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Good Omens
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

I'm reading it right now. It's a good book, full of grammar and comedy.

[Trigger fingers entwined...]

Ooh... I read that book a few weeks ago.
My cousin gave it to me for Christmas. XD
Amazing.
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This week: The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner.

Summary: It's really almost impossible to summarize the plot of this book, as Faulkner uses his trademark stream of consciousness writing style. Basically, the book revolves around three boys and their obsession with their sister, Caddy. It goes deeper to explore the disintegration of the Southern upper class since the Civil War.

Opinion: This book was amazing, though exceedingly hard to understand at first. If one will stick with it and read it till the end, one will come away with a sense of awe toward Faulkner's ability to weave a story.
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[...I knew this was our time.]

I hope this wasn't mentioned in a previous post:

the curious incident of the dog in the night time by Mark Haddon

Yes, the title is supposed to be in lowercase. The narrator and protagonist of the story is Christopher John Francis Boone, an autistic 15-year-old boy. The plot is mainly centered around Christopher's quest to discover the murderer of his neighboor's dog. Haddon cleverly portrays how autistic people process information, and writes in a way that both fascinates the reader and forces him/her to think outside of the box and critically analyze the world. The novel is wonderfully insightful about the problems in our modern society, and it does a superb job of creating empathy in the reader's heart for Christopher.

I'm pretty bad at writing summaries, so here's the link to an excerpt if you want to check it out yourself.

Read Excerpt

Journey to Sorrow's End
by: Wendy & Richard Pini

I finally got my hands on a copy of the Elfquest novel. Within 3 pages I was captivated by the extent of detail and feeling the novelized version brings to the story. I already own the entire Elfquest comic series, so it was just amazing to be able to read a novel and get that extra layer out of the story.

I have to admit it's a little childish as far as my usual reading material, but none the less I am a huge fan of Elfquest and even that can't perturb my feelings about it.

Sorry, but I don't like reading novels. Just mangas. sad

I did read Children of the River by Linda Crew. It's one of the only books I have had some liking for ever in my life. Except when I was little, I loved the Wishbone series. 3nodding

I just started that. ^_^

I just finished reading:

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Vonnegut has again managed to completely entrance me as well as broaden my horizons with his writing. I am constantly amazed at his ability to be such a versatile author and still manage to capture my imagination with each new book I read by him.
This book in particular was absolutely fabulous. I loved how he managed to tie everything together in a fashion that was not only completely random, but also quite apophenic, often purposefully so, but not really. Furthermore his complete and utter disregard for the common trope of the happy ending made for a much more satisfying read.
Of course, none of this is true.

Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller
Right after reading Cat's Cradle, I finished this book; and boy howdy was that something to mess with my head. It's been so long since I've read anything vaguely Christian that taking this book up was strangely akin to reading about aliens... and I'm not even particularly sure they were ramen or varelse. Taking that into account with the overall strange headspace in which I found myself... well it was a different experience for sure.
The thing is, that overall it wasn't a particularly bad book and I highly recommend it to any Christians looking for something edifying to read. However, I feel I've come a long way from not only being Christian, but also being as sheltered as the author seems to be. He constantly mentions how he isn't sheltered and whatnot, but his entire tone in the book made it seem a little like he really still was.
Finally, the thing that greatly annoyed me about this book is that it claims to be a non-religious look at Christian Spirituality. However, not a paragraph goes by without him spurting forth with the very Protestant dialect of Christianese. I feel bad for anyone trying to read this book who isn't Christian. Even knowing what he was talking about, the exclusive language made me feel as if I were not welcome to read it, adding to the overall "I'm reading an anthropological text about cannibal aliens" feeling that plagued me through the majority of the book.

Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik
I must say that I am thrilled with Ms. Novik's ability to keep the entire book feeling very period throughout the entire text. She accomplished this beautifully in the first book of this series (His Majesty's Dragon ) and kept it going for this book.
It all feels as if the main character is actually someone who is living in the early 1800s (or at least to my untrained eye). Either way, her introduction of dragons into this setting is not only fascinating, but challenging as well.
This book is the second in a series and although I did enjoy this one, I feel a little let down by it. Mostly because I fear that she spent too much time concentrating on one part of the story when I would have rather heard more about the end part of the story (there was even one part where she skipped ahead, glossing over some points which I felt would have been quite fascinating to explore). I almost wonder if she was working under deadline, because it almost feels that way toward the end.
Ah well, it was still a wonderful book, and I do enjoy the characters. I look forward to seeing if she can continue it in the next book.

The Old Kingdom Series by Garth Nix are awesome for SciFi/Fantasy readers.
And anything by Tamora Pierce is worth reading.