The Shining is awesome. Absolutley terrifying and way, way scarier than the movie. You know that episode in Friends where Joey puts it in the freezer because it's too scary? SPOT ON. I had to sleep with the damn light on.

It's shit through and through. Also, I think my head's going to explode everytime I've heard someone say,"at least they're reading" in response to Twilight criticism.

Does anybody like strangers in the street touching them? Am I the only person weirded out that this even happens? WTF?!

I have re-read SO MANY books! I just love them too much to leave them on a shelf forever or give them away. I lend! I share the joy.

Start with The Stand or Bag of Bones. The Stand will lead you to The Dark Tower. So many of King's novels allude to the Tower, that I ended up reading it just to understand. The interplay between his books and the layering of his stories is unreal. The character development is so well done, you think about the…

Oz.... sigh.

Nope. Love that book.

I've seen these in Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie, in addition to regular bookstores. They have sales sometimes.

AND that movie is awesome.

You don't re-read?!!

This is so my life.

Also, despite academia's penchant for hating on him, Stephen King is a brilliant writer. I adore him. Especially The Dark Tower series.

LOVE Evelyn Waugh!

I love The Sun Also Rises, it's so tragic.

I have an English degree too, and let me tell you, some of the fun, "trashy" novels are actually well written. Charlaine Harris is okay, but Kelley Armstrong is awesome. If you like supernatural stories, check out her Women of the Otherworld series.

Not me! I have an honours English degree and I bloody loathe Twilight. I read the first book because I considered using it in my honours thesis (I wrote on gender construction in young adult speculative fiction; ended up just comparing Katniss Everdeen and Alanna of Trebond). Two pages in, I was taking notes on her…

Classics I could not for the life of me finish reading during my honours English degree are as follows: The Grapes of Wrath, Jane Eyre, Sons & Lovers, Adam Bede, and Pierre. I read Frankenstein but I hated every minute of it.

I hate acronyms, but OMFG. Wow.

Hell yes. I wouldn't even finish reading it.

I was reading through looking for Buffy comments too. BUFFY FTW!