Robyn wrote: "Well I am not suggesting another since everyone vomited at my suggestion - personally enjoyed the last two Dan Browns but then I subscribe to the conspiracy theory :)

Nevertheless my next books ..."

I read the 19th wife.The history aspect was interesting.

Hello!...I didn't push post on that!

Anyway...as I started to say....THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGRON TATTOO is pretty good (if you can stomach the sexual violence and stuff)...but I think that the sequel...THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE really cements the story of Lisabeth Salander, who is the main protagonist and rather strange in many ways. It explains her past and is a strong story with regard to corruption at the highest levels of Swedish society. And a few "chilling" characters really push this novel into a page turner!

Robyn wrote: ...
Nevertheless my next books ..."

Robyn,

Well I am not suggesting another since everyone vomited at my suggestion - personally enjoyed the last two Dan Browns but then I subscribe to the conspiracy theory :)

Nevertheless my next books to arrive (fresh from Amazon) will be:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Body of Evidence

The 19th Wife

Bones to Ashes

As has been proven by many a "book club" where discussion on the book ran for 10 minutes and neighborhood gossip (and plentiful food and booze) ran for 3 hours...

I think everyone likes talking about books more than reading them...

Mine also.

OUTLIERS (FOLIE ADIEU!)
definitely 'outside my normal experience'

How about OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell (a "happening book" with teachers which really is not targeted at them).

How about the Tv Guide

Too long (almost 400 pp.)!

How about LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann???

em..would one of the resident savants just ..PICK A BOOK

What are you, nuts? (Snickers joke.)

's Bar

- oh, wrong thread...

Snicker.

Newengland wrote: "I wonder if Dan Brown's School Days were anything like Tom's?"

It's obvious he didn't pay attention in English class.

I wonder if Dan Brown's School Days were anything like Tom's?

Yep Ruth....we're on the same wavelength...yours chokes in the throat, mine slimes unpleasantly down! I found the Da Vinci code patronising and improbable......a boy's own ripping yarn!

Anna wrote: "Yipes. Are they that bad? I know I read The Davinci Code. I don't remember it though.

Carol- we're reading a bunch of tales from different times and different countries. This book is great
[bo..."

Anna I think it is in my daughter's bookcase. Ruth that's the way I feel about Tolstoy.heheheheheeh! Heifer dust(shaking head and smiling)

Yipes. Are they that bad? I know I read The Davinci Code. I don't remember it though.

Carol- we're reading a bunch of tales from different times and different countries. This book is great
Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters Heroines in Folktales from Around the World

Ack. I'd rather eat heifer dust with a ground glass chaser than read another Dan Brown.

Anna wrote: "Debbie wrote: "I would rather eat oysters......"

So you're saying you don't like oysters? Or that Dan Brown is the written equivalent of having something slimy and unpleasant run down your thro..."

ooooh I like fairy tales.

Debbie wrote: "I would rather eat oysters......"

So you're saying you don't like oysters? Or that Dan Brown is the written equivalent of having something slimy and unpleasant run down your throat?

Hmm.
I graciously decline a group read this time around. I'm having enough trouble keeping up with the semester as it is. Unless you all want to read fairy tales with me and my class?

Robyn wrote: "I thought the plan was we would read something we haven't already read..?"

I haven't read it. I am a reading illiterated.

I thought the plan was we would read something we haven't already read..?

Since it is the flu season, what about The Plague-Camus. Those filthy rats.

Alright Rob....how about The Book Thief by Markos Zusak.....veerry interesting read.

I read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. It was on the top 100 books you must read before you expire. I could not understand how it made the list.

One who criticises should offer alternative suggestions

I would rather eat oysters......

I'm not a fan of best sellers (only because I'm a curmudgeon who purposely buys the worst sellers).

I'd be a happy camper with that title Rob and like you say, a bit of controversy makes for robust discourse and I love talkin.

Well I was a bit scared to suggest anything around all these erudite literates, but here goes...

What about 'The Lost Symbol', by Dan Brown

hopefully it's new enough that you haven't read it yet, and perhaps controversial enough that we can discuss it?

Sad face..aren't we picking a book.
(lower lip is trembling)

If a YA is picked, reading one is new and brave for me, (apart from Twilight series)

the following are not the most recent by far but I like the look of..
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
Two girls of Gettysburg by Lisa M. Klein
or I'd be happy to revisit any of the classics, To kill a Mockingbird or Catcher or similar??
Open to all suggestions...it'll be fun.

I would need time to source said book

Well, we're all reading all the time anyway. It'd be a matter of agreeing to read ONE book at the same time.

Of course, you need agreement and at least TEN active participants to pull it off...

I vote for a novel.

*beats lurking*

YAY!! (language in keeping with childishness')
Lets do a YA.

Well, books about language aren't exactly SPELLBINDING. Why can't we group read a novel together? Better yet, a YA novel. We're all childish enough...

OOOH!! Can we do one???? pretty puh..leeze???

Thanks, Sym. I have the Shoots but not the Adventure. Will Czech it out, as they say in Prague.

I'm just in the middle of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" now. One of my friends put me on to it a few days ago. Really enjoying it.

Also, if any of you folks are looking for a good read about the evolution and development of the English language I would highly recommend The Adventure of English The Biography of a Language. Fantastic book! I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Maybe I should read that one soon then Kathrynn if you're saying it's funny :)

I got my copy of "Eat, Shoots and Leaves" in the other day and I'm really enjoying it. Funny!

Have put in a library request. I read it several years ago but definitely will need a refresher.

I started it several years ago after hearing good reports. Put it down for some reason or other. Soon it needed to go back to the library, where I took it without a single regret.

Well!
I went to the bookstore today to get The Professor and the Madman.......30 mins later, after much searching on shelves (me) and on computer (bookseller), I left with The Surgeon of Crowthorne which is its original title. I hate it when books are retitled for different markets! Anyway, I have made a start....it looks promising.

I lost the Professor and the Madman (I can't remember whether I mislaid it or gave it away, possibly to the dog).
Damn, I should have suggested the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.