seen the new film out for it?

Wicked Lovely is a book about a world where fairies know ans fey exisit. And they are not that nice. Aisliin sees the fey. She shouldn't. Know the high ones are after Aislinn. SHe has to find out why and stop them before it's to late. Be fore they take verything from her her sight, her grams, her Seth,. A story about evil faries, mortal love, clash of seasons. And either ways Aislinn's life and Moratlity will ever be the same.

My favourite books is Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, The Master and Margarita and Sister Carrie.
My favorite writers: Theodore Dreiser, Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Akunin, Leonid Kaganov. I really like the books of these writers.

Now I read the book "On the settlement." She wrote Leonid Kaganov.

I just finished the Count of Monte Cristo last night! And man is it awesome. If you've seen the movie it's about this guy, Edmond Dantes who is falsely accused of Bonapartism during the time when Bonaparte has been exiled and King Louis is back on the throne. So he's thrown in the Chateau d'If for....14 years (because he committed treason) I think and swears revenge on those who put him there. the movie is more about long lost love (because he's torn away from his fiance Mercedes *sniffle*) but the book has more emphasis on his totally awesome revenging. Seriously, he utterly destroys them, it's so clever what he does that I want to read it again later to get a better grasp of the characters and the story. there's a lot of people involved and they're all awesomely interwoven.

I really recommend it, it was so cool.

I'm now starting Pride and Prejudice.

Also, if anyone has heard of Wicked and Son of a Witch by Gregory Macguire, I highly recommend giving them a go. It's set as a prequel to the wizard of oz which you would think is a bad idea but he pulls it off brilliantly. His books have a really melancholic, shocking tone to them so they're not particuarly happy reading but they're amazing. the first one (Wicked) follows Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West - Macguire created her name from the initials of the author of the Wizard of Oz - L. Frank. Baum) as she grows up. Macguire creates a complete political situation in Oz where the Wizard is a tyrannical ruler who is slowly removing the rights of Animals (animals who are sentient and can talk). Elphaba becomes a complete social outcast because she is a supporter of Animal Rights and joins a fairly...violent pro-rights group and joins an underworld as Animals become less and less popular and more and more dangerous to be around. Anyway, it's amazing and shocking and does a brilliant job of looking at revelent social problems in a popular, fantasy world.

Read them!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mary @ Jan 17 2007, 09:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

That one is on my list... You didn't like it?

Potty, my hubby loves the count of monte cristo!

That's cos it's awesome Snowy!

Also, I gave up on Handmaids Tale too. I'm not quite sure why but I THINK it's cos it totally weirded me out and I decided there were ones I'd like more. But that was back in High School so maybe my tastes have since changed and it's not how I remember it.

PS Pride and Prejudice is coming along nicely. It's actually a bit funny.

This book I read, I absolutely feel in love with. It's a great book, in my opinion, to help get a person through a rough time. The title is called The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls. It goes back to when she was a little girl. She talks about her childhood and boy, let me say her childhood was rough. She had many struggles for her age at the time. The book is about her and her family the struggles that they as, well went through. The confusion Walls was bestowed. I don't want to give much away. It is such an incredible book that really took over my emotions. I would highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone.

From the beginning I like to read and watch films based on science fiction and so my favorite book is The Inheritance, by Christopher Stires.

The Inheritance is a quick, exciting read. Its less than 200 pages can be polished off in a single enjoyable sitting. It scores full points for mysteriousness, tenseness, and believable unbelievability. Stires takes his protagonist on an enticingly entertaining yet emotional rollercoaster ride of curiosity, disappointment, disbelief, sarcasm, and need – love and need, hate and need, rage and need, and justice and need. Just about any read can readily identify with this protagonist; if not directly with the individual, certainly with his decision-making.

1. Fallen by Lauren Kate - I LOOOOOVE IT SO MUCH! A very exciting book with much of interesting descriptive content.

2. Everlasting by Alyson Noel - Such a nice story! Dark romance

3. Blue Moon by Alyson Noel (the sequel) - It was good but Everlasting was wayyy better

Love Fallen also, have you read the sequel? I haven't yet but cant wait too.

Has anyone read the House of Night series by P.C. Cast?

No, I haven't read the sequel. I'm still looking for the second book...ahhh i can't find it.

They have the sequel at walmart. I dont know where you are but walmart seems to be everywhere lol. Amazon sometimes has them at a better price than you can find in a store. There are just so many books out right now I want to read and can not find the time to read em all.

I live in Greece so there is no Walmart here. Thanks for your help. I'll check in Amazon

I just finished the "City of Ashes". It's the second book of The Mortal Instruments series. One word...EPIC! And "City of Bones" is epic too <3

I can recommend anything by Margaret Atwood, she is an amazing novelist who deserves all the success and plaudits she has recieved. Her character creation is unequalled and I always come away from one of her books feeling like I really know the people and places in it and I find myself thinking about them weeks after finishing the book. If you haven't read any of her work before i would recommend Cat's Eye as a good entry point - a truly realistic and wrenching portrayal of childhood and its effects in later life.

I just finished the first book of the Vampire Diaries series. At first, it was a bit...boring...but it turnt out to be kinda thrilling!

I am reading The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse and it is very intriguing. I love her previous books - Labyrinth and Sepulchre.

City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare. The best book of TMI ^.^