Oh yeah. Hell, he wrote it before Microsoft. It was the seventies. If it was printed, it would have to have been in DOS. Painful...

Oh my god I love this thread

-Animal Farm, George Orwell
-The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
-The Lord of the Flies, William Golding
-1984, George Orwell
-Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
-As I lay dying, William Faulkner
-A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
-To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
-Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
-War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
-One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
-Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
-Persuasion, Jane Austen
-The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
-Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
-Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
-The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
-Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
-The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
-A Walk to Remember, Nicholas Sparks
-The Rescue, Nicholas Sparks
-The red and the black, Stendhal
-The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
-Deception Point, Dan Brown
-Angels and Demos, Dan Brown
-Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare
-Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
-Journey to the center of the earth, Jules Verne
-Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne
-The haunted Palace, Edgar Allan Poe
-The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
etc..

So, Desi...
Have you ever read The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende?

Gets compared to 100 Years of Solitude, and I guess criticized sometimes because of it. My wife likes it a lot though.

Oh, of course I've read that and other books by Isabel! I just forgot to add some books to that list :S
Books are awesome

I dont really read many, the last good one i read was in school a few years ago, called the lovely bones, it was a really good read, written in an unusual way with the narrator, a little girl being dead and looking down on the world she had left behind, watching how her family and her killer carried on their lives.

I'm reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee as a summer reading list thing. It's pretty good. Reminds me, though, of Summer of my German Soldier, which I read for school before it let out. In both books, very little exciting happens, but it still holds your attention. This especially holds true for To Kill a Mockingbird, which focuses more on life as a young girl in the mid 20th century South.

Been a long time since I read that (grade... 9? 8? 10? 43?), but my fondest memory was a friend getting in trouble for saying nigger out loud cuz we were reading it out loud. It's stupid, really, but funny in retrospect. Doesn't make sense to read the book word for word when we're studying it, nope. Nigger is bad, kids.

So whatever, I'll add a few more books that I really like.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

A book about restoring english magic, based around the two characters that the book is named after. It's long (about 800 pages) and uses footnotes pretty often to further out the history of what's going on. It's a very slow read, but it does keep your attention because it builds a fantastic world for itself.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Most people prefer his first book Everything Is Illuminated, but that kinda bored me. This book follows a similar formula but is a lil more gimmicky (I like gimmicks though, read my first post talking about House of Leaves). It has 3 different narrators and is about a kid trying to find the lock that uses the key he was left by his dad, in a post- September 11 world. Very touching stuff.

The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia

A novel I was scared to read because I hate when I think a book uses gimmicks I wanna use. But it was a really good book about heart break. It explores themes like author/character relationships. It's arranged in columns for each character. He even restarts the book half way through. Highly recommended.

I used to read a lot, but work gets in the way now lol, anyway I used to read a lot of Stephen King don't know all the titles in english and I was into poppy z brite too for a while. I just like to go to the library and randomly pick books and see with what I end up , that can suck but can be a good surpise too .

Yeah, I haven't done that though because reading takes so long that I can't afford to do that (both financially and uh... timely??). I used to do that with cds though, but I think I'll try it with books once I plow through the 5 books I need to read now.

I don't really read a lot unless I have to, for school and stuff. But, I enjoy the Harry Potter series. I love Tom Clancy novels so a couple of great ones are Teeth of the Tiger and Rainbow Six. Lord of the Rings is pretty good as well.