Duskglimmer
Rank 8 (Getting Moldy!)
Human Boomerang
McKay: Have you seen a guy? He looks like you, but with messy hair. I think I lost him somewhere...
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Post by Duskglimmer on Jul 31, 2006 13:49:45 GMT -5
I'm reading Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini. Yay for ancient books!
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Post by skittlestiger on Aug 4, 2006 19:14:26 GMT -5
I'm reading great expectations!
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scarecrow
Rank 3 (Almost Not a Newbie)
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Post by scarecrow on Aug 10, 2006 22:44:13 GMT -5
Ooh, Great Expectations. A classic for good reasons. I love it.
I'm presently rereading Catcher in the Rye, my absolute favorite. Holden is so similar to me, it's scary.
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stickers!
Rank 1 (Still a Newbie)
Waste of Paint.
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Post by stickers! on Sept 1, 2006 11:22:12 GMT -5
Reading Catcher in the Rye, and re-reading the first LOTR book, both way too slowly. Gah. I miss being one of those book-a-day type people. -skips off to room to attempt to finish Catcher in the Rye before school starts- (scarecrow- almost every time someone sees me reading it, they say how boring it was, but I like it. Holden is pretty.. erm.. relatable to? Or something cheesy like that, ha. Anyways, it's good.
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Post by skittlestiger on Sept 1, 2006 12:58:16 GMT -5
I'm reading shonen jump because I just got it in the mail last week! -dances-
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scarecrow
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Post by scarecrow on Sept 5, 2006 21:14:24 GMT -5
I agree stickers. Holden is very ... relatable (strange, I can't find a word a synonym).
I read The Light Fantastic, one of the books in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. It's a sequel to the The Color of Magic. Or do I have them mixed up?
Anyways, whichever way round it is, I had been avoiding the book in the library even though I'd wanted to read it so badly because I was waiting to see if I'd come across the original, but I never did, and I got tired of waiting. And I'm glad I didn't, because you really didn't need to read the original first (unless you were falling over yourself to find out just how it was that Rincewind and that tourist guy ended up falling off the Disc).
I also finally got to read The Da Vinci Code, and I got to see what all the fuss is about. I really, really got into it, but I don't see why it's stirred up all that controversy. Also, the ending kind of made me frustrated. Sure, symbolism is nice and all, but I wished for something more concrete to the mystery.
I think I'm going to read The Firm by John Grisham next. My English teacher read us a piece back in my 3rd year at high school, and she was ranting and raving about it. My gran got me a copy, and I'm going to check it out. Soon.
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Brokenhearts
Rank 15 (On Angie's Level)
Beware, all ye who talk 2 me
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Post by Brokenhearts on Sept 6, 2006 16:55:04 GMT -5
i find terry pratchett way to surrealist for me. i dnt gt it tht well… well the last tiem i read him anyway. i mite try again soon… which is the first book in the discworld series?
am reading:
Devil's Tango- Hervé Jubert The Vanished- Celia Rees Titus Groan- Mervyn Peake Gold and blood- Anne Rice The Vampire Lestat- Anne Rice Dragonsdawn- Anne McCaffery (sp?) and Ark Angel- Anthony Horowitz
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scarecrow
Rank 3 (Almost Not a Newbie)
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Post by scarecrow on Sept 6, 2006 17:18:51 GMT -5
I wouldn't know. What I've read of Pratchett are the random books I find in our understocked library. I don't really know the chronology. As for him being too surrealist, well, to each their own. I love him.
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Post by Angie on Sept 6, 2006 17:34:45 GMT -5
On top of all the other books I'm in the middle of reading, I started "That Was Then, This Is Now" by S.E. Hinton. I had so much spare time in class that I'm almost halfway through it after one day (it's a really short book though).
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Post by Gil Alexander on Sept 9, 2006 11:14:30 GMT -5
I am reading Cujo by Stephen King. It's proof that books can be unbelievably scary and literary at the same time. *nods*
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Post by skittlestiger on Sept 9, 2006 13:04:53 GMT -5
I'm STILL reading the old man and the sea, I lost the danged book, so not cool...
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scarecrow
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Post by scarecrow on Sept 9, 2006 14:53:03 GMT -5
Armadillo by William Boyd, and the classic The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Post by Gil Alexander on Sept 9, 2006 14:56:50 GMT -5
How far are you in Monte Cristo? I'm stuck around page 650.
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scarecrow
Rank 3 (Almost Not a Newbie)
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Post by scarecrow on Sept 16, 2006 13:54:14 GMT -5
I haven't started yet, actually. I just finished Armadillo today, and instead of starting The Count of Monte Cristo as I'd planned, I saw the book version of The Phantom of the Opera, and I just couldn't resist (though all I've read so far is the foreword).
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Post by Angie on Sept 16, 2006 14:56:47 GMT -5
I'm about to start "The Scarlet Letter". We're supposed to read it in English class this year, and I hear it's a kind of hard read, so I wanted to go through it once and get a sort of head start. *nods*
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