MonkeyCatcher

I'm currently building up a database of all the books I own and want - you can view the list here

I have extreme problems with this sort of thing. If the word is difficult to pronounce then I don't try to do so - I memerise how the word looks on the page instead (not the letters, just the way the word looks). That makes it really hard when I am discussing the book with someone because I'm just like "uh.. that guy... the one starting with the m..."

I absolutely loved The Eyre Affair - it was extremely funny, although I'm sure that I missed out on a few of the jokes having never read Jane Eyre. It was just a really fun book to read; I enjoyed it immensely and am looking forward to reading the second in the series.

Birthday: 13 May, 1988 Age: 18 Starsign: Taurus Single/Married/Other? Have been with my boyfriend for 3 years Children? Nope Where do you live? Christchurch, New Zealand Do you work? I'm a high school student, but also work part timeat the local fish 'n' chip shop. Favourite author? Margaret Atwood and Diana Gabaldon Favourite book? Cross Stitch, Oryx and Crake and Life of Pi How did you get here? There was an.. interesting... discussion about this forum on another that I frequent, so I had to check it out for myself

Synopsis: Overall I found this book to be mediocre - I was really liking it up until the end, but it all starting going downhill rather quickly. The character of Tom Sawyer just really annoyed me, and things started getting extremely boring once he arrived on the scene. The big escape that he planned for Jim, which I assumed was intended to be humerous and display both Tom and Huck's naiiveity (as well as display the complete dominance the whites had over the blacks), did nothing but aggravate me and bore me nearly half to death - I found myself skipping pages during this part, a sure sign that I wasn't being entertained at all. It really was a shame that this part had to ruin it for me - up until then I was completely entertained and couldn't put it down. Although the fact that the book was written in the dialect of the time is part of the reason for it being toted as "The Great American Novel", I found it to be irritating - Jim's dialect was extremely hard to understand at times and I found that it really slowed down the reading of what was otherwise an enjoyable novel (up until the end, anyways). So overall I'd give The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a 3/5 and even venture the opinion of mine that Huck Finn is highly overrated. Ground-breaking and enertaining at times, sure, but I wouldn't go so far as to name it "The Great American Novel".

Same as Sofia

September 49. The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody August 48. The World According to Garp by John Irving 4/5 47. Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon 3/5 July 46. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Billy Goldberg and Mark Leyner 3/5 45. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 4/5 44. The Last Juror by John Grisham 3/5 43. A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka 3/5 Unfinished - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 42. Out by Natsuo Kirino 4/5 41. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4/5 40. Magician by Raymond E. Feist 3/5 June 39. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima 4/5 38. The Waste Lands by Stephen King 4/5 37. Night Train by Martin Amis 3/5 36. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 5/5 35. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3/5 34. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd 3/5 May 33. That Was Then, This is Now by S.E Hinton 2/5 32. Lamb by Christopher Moore 3/5 31. The Magician's Guild by Trudi Canavan 4/5 30. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 4/5 29. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith 4/5 28. Wild Swans by Jung Chang 5/5 April 27. Tara Road by Maeve Binchy 4/5 26. Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody 4/5 25. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 5/5 24. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 4/5 23. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 5/5 Unfinished - The Sleeping Father by Matthew Sharpe 22. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanne Clarke 4/5 21. Eragon by Christopher Paolini 4/5 20. Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen 2/5 March 19. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 4/5 18. Running With Scissors by Augusteen Burroughs 4/5 17. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piocult 4/5 16. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett 3/5 15. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover 4/5 February 14. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafasi 2/5 13. Weight by Jeanette Winterson 3/5 12. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 5/5 11. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 5/5 10. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett 4/5 9. Jessica by Bryce Courtenay 3/5 January 8. The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 4/5 7. Lucky by Alice Sebold 1/5 6. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood 5/5 5. The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon 5/5 4. I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty 4/5 3. Small Island by Andrea Levy 4/5 2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S Lewis 4/5 1. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 3/5 KEY: 5 - Unbetterable 4 - Loved it 3 - Liked it 2 - Found it lacking 1 - Utter rot red - Unfinished blue - Currently Reading

The Joy Luck Club by this writer is very good - you may like to check that one out