09-12-2005, 05:17 PM | #461 |
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Re-Reading The Two Towers, and Great Expectations by Dickens, the latter of which is excruciatingly dull
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09-12-2005, 05:39 PM | #462 |
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that was certainly never my favorite Dickens book *yawn* altho I like many of his others.
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09-12-2005, 06:25 PM | #463 |
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Finished Jane Eyre, an excellent book! And it isnt as Y as some people have laughed about either!
Reading Virgil's The Aeneid, in book III. (Rian, you wimp! GE is my favorite!)
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09-12-2005, 07:22 PM | #464 |
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The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
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09-12-2005, 10:31 PM | #465 |
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Just started Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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09-13-2005, 06:13 PM | #466 | |
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Now in Book V of The Aeneid...
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09-13-2005, 07:09 PM | #467 | |
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I'm not reading anyhting at the moment. Picked up Seinlanguage (Jerry Seinfeld) a while back, though. Funny as all get out!
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09-13-2005, 11:03 PM | #468 |
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Oh congratulations on Jane Eyre, hb.
This guy in my AP English class thinks Jane Eyre is one of the best books ever. He's a very guy-y guy too. Plays soccer, basketball,...umm..., oh yes. French horn. And sings tenor pretty well in chorus. He also really likes Tolkien...and has read everything possible by him. I told him about Entmoot one time last year, but he probably lost the address/forgot. Unlike one of my other friends, who loved the LotR movies and has read the Hobbitt...and Fellowship? Maybe? Anyway, the only thing he likes is sci fi, *sigh*, and Shrek, and Tom Clancy. I have a very interesting English Lit class this year. The students are not at all knew to me, though. They're basically the people I've been good friends with for the last 5 years. So it's probably just interesting to other people. And one of my other friends hated the LotR movies. I think she thought reading the Hobbit was, well, just ok. Whereas her bestest-bestest friend absolutley loved the LotR movies, has an Arwen necklace, and a lifesize Legolas cut out. It was so funny. For her birthday we got her the necklace and some other people picked up the cut-out. Anway...to get it to her house it was brought to school. So for the whole day, Legolas stood against the inside of the glass wall of the office (glass dividing office from the hallway). This girl's mom was the office manager, btw. I am really really really rambling. apologies
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09-13-2005, 11:14 PM | #469 |
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That wasn't rambling, that was interesting, Mercutio; here I am envisioning this glass office with a cardboard legolas, amd teen fangirls with arwen necklaces...
I'm re-reading Wisdom of the West, by Bertrand Russell. I have got to be doing more reading, less mooting .
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09-14-2005, 03:34 AM | #470 |
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I found some English books here at a store- I am reading "The Great Blue Yonder" and Alice in Wonderland. The Great Blue Yonder is called Aozora no Mukou in Japanese, and my host sister here is reading it now too. It`s kind of a kid`s book, but it`s actually pretty good. A nice, enjoyable, easy read. I`m about 2/3 done with it. It`s about a kid, Harry, who dies. The book starts out as he arrives in the place you go when you die. He has some unfinished business to take care of with his sister- this kid who`s been dead for a long time, Arthur, helps him say goodbye to his life.
Alice in Wonderland (Fushiki no Kuni no Arisu) is pretty interesting, more so than expected. I laughed out loud at some parts already. I think even though it`s a children`s story I think it`s good to read when you`re a little older. Last edited by katya : 10-01-2005 at 06:40 AM. |
09-14-2005, 07:54 AM | #471 |
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Bored of the Rings. i bought it off a famous internet auction site, it is total crap. its an insult to tolkiens great works and it aint even funny.
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09-14-2005, 11:37 PM | #472 |
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Started Red Mars!!!! Great book so far! (Though its chronology is set up worse than the movie CAtch Me If You Can).
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09-15-2005, 11:02 AM | #473 |
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You guys don't laugh, but I am reading Great Expectations.
Yes, I am almost 30 and why didn't I read it in high school? Who knows, that was all a blur! Anyway, it was a hand-me-down book, my kids starting asking about it so I figured I should finally read it.
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09-15-2005, 05:20 PM | #474 |
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I just finished reading The Death of Right and Wrong by Tammy Bruce. It is very maddening, horrifying, enlightening, and everyone should read it.
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09-15-2005, 08:30 PM | #475 | |
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(btw, sorry about calling you a SW newbie! ) And Merc, I thought you were starting a novel, the way your post was going Tree Dweller, I think you, like me, will find that Great Expectations is very great indeed ...in book VI of The Aeneid...
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09-16-2005, 09:21 AM | #476 | |
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Sometimes I feel so bad that I have not read some of these books, but honestly I HATED high school. The only thing I was reading back then was Stephen King.
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09-16-2005, 02:24 PM | #477 | |
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Well, I picked up Alan Alda's never have your dog stuffed And Other Things I Learned. Cute and interesting so far. i want to know why that man hasn't won an Oscar or something yet.
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09-21-2005, 06:39 AM | #479 |
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Every time I hear about Alan Alda I think of Quenya for "tree"....
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I heard a long interview with him on NPR today. Very cool
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