Books, CAN YOU READ?! Options

[Dr Strum]

This thread is for discussion of books. Books you're reading, books you've read, books you're interested in, etc.
--Tom Clancy is lame--


But anyways. I'm currently reading Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It's interesting, but I'm having difficulty getting into it, partially because of school, and partially because the month before I started it, I had just finished the Dark Tower series.

[Rhiannon]

I READ SOME DRAGONLANCE STUFF ASAPH I JUST ODN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING EXCEPT MAYBE A NAME OR TWO.

Just finished Memoirs of a Geisha. I'm sad now. This is the type of story that should have a happy ending, but I'm so sad now.

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «

I'm sad about three things.
1. Pumpkin and Sayuri never made up! How sad.

2. The Chairman died! After all that sadness they threw at you to get him and Sayuri together, it all ends. :( But I guess that was necessary for the book to get its point across.

3. I was more sad about this than anything else. It's like the author WANTED you to get ultra sad, seriously. Before the end, you never really saw the Chairman show much affection to Sayuri, except for one or two moments of brief kindness.

Nobu, on the other hand... it was obvious that he liked her a lot. And in the end he is left with nothing, except maybe some unpleasant thoughts about how he was wrong. HOW MEAN OF THEM TO SHOW YOU A GROWING RELATIONSHIP, NO MATTER HOW ONE-SIDED IT MAY BE, AND THEN THROW IT AWAY FOR SOMETHING ELSE.

Now, you all have to do me a favor. See, I have this pile of books next to my bed that I should be reading. You have to help me decide what to read next.

• Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
  I know the author is good, and it sounds sort of interesting.
• Ulysses by James Joyce
  I heard it was massive. In pages AND vocabulary. So massive that it was banned for being "unreadable." I just HAD to buy it. But it's so weird. I'm not used to my books forcing me to look at a dictionary every two seconds, and I'm not used to my books not using quotation marks... It wont be easy, that's all I can tell myself.
• Lucky by Alice Sebold
  I don't know. I shouldn't have bought this. Not yet, at least. I bought it because of the author, because I read The Lovely Bones. But I still haven't decided if I liked The Lovely Bones or not, even though it's been like years since I read it. WHAT SHOULD I DO?!
• Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
  I don't know. My reasons for wanting to read this are as follows: the author is that one guy.
• The Beak of the Finch by Jonathon Weiner
  I'm supposed to be reading this so I can tell homeschool people that I read it and that I'm smart, but it looks so... non-fiction. And boring. I don't want to read it, but I should. What should I do?
• Dune by Frank Herbert
  JUST TELL ME WHY I SHOULDN'T READ IT. I LIKE THOSE SAND WORMS AND THAT SPICE AND THE CARRYALLS AND THE--Yeah, I shouldn't have bought this.

There were a couple of other books, but I don't have any reason to read them. Make up my mind for me. Pretty please?