Phantom Leader by Mark Berent
I just started it yesterday, don’t know if I like it yet.
Earlier this week I’d read Mutation, Mortal Fear, & Outbreak by Robin Cook, and (at the suggestion of someone else) Wish You Well by David Baldacci.
I’ve read more books in the past week than I have in the past 5 years, hehe. I decided that since I’m up at night due to insomnia, I may get back into reading. It’s better than watching reruns from the 90s or surfing the web.
I like his books. They’re obviously his first, but Paolini has some great ideas and he sure knows how to make a story interesting. Agh! So many spoilers I could rant about here! Have fun with… trying to figure out who the red dragon on the cover is. 
PS: last month, Paolini announced that he isn’t able to fit everything into the third book and he’s going to extend it into a fourth. 
Yeah I saw the podcast video thingy on the website last night. So I guess it isn’t a trilogy anymore. 
I just finished Angels and demons.
I’m going to start reading The Da Vinci Code soon, does anyone know if the book is better than the movie?
The first two hundred pages of the book are really good times, very fast-paced. It slows down a bit after that, but it is still a really good read. I thought it was clever how he ties in seemingly random events from history into the plot-line. It’s worth reading, in any case.
Uhhh remind me again, whats a book?
Has anyone here read The Road by Cormac McCarthy? It’s about a post-apocalyptic Earth where 90% or so of the human population has been killed. There are no longer any living animals or plants and the remaining humans are hunting and killing each other for food.
The setting throughout the entire book is a long dark road where a boy and his father are walking and trying to avoid random hunters.
I’ve still yet to read it, but can’t wait till I get the chance!
Ok I have a question. I started reading the Odyssey but then I was like, wait a minute, the Illiad comes first. I would think the Illiad is more Interesting, so should I put down the Odyssey and read the Illiad??
Well, I had to read the Odyssey for school and I didn’t have time for the Iliad, but with some basic background knowledge it makes sense. Just know that the main character is coming home from the war after years.
Iliad doesn’t come first, no. 
They’re separate stories. Granted, Iliad happens during the end of the Trojan War, while Odyssey takes place after the end of it, but it’s not like you get spoilers or anything, it’s two completely different stories.
Although I like some of Odysseus’ stories, I must say, the Iliad kicks arse. If I were you, I’d read it first, I love it! 
This isn’t really a story, but I’m reading “Business and Legal Primer for Game Development”.
Wow, you have the patience to actualy read the whole odyssey and the iliad? Hehe i could never do that… Plus it reminds me of school (we did parts of the odyssey and a bit of the iliad a few years ago)
I am currently reading Eragon. Ive already read it once and seen the film (which cannot even be compared to the book) but i want to make sure i havent missed anything. After that im going to read Eldest again (read it once last year), so i can remember exactly what’s happened before the third book comes out 
. Does anyone have any idea when that is?
The odessy and the illiad are books that i would recomend to anyone, they are two of the books that i believe should be read by everyone.
At the moment i am reading, Europe a history.
Its the size of a text book but its worth the read, interesting and informative.
Sadly its true 
nooo! The Odyssey!
Calypso owns all!
so there 
anyway, i’ve read them both and they are both awesome, but i like The Odyssey better, more fantasy.
Also, although they are two seperate stories, doesn’t the Odyssey basically pick up where the Iliad leaves off, at the destruction of Troy? Anyway, that doesn’t matter
hell, read them both… but Calypso pwns all
The Odyssey starts pretty much after the Trojan war and its mostly about the trip back to Ithaca (I read the whole book recently in English class…The cyclopes is just freaky in the movie).
Christopher Paolini (author of Eragon/Eldest) announced on his website that he was going to have to put the trilogy into four books instead of three. I’m reading Eldest right now because I completely forgot about the second book, I was anxious to get it when I read Eragon but I forgot all about in the two years in between.
but I like the realism more. Which is better a typical story about one charcter trying to save father/princess/whatever. or a story about a huge war with plenty of characters.
Oh yeah about the wheel of time (omg there is 12 books?!?!?!?, he can’t prolong the final battle that long) Robert Jordan’s widow has picked an author for the series.
haha
to say the Odyssey is a typical story is a bold claim.
The Odyssey isn’t about trying to save a princess. It’s about Odysseus at the end of the Trojan war, who claims he doesn’t need the god. This angers Posiden, who vows that Odysseus will never return to his home until he takes it back, or dies.
Thus begins the epic of TYhe Odyssey, which takes Odysseus all around the world (or the world according to the greeks), and literally to hell and back
it’s facinating.
I thought that the reason that Posiden was angry with Odysseus was that he and his men stabbed his son in the eye (a.k.a. the cyclops)