01-27-2005, 09:50 PM | #141 |
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01-28-2005, 10:57 AM | #142 |
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I just Read THE LORD OF THE RINGS AND i am ten I loved it
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My mock trial/western civ... teacher reccommended Woman in White, but when I went to the library it was checked out, so I grabbed the Moonstone instead! I love it so far!
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01-29-2005, 03:08 PM | #145 |
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I just read 2 of his books, and they both have the exact same stuff, except in a different order.
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01-29-2005, 06:51 PM | #146 |
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i just finished Animal Farm
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01-29-2005, 07:19 PM | #147 |
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I love that book!
One of my favorites.
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01-29-2005, 07:22 PM | #148 |
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did you know in animal farm, napoleon is stalin, and snowball is trotsky, and animal farm itself is the ussr, and the farmers were the tsarists?
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01-30-2005, 02:33 PM | #150 |
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Just finished reading Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" (very very good, but a weak ending), and now I'm reading Alfred Bester's "The Stars, My Destination".
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01-30-2005, 02:56 PM | #151 |
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I finally read Hamlet. Started reading some Nietzsche... bought about three new Tolkien books...
And I'm looking forward to reading some philosophy for my class: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant. No Nietzsche, though.
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01-30-2005, 03:26 PM | #152 |
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I have finished "The trojan women", by Euripides.
It is a good play, but it was quite a shock to learn that the hero I know from the Odyssey is also responsible for the deliberate murder of a little child. And now ... Goethe, Bulgakov or Mendoza ...
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Well... I suppose I liked Achilles before I finally read the Iliad. Then I found out he was a murderous *******. The only one I like now is Aeneas. I should go read the Aeneid, I suppose.
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Having just finishedThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (loved it, though it was a hard read), I'm currently reading:
A Game of Thrones by G.R.R. Martin (again) Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (again) The Snapper by Roddy Doyle Hunger by Knut Hamsund The Odyssey (I shall finish it! I shall!) The Fourth Rule by two persons I can't remember the names of (not really tempting to continue as it doesn't quite manage to get a hold on me, but I'll see if I can get through it) The Dead Sea-scrolls (when I feel like it) Elder Gods by David & Leigh Eddings (which I've put on the shelf until some other time, didn't appeal to me at all) Animal Farm by George Orwell (been a while since last time I looked at it though, may not count any more ) ...as well as barely having started The Count of Monte Cristro (this time in english). And there will soon be a Mammut-sale in the book-stores in centrum...I won't have time for anything else than reading. Quote:
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I could have forgiven Achilles (maybe) until he killed Lycaon, one of Priam's sons. That was the final straw. And he was such a damned idiot! Agamemnon was willing to give him practically anything! Hector was fine, I suppose. Paris was annoying.
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01-31-2005, 12:37 AM | #157 |
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Finished The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. It's a quick read and very romantic. Didn't like it well enough to read the sequel though.
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02-02-2005, 04:23 PM | #158 | |
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I'm reading Derrida. Being forced to read him. Yuck
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02-02-2005, 04:59 PM | #160 |
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Well I know he didn't have much choice, but her suicide is so sad
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