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What Are You Reading?; The bookworms shall inherit the earth!
Topic Started: Mar 5 2005, 07:18 PM (10,302 Views)
mallorn
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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction, edited by Lee Gutkind. It's a collection of short stories: I've only finished the first story so far, but I really liked it.
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I'm reading a book called "The King is Dying" for school.
I'm looking foward to reading Memories of a Geisha. Has anyone read it?
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Currently reading If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor - Bruce Campbell Autobiography

Looking forward to reading his next book too Make Love! the Bruce Campbell Way




I feel sorry for anyone that does not know who this man is...
http://www.bruce-campbell.com/
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Miss Yukari
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I'm looking foward to reading Memories of a Geisha. Has anyone read it?


I have. I thought it was beautifully written, and Sayuri was such a well developed character that it was hard to remember that the book wasn't written by her. Hope you enjoy it!

At the moment I'm reading Pride and Prejudice. I'm most likely the only person in the world who hasn't either read the book or seen the film. I still picture Colin Firth when Mr Darcy shows up though. I'm liking it so far - Mr Bennet is awesome, Lizzy is a likable character, Caroline Bingley is annoying, Charles Bingley seems nice enough, and Darcy is love. :wub:
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I'm looking foward to reading Memories of a Geisha. Has anyone read it?


I have. I thought it was beautifully written, and Sayuri was such a well developed character that it was hard to remember that the book wasn't written by her.

Oh yes, I have to agree with you here. After reading it, it was kind of hard to believe that Saiyuri is a fictious character. I hope you enjoy it too, LNZ! It's definatly a great read.

I've been recommended the books Twilight by Stephanie Meyer and This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen. I'm wondering if anyone has read it, and could give me a brief review of them both? :)
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Sadhana
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Hello, fellow bookworms! I'm back with an updated reading list. As of late, I've finished the following books:

1) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3) Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
4) 1984 by George Orwell
5) Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
6) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (re-read)
7) The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read)
8) Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix by J.K. Rowling (re-read)

This is what I'm reading now:
1) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He's one of my all time favorite authors, so I picked this one up at the book store the other day.

2) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

3) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
I've read this one before, and had it read to me many times. I have a beautiful, hard cover copy, and it's a little tradition of mine to start re-reading it every year, the day after Thanksgiving.

4) Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

5) Misery by Stephen King

6) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

7) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

8) Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

9) America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by The Writers of the Daily Show
I'm trying to do a straight-forward read of this comedic counterfeit of a textbook because it's so damn intelligent, but I've flipped through most of it.

10) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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Hades' Daughter
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^ ZOMG, is that a list of ten different books you're currently reading at this point, Sadhana? :swoon:
I envy people who can read more than two or three books at a time :giggle:
BTW, I love J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion. Actually, I adore Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit as well. Sadly, I haven't read any of his other books though.

Mallorn:
Thank you for your opinion on A Game of Thrones. I'm done with the book I was reading, so I'll be starting on this one right away. All the characters sound incredibly interesting!
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Sadhana
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Nov 25 2006, 01:23 AM
^ ZOMG, is that a list of ten different books you're currently reading at this point, Sadhana? :swoon:
I envy people who can read more than two or three books at a time :giggle:
BTW, I love J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion. Actually, I adore Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit as well. Sadly, I haven't read any of his other books though.

Yeah, I'm reading all those books at once. :P And I actually forgot one! I'm also reading America's Report Card by John McNally. I love J.R.R. Tolkien too. I read the Hobbit when I was 11, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy when I was 12 or 13. I think I read the Silmarillion when I was 13 too.
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Yukari
Nov 14 2006, 09:02 PM
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I'm looking foward to reading Memories of a Geisha. Has anyone read it?


I have. I thought it was beautifully written, and Sayuri was such a well developed character that it was hard to remember that the book wasn't written by her. Hope you enjoy it!

I was confused for the longest time on whether this was fictional or not. I've had friends tell me with a straight face that Sayuri wrote the book through the author!

Anyway, yes, it's a very good read. It's been a long while since I read it, but I emphathised with Sayuri much more through the book than watching the movie (although perhaps it's because I felt the movie was one big, moving painting).

Yukari
 
At the moment I'm reading Pride and Prejudice. I'm most likely the only person in the world who hasn't either read the book or seen the film.

I've never read the book, but yes, finally caught the movie several months ago. I most clearly remember it for having House acting one of the characters. :lmao: Never caught any of the names, though, but I think it was as Charles Bingley?

Sadhana: My god, all this on top of school? :swoon: You MUST tell me the secret to your time management!

Certain parts annoy me in Tolkien's LOTR books. [size0]Pleasedon'tkillme. Maybe it's because I lack imagination--I want to fall asleep everytime he goes into lengthy descriptions of the landscape. I LOVE the world he created and all the detail that went into it, and I guess landscape is part of the detail as well... But I tended to skip large swathes of paragraphs describing a countryside I couldn't imagine. >_<
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I was confused for the longest time on whether this was fictional or not. I've had friends tell me with a straight face that Sayuri wrote the book through the author!

*hides face* I thought that too at first! Hey, Arthur Golden should be flattered!

Oh yeah, about LOTR...snobby, elitist LOTR fans annoy me SO MUCH sometimes! I really dislike how they bash "inferior" book series' -Harry Potter, Narnia, Eragon to name some- in favor of their more "intellectual" series. I know JRR Tolkien was a genius, I know LOTR is a literary classic...but why confine yourselves to it? :whistle:
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I'm currenly reading:

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End (The last book! ><)
A Raisin in the Sun
Naruto (LOL, I haven't been up to date with the series @_@)
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One of those Hideous Books where the Mother dies (rereading)
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Hades' Daughter
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I really dislike how they bash "inferior" book series' -Harry Potter, Narnia, Eragon to name some- in favor of their more "intellectual" series. I know JRR Tolkien was a genius, I know LOTR is a literary classic...but why confine yourselves to it?


Hrmms...I'd like to add a few thoughts on this.
I happen to have the whole set of the Chronicles of Narnia and read them all when I was younger. I didn't really enjoy it, especially since there was only one book in the series I can honestly say that I liked (The Horse and His Boy). I sort of forced myself to read the whole set, though, since I asked for it for my birthday. I mean, I love fantasy books on a grand scale (it's actually my favorite genre), but it just wasn't my cup of tea. *has not seen the movie either*
As for Harry Potter...though I've heard so many great things about it, I just never brought myself to read it because of the whole "Kid in Wizard School" theme. I guess I just didn't have enough interest in it to pick it up.

People just have different tastes and preferences, so I hope no one's saying that a certain book or series sucks. For those who like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm really happy and glad for you. Books give me a lot of joy, just in general...and just because I love LOTR, I certainly don't confine myself to it. There are so many other wonderful books and series out there. I'll definitely read whatever catches my interest.
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No, I wasn't accusing you of anything. I just dislike the elitist attitude when it comes to books, and I've seen quite a lot of it from hardcore LOTR fans. Like, I remember someone who wrote a raving book review of Fellowship of the Ring in our school paper, while simultaneously bashing JKR's writing style, and calling Harry a "twerp". And I know lots of Eragon fans have been given nonstop grief by LOTR fans who bash Paolini in favor of Tolkien :/
LOTR is seen by many as the example of grandscale fantasy...I just don't like it when people use it as a yardstick, and then bash other books in the process.

I'm certainly not saying ONLY LOTR fans do this. Sometimes, I've seen this kind of attitude from HP fans too, like calling Artemis Fowl a copycat of Harry Potter, when both series are actually poles apart. Or Trekkies who bash every sci-fi series that is not Star Trek.
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No, I wasn't accusing you of anything.


Oh, no, I didn't mean for it to come off like I thought you were accusing me, Kusari. *hugs*

What I was trying to say was that people shouldn't confine themselves to anything, or bash other books and series. I was just using myself as an example of that idea since I happen to adore LOTR, and still manage to enjoy other books. I think all that rambling might have confused you. :giggle:
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Nov 26 2006, 06:13 AM
Oh yeah, about LOTR...snobby, elitist LOTR fans annoy me SO MUCH sometimes! I really dislike how they bash "inferior" book series' -Harry Potter, Narnia, Eragon to name some- in favor of their more "intellectual" series. I know JRR Tolkien was a genius, I know LOTR is a literary classic...but why confine yourselves to it? :whistle:

I've known people like this, but I've also met people who confine themselves in the reverse way. They enjoy a series like Harry Potter, but they refuse to ever watch or read LOTR. I love both, and wouldn't even be able to compare to see which one I like more because they're both so different.

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Sadhana: My god, all this on top of school? :swoon: You MUST tell me the secret to your time management!

My secret is reverse prioritization. Instead of being a good girl and starting my homework when I get home, I read all day, and do my homework during the Daily Show. :whistle:

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Maybe it's because I lack imagination--I want to fall asleep everytime he goes into lengthy descriptions of the landscape. I LOVE the world he created and all the detail that went into it, and I guess landscape is part of the detail as well... But I tended to skip large swathes of paragraphs describing a countryside I couldn't imagine.

I'm with you on that one. Thirteen-year-old Sadhana fell asleep innumerable times during those parts, especially in The Fellowship of the Ring. But the story was so great that I found it in myself to finish the entire series.
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