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A Walk in the Woods is a quick, entertaining read. Interested to hear your impressions. <font color="white"> I thought it was a good half of a book... the second half was less funny and more preachy </font>

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I found Frankenstein and Dracula to both be interesting reads on late nights. I was in high school though, so I don't know if I would still really enjoy them.

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I read Frankenstein for the first time several years ago, and I thought it was great.

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I found Frankenstein and Dracula to both be interesting reads on late nights. I was in high school though, so I don't know if I would still really enjoy them.

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I read Frankenstein for the first time several years ago, and I thought it was great.

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yeah, frankenstein isn't a high school age only book.

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I am finishing up Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. I just got into Kerouac, finishing On the Road about two weeks ago. In between I also read The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. Easily the most reading I've done. After Bums I'm going to read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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Invisible Man is pretty fun. Frankenstein is a pretty well-regarded book. Dracula's writing is often criticized, and it can feel a bit slow.

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Dharma Bums

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You can't fall off a mountain...

My favorite JK book.

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A Walk in the Woods is a quick, entertaining read. Interested to hear your impressions. <font color="white"> I thought it was a good half of a book... the second half was less funny and more preachy </font>

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I agree. I recently bought another Bryson book, because I really enjoy his writing. A Walk in the Woods was a very pleasant read. I also live on the Appalachian Trail so it was fun to read about it.

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I finished To Kill a Mockingbird a couple days ago. I still think too much of it was slow moving, but it picks up really well in the second half. I watched the movie the night I finished the book and thought that Atticus in the movie was way more of a forefront character than in the book. I understand why this was necessary in the movie, and I really liked the change.

I started Perks of Being a Wallflowr yesterday and finished it this morning. It was a really quick read that I enjoyed throughout. There weren't too many downspots. The novel as a whole is a little extreme/unrealistic, but if you take it bit by bit, it's a pretty entertaining novel that is probably worth reading by the older high school crowd.

I'll be starting on Skeleton Crew by Stephen King tonight or sometime this week. Mostly, this is because I want to read "The Mist."

Hope everyone still has their noses in some good books!

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Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke

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I wead the scweenplay of The Life of Bwian last night. It was both wiveting and weally funny. The scwipt is hilarious, even though I had alweady seen it on the big scween.