what I'm reading right now:

"Pride and Prejudice"
this book is a lot of fun. it's hard to wrap my head around the language at times, but I can infer what is being said after reading through things twice.

"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"
not quite as fun as the original--but still pretty entertaining. the original Jane Austen is actually more amusing for me. in spite of the claims to the contrary on the back of this book!

"All Quiet on the Western Front"
this is supposedly the greatest novel about WWI ever written (I'll get to some of the others later)... and while I'm enjoying this book a great deal... I find myself at odds with some of the rather vacant theories being put forth by the narrator! the idea that somehow one generation is intrinsically more trustworthy and honest than another is something that only a foolish and ridiculous young man or women could come up with. even when I was in the midst of puberty and all-knowingness I never once imagined that my generation was somehow wiser and superior to all preceeding generations-- but, this appears to be a fairly common assumption on the part of some young people in every generation.