03-30-2003, 05:56 PM | #681 |
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I just read a very funny book about the White Album. I'm currently reading The English: A Portrait of a People, by Jeremy Paxman. It's extremely entertaining; it turns out the English are interesting! Recently finished Michael Moore's Stupid White People and Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island and I'm a Stranger Here Myself (I think those are the correct titles). Still plowing through Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct and just started A New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Sounds like a real page-turner doesn't it?
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03-30-2003, 09:48 PM | #682 |
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I'm reading a compilation of assorted haunted house tales, yes, I love this stuff.
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03-31-2003, 08:58 AM | #683 |
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Marilyn Manson's autobiodraphy The Long Hard Road out of Hell ... well what can i say the bloke is a tad wierd but he is undeniably a genius and this shows through in this book... ummm its very intelligent philosophically and raises many issues about the society we live in... im only about halfway through and it is dominated by drugs and all sorts of weird sex and his rejection of christianity... f***ed yes, good read though
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03-31-2003, 06:15 PM | #684 |
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I am now reading "Stargirl" for my light reading, when I need a break from Count of Monte Cristo. It's a book about nonconformity (), and someone told me that I should read it, because I reminded her of Stargirl. I don't know how, since I'm not nearly the individual Stargirl was...we'll see, I haven't reached the end of the book.
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03-31-2003, 09:46 PM | #685 |
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Starr, are you enjoying The Count of Monte Cristo? My friend recommended it to me and I hope to read it soon. Right now I'm starting Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.
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04-01-2003, 07:27 PM | #686 |
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It's okay. I liked Wuthering Heights better.
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04-01-2003, 08:27 PM | #687 |
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Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
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04-02-2003, 05:00 PM | #688 |
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Right now I'm reading The Unicorn War by John Lee. Not really 'high' fantasy but surprisingly enjoyable.
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04-02-2003, 05:48 PM | #689 |
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I am reading Doctor Zhivago, Siddharta, and Canterbury Tales.
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04-02-2003, 09:37 PM | #690 |
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The Count of Monte Cristo is extremely slow sometimes! It's infuriating. I'll get through it though. I've heard it gets better after some slow spots in the middle.
I finished Stargirl the first day I got it, so now I'm reading Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison. It's supposed to be a good, quirky book. I also have two more books I bought today for when I'm done with that. I love books.
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04-02-2003, 11:34 PM | #691 |
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Books rock.
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04-03-2003, 08:00 PM | #692 |
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Just finished Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Definitely can relate some of the events in the story to my freshman year in high school (not all of them, thank goodness.) A good, depressing book. It was an Edgar Allen Poe Award Finalist.
Hmm...should I start on J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, or actually read Count? It's sooo boring. Blah.
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04-03-2003, 08:05 PM | #693 |
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Shippey's Author of the Century is probably the best Tolkien analysis I've read. I urge you to wolf it down right away.
But don't leave a book unfinished if you're already on it. It's near impossible to get back to it afterwards...
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04-04-2003, 12:50 PM | #694 |
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"The Crusades", by Hans Meyer- it just seemed appropriate for these times- but that's another thread altogether
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04-04-2003, 06:04 PM | #695 |
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I finished the Unicorns so now I'm reading From Aegir to Ymir by Paula Vermeyden and the Lays of Beleriand. It's obvious the holidays have started.
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04-04-2003, 08:42 PM | #696 |
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I'm reading A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'lengle. I usually chose books with higher standards, though it is a fairly good book, but at my school, we have to get a certain amount of "points" by reading and then taking a test on a book, and I'm only reading it because I'm in desperate need of points.
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04-05-2003, 10:49 AM | #697 |
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I'm reading The Two Towers (again). I've only 30 pages to go, then I'm off to read The Return of The King again.
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04-05-2003, 05:06 PM | #699 |
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Yep, practical got finished, not without SOME serious prodding myself to get it (barely) finished in time. (I discovered a typing error just before handing it in. whei!) But holidays it is! And when I should actually also be doing some studying I can't help it but catching up with my reading and I've been ogling the Lays of Beleriand for half a year now. I just couldn't help myself anymore. I'll keep you posted.
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04-05-2003, 08:23 PM | #700 |
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I got to write a book report on the Silmarillion earlier. I got an honours, which is the Public School equivalent of an A.
I was happy. He said I took a very confusing book and wrote a very concise and clear summary. Considering that I really only summarized two chapters, and it's impossible to summarize in one page in it's entirety, it's pretty good.
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