What are you currently reading?

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  1. Inasuma "pumpkin"

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    - Critique of Pure Reason (Kant); incidentally but not surprisingly the hardest book I've ever read.
    Philosophy has never been harder. o_o

    - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami)
    So explicit, but sooo addicting. In two days I've read 150 pages. Can't. Stop.

    - Reflections on Kurt G. (Hao Wang)
    Very insightful look into Godel's life. <: I never liked Biographies but this one is alright.

    - Amerika (Kafka)
    The only thing you need to know is that the main character left Germany for having a baby with his maid. /end

    EDIT: Forgot some of the books I'm reading in World Lit.
    - Things Falling Apart, Doctor Faustus (already finished it, it's a play) and Antigone, which is also a play. :]
     
  2. childofturin Why?

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    Just finished reading Hunters of Dune, Sandworms of Dune, and Dune: House Atreides, and am now reading Dune: House Harkonnen followed by Dune: House Corrino. After that, I will be reading what I can of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern universe before I go back to college.
     
  3. P E A N U T ~*~Never Surrender~*~

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    Just finished reading a few.

    Kiss (Ted Dekker and Erin Healy). Shauna gets into a car accident with her brother and loses 6 monthes of her memory. With her brother brain damaged, she has no choice but to trust those around her. But they are secretly offering her lies, keeping something hidden from her. A secret from her past, a secret that they tried to kill her because of. What was so important that she could forget? And who else was involved? Shauna tries to answer all these questions as she discovers she has a new ability, and that is stealing people's memories with physical touch. A memory theif, taking others memories but not having the past 6 monthes of her own memories. It's a very interesting story. One of my favorite books of all time now.

    BoneMan's Daughter (Ted Dekker)- A navy father (Ryan) is captured and traumatized by harsh reality during a war. He goes home and tries to redeem himself as a father and husband but fails. But when his daughter is kidnapped by a man titled "BoneMan", for his murders that involve teenage girls and his style of murder (breaking their bones without piercing the skin), he goes to try and save his daughter. All this goes on while the FBI suspects Ryan is the boneman. They hinder his journey several times, but in the end...

    Naw, not gonna say. xP
     
  4. Stardust Chaser

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    I'm reading Battle Royale. However I've temporarily stopped because of school; I'll pick it up again soon.

    && I just finished Battle of the Labyrinth a few weeks ago, from the Percy Jackson series. It's intended for a younger audience than me but the books first came out when I was of the right age to read them, so it really can't be helped... They're good anyway -- just a bit simplistic, and the last one comes out this Tuesday.
     
  5. Fracture Sαlαmαndєr ™

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    This book sounds really good, i think that i might have to go buy i soon....
     
  6. Crumpet In your shadow, I can shine!

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    WAAAH

    I finished Shadow Kiss (third book from Vampire Academy Series)

    It was so sad
     
  7. sorarxs1 Merlin's Housekeeper

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    um im reading Marly and me
    LIfe and love with the worlds worst dog
     
  8. Fracture Sαlαmαndєr ™

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    Isn't that book also a movie? Because i think that i went to see it when it came out, i think........
     
  9. P E A N U T ~*~Never Surrender~*~

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    It is very good. I totally recommend it. =D

    Just started another book today...and finished it within 6 hours of starting. Haha xP

    Chosen (Ted Dekker)- The Forest guard, a force of 10,000 elite fighters, is in a never ending battle against the Horde, which has an army more than 10 times that size. Since the ratio is 10 to 1 in favor of the hord, the leader of the Forest Guard, Thomas Hunter, recruits a few new teens to join. They go out on a mission that quickly evolves into something much more serious. Now the future of the Forest people rests on these four teens.

    It was a very addicting book (as all Ted Dekker books are xD). But if you're going to go out and buy this one, it's part of a series. Look it up for and read the rest of the series first.
     
  10. Kenni-Chan King's Apprentice

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    Truth, Dare, Kiss Promise Series (Number 7):Love Lottery

    Death Note Manga Well actually, I'm sneaking into the store and reading the manga series in the store and after I've read that volume, I leave XD
     
  11. Garxena Hollow Bastion Committee

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    Inkdeath and Eldest. They're both boring right now so it's taking me a while to get through them.
     
  12. kitty_mckechnie I want to hug you like big fuzzy Siberian bear!

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    Of Mice n' Men - need to re-read it for my exam. D:
     
  13. Stardust Chaser

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    UPDATEEEE:

    Finished both Battle Royale and the last Percy Jackson book between May 4th and May 9th.
    Bought and read Higurashi vol. 3 (Watanagashi vol. 1)

    Now I'm working on finishing The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya -- the light novel, I mean. I got close before but loaned it to a friend and didn't finish beforehand =P.
     
  14. Pezz Kingdom Keeper

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    I'm beginning book 11 in "The Wheel of Time" series.
     
  15. Spunk Ransom you're already perfect

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    I'm reading Memoirs of a Geisha at the moment. It's quite fascinating.
     
  16. Sumi suicidé

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    Re-reading Eragon by Chistopher Paolini and Tangerine by Edward Bloor​
     
  17. The Twin My, what a strange duet

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    Started a new book: Contagion by Robin Cook.

    If you like medical drama/crime novels, read some of his stuff.

    I also forgot Life Sentences by Alice Blanchard, which I've also just started. I've been re-reading Contagion, but Life Sentences is brand-spanking new.
     
  18. Animaniagirl Traverse Town Homebody

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    Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (yes that is the real title)
    I just love it! I read it over and over again!

    Dracula
    I love the novel and vampires :D

    Just After Sunset - Stephen King
    I love Stephen King! and this is a great book! He is one of my favourite writer's!
     
  19. Cleopatra King's Apprentice

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    The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, need I say more?
     
  20. Crown Clown Banned

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    Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.