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02-23-2008, 08:15 AM
I've had the giver on my list to read. Just never got around to it.
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02-23-2008, 08:44 AM
I read the Giver in...6th grade? I don't really emember much, except the scene **edited for spoiler**where he sees the color of the apple for the first time. That really stuck with me. I remember I liked it.
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02-23-2008, 12:14 PM
I finished Rebecca and am partway through both Frankenstein - which I don't know what to expect from - and Wuthering Heights. I wish I'd got more reading done while I was away - I'm technically meant to have finished Frankenstein by monday, but I caught a rotten cold which means I've been unable to concentrate on tiny text too much. @[email protected] Not fun. But I'm going to curl up in a hot bath now and hope I don't sneeze all over the pages. xP
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02-23-2008, 03:43 PM
-My Book List-
Completed Books -
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Magic Cottage - James Herbert
Haunted - James Herbert
Currently Reading -
Fluke - James Herbert
Books Yet To Be Read - (In Alphabetical Title Order)
Beowulf - Seamus Heaney - 99 Pages.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K Rowling - 607 Pages.
Magus of Stonewylde (Book 1) - Kit Berry - 312 Pages.
Mister Monday - Garth Nix - 445 Pages.
Moondance of Stonewylde (Book 2) - Kit Berry - 305 Pages.
On The Edge: My Story - Richard Hammond - 306 Pages.
Reader's Digest (4 Books in 1) - 538 Pages.
Rain Fall - Barry Eisler
The Christmas Train - David Baldacci
The Shadow Catcher - Michelle Paver
The Summer That Never Was - Peter Robinson
Solstice at Stonewylde (Book 3) - Kit Berry - 329 Pages.
Spies - Michael Frayn - 234 Pages.
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger - 191 Pages.
The Da-Vinci Code - Dan Brown - 454 Pages.
The Lottery - Beth Goobie - 289 Pages.
The School for Scandal - Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 172 Pages.
The Secret of Crickley Hall - James Herbert - 600 Pages.
Wild Swans - Jung Chang - 650 Pages.
Wormwood - G.P Taylor - 312 Pages.
Manga Read -
0/50
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02-23-2008, 04:31 PM
Books finished:
Season 8 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer...what's out so far
List:
1.Season 8 of BtVS-done
2.Volume 6 of Fables-done
3.Love and Friendship and other early works
4.Castle Waiting
That is my list so far. I will add as I go.
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02-23-2008, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by JoieD
I read the Giver in...6th grade? I don't really remember much, except the scene where he sees the color of the apple for the first time. That really stuck with me. I remember I liked it.
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um don't spoil it D:
read the thread rules?
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02-24-2008, 02:33 AM
Don't worry, that doesn't sound like it gives anything away.
I've never actually read The Giver. It's one of those books that I probably should have picked up at a younger age, but for some reason I just looked over it. Someday I'm sure I'll find it at a used book sale and I just won't be able to pass it up.
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02-24-2008, 02:57 AM
Its a great book, Its a middle school kind of book. Most
of the 8th grade english teachers assigned it to us. We
are still stuck on chapter one, but I have read the whole
thing already.
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02-24-2008, 03:22 AM
Omgs. I read the first 26 pages of A Clockwork Orange. And i've seen the film and loved it and all. But the book so pwns. <3
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02-24-2008, 10:26 PM
Have you ever read anything else by Anthony Burgess? I've always liked some of his other novels better. The Wanting Seed in particular is an amazing read.
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02-24-2008, 10:46 PM
Hmmmn, no. The only reason i'm reading A Clockwork Orange is because of the film really. But now i've started reading it I may have to go and read other stuff by him. >>; xD
I just love the language in A Clockwork Orange, once you've got the jist of it, it's so amazing. * 3* The problem is, i'm gonna end up saying "real horrorshow" alot. xD
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02-25-2008, 12:34 AM
@kitkat: I edited my own post, but I didn't really feel like it gave anything away. It's an essential scene to the book, certainly, but not something that can be understood without the rest.
@SexualPlacebo: You've got a great book list started! I want it. I've been wanting to read A Clockwork Orange for a while, but my list has never been organized.
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02-25-2008, 01:27 AM
xD Thank you. I'm Miss OCD. Everything has to be perfect. <3 I forgot to add Ring to the list though. o:
A Clockwork Orange, is, as i've said, very good. Actually I was just about to head off and read more. ^-^
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02-25-2008, 01:53 AM
My official 250 book challenge list:
Finished
1. A Damsel in Distress by PG Wodehouse
2. The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
3. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
4. Thud! by Terry Pratchett
5. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
6. The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney
7. Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
8. Here's to You, Rachel Robinson by Judy Blume
9. Harriet the Spy by Lois Fitzhurgh
10. Thank You, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
11. Right ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
12. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
13. Making Money by Terry Pratchett
14. The Truth by Terry Pratchett
15. Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
16. Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors
17. The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones
18. Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
19. Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
20. Sandman: The Kindly Ones by Niel Gaiman
21. Fruits Basket vol 17
22. Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke
23. Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
24. The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
25. Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Myster by Deborah and James Howe
26. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
27. The Shamer's Daughter by ?
28. The Shamer's Pendant by ?
29. Legend of Thunderfoot by Bill Wallace
30. Death at the Excelsior and other stories by PG Wodehouse
31. Alcatraz and the Evil Librarians by Brian Sanderson
32. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
33. Marooned by Robert Kraske
34. D is for Dahl by Wendy Cooling
36. Lots of Limericks compiled by Myra Cohn Livingston
37. The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
38. Princess from Another Planet by Mindy Schanback
39. Isabel, Jewel of Castilla by Caroline Meyer
40. The Story of Basketball by Dave Anderson
41. The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
42. Our Eleanor by Candace Fleming
43. At Her Majesty's Request by Walter Dean Meyers
44. Prairie Girl by William Anderson
45. Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
46. Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
47. Fast Forward by Jenny Pausacker
48. Will Somebody Please Marry My Sister? by Edith Clifford
49. The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
50. Eragon by Christopher Paolini
51. Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
52. The Glass Slipper by ? Farehon
53. Sandman: Doll's House by Neil Gaiman
54. Sandman: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
55. Sandman: Season of Mists
56. The Xanadu Adventure by Lloyd Alexander
57. Sandman: Game of You by Neil Gaiman
58. Sandman: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
59. Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
60. The Illyrian Adventure by Lloyd Alexander
61. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
62. Sandman: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
63. Buccanneers by Edith Wharton
64. Four Great Plays by Ibsen (A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Ghosts, Enemy of the People)
65. Jane and the Barque of Frailty by Stephanie Barron
66. Washington Square by Henry James
67. Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
68. The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
69. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
70. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
71. House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
72. The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie M. King
73. A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie M. King
74. Cotillion by Georgette Heyer
75. French Leave by PG Wodehouse
76. A Lady of Quality by Georgette Heyer
77. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
78. Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: the reason behind the rhyme by Chris Roberts
79. Pigs Have Wings by PG Wodehouse
80. The Rumplestiltskin Problem by Vivian Vande Velde
81. Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
82. Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer
83. Mr. Midshipman Horblower by CS Forester
84. Lieutenant Hornblower by CS Forester
85. Hornblower and the Atropos by CS Forester
85. Hornblower during the Crisis by CS Forester
86. Beat to Quarters by CS Forester
87. The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
88. Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
89. Sandman: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman
90. Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
91. Truckers by Terry Pratchett
92. Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer
93. Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
Currently Reading
Selected Comedies by Elizabeth Inchbald
The Atoms of Language
Yet to Read
The Language Instinct by Stephen Pinker
Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Villette by Jane Eyre
Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis
The Poetry and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh
The Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by ? Lindsay
Grendel by James Gardner
Time Hackers by Gary Paulsen
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by EL Konigsburg
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a medieval village by Laura Amy Schiltz
The Italian Garden
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
On the Shoulders of Giants by Kareem Abdul Jabaar
Dinosaurs in the Attic by ??
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A Brave New World by Aldus Huxley
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Zorro by Isabel Allende
Candide by Voltaire
Gargantua et Pantegruel by Rabelais
Les fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Shardik by Richard Adams
God Knows by Joseph Heller
The Brothers Karamazov by Fiodr Dostoyevsky
Kafka on the Shore
Middle English Romances
Fight Club
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
...and a host of others
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02-25-2008, 04:28 AM
Totally needs to be alphabetically ordered. ;P
But wow, 250? That's amazing. Good luck. <3
There's me all "OMFG 50 means 5 a month." Dx
I think i'll probably end up finishing A Clockwork Orange tonight. I'm like, 30 pages from the end and it's only 4:20am. I've had sleeping problems over the last week, can't sleep until like 7am. ;o;
I'm thinking I should probably read the Stonewylde books next, I feel bad because I know the author and everything and I told her i'd read them. >>;
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02-25-2008, 04:32 AM
It was ordered as I thought of the books. There's a lot more I want to read, but I can't remember it right now.
I have to read 50 book just for one class. I know I probably read around 175 a year, and I wanted this to be a challenge. I'm not sure I'll make it, but I'll be happy if I get close.
I'll be done with A Damsel in Distress soon; PG Wodehouse is always a fast read.
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02-25-2008, 04:45 AM
I suppose. o:
I'm pretty sure I can make 50 in a year really, it just sounds alot when you say it. >< As long as I can keep myself interested. I'm already finding my mind wandering. >>; And a lot of the books in my pile I am not looking forward to, I only bought some for a home college course I was gonna do. Like Beowulf and School for Scandal. Dx They seem too tedious. And i've kinda, grown out of Harry Potter and i'm not looking forward to the last book of that either.
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02-25-2008, 04:49 AM
I really didn't enjoy the last Harry Potter book. The best ones were the first three or four, and yeah, you just grow past them. I find it interesting, the translation of Beowulf you have is by a famous Irish poet, and it's an English epic. He did some things with it...Anyway, it's something you really have to find interesting, because studying Beowulf isn't really about the plot or the style, it's about everything else: the history, the little side stories, etc.
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02-25-2008, 05:02 AM
Wells, I just got the Beowulf book I was told. I'll prolly scratch it from my list anyway. Or, save it till last. I'd much prefer a nice James Herbert novel. Which reminds me, I have to buy Fluke. Dad says he has it somewhere but I can't wait. Dx I love the film too much. :3
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02-25-2008, 05:07 AM
It's not a bad version of Beowulf; in fact it's very good. It's a pretty common choice these days, actually, for gen level courses. I was just mentioning something interesting about it.
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02-25-2008, 05:12 AM
>>; Then maybe I shall read it. -Can't decide- xD Anyway. I finished ACO. :3
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Chaitealatte
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02-25-2008, 07:18 AM
Are Gary Pullman and Philip Pullman one in the same, or are there two Amber Spyglasses, or is it so early where I am that I've missed some crucial link? Like he has another name I don't know about. xD;
250! Best of luck. : D What course are you taking that requires you to read fifty?
;3 I still have to read Candide properly... we had it for our informal club a little while back, but I didn't get my own copy until afterwards (I read as much of it as I could on the Internet.)
I've almost finished Frankenstein. I'm hoping the Carnegie shortlist will come out soon - I reckon I've already read what will be the winner. x3 But it'll be fun, and a break from all this Gothic stuff.
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AkashaHeartilly
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02-25-2008, 07:48 AM
So I finished Battle Royale Vol.2
Now not sure what next.
I have Collapse by Jared Diamond, I suppose I should finish that.
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02-25-2008, 01:48 PM
@Chaitealatte: Thank you, it was Philip Pullman, for both books that I have under the name Pullman. ^_^' There's another author who writes books for children named Gary Pullman, but they're very different from Philip Pullman's books!
The class is a children's lit class, but don't let that fool you--I'm not talking picture books here!
I'm trying to read some things in the actual French, which is going to be hard, but fun.
I like Gothic; it can be fun!
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Chaitealatte
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02-25-2008, 02:59 PM
God, I wouldn't let it fool me for a minute. xD
I think I had a rant some pages back about people not taking children's literature seriously. At least I remember intending to. 3<
Most all of my English teachers - the youngest age they teach is eleven at my school - all endorse the Cargenie award, and read them themselves, and usually get people from a variety of year groups to come along.
After all, if it wasn't for children's literature guiding us in and helping us to improve our reading, we wouldn't have as much life left to appreciate adult literature. And you can still convey glorious ideas to children! >O
...Is basically the gist of my feelings.
x) Maybe I'm biased - I could probably quite happily write my own stuff for children/adolescents, and illustrate it, too. That's what my teacher reckons I'll end up doing. xDD
What does your course involve? I'm very interested now! : D
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