05-30-2002, 10:44 AM | #261 |
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I just started reading "American Gods by Neil Gaiman after it finally hit my country. Eruviel Greenleaf recommended it.
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05-30-2002, 06:21 PM | #262 |
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Just finished Geraldine Harris's Seven Citadels series,very good books but absolute murder to get hold of cos they're out of print.
Currently reading Jean M Auel's latest in the Earth Children's series, entitled "The Shelters Of Stone". I don't know if anyone ever saw the film "Clan Of the Cave Bear" but that is based on the first book in this set.
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05-31-2002, 08:34 AM | #263 |
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I usually only read non fiction. I like Discover magazine, health related stuff, and the occasional cook book (especially if I'm hungry). How to books for whatever project or artistic endeavor I'm working on are good, and I do like biographys cause they are about real people and events. Whenever I look at some fiction or consider a movie I think, nah, I don't want to waste my precious time with somebody's make believe story designed to take me away from my life. Unless they're exceptional, like Tolkien (thank goodness I snuck that in!) you read them, you're done, and the real world's still there waiting for you to do something with it. I miss out on a lot I'm sure. Must come from my dad saying "Do something constructive!" at least once a day for my whole childhood.
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05-31-2002, 11:07 AM | #264 |
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I'm kind of the opposite. I like to read some non-fiction, but I read to escape things, which is why I'm usually found reading in my room, with the doors locked, or with headphones on, so I don't have to listen to the 'real world'.
Only problem with reading is that when I go into a bookstore, I lose track of time, and end up late for things, like I did yesterday (but I got "A Guide to Middle-Earth"!)
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05-31-2002, 03:57 PM | #265 |
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I'm reading the Arabian Nights Entertainments (the 69 most popular tales, unabriged). I love it. I'm also reading War and Peace, but it's kinda hard to get into (those stupid russian names, they're so confusing!).
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05-31-2002, 04:40 PM | #266 | |
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06-01-2002, 02:16 PM | #267 |
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Reading the Skolian Empire series by Catherine Asaro (look for it at the library, it's good) and Winter's Heart, 9th in the WoT. Robert Jordan needs to get the lead out and finish these books!
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06-02-2002, 12:40 AM | #268 | |
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Re: nxdfng
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(By the way, I am an English teacher.)
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06-02-2002, 09:58 AM | #269 |
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English must be a weird subject to teach, so many different aspects to it. I hated English, made a big stink to be removed from gifted english. Now I write for a newspaper! I write like I'm painting a picture though, letting words flow off the brush. I think I developed my style through osmosis. All that reading pays off! I still hate spelling. Thank goodness for dictionaries. Love that edit!
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06-02-2002, 10:12 AM | #270 | |
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06-02-2002, 02:10 PM | #271 |
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Yesterday: Crito - Plato
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06-02-2002, 08:52 PM | #272 | |
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If you had been in my class, perhaps you would have enjoyed English more...at least, I'd like to think so.
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06-02-2002, 10:05 PM | #273 |
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Ah yes, reading a lot is the only way to be a good writer. People say I'm good (don't believe it) and I read all the time. I was that kid that read during recess.
Currently reading "A Guide to Middle Earth". Plan on checking out the trilogy tomorrow.
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06-05-2002, 09:07 PM | #274 | |
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I finally finished Our Mutual Friend. Not the best Dickens, but close to it! Very, very good. I also finished all my C.S.Lewis books, except for Surprised by Joy. That's next on my list--after I finish Les Miserables--which is shaping up to be pretty book, too. I loved the movie version w/ Liam Neeson,
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06-06-2002, 06:35 AM | #275 |
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I'm fixing to read Enchantment by Orsen Scott Card and The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.
Liam Neeson's Jean Valjean was very good, as was Geoffrey Rush's Javert.
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06-06-2002, 03:14 PM | #276 | |
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06-06-2002, 09:41 PM | #277 |
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ah! ah! CHILDREN OF THE EARTH! I knew the next one had come out, but I couldn't remember the name.
::goes into a fit of spasms::
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06-07-2002, 09:15 PM | #278 |
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The Phylosiphical Strangler by Eric Flint
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06-07-2002, 09:20 PM | #279 |
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Tolkiens Letters & Unfinished tales.
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