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What Are You Reading?; The bookworms shall inherit the earth!
Topic Started: Mar 5 2005, 07:18 PM (10,283 Views)
Jon Snow
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I'm going to read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. And I can't wait. c:
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I hear a lot of praise for it...Please tell me how you like it once you finish Pride and Prejudice. I might read it too. XD

At the moment I'm reading Lightsource and once I finish that...I might read The Golden Compass. I've been putting it off for a while.
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Aug 13 2009, 02:47 PM
I hear a lot of praise for it...Please tell me how you like it once you finish Pride and Prejudice. I might read it too. XD

At the moment I'm reading Lightsource and once I finish that...I might read The Golden Compass. I've been putting it off for a while.

Sure. I'll tell you as soon as I lay the precious book down. :lol:
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The Complete Maus.

A story about the Holocaust, but in comic form with Jews as mice and Germans as cats. Maybe I'm still too much of a kid, but I finished this in one day.
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....Emma by Jane Austen. Its pretty confusing lol
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Sadhana
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Bleh, everyone's reading Jane Austen? She's such a shallow writer.

Rereading Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky<3
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MagitekElite
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How is she a shallow writer? She was writing about women back than. :( <_<
Besides that, its my first time reading her books.
- -I've Defiantly read better, like Homer's work and Dante's Inferno. Sir Walter Scott is by far my favorite. Shallow writing is far from my mind, Sadhana. I prefer to read older, classic books that have originality, that have a great plot and good character development. I'm not saying Notes From Underground is bad, I've never read it.
Jane Austen is not a shallow writer; she wrote about what she faced and what she wanted to write about. :)

On topic:
I'm thinking about rereading some Pern books, although I've read them a million times... <_< :(
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Amaranth
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I'm reading Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Enjoying it greatly. Very easy to read, but also insanely dark.
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Aug 23 2009, 01:10 PM
How is she a shallow writer? She was writing about women back than.  :(  <_<
Besides that, its my first time reading her books.
-  -I've Defiantly read better, like Homer's work and Dante's Inferno. Sir Walter Scott is by far my favorite.  Shallow writing is far from my mind, Sadhana. I prefer to read older, classic books that have originality, that have a great plot and good character development. I'm not saying Notes From Underground is bad, I've never read it.
Jane Austen is not a shallow writer; she wrote about what she faced and what she wanted to write about.  :)

I love older, classic pieces of literature. I'm an English and American literature major. Shakespeare, Dante, Socrates. I love old stuff. And by the way, Notes From Underground was written in 1864.

My problem with Jane Austen has nothing to do with antiquity. I don't like her books because I feel like they deal almost exclusively with shallow concepts: societal interactions, romance, manners.

I prefer books that confront deep philosophical concepts. Notes From Underground, for example, was a ground-breaking piece that can be considered the foundation of modern philosophy. Shakespeare's works are masterful pieces that encourage exploration of the deepest subjects. Cormac McCarthy, a modern writer, plumbs the depths and strengths of human morality. That's the kind of stuff I like.

Austen wasn't a bad writer, but everything I've read by her always felt like an antiquated version of Gossip Girl. I get bored after tearing apart the minutiea of subjects I consider to be trivial.
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@Amaranth:
*smiles darkly* I like your avatar :rabid3: fan of Johnny here ^^


@Sadhana:
Ah, I see. At the time though, Jane wasn't even suppose to be writing. If she dared to write something different that differs from the matter at hand (at that time) than they all would have known she was a woman and not a man.

Besides that, Emma is actually different. She's doesn't want to be married, doesn't want to lead a life chosen for her...or so that's how I've take the concept. :P

Shakespeare is a very talented writer indeed. My sister is obsessed with him lol
I've never heard about some of his work, because its very hard to get books, even old ones. I do own one right now, but my little sister is reading it currently and I dare say I'd be beheaded if I read it before her.
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare I was finally able to by it! so far so great :cleris: :gift:
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God's Snake by Irini Spanidou
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
The Sea by John Banville
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Has anyone read Zadie Smith? She's going to be my creative writing professor next semester, and I like to read books by my fiction professors to get a sense of their style. I can't decide yet whether to read On Beauty or White Teeth.
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare I was finally able to by it! so far so great

Hehe, I just finsished reading that last week, though I still think Julius Caesar is my favorite. :3 Have you read other Shakespeare?

What else, what else....

The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern, well technically the abridged version by William Goldman, but I don't think Morgenstern gets enough credit even though it was his story. /:

Monster by Coretta Scott King

Fat Kid Rules The World by K.L. Going

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, I recommend this to everyone I've read it a few times now and it still touches me. <3

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Has anyone read Zadie Smith?


Wow, actually yes. o.o Well, I only read about half of On Beauty, but it was good. She touched on somewhat basic subjects like political view, family, etc. but it was still powerful. Some characters were a little predictable and cliche, but I didn't finish the book so if there was any dramatic character change or events, I missed it. :c Overall she is an impressive new writer or I could say I enjoyed what I read of her, but I'm still young and possibly naive to what makes a writer good.~ So, I guess now I can only recommend it and see if it fits your taste....
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It has been rather quiet in this thread! ^^ ;;

Lets see. I've read:

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Berry
Through Wolf's Eyes by Jane Lindskold
The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong
Keturah And Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

And a few others that I've reread. ^^ I've got a few books on my to read list, though I have the urge to read faerie stuff at the moment.
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Apr 23 2010, 09:59 PM
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Has anyone read Zadie Smith?


Wow, actually yes. o.o Well, I only read about half of On Beauty, but it was good. She touched on somewhat basic subjects like political view, family, etc. but it was still powerful. Some characters were a little predictable and cliche, but I didn't finish the book so if there was any dramatic character change or events, I missed it. :c Overall she is an impressive new writer or I could say I enjoyed what I read of her, but I'm still young and possibly naive to what makes a writer good.~ So, I guess now I can only recommend it and see if it fits your taste....

Thanks! My brother had a copy of White Teeth, and he's letting me read it. I'll let you know if she's a good creative writing professor when I have her in the fall. :D

Another book I'm currently reading: Angels in America by Tony Kushner.

Uh. Mazing.
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