i got five hundred in twenties and i got a ton a' great ideas

[greenapricot]

I've been feeling rather busy and/or distracted lately. The days seem to be slipping by at an alarming rate and though there's evidence that I've been getting stuff done (like things actually being done) sometimes I'm not quite sure what I've been doing with my time. All I think about is my impending trip and how much I want to be gone now and not

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[ana_grrl]

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown I read half & OMG. *HATE* This book pissed me off more than any book ever has. I did want to know what happened but I just couldn't keep reading, his writing style was like fingernails on a black board. I really hope this isn't at the top because it's supposed to be the best.

I LOATHE this book, and anything else he's written. I tried another one once, when I was in a place severely short of books, and it made me so angry. His writing style is lame, his characters blow, and also, I hate everything about his stuff.

Um. Yeah, apparently I needed to get that off my chest.

Good Omens is fantastic. I liked American Gods too. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is wonderful, it really is, I would recommend it far and wide. Read it next! I adored it. And the Shadow of the Wind - I couldn't put it down.

Cloud Atlas is one of my favourites EVER. Yes!

Life of Pi really is very, very good.

Wasn't Middlesex lovely?

Ok, now I will stop spamming your journal. OMG, books!!

[greenapricot]

I LOATHE this book
This makes me very happy, also that you agree that his writing style is lame. I just don't get the appeal. I think I have become some sort of strange book elitest in the opposite of the way that most people are. I like it that way though.

Good Omens is so much love, and Niel Gaiman in general, really. I shall ad the others to my ever expanding to read list.

I totally loved Middlesex, yes!

Comments involving books will never be spam to me. :D

[greenapricot]

I will read it, maybe I'll bring it on the plane with me. Actually that's a really good idea.

*squints* That's an Empire Records icon, isn't it?

[ccharlotte]

One Hundred Years of Solitude is amazing.

[greenapricot]

I remember liking the smapp bit I'd read. I'll have to find another copy someday.

[longsunday]

you need to read Life of Pi because the style is absorbing, a bit like Kipling, a bit totally not. plus, the end omg. also, The Handmaid's Tale - it's short, & pretty awesome.

i don't understand everyone's OMG HATORZ on Dan Brown because. er. it's aeroplane reading. it's not meant to cause a literature-wide revolution, & for every person saying how much they OMG HATORZ it just pimps it. i've read it, & Angels and Demons, while i was travelling &, yes, he writes like a 14 year old girl but - unless one is highly, devoutley religious - are totally inoffensive. don't read it if you don't want to, but it's published. it's not going to go away. sould give one hope, in fact, because for every Brown and Rice novel published, somewhere a fanfiction fairy gets its wings...

i'm amused by how many Literature Novels i haven't read, despite doing Eng Lit at a-level. it's like a trophy!

[greenapricot]

That makes two votes for Life of Pi and The Handmaid's Tale
*pushes them to top of books to read that I don't currently own list*

sould give one hope, in fact, because for every Brown and Rice novel published, somewhere a fanfiction fairy gets its wings...
True, yes. But I think that's also part of what made me hate it so much. I just kept thinking how I've read so much fic that's a million times better than it. That and the fact that both my brother and his girlfriend who have some of the same favourite books as I loved it. I mean really loved it and thought it had like meaning and stuff. Now that I think about it, if I'd gone into it thinking crappy airplane reading it probably wouldn't have bothered me as much. Methinks fic has made me very picky.

[femmenerd]

Ah, the times I have wished for a musical montage in my own life...

[greenapricot]

It should SO be an option.

[femmenerd]

I also want a theme song like Xena. *g*

[greenapricot]

So, what would your theme song be then?

Oh, I finished Roswell the other night. I really like how it ended, ambiguous in a good way and with a VW bus.