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ltdedloser
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| Well right now I'm reading Lord Of The Flies for my english class, and all I have to say about it is that it freaken sucks!!!!! I don't really like it. I just can't stand reading it, it's really boring and confusing, well I think I'm just making it confusing cuz I don't really like it. But this is just my opinion of the book. |
Yeah, that book is pretty boring. I didn't finished it my first attempt. |
aw come on...William Golding is a pretty decent author. You have to give books a chance sometimes. I was reading Rites of Passage by him and i had to go through about 80 pages before it really took hold. Boring and confusing is exactly what i used to think about what is now my favourite novel.
Was reading Picture This by Heller but gave up today. Too much witty observation-ing and too little novel-ing. Too much history and too little fiction (thats right, the two are different, 'pomo' wanks). I was also reading Candide. Dont know whether im going to continue that.
Public note to self: must read Bliss by Peter Carey again soon. |
I do love the book. I'm all for confusing and such but it's just that it takes a little too long for this one to get going. |
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Arwen
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I'm reading "Narziß und Goldmund" by Hermann Hesse. [English title: "Narziss and Goldmund"]
It's just gorgeous! I really love it! ~♥
It's about two boys meeting in a monastery and following different life paths: the path of wisdom, science and asceticism and the one of art, love and lust; Goldmund's mundane ideology is following the path of the Mother, while Narziss searches out for the order in life and his determination as a servant of God. |
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Frozenboogereatr
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| Right now I am reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin and So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld. They are both very good. |
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G-girl
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Since I want to be a writer, I'm writing more than reading these days but when a favorite author has out a new book I make time. I recently got my hands on Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas and Forever Odd. Very good stories. Koontz has a well defined sense of weird and he uses quite well in all his books. If you like something a little out of the ordinary - give Koontz a try.
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quosimos
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| I finished "An Artist of the Floating World" by British born Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro a week ago. Certain things about it were very very similar to his later book "Remains of a Day". |
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ladysnapeackles
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:36 am Post subject: .....................*sweat drop*........................ |
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title : harry potter and the half-blood prince
author : j.k.rowling
times read : 5 times (including this one)
not that im a chronic hp fan but then there's not much book to read here at my house...btw, does fanfiction counts? because i can recommand a lot of fanfiction to be read!!! now, that's what i call a chronic fanfiction surfer!!!
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Black_Wraith
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arrrrrrrrrg
just finished the Da Vinci Code
it is kinda rare for me to read a book since i am obsessed with anime
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v-boi2002
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Over the summer right now, my class is currently reading 1984 by George Orwell.
The main character is Winston Smith who lives under the control of the Party, or whom we all know, Big Brother. He basically plans to help get an underground party started and experience all these "WTFOMG YOU'RE ONE OF THEM!!" events.
My least favorite part in this story so far is when he writes in his diary about how he had sex with a 50+ y/o prostitute.
What's funny is that whenever Winston mentions the "dark-haired girl", I'm always reminded of Tohsaka Rin:
[IMG:152:130:2b3ceb1ac0]http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/2593/51jz.th.jpg[/img:2b3ceb1ac0]
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quosimos
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| A few nights ago I read a translated version of Albert Camus' L' Etranger (or The Outsider) which I accidentally stole from my high school library a few years ago |
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KamiNoSeigi
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I just got done reading Cell by Stephen King and it's a pretty good read. Not the best of this work, but certainly one to be read. His ability to create life like characters that we ourselves can relate to is unsurpassed and when a character feels agony we can sense the depth of that agony.
The story basically goes like this: mass plague is spread through cell phones, band of people want to survive.
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Xristyan
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im currently reading Protector of the Small by Tamora Pierce...
a two inch thick book... but i think young readers can stil have a go at this..
basically its a story revolving around Keladry a girl wanting to be a knight... in order for her to do that she must go through being a page then a squire then on to a knight but there hasn't been any lady pages or squirettes for over a century... so yeah.. its gonna be a long road ahead of her...
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v-boi2002
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I have to read Frankenstein for school..
..but I don't wanna! TT__TT
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Kimmie-chan
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I've decided to read Harry Potter from book one...just to have something to read since HP books are only what I have....
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Warlocklord
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kimmie: just be glad you don't live in Georgia, there is a mother there trying to ban Harry Potter books....how sad that we have to do such things in the name of our children.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/04/D8KHQMH80.html |
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Xristyan
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Book: The Blessing Stone
Author: Barbara Wood
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From the #1 internationally bestselling author comes a sweeping epic that chronicles the history of the world through the destiny of a mysterious blue stone.
Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and shattered, revealing a beautiful blue stone. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain, and it formed her destiny--as well as the destiny of generations to come. From ancient Israel to Imperial Rome, medieval England to fifteenth-century Germany, the eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the nineteenth-century American West, the destiny of the stone and the history of the world unfold. Each story is full of the betrayals and obsessions of the human heart, and the quests of the human spirit. In The Blessing Stone, Barbara Wood has both told the intimate details of her characters' lives and created a sense of the epic sweep of human history.
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