This collection? http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Sherlock-Holmes-Novels-Stories/dp/0553328255/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355805834&sr=1-1&keywords=sherlock+holmes+complete+collection If so, I have the same one
I actually read them both and quite liked them both in honesty as long as you just take them as sci-fi and ignore who wrote them.
Inferno is an epic poem but there are some decent prose translations out there if you would prefer that. I think Sinclair's is available for the Kindle app. Going purely on length, I got through Inferno much faster than The Odyssey and the Illiad. Never read all of Beowulf I am sorry to say. Just the snippets I had to read for my Early Midieval Britain course. Julius Caesar, well if you like Shakespeare, there is always that one. Personally, of that list, I would still go with Inferno. Gives you more to focus on writing a good essay than on reading. It is fairly interesting, but also pick a translation with good annotations as I am sure you will need to talk about the people Dante writes as being in hell. That maybe the one drawback of Inferno as he makes a lot of references that a 14th century audience would've picked up on, but not so much now...
I've always loved Enders Game and Enders Shadow. The Jason Bourne series was also one of my favorites. Currently, I'm reading the Divergent books.
Dante is an interesting read to be sure. His Inferno is far more entertaining than Paradiso and Purgatory, when you get to those books it's obvious he was on shrooms or something. Finished The Firm and almost done with A Time to Kill, both by John Grisham. Anyone looking for some very entertaining legal thrillers would do well to read his stuff.
read the hobbit in one sitting yesterday I was expecting to really struggle with it but it was quite an easy read. Probably wouldn't have if I hadn't of seen the film recently and wanted to know what happens. Was surprised the film only lasted up until about page 90 or so and added a lot in simply to fill more space, bit of a con making that into 3 films.
Read them all when I was a kid I think it was school related with Cs Lewis being from Belfast but I did enjoy them. I'm actually loving the series I just started reading, the farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb. It reminds me a lot of Games of thrones but with it being from a single characters perspective it's so much easier to follow. I've a feeling that when I finish it I'll start looking at her other books.
Same here. I used to love reading, then i got to high school Now, I only read comics or news articles really. And school textbooks on occasion. I wish I could get back into reading.
I just clicked your name and found all the threads started by you. I'm pretty sure the only reason I read books was for LA since we had to write book reports. Since I forgot what I had read, I had to google the books. This is because I read 10-20 books in the period of a month and had been doing a ton of book reports for a few and I guess I ended up forgetting about them all
