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Wynna 01-26-2008 01:09 PM

I've always liked the story of Noah and the Ark.

kitkat 01-26-2008 05:03 PM

@alaunt: um... i guess that would be my favorite :3

Alaunt 01-26-2008 05:22 PM

@Wynna - Noah and the Ark is a really good one.

@kk - The Noah one?

kitkat 01-27-2008 09:04 PM

No the moses one

Alaunt 01-27-2008 09:29 PM

Oh. What part of the Moses story? Is there a certain part, or the entire thing?

padfootsy 01-28-2008 09:53 PM

=] I just finished another book! Unfortunately, school is starting again today, and I won't have nearly as much time to read. D:

tentenpuff 01-30-2008 01:22 AM


I finished reading Inkheart last night, and I must say, I'm disappointed. D:
It wasn't nearly as good as I hoped -- some places I even had to force myself to read on. D;
It started extremely dull, there was a lot of pointless information in really long sentences. Example ( I'm making it up, but just to give you an idea ): Meggie looked over to Dustfinger, then at the sky, which was a cloudy gray that blended into the horizon of wet grass, whose green was fading and was wet from the dew.
Well, a little longer.

Yick, I can't stand super-long sentences. DD; They're just... terrible, I just can't. XP Icky.

It got better after, though...

Just today I noticed that it was translated from German, so it could explain a lot why it was kind of mediocre. >>;;; However, the plot itself was still kind of bad. ><;

Now, I'm starting on Inkspell. From what I've read of the first 21 pages, I like it~ It's what I thought Inkspell was, with fantasy and adventure and whatnot. :'3
It seems a lot more interesting, too.

Knerd 01-30-2008 03:18 AM

^ I've heard people say that about Inkheart. It seems like you either have to love it or hate it. I've never read it, but all the reviews I've read don't really make me want to. Besides, I'm fairly sure that a movie about it will be coming out soon.

And I'm happy because I finished my 5th book today. 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' by Haruki Murakami. It was a great read. The ending just gave me the warm fuzzies inside, even though it was particularly happy. Everything that I wanted to happen didn't, but the last few chapters at least gave the kind of closure that I like.

Alaunt 01-30-2008 03:36 AM

The only things that I've ever really heard about Inkheart are that it is good. Alot of people have recommended it. I haven't personally read it, though.

kitkat 01-30-2008 03:43 AM

I have partly read it, i am still going through it ;D
i don't think its that dull -glares at tenten- xD

secretdae007 01-30-2008 03:40 PM

Yay! Finished my first book! :D

Alaunt 01-30-2008 06:21 PM

Which book was it again? Too lazy to look at your list. >.<

secretdae007 01-30-2008 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alaunt
Which book was it again? Too lazy to look at your list. >.<

Haha, it was Artemis Fowl (not very long but I haven't had free reading time). I was going to do some more reading of Harry Potter and the CoS but circumstances have prevented that... >.>;

Chaitealatte 01-30-2008 10:50 PM

This is such a fun idea! I'd love to join in! cx

But I'm going to find myself so difficult to keep track of, I just know it. I still have some books ongoing from Christmas before last, simply because I put them aside and got distracted with others. Oh I'm hopeless, hopeless at times! x3

So I'll measure to pages and books. : D

Hopefully to fifty, but things are going to go topsy-turvy and I'm bound to have more time to read once school ends and I begin my gap year (and hopefully attack a reading list for an English Lit. degree! >3< <33)

Chai's List:

Fiction:

I.
Donna Tartt - The Secret History, 629 pgs.

II. Joanne Harris - The Lollipop Shoes, 459 pgs.

IV. Cliff McNish - Angel, 275 pgs.

V. Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca, 441 pgs.

VI. Jenny Downham - Before I Die, 327 pgs.

VII. Siobhan Dowd - The London Eye Mystery, 332 pgs.

VIII. Mary Shelly - Frankenstein, 156 pgs.

IX. Susan Hill - The Albatross, 115 pgs.

XI. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights, 258 pgs.

XIV. Bram Stoker - Dracula, 520 pgs.

XV. Jenny Valentine - Finding Violet Park, 208 pgs.

XVI. Elizabeth Laird - Crusade, 390 pgs.

XVII. Tanya Landman - Apache, Girl Warrior, 311 pgs.

XVIII. Linzi Glass - [i]Ruby Red[/b], 214 pgs.

XIX. Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black, 451 pgs.

Graphic Novels/Things:

III. Svetlana Chmakova - Dramacon, volume 3.

X. Bill Watterson - Calvin and Hobbes, Scientific progress goes "boink"

XII. Bill Watterson - Calvin and Hobbes, The Lazy Sunday Book

XIII. Bill Watterson - The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

Total Books: 19.

Total Pages: 4966.

xemsax 01-30-2008 11:57 PM

Wow! I'd love to try this. Just a question though, do we start counting the books once we sign up for this, or the number of books we've read since January 1st?

Chaitealatte 01-31-2008 12:12 AM

Ooh gosh, good point, xemsax. : O

And technically, I began TSH before New Year anyway. >__< *conflict!*

secretdae007 01-31-2008 12:15 AM

There really isn't a set date for this. Basically, take a year to read as many books as you can/want! There is no competition or anything.

Chaitealatte 01-31-2008 12:20 AM

I'll use Christmas as the beginning and end marker of my year, then. ; D <3

Knerd 01-31-2008 12:21 AM

Yep, start counting the year whenever you'd like. The whole point of the challenge is just to get yourself reading, so little details like that aren't important.

xemsax 01-31-2008 12:42 AM

I guess to make things simple I'll start tomorrow! It's late now, and I'm going to bed soon... This is actually kind of a coincidence for me. A good friend of my father is undertaking a Living Will (its kind of sad, but she is almost 100 :shock: ) and she is giving me all of her old books. I got two and a half boxes of treasures just the other day. I even went through them to see which I would read first. She gave me over half a dozen of the classics, Julius Caesar, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Jane Eyre. I can't wait! The rest are smutty books from the 20s and 30s Hehehe

Eserel 01-31-2008 03:21 AM

XP
BLAAAAH.
I forgot about this thread!
D:
I need to update my list too.
-tries to find some books I just finished-

Chaitealatte 01-31-2008 06:53 PM

I just started two new books - one's for class, though. xO

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, and Angel by Cliff McNish.

Kyoko Otonashi 01-31-2008 07:06 PM

Kyoko's taking up the challange! (i hope the color thing isn't against the rules. It's how i like my lists to look >.>

Kyoko's Book List:

Read:

Eldest (finished it last week, January 24, 2008)
Beka Cooper: Terrier by Tamora Pierce ( finished February 12, 2008)
Currently Reading:

First Test: Tamora Pierce
Azumanga Daio (all manga's in 1 book)

tentenpuff 02-01-2008 01:39 AM


@ kitkat:
I think it is. >D

I mean, it's just a big chase over a book! D;
BLEH.

And the writing's not that good... ^^; I mean, it's not even Funke's words! >>;

Knerd 02-01-2008 03:15 AM

^^ Don't worry about the colors. As long as you don't change the tags for every single book, or post multiple colors everytime you visit the thread, it's fine. =)

I'm about halfway through my next book. With any luck, I'll have it finished by the end of the week, just in time for the Super Bowl!


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