What Book Should I Read Next?

[All I Ask2003]

ALL the books in the Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging series, by Louise Rennison. SO funny.

[JazzyManda]

Well I just read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, which is the book the musical is based off of. I thought it was pretty good.

Now I'm reading Scarlet Letter (somebody shoot me). It's amazing how long you can talk about a door...

Amanda

[TSE]

Well I just read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, which is the book the musical is based off of. I thought it was pretty good.

I read that last summer and enjoyed it, but thought it was odd how they kept jumping seven years (was it seven?) ahead.  The musical made it seem like 3 days or so!  Though I guess that's what happens, and there were MANY other differences, Boq's identity, Fieryo having a wife, Nessarose having no arms and not bone problems. . . very different.  The musical was so fun and the book was do dark.

[JazzyManda]

Well I just read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, which is the book the musical is based off of. I thought it was pretty good.

I read that last summer and enjoyed it, but thought it was odd how they kept jumping seven years (was it seven?) ahead.  The musical made it seem like 3 days or so!  Though I guess that's what happens, and there were MANY other differences, Boq's identity, Fieryo having a wife, Nessarose having no arms and not bone problems. . . very different.  The musical was so fun and the book was do dark.

yeah, see, I haven't seen the musical yet. It's coming here to St. Louis in November so I hope to see it then. But yeah, from what I hear the musical doesn't use the same details in the book such as Nessarose's having no arms etc.  But I really enjoyed how the author came up with explanations for everything in the movie, like the monkey's wings and the red shoes..

Amanda

[jlmusicchick]

right now i'm re-reading the harry potter series. i'm on the fourth, but i don't think i'll be able to reread the 5th before the 6th book comes out :-P

i've only gotten half way through wicked...i was reading my friend's copy and then we left for college :-P i want to see the musical more than anything though!

[Zloska_of_yy]

some of my favourites:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (silly, funny and shocking)
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (just a wow)
and if you're up for a challenge:
To the Lighthouse or Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (complex, but very rewarding)

[jlmusicchick]

Virginia Woolf is one of my favorite authors!

stream of consciousness isn't so much challenging as it is dull ... it tends to drag on, but i LOVE the way VW uses it to her advantage. To The Lighthouse is amazing, as is A Room Of One's Own.

[Zloska_of_yy]

haven't read A room of one's own yet, but I have read The Waves which began to get boring after a while (or maybe I just didn't understand it well enough). I still have to read Orlando and The Years, but I got a load of books to read before I can begin reading those. And I want to reread some of my old books.......ooooh so many books so little time.