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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: Ambulance Y on January 21, 2006, 12:41:49 AM
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Write about what you are currently reading (pretty simple):
Right now, I am reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I always knew a lot of people loved this book, so I decided to pick it up. Now I see why! This book's characters, plot, and pace are perfect. There is so much perfect humor, and I can't seem to put it down. Like I said the characters are so side-splitting, and the plot seems to seep of the pages and around you. Plus I like how obsessed Veet is with ballpoint pens.
So anyways, what are you reading?
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I'm currently reading two books: the Prose Edda, and the Volsunga Saga. Both tell many tales of Norse mythology. I've been pleased thus far.
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Recently finished A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Started The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum and On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
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Reader's Digest. (Yes, I have a subscription; please don't laugh)
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Nintendo Power, Sword of Sarashah, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and the story board's stories. ;)
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The text on this computer screen.
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I currently have these books checked out from my library:
"The Prydain Chronicles: The Book of Three" by Lloyed Alexander, I haven't began reading this one, yet.
"Dracula" by Bram Stoker, about halfway through this one.
"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, this one is not from the library, it's my friend's. He said I had to read it after finding out I was never required to in any of my elementary classes. I've only barely got into the book and it's okay so far.
"2010: odyssey two" by Arthur C. Clarke, I may or may not finish this one, the necessary incontinuity regarding certain planets bothers me. Hopefully I will get over that and finish it.
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dufoe
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Gah, Robinson Crusoe! I remember trying to read that in fifth grade. I got to page 5 before giving up. I don't think the story is bad, but the vocabulary is a little overwhelming for a ten-year-old.
My English class is in the middle of The Great Gatsby, but I finished it last weekend and now I have nothing to read. I had also been reading Elements of Fiction Writing: Beginnings, Middles and Ends by Nancy Kress and since I thought her voice sounded good I got another book by her, which is part of a trilogy and probably not the first one either. I don't know if I should read it, seeing as how it would be like reading Harry Potter 4 without having read the previous ones.
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Garfield: BEEFS UP!
You weren't expecting that, were ya?
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The Great Gatsby is a very well done book. The ending I hated though. The entire book had sory of strange aura about it. Personally though, I would say it was the best thing I read in US Lit, other than Catcher in the Rye .
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I read that next. :p
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Catcher in the Rye is quite possibly the worst book I've ever read. I'm sorry, but a psychopath kid who complains about every single little thing throughout the whole book, not to mention swears every other word... I got to the point I didn't even sympathize at ALL with him; I just wanted him to shut up and shape up. He was so immature. I loathe this story.
Of Mice and Men was also really awful. I hated all the events; it was depressing and messed up, not to mention the swearing. Oh, the horrible swearing! (And again, immature characters.)
Seriously, any book that has as much profanity as those stories... I'm sorry, no matter how "good" it is, I will not enjoy it one bit, regardless. The same goes for movies like that. That's why I normally don't like rated-R movies. If it's R for violence, that's different (I loved Air Force One, for example). If the profanity (or other certain things) is what makes it R, no. Certain things I'm sure I would enjoy if they were censored. (The movie Speed comes to mind; I love the plotline and everything, but the language infuriates me. I'll only watch it when they put it on TV.) But Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men...I hated the plotlines and characters, as well.
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I was like that about Eragon. Every person who would bother to read it likes it, but I didn't sympathize with/like the characters, and I didn't like the language either. Not that there was swearing... I was just tried of the author saying "his scabs caked" and "on her belly".
Of Mice and Men was short enough to read through quickly, but I kinda like to read it when I'm depressed. I only read it once, though...
Sapphira, read TKaM, and don't go near Bless Me Ultima.
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I think that poor Holden is just very confused. He lives in, basically, a boarding school. YOu'd be pretty messed up too if the only contact with your mom and dad you had was over holidays. Also, he does shape up at the end of the story. Remember when he saw the bad words wtirren on the walls? He became very upset. He didn't think that kids should have to see that sort of thing. he also loved the museum, becuase nothing changed. I liked life before he was shipped off to that boys school where he had to live.
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Animal Farm for School, Nintendo Power, forums, A Tale of 2 Cities, and mangas.
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Click here, yo. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_potter)
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The Bean Trees by Barbera Kingsolver for school work. This book put me to sleep faster than accompanying my mom to buy clothes. To think I still have to write a literature response to this....
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Techniccally, I'm reading a book called Marley and Me. It's about "life and love with the World's Worst Dog". The cover has such a cute widdle doggy on it ^_^ and Marley does such silly things(like plays "submarine" in his water dish)!
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I recently finished Animal Farm by George Orwell for school, and now am about 3/4 through Deception Point by Dan Brown. Also, I just started 1984, also by George Orwell.
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I recently finished Death on the Nile, then I saw the movie. Then I read the instruction manual that came with Super Mario Advance 4. Then I read this topic.
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Books
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If it's R for violence, that's different (I loved Air Force One, for example). If the profanity (or other certain things) is what makes it R, no.
You are more bothered by swearing than seeing people hurt and killed? That's beyond messed up.
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It's a movie, not real life; the people aren't really hurt and/or killed. The swearing, however, is real, acting or not. The swearing actually takes place.
Besides, I never said killings/injuries DIDN'T bother me, because they do. It's just not the basis of what makes a movie good or not, to me. Deaths/injuries can make good plotlines; not to mention is necessary to the stories that contain it. Swearing is not. I've never seen a movie where the swearing was vital to the story.
Now, if something is overly violent and full of gore...of course it disturbs me. I don't like it when killing someone is actually shown; if it's implied, like, the camera doesn't actually show it, it's far less disturbing.
PG-13 (closer to the PG end rather than the R end) tends to be my ideal movie rating.
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The swearing takes place as much as the killing does. The killing is simulated and appears real, but is not. The swears appear real, but are actually just lines written in the script. The actors themselves are not swearing, the characters are. Just like the actors aren't killing anyone, the characters are. It's the same thing. It looks and sounds just the same, but it's all fake. There's no difference.
Furthermore, swearing can be just as essential to movie quality or realism as violence. Would you really believe in a mobster, crude villain, or "normal" stressed-out adult or high schooler not swearing in certain circumstances?
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I'm now re-reading Tokyo MewMew. ^_^
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Yea. Saph, you and I could never get along in person, ever.
I have tempered my mind to the point where most profane words cone out as readily, and guiltlessly, as any other words in the English langauge. The way I see it, the world is so messed up, in so many ways, that there's really no other words that can accurately describe my feelings about them than those that are not profane. Yes, so it may seem hollow, or immature, but to my mind, a profane word is little more than an expression of a rather strong feeling. On internet forums, if swearing is frowned upon, I won't do it. However... let's just say that there'd be about 3 or 4 explitives in the preceeding paragraph if I read it aloud.
That said, explitives that berate people based on physical characteristics (race, gender, etc.) do NOT come out of my mouth, at all. Ever. Those actually do offend me. That said, there's generally more than enough of the "other" explitives in my speech.
As for movies where swearing is vital, I'd say that a documentary on someone with Tourette's syndrome (if it existed) may fit that quality. Any movie that attempts an accurate portrayal of, say, the street life, or any other underground activity would not be accurate at all without profane dialouge.
Violence? For me, the line between what's entertaining and what's disturbing is so incredibly obscured that I can't quantitate it. At all. In general, unnecessary violence is more likely to disturb me than that which is essential to the plotline. A movie that's basically a slasher-fest does not interest me at all, not because the violence offends me, but because the plot is usually terrible and uninteresting to me.
I have no ideal rating. There's G movies that exist that I find amusing. Likewise, there's R rated movies (Maybe even NC-17? Haven't seen any of those, though) that I find entertaining.
Oh. Right. Reading. The Theory of Interest, by Stephen Kellison. Actuary stuff. You know.
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I agree with everything LD and IS said concerning movies. Insane Steve's little ditty on swearing is also good, though any words can get tiresome if repeated too much, not just the terms that people deem "offensive".
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I've read the following series:
Inheritence (Eragon, Eldest, and when the third one comes out, I'll read that one)
Harry Potter (or all there is to that series)
Halo
Ender's Game Series (Ender's Game, Speaker For The Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind)
now I'm currently reading the Lord of the Rings (including the Hobbit)
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Halo? Is this a book series based on the video game?
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Loosely.
Ever read the Bartimaeus trilogy? Er, actually, I guess it's a duo-ilogy, because the third one isn't out yet, as far as I know.
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The only thing I've read recently is the Bible, I think.
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My English class is currently reading "To Kill a Mockingbird." We just started, so I have nothing to say yet.
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I recently read a ginormous compilation book of every single Aliens vs. Predator comic by Dark Horse, and it's pretty cool. It even has a section with little bios for both the characters and the staff who made the comic.
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I finished The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and continuing on that very hillarious series with The Resturant at the End of the Universe. I've also been reading FoxTrot treasuries and the Rock and Roll Encyclopedia on the side.
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Nancy Drew and Little House of the Prairie. I finished reading them when I was 11 but I read Little House in the Big Woods over again. I just didn't get it.
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Just a note: titles are books are supposed to be italicized. You only underline them when writing by hand since you can't really write italics by hand, but on computers like this, we can all italicize!
The last thing I read was The House of the Seven Gables. Someone got it for me at the actual house it was based on.
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I had to work a month in Texas (I live in Ohio) so I bought the Narnia audiobooks and I gotta say... there are few authors as good as C.S. Lewis. Also, I'm reading "Which Lie did I tell" by William Goldman... which is also great.
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Currently re-reading "Martin the Warrior", a Redwall novel.
"Watership Down" will remain my favorite book of all time, but the Redwall series has come awfully close.
My favorites in the Redwall series:
1. Taggerung
2. Rakkety Tam
3. The Legend of Luke
4. Martin the Warrior
5. Redwall
6. Mattimeo
7. Triss
About the ones I don't like... well, Loamhedge is almost universally considered the worst of the Redwall bunch. I have also despised three other Redwall novels that many people like: The Long Patrol, The Outcast of Redwall, and Mossflower.
For favorite book based on a true story, without a doubt Alex Kotlowitz's "There Are No Children Here", for its portrayal of "the other America" where the Rivers family is stuck in the poor, violent neighborhood of the Henry Horner projects. Very powerful story, and the movie did a great job following the book (geez, it even had Oprah in it). Of course, now I can't hear "Henry Horner" without thinking of "Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!"
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How could you have forgetten about the Pearls of Lutra? Goodness sake!
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Hmm, somehow I think MLA accepts either underlining or italicizing in typing, but I could be mistaken.
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Lately I have been reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy while reading Lord of the Flies. Both are very good, and I also want to read a few others this year as well, such as Treasure Island, Of Mice and Men, Farenheit 451, and some others.
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I strongly dislike Fahrenheit 451. I didn't like all the required analysis in order to understand what was going on.
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I'm not really reading anything new right now, but I enjoy the Artemis Fowl series.
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Meh, reading a book. I'm WRITING a book.
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How to Talk to Anyone (Bet some of you knew that), HTML books, and PHP books.
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What I've Been Reading (I Guess)
A Friendly Introduction to Analysis
Modern Algebra
Complex Variables and Applications
Universe
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As of now I'm reading the Two Towers and Lord of the Flies. Two excellent books in their own ways.
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I've just finished reading "Running out of Time" by Margaret Haddix. It was awesome!
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Okay, I'm bumping this topic. I hope no mods will be angry! I just read the book Angela's Ashes. It was an extrodinary book.
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This year in school I read 3 totally excellent books. They were hatchet, The outsiders, and A wrinkle in time. All of them I wold suggest, even though they are fairly easy.
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A Wrinkle In Time is awful. I am reading Bitter Grounds in anticipation of my upcoming mission trip to El Salvador.
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I just finished the Da Vinci Code. Excellent read.
For schoo, I am reading Homecoming. I hate it... its plot is rather broken.
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I agree, the DaVinci Code is an excellent read.
As of now, I'm reading Desperation by Stephen King. It's great!
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From what I have heard, The DaVinci Code happens to be a boring murder mystery chase that is written in an awful style. If it didn't bring about controversy, most people said that it would not have made it. Therefore, I never read it, but I think I should try it on my own.
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I didn't find it boring at all, but hey, everyone has their own opinion.
Also, yeah it is a murder mystery, and it does get into a bit of touchy spots with religion and stuff...but I thought it was a great book anyway.
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I was reading the Xanth series by Piers Anthony...but I haven't found the time to continue reading. I got up I think the 9th book? Anyway there's like 25, but they're really fun. Everyone has their own magic talent and there's different adventures that people go on. I would suggest it. It does have some graphic content...like a lot...but other from that they're good.
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Well, just recently I finished reading the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and since I absolutely loved his style of writing, I am in the middle of reading David Copperfield as I type. It's a really good book, but I don't want to recommend it to anyone, because all of my friends apparently hate Charles Dickens, and I've only met one person who shares my same interest in him. :(
I don't recommend it because apparenly Dickens' writing style is an acquired taste, or something.
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If you like Dicken's writing, I highly suggest Hard Times. It's a satire about education. It's a very fun read.
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I'm reading the Scarlet Letter, and it is quite dull. Some parts are extremely aggravating to slug through, as the dialogue is written in an "Old English" style. But I must if I wish to complete my Summer Reading project. *groan*
On a side note, I have not read the Da Vinci Code, and do not plan to. I won't say why, because I don't want to start any fights. I also heard that the movie was quite bad, getting hit hard by critics. But I'm sure fans have taken notice.
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Recently I read a magnificant, mind-blowing book called "For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to The Inner Lives of Women". This really opened up my mind to the ways that most women may think and what they really want in life. Do you think that it's impossible to understand women? Think again. Seriously, I think that all men should read this book before they get in a relationship with a girl because this stuff could save your behind! While I read it I began to realize why so many couples argue about things you would think of as simply dumb and not worth fighting about. It's because men and women have different needs and see things in different ways! As I read through every chapter of the short book I literally gasped out loud and refused to believe my mind. It all made perfect sense and sounded so right. Seven little facts that can make a great difference.
I wish that I had the book with me to give a quick overview, but I'm not at home right now, but maybe some other time. I hope that this information can prepare me to become a more understanding friend to girls and a better husband to my wife (if I do get married). Excuse me for raving and advertising there.
Currently I'm reading the book "Seismic Shifts" which deals with making tiny little changes in your life that have a huge impact in everything you do-- faith, health, relationships, and more. I think everyone should read both of these books, especially Seismic Shifts.
Last night I saw the good movie "Count of Mounte Christo" with a bunch of friends and I enjoyed that. It confused me for awhile (a lot of movies like that do) but I understood what was going on at the end. You just can't help but get so angry from seeing what happens to Edmund and feel great about his attitude through it all. I wish there was more sword fighting though.
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I just finished reading The Collector by John Fowles, a book about a sociopath that kidnaps this girl and keeps her in his cellar.
Now I'm reading Pride and Prejudice. I've only seen bits and pieces of the movie versions, but the book itself is nice, although a bit hard to follow character shifts in voice.
I suspect I'm just trying to finish summer reading before summer school.
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I just tried to pick up Eldest after, like, a year. I had stopped reading somewhere in the middle, and I forgot to mark my spot, so now I have no clue what's going on. T_T
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I enjoyed Eldest almost as much as I enjoyed Eragon. I can't wait for the third installment in the Inheritance (sp?) Trilogy.
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I just picked up More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon.
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Wow, it seems that there is a mixed attitude on The Catcher in the Rye here in the Fungi Forums (well, I knew that Sapph wouldn't like it at all). Personally, I really liked it, (Yes, I know that it was the reason my favorite member of my favorite band was killed) although the content was a bit inapproprate. Holden Caulfield seemed like a very believeable character, since he wasn't phony at all, and truly wrote what he felt. Well, over the summer, I had to read three books. One was To Kill a Mockingbird which was possibly one of the best I've ever read. I also read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which was very hard to understand, and I didn't really like it that much. The teacher said to try and read it again in the future, and I may like it more. Lastly I read (well I didn't finish it, but I will when I finish the other books I'm currently reading) Tunnel in the Sky, which was a pretty neat Sci-fi novel in the future. Sci-fi fans should really check it out. Next, for an assignment, I must read a book called Torn Away, which is about a boy from Ireland that has to go to Canada. It seems like a very interesting book. Bird Person reccomended Speak, so I'll try to read that sometime soon, and from what I've heard, I'll probably enjoy Of Mice and Men, so I'm going to read that. Lastly, a book that I'm really interested in is Go Ask Alice. I like gritty, real books about real (or seemingly real) people going through real life, so I assume that it will be a great, life altering (well, more for girls, but it could still change my life... I guess...) book. Well, that's what my teacher said anyway. It seems that the more a book is B&, the better it is. Heck, Where's Waldo? is pretty cool!
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I'm reading "Buying Time" by Joe Haldeman now. I just finished "How to Teach your Baby to Read" and read "How to Teach Your Baby Math" before that.
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"And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie.
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I have been reading "The Stand" by Stephen King. It is one of those Apocalypto books.
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I recently read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I can't beleive I didn't read it sooner.
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Rading is fun, know why.... Because knowledge is Power!!!
sorry, I had to say that.
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I'm currently reading "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories" and "The Giver."
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Nothing at the moment, but there's a bunch of Goosebumps books in my closet that I haven't read yet.
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The Princess Bride by William Goldman. Thought I should finally read it, since I love the movie. Also, I'm reading Stephen King's The Talisman for my english class.
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I read Black House, I really want to read The Talisman but I can't find it anywhere (Peter Straub co-wrote both books btw). I just finished reading Rose Madder, not one of Stephen King's best books.
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Here you go TEM (http://www.amazon.com/-Talisman/dp/0345444884/sr=8-1/qid=1158780891/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3180068-0005700?ie=UTF8&s=books) Here's Hardcover also (http://www.amazon.com/-Talisman/dp/0670691992/sr=8-2/qid=1158780891/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-3180068-0005700?ie=UTF8&s=books)
Anyway, I finished Catcher in the Rye today. It really, truly was a great book. It seems that the people that didn't like the book didn't pay too much attention to the end, the end was excellent, and it really left me thinking. I like the books that can do that.
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Captian Underpants
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I should have said, "I can't find it in any libraries because I don't have any money to buy the book to go along with my copy of Black House."
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Captian Underpants
I remember that book, and teqniquely (sp?), that isn't a book. It's a comic book; AKA the thing that causes illiteracy. Anyways, I'm also finishing up on The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side and Sad Cypress.
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The last novel I read was this (http://www.blizzard.com/books/lastguardian.shtml) and the last book I read was this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/pennyarcade/other/88e8/).
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Latly i've started to read Goosebumps books. But they could make it a tad scarier.
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I remember that book, and teqniquely (sp?), that isn't a book. It's a comic book; AKA the thing that causes illiteracy.
Geez, you're more ignorant than I thought.
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Captain Underpants is definitely a book and not a comic book. Sure, it's for preteens I'd say, and the comic book parts of the book are entertaining, to me at least. Comic books don't cause illiteracy; they require reading, silly! Plus they often reflect what society views as a hero. They're like the new myths of our day, instead of Hercules and Achilles and that old stuff.
I'm reading the Diary of Anne Frank, the play version. I might get a part in it at school.
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Captain Underpants is definitely a book and not a comic book. Sure, it's for preteens I'd say, and the comic book parts of the book are entertaining, to me at least. Comic books don't cause illiteracy; they require reading, silly! Plus they often reflect what society views as a hero. They're like the new myths of our day, instead of Hercules and Achilles and that old stuff.
Quoted for Life. The world needs to hear you, man.
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Across Five Aprils. Worst. Book. Ever. I'm gonna read Wicked next, some of my friends love that book.
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Book-wise, I like anything that has to do with true crime.
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Have you read any true crime books lately? (thread title)
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Its a true crime that I'm going to start Walden soon in AP English. What a shame.
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Does this count?
(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thereadingnook.com%2Fimage_manager%2Fattributes%2Fimage%2Fimage_2%2F0786808063_large.jpg&hash=eaef69b555b06cbe974e47af5f375b84)
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I'm reading the look Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog. It's a really good book if you count out the fact that I have to turn in a highly detailed report about it on Friday.
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Well, people, next week is...
BANNED BOOKS WEEK
Celebrate your reading freedom by reading a book that has been challenged or banned somewhere in the country.
Here's a list of books that are frequently banned. (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/most-banned.html)
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Hmmm. Maybe I'll read A Wrinkle in Time
Edit: Hmmm again. I think I've read this before. Oh well. Maybe I'll read it to Hannah.
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Where's Gargantua and Pantagruel? It has more vulgarities in it than an R-rated movie.
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I've read A Wrinkle in Time and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Why on earth is James and the Giant Peach on there? I've read that one to. And I've read My Brother Sam is Dead. I read Flubber, too. I guess I'll read Huckleberry Finn.
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Hmmm. Maybe I'll read A Wrinkle in Time
Edit: Hmmm again. I think I've read this before. Oh well. Maybe I'll read it to Hannah.
I read that book before, it's pretty cool.
A book I just got yesterday and finished reading today would be Joey Pigza Loses Control It's a nice book, but the ending felt kinda forced and rushed.
A book that I read a few years ago and still love to this day: Bridge to Teribithia.
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Why on earth is James and the Giant Peach on there? I've read that one to.
Well, there's child abuse.
As for me, I'm going to read Go Ask Alice. Actually, I've already started it, and it's quite a good book. If I finish it soon enough, I'll start reading of Mice and Men.
Although it's not on the list, a good banned book that I highly recomend is To Kill a Mockingbird. It's an excellent book.
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I actually read quite a few of the books on that banned list already, and I can say that the reasons for them being banned is rediculous. Some of those are literary classics, that's what irks me the most.
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What the crap could be wrong with a book with an innocent title like Halloween ABC's?
We continuosly read short stories in English class, the most recent being "The Scarlet Ibis" and "The Gift of the Magi". The Scarlet Ibis was very heart-wrenching, but the latter... I prefer the version with Mickey and Minnie. There was also "The Most Dangerous Game". Very suspenseful.
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The books on thatl ist that I've read or know about all deal with some sort of issue that protective parents probably don't want their child dealing with. Like death of a friend, murder, slavery, or basically anything that brings about a plot.
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What the crap could be wrong with a book with an innocent title like Halloween ABC's?
The letter 'I' is for 'icicle-murder'. I found that on Wikipedia. =O
Anyway, I've also found this version of the list interesting-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_books is a longer list of banned books, and also shows why they were banned. Someone else posted it, but I don't know who and/or where though.
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Super Diaper Baby was chalenged in some states and along with the other CU books was banned in Ohio. And Ohio is where Pilky himself types his books. For more info see: http://www.pilkey.com for details.
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Do you think that the game guide to PMD from Nintendo Power would count as a book?
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Game Guides waste money, IMO anyway. I hate them to the point that a human being can hate a bunch of paper binded together. I'm serious, they make me want to barf.
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The Pokemon Game Guides often contain a myriad of mistakes... I'd just go with gamefaqs.com. Some of their guides have mistakes as well, but not as many or as noticeable as the official guides.
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Oh man... Well, I have been reading Treasure Island...
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Now, back on topic... I recently finished Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony. It's an okay book, but it just didn't have the same feeling as the four prequels. I've been reading the Artemis Fowl series for a few years now, and it's quite interesting throughout most of the books.
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Finished The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. It had the most interesting ending.
Now reading 4:50 from Paddington.
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I've been reading
Various poems by Catullus
Music and Imagination by Aaron Copland
An Introduction to Language by Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams
Musical Composition by Reginald Smith Brindle
Tonal Harmony by Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne
As you might be able to tell, I haven't been reading much fiction recently.
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I am aboutto start reading The True Confesions of Charlette Doyle by Avi.
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Bump time :D
I'm in the middle of George Orwell's 1984. It's quite the hard to describe book, but it's really entertaining.
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I've been reading a lot of Nancy Drew vintage books for the last month.
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Somnium Scipionis by Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers. Best book ever.
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The Best of H.P. Lovecraft - Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
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The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society.
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Short stories by Larry Niven. Before that, Stephen Baxter.
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Captain UnderPants!
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xD
Anyways, I'm reading Tangerine by Edward Bloor.
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I also read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which was very hard to understand, and I didn't really like it that much. . . . It seems that the more a book is B&, the better it is.
Ironic statement, since Huck Finn has been banned frequently. I recently read that, and I didn't think it was that hard to understand. The only parts I found more difficult were when Jim was speaking.
Right now I'm reading Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, which gets kind of drab and confusing at times, considering it's philosophy of ethics. I need to read Editha by William Dean Howells by tomorrow, which I haven't started yet, but thankfully it's only a short story. XD
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (ironically, as the book is about book banning)
That's hilarious. XD I read that novel freshman year of high school. 'Twas interesting.
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Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix.
Big Book, Eh?
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Hmm, we only recently finished reading Fahrenheit 451 (in English II), and we read Huck Finn in English I. Right now I'm reading The Sandman. I'm up to Brief Lives (which I haven't gotten to read yet, because my library request won't be in for a while, and my dad hasn't gotten out his copy for me yet). I'm also reading a few different mangas (waiting for book 15 of Fruits Basket to come in, and I recently started reading GTO and Initial D), am waiting for the library to process Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness, and am waiting for April, so I can read the final Left Behind book.
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Currently two things...
- The Sword of Shanarra by Terry Brooks
- the D. Grey Man manga series
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Didn't the final Left Behind book come out a few years ago? Or are you talking about that prequel series? If so, I didn't know it was that far along. :o
(Left Behind is probably my favorite novel series; I really need to catch up on those books. >_<; )
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The final LB book, Kingdom Come, releases on April 3. The first chapter is being released on the official website sometime in February. So I'll be further in the series than my mother >:D
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SATAN KILLS JESUS!
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I just read Gun, with occasional music by Jonathan Lethem. It is noir in a really cool dystopian future. Great hardboiled dialogue and mystery.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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Last book I read was Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. Picked it up from the library last summer, and enjoyed it even more than the original short story.
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Yeah, the book was a lot better. Currently in school I'm reading The Turn of the Screw. It's okay I guess. The English is tough to understand, but the story is entertaining when you can understand it
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I'm reading A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. It's magnificent.
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I've actually been reading this short story I've been writing, called Out of the Blue. It's so cool that it's given me writer's block because I keep re-reading it.
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I've been reading the original versions of the Left Behind series. I'm going to start Book 2 soon!
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I've actually been reading this short story I've been writing, called Out of the Blue. It's so cool that it's given me writer's block because I keep re-reading it.
What's it about?
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It's about a giant monster that attacks New York. I know, not too original, but it's got this feel that's a sort of combination of a disaster movie and an H.P. Lovecraft book. Also, roughly half the story takes place inside a tanker ship lying in the middle of Times Square.
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I like it. Sounds very surreal!
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Double post. Kill me if you must. But, I was wondering if anyone else here reads Charles Bukowski? Right now I'm reading Ham on Rye by the aforementioned genius. I recommend Bukowski to anyone who savors a good ol' chuckle or a good ol' questioning of humanity itself. It's good stuff.
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I just read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and I'm reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, as well as rereading George Orwell's 1984, and I was about to start Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Heart of Darkness and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest are for my Lit class, though, so I don't really think of them the same as reading just for reading.
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I'm reading J.K. Rowlings' "Order of the Phoenix." It's a great book.
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I just read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and I'm reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, as well as rereading George Orwell's 1984, and I was about to start Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Heart of Darkness and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest are for my Lit class, though, so I don't really think of them the same as reading just for reading.
Man, Kesey's a genius. I just finished The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, which is pretty much all about Kesey and his merry pranksters.
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Not reading anything at the moment, but I've become a huge fan of the "Redwall" series. Started reading it May 2005, finished the entire series (up to High Rhulain) one year later. My favorite book series, the only book series to have made me cry. Just really struck a chord with me, and I can't count how much I've written about the Redwall series since then. It is over 18 books long though.
And before Redwall, back in January 2005, I read "Watership Down". As much as I love the Redwall series, I think Watership Down's slightly better. Best character development I've ever seen.
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Jacques kind of lost his touch after the end of the intended trilogy, in my opinion. I thought the first three were pretty great, though.
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I've started to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and I can really see what Grace Slick meant when she wrote White Rabbit. This book has serious drug-related undertones. I hate starting books when I'm halfway through other ones, I still have to finish Ender's Game, as well as The Crucible for school.
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I just read "Mere Christianity" and "The Great Divorce" both by C. S. Lewis. I would suggest that both Christians and non-Christians alike read "Mere Christianity". It's an intelligent commentary on the religion. Non-Christians can read it as a kind of test against faith; if you read the book and still don't believe you can call yourself a true unbeliever!