I like to read a lot as well but it's very intermittent at times. I still have 2 books I need to finish from like forever ago hahaha...but my favorite books that I have read in the past year are as follows...

Absolute Brightness by James Lecense
It's a story about this girl who works in her moms salon out of their home and they one day they her distant teenaged cousin get dropped at the house and they suddenly have to watch over him when he disappears months later. I can't say too much without giving it away.

Poison Apples by Lily Archer
This book is HILARIOUS! This story follows Alice Bingley-Beckerman, Reena Paruchuri, and Molly Miller as they cross paths with each other at a boarding school. At first they don't like each other, making snap judgments but then when they realize they all happen to have something very particular in common, they form a close bond and make up plans to help each other get out of the "situations" at home when they return. If you like comedic writing, please pick this book up, I couldn't stop laughing at some parts. It also ends on kind of a cliffhanger that could possibly leave it open for a sequel which I've been waiting for since forever!


Also, the Gossip Girl series is actually pretty good too. I read some books that my friend had and it makes the TV show look like child's play.

Fifty Shades of Grey is seriously just porn in print. My mom reads the series. I flipped open the book one day and I read something about anal beads hahaha

I read "Atlas Shrugged" a while back and it was pretty good. It's just a shame how thoroughly misinterpreted she is by modern conservatives. I haven't read Anthem though. I'll have to give it a shot sometime.

Some that I like include:

"Snow Wolf" by Glenn Meade

Basically, it revolves around an undercover plot between the Americans and the Russians to assassinate Hitler, and while that's nothing entirely new (it probably conjures images of Project Valkyrie, but I assure it's a thousand times better), the characters, the story and how it all plays out are very well written.

"The Branch Will Not Break" by James Wright

If you like poetry, this may or may not be up your alley. It's post-modern without all of the "this guy was clearly on LSD when he wrote this" vibes. It's basically about normal every day experiences. It's not as dramatic as Sylvia Plath, but I always seem to find a little bit of myself in everything he writes. Maybe it's because I'm from the midwest and the collection has a decidedly "middle America" feel to it. But the words that he uses and the way that he puts them together are absolutely fantastic to me.

I find the synopsis you posted about I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream to be very interesting.

As for Fifty Shades of Grey, while the book is based around the sexual exploration of S&M, it's really only Americans who make a big deal about it, because here in the U.S., sex is still a big deal.

I'm not much of a reader but this one book really made me think about things.

The Stranger - By Albert Camus

The Stanger is a Philosophical Novel with themes of Existentialism and mostly Absurdism.

The plot focuses on Meursault, an Algerian who seemingly irrationally kills an Arab man whom he recognises in French Algiers.

The Story is divided into two parts: Meursault's first person narrative view before and after the murder.

Also, I'm kind of interested in reading Fifty Shades of Grey.

I've heard of this Fifty shades of Grey book. Heard it gave one of my sisters friends an orgasm or something. I'm somewhat interested in it. And I say the only book I've read is Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.

Hmmm.
Duma key
the stand
liseys story
cell
under the dome
insomnia
all by Steven king. The man is brilliant beyond mere words.

Odd Thomas by dean koontz.

I've read Cell, Duma Key, and Under the Dome.

All good books, but Duma Key is definitely the best of three.

I'd like to recommend a book from one King fan to another, it's called The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. It was actually the first novel I ever read. It's pretty small, but it wreaks of Stephen King's greatness.

Dead Space: Martyr - Written by B.K. Evenson.

A prequel to Dead Space (2 centuries before the events of the game). In a future where Earth's resources are nearing exhaustion, a team of scientists discover a mysterious alien artifact underneath the Earth's crust. They attempt to study the artifact, but the artifact brings with it a terrible alien species. It brings madness and death.

I could give you a better synopsis for I Have No Mouth and Must Scream, I wrote that at like... eleven at night while fighting the urge not to sleep yet. That is if you want to.

I also forgot to add that I enjoy reading the Crucible, which I found out I'm re-reading again in my one writing class. And Carrie, which is my only favorite Stephen King book.

I haven't read a lot of books. I usually read the ones that school forces me to read(well, sometimes). It's funny because I love to read. I have no problem reading, but I usually choose not to. Maybe it's the books they always force me to read for their shitty projects or something. Fuck you. I read what I want.

Books I've completed and enjoyed:

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Waaaaaaaaaay different than the movie adaptation. It's crazy violent and all around crazy to read.

The Lost World by Michael Crichton. Again, same as above.

Harry Potter years 1-5 by JK Rowling. I stopped reading the Harry Potter series on 5. I was losing interest I guess, but I've seen all of the movies, heh. Year 2 is my favorite and always will be my favorite. I've also read year 1 at least 5-6 times? Somewhere around there.

I like reading comic books more or comic collections.

Calvin and Hobbes, bitches!

If you can make the book sound even better than how it already sounds, shoot.

For some reason, I've always avoided reading Carrie. I guess it's because when it comes to telekinesis, I'm very stubborn with liking anyone other than Phoenix, Legion, and Apocalypse of the X-Men comics.

I don't really enjoy reading that much. I have a good imagination, can read and understand books very well, but just don't like to read. However there were a few books here and there that were not too bad. I can only remember two at the moment. If I remember more I will post them.

"Holes" by Louis Sachar.
This was one of my favorite books when I was younger. Great story. I even thought that the movie followed the story pretty well. I'm sure most of you have read it, so I won't go into much detail.

"The Republic" by Plato.
This is a philosophy text written by Plato in regards to his ideas and the dialogue of Socrates in 380 BC. Obvisouly most of the things that you read will be translations, unless you can read greek scripture. This is actually a very good read in my opinion if you are into philosophy. There are actually many other books that borrow ideas from the republic. Sigmund Freud borrowed the idea of the 3 parts of the human soul from here when he was creating his ideas about the Id, Ego, and Superego. Hell, the Matrix even borrowed ideas from this book. Even if you are not completely into philosophy, it is still worth a gander.

Calvin and Hobbes is AWESOME. I had every book at one point. Loved those. I think that I only have about four or five left unfortunately. moving around sucks.

If you like Michael Crichton, "A Case of Need," "Rising Sun," and "Sphere" are all really good. The latter two are FAR better than the movies that they inspired, and I actually liked the movie version of Rising Sun.

I remember reading that book in 7th grade. I actually think about it every now and then.

Poor kid.

I think there might be a sequel to it as well...

I just want to go on record to say no one with any intelligence whatsoever would want to read fifty shades of Grey. Firstly, It's a Twilight Fanfiction. And we all know Twilight is possibly the worst modern fiction there is. It's amateurish, sexist junk.
Secondly, Fifty Shades of Grey is basically just a middle aged housewives guess at what a BDSM dynamic might be like. It's a fantasy, and an incredibly inaccurate one at that. Young women reading this and thinking it's an accurate representation of a BDSM based relationship dynamic will be very very dissapointed. It's bad fucking news.

Easy,
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is an amazing story fusing modern symbology with ancient rumors and secrets in the ultimate quest or justice, escaping the law, and the Holy Grail.

Recently, I've only been reading novels that are based on a comic series or videogame.

I highly recommend the 'Resident Evil' novels that were written by S.D. Perry. They were all well-written and stayed true to the videogame storyline. I believe they are currently out-of-print but I'm sure you'll be able to find it somewhere online.

In addition, I'm currently in the middle of the reading all X-Men novel that were ever released. Thus far, I've read "The Legacy Quest" trilogy which was AMAZING.

I am now reading the "The Chaos Engine" trilogy which is a completely new take on the X-Men Universe. Every book has a main villian who takes control of the 'cosmic cube' which basically allows the pocessor to create (or mirror *wink wink*) a world they wish to have. The main villians for each book includes Dr. Doom, Magneto, and Red Skull (which I'm currently reading).

I have no mouth but I must scream is a short story. Not a book in and of itself. Though it is part of a collection.

I rarely read viction. 63% of what I read is history, 6% is philosophy, 30% is Folkolore (a kind of fiction, I suppose) and the last 1% is modern fiction. But since that's what everyone here seems to enjoy, I'll give my two cents on the little bit of fiction I read.

My all time favorite fiction piece is one that I think everyone everywhere should read; "The Great Gatsby". I freaking loved that book, finishing it was like finishing a great video game; such a rush.

The most disappointing book I ever read was "A Farewell to Arms." Now I'm no stranger to dry books; I was forced to read "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Things Fall Apart." But let me tell you, for a surly drunk Hemmingway can sure write within the lines. That book was little else than a man who kinda falls in love with a woman, gets separated, returns, runs off to Switzerland, marries her, concieves a child, finally decides he loves her, she dies, he doesn't know if he loves his child, the end. Not worth the time.

Then, two books I always find myself hounded to read are two books I put down out of disgust; "The Cather in the Rye" and "Angelus Ashes." I started both of those books and became so disgusted and enraged by the main characters, I had to stop.

Finally, the four books I always find myself defending are "Frankenstein","The Jungle," "The Iliad", and "The Odyssey." I read those books by myself, and they were fantastice. So, I convinced my 12th grade English teacher to let us read "The Iliad" and "Frankenstein"; big mistake. Everyone whined, made faces, complained it was too long, they complained about the writing style, and I was just pissed the entire time. Then, my history teacher told us all to read "The Jungle", again people (mainly girls) whined, complained that it was sad, and that it was disgusting. In fact, the complaints about it being disgusting came so regularly, that I had a little fun with it; I brought Summer Sausage to eat in class and soon after my teacher started to eat hot dogs in class; it pissed a lot of people off.

I love The Dark Tower Series. Great books, every other book by Stephen King ties into them in some way.

I really would like to read the Dark Tower series, but I told myself I wouldn't until I read most of King's books.

The crazy thing is, some of King's books I'm just not into, like Gerald's Game.

Can't believe I forgot this one.

Where the sidewalk ends by Shel Silverstein