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I'm currently reading The Once and Future King by T.H. White. It's about the life of King Arthur, and it's great. It's written in a friendly, almost conversational style. I'm at the point in the story where Merlyn has just told young Arthur that his education is finished and Merlyn will be leaving him soon. For the last bit of Arthur's education, Merlyn has turned him into a badger. Merlyn is always turning Arthur into something to teach him things.

I started reading an Anne Rice book once, but I lost it before I finished it. sad I enjoyed what I did read, though.

I've seen much dirtier from other authors with no compelling story line to accompany it.

I just finished The Once and Future King. It was great! I think my favorite parts were the parts with Merlyn in them, but it was all really enjoyable and well paced. Now, I've just started reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. I'll let you know what I think.

Wow, it took me a long time to finish David Copperfield. I have had a lot on my plate, though. Anyway, it was excellent! I highly recommend it.

Now I'm reading a book called The Cotter's Son. Apparently, a cotter is like a tenant farmer. That's someone who lives on a farmer's land and, in exchange for lodging, does work on the farm. My grandpa was a farmer who had a tenant farmer. Anyway, the cotter has a son at about the same time that the farmer has a daughter. I think we can all see where this story may be headed. I don't expect it to be very good, actually. My dad read it and gave it to me to read. He wants me to read it because it was written by a Norwegian who came to America, and we are Norwegian-Americans. I'll let you know what I think.

I'm interested in reading that myself. But I'm far too slow to actually comprehend it. I gave up on Paradise Lost. I had no idea what the f was going on...;__;

Now that I've finished the bizzare and tormented tale that was When Rabbit Howls, I have started Compulsion. It tells the story of one of Chicago's most notorious murder cases, that of Leopold and Loeb, who faked a kidnapping and murdered a young child just for fun. I'm not very far into it but it is interesting to read the story from a journalist's point of view. He also happened to attend the same school as the boys and was the first reporter to look into the crime.

I suppose I would better understand it if read with a group but it's much more satisfying to read it on one's own and to fully comprehend it at your own pace. Though it also makes it that much more devastating to not get anything out of it. >.>;; I really couldn't handle it.
I would still like to read the Divine Comedy some day. Kind of the same thing, maybe? I don't know. I just want to read the books mentioned in Se7en.

It is pretty interesting. He really gets into their heads. It's like something by Harold Schechter. I love his work because it's so well-researched and he becomes very involved with the characters so it's very realistic.

It is a very good book. A bit disturbing, of course, but very much a fascinating tale. I can't imagine what that must be like, to have so many people within you.

I already know what happens because they mentioned it in Compulsion.. xP

I don't think I should read the summary. Isn't it kind of spoiler-y?
Besides, I understood it better than Paradise Lost. I think I can read that. Once I'm done with this book I may try it. I also have to read some more Eugene O'Neill so perhaps it will take me a bit to get around to Dante.