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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world... The Second Coming, Yeats
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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06-01-2005, 09:28 PM | #282 | |
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1984 was made into a movie?!? The horror! So were Farenheit 451 and Animal Farm. Really bad movies. Don't watch them, they're stupid, and barely keep up a pretense of adhering to the books.
I'm about half way through Catch 22, by Joseph Heller, if anyone's read that. Apparently I'm going to have to read it again as a senior in high school... but it's so good, I just can't stop. Unfortunately, I lost my Dad's copy. An aquaintance of mine found it, but they didn't know it was mine and gave it to the school library. Which is closed for the year. My dad's pretty angry, but I'm more worried about the book's ending! Quote:
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06-01-2005, 10:40 PM | #283 | |
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We've been cramming at the end of the year now. Somehow our class got a few weeks behind. Hence the read-fifteen-chapters-in-a-few-days which I don't mind at all (but most of my classmates do). Things Fall Apart is one of the summer reading books for next year's class. Did I like Tess/Hardy? Well...It was good writing. I don't agree with all of Hardy's opinions/things he was pushing/critique. Some of it, though, yes (Victorian Christian morality was too harsh or hypocritical sometimes. Just look at Angel. He had rejected his brothers' and father's Victorian Christianity but was obviously still influenced by it. It said that it's ok for a man to sleep around with whoever he pleases but every woman is expected to be a virgin at her marriage. Secondly, the artisan who went around painting "Thy damnation slumbereth not" and such was too harsh. Yes. Thy damnation slumbereth not. But where is the Christian love? I also wouldn't go as far as Hardy to say that this harsh Christian morality was the entire cause of Tess's downfall and that she was a sacrifice to this morality. Clever bit with Stonehenge tho.) I actually didn't find it too depressing. The end was a little melodromatic/soap-opera-ish with _____'s murder however. I haven't read any other Hardy to be able to compare.
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06-08-2005, 09:40 PM | #284 |
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I've read Hardy's Jude the Obscure, and it was more muddled in it's preaching but with a rather melodramatic ending.
Right now I'm reading L. Sprague de Camp's Least Darkness Fall, a classic transmited-through-time book. It's very good, with the hero trying to bring 20th century influences to late-era Rome. The social background is really cool, with the religeous bickering particulary entertaining. Next up is Catch-22. My brother just lent it to me, and he is very enthusiastic about it. He said it is very good and funny and is lending it to everyone. This is high praise you should all take his word for it. |
06-09-2005, 04:26 PM | #285 |
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Because of sun-star's mention of it I am now 100 pages into The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.
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06-09-2005, 04:31 PM | #286 |
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Cool, but you know I'll feel all responsible now if you hate it
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
06-09-2005, 04:34 PM | #287 |
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i prefer lawrence to hardy, and as such, am currently readin the
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06-09-2005, 10:40 PM | #288 |
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So far I prefer it to Tess. But I'm only up to the point where the Mayor gets mad at his 2nd in command (what's the guys name? something Scottish?) briefly for being thought of better than the mayor himself. If you recall that.... It's soon after they get married, or rather re-married. And right after Mrs. Susan's set-up meeting of 2nd in command and Elizabeth Jane (I do remember her name!)
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06-14-2005, 06:55 AM | #289 |
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OK, I posted this already in another thread, but I think I goofed (put it in the wrong spot).
Richard Bach's "Illusions" (also wrote Jonathan Livingston Seagull). Excellent book!
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06-15-2005, 02:56 AM | #290 |
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I'm currently rereading the Silmarillion; plus, I've picked up The Works of John Keats. Good poetry!
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06-15-2005, 08:30 AM | #291 |
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i read a book called holes, interesting twist at the end, i think
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06-15-2005, 09:32 AM | #292 |
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Just picked up Ireland (Delaney). Looks to be really cool, if a bit long.
Just finished 1776 (McCullough) and Blink (Uh... Malcolm Somebody). Both Fantastic (capital 'F')!
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06-15-2005, 10:54 PM | #293 | |
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Rosie--I was just at a book store and looked at 1776. Is it a good read? Currently starting "Love and Freindship" and "A History of England..." by Jane Austen. That is...a teenage Jane Austen.
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06-16-2005, 04:06 PM | #294 | |
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06-17-2005, 08:04 PM | #295 |
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I am currently reading The Keys to the Kingdom.
PLEASE GO TO MY THREAD IF YOU HAVE READ IT!
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06-17-2005, 10:10 PM | #296 |
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I have now finished the Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy. I thoroughly enjoyed it, appropriately teared up at the end, and am now in need of a "Thomas Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge: Themes, Symbolism, Etc., That You are to Lazy to Think About for Yourself".
I've just read Jane Austen's "Love and Freindship," "Lesley Castle," and "History of England...". They were written when she was a teenager, are humorous, and show a ready wit.
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06-22-2005, 09:33 AM | #297 | |
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It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year! |
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06-26-2005, 02:15 PM | #298 |
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My virtuous summer reading: War and Peace. Wish me luck!
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06-27-2005, 04:29 AM | #299 |
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I've just finished 'Life of Pi', by Yann Martel. It was a good book, with an unexpected ending. An ending that makes you want to read the book once again. Recommended.
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06-27-2005, 11:41 AM | #300 |
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Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Aristotles - The Nicean Ethics (or similar) R. Scott Bakker - The Darkness That Comes Before
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