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Old 03-02-2008, 04:41 PM

The case study of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was about a professor who was suffering from visual agnosia. There are a lot of other mental illnesses in there like Korsakoff's syndrome, proprioception, aphasia and agnosia. I've read a few of the pieces before, so now I'm excited to have the entire thing.

I read Heart of Darkness back in high school, but never anything else by Conrad. It always seems like schools skip over his best works. I know that I won't have time to make my way through the novel right now, with all my classes going on, but I'll save it for this summer.

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Old 03-02-2008, 08:34 PM

So it's a collection of case studies, and one about someone with prosopagnosia (which, according to Wiki, some say is a subtype of agnosia) is among them. : ) I think I get it! xD

It's on my mental list of books to find when-I-have-time. xD

Have you read Dibs? :3

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Old 03-05-2008, 02:48 AM

I'm still on a high from reading Shannon Hale's books. I'm in love with her writing style and her witty humor. Too bad she only has six books out now and I have already read four of them.
I just completed Austenland and I loved it. It would make a really good movie. I think if her other books were made movies they would be ruined and seem so unreal to me. I already want to read them again just to keep the feeling I had reading them fresh.
I so want to be one of her characters. xD
Life after her stories seems rather dull.

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Old 03-07-2008, 04:11 AM

I've fallen way behind on my count this week. Still working on The Amber Spyglass. And I want to find the rest of Philip Pullman's Sally mysteries; I really enjoyed The Ruby in the Smoke.

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Old 03-07-2008, 04:24 AM

@JoieD - I really loved the Sally series. I won't spoil anything, but they were very well written. So were the His Dark Materials series. I hope that you enjoy them all as much as I did/do.

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Old 03-07-2008, 05:30 AM

Right now I'm starting to read the The Oath by Frank Peretti. It's supposed to be really good and I haven't read this genre before besides this one mystery I read in like 6th grade. xD;
Peretti is said to be like the Stephen King for Christian literature. It's a longer book than I have read in a while but it'll probably be one of those books where I am at the edge of my seat while reading it.

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Old 03-07-2008, 07:33 AM

*only read the second Sally book* x3;

I finished it in a hotel in New England, of all places. xD

I don't know whether it's just the fuzziness of my memory, but I never really got the impression I liked Pullman's writing. I will have to try again sometime. I much preferred William Nicholson. cx I made a costume of one of his characters for a textiles project.

Letting my Gothic books lag a bit. Still on Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, and now I'm working on Dracula, too. xD We had a children's horror writer, Marcus Sedgewick, come in and talk to us because of book week. Talked all about Varney the Vampire and the Penny Dreadful, and how the amygdala, the flight-fight response/fear centre of the brain is next to the curiosity centre, which may be why we're so entranced by Gothic stuff... In terms of children's books, his are worth a look too. I don't like his characterization, personally, but the levels of research he does is impressive. My Swordhand is Singing is the only one I've read.

AND I've been helping every lunchtime with a little bookstore the English faculty has organised, helping out a small shop in my hometown. x3 I brought a copy of a book I really wanted my own edition of, so I can read it again in the future and lend it to people.

: ) And I got an A in my January English paper - we got the results back yesterday.

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Old 03-07-2008, 08:10 AM

wow um little late for me to keep track now of what i have read. i can make my chalange a bit less and start from now
is that oke?

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Old 03-07-2008, 08:32 AM

I find this rather interesting. Though I'm going to look for books first before I get to posting my list ^_^

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Old 03-07-2008, 07:12 PM

Okay...this is a cool idea...but I think even 100 books a year would be too low.
Sorry, but I'm a bookaholic and go through anywhere from 3-12 books a month.
But anyway, I'll so be participating!
*considers things*
I'll go for 200 books this year!

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Old 03-07-2008, 08:04 PM

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wow um little late for me to keep track now of what i have read. i can make my chalange a bit less and start from now
is that oke?
Go ahead and make your challenge as much as you want to, 50 books is just a suggestion.
Or, just start now and end next March.
Or, try to remember as many books that you've already read and put them down on your list.

There's a million ways to organize the challenge, so just go crazy!

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Old 03-09-2008, 11:09 PM

xD I finally used my gift card and actually got some books (which I haven't done in a while outside of manga). Must up-date the reading list <3

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Old 03-09-2008, 11:22 PM

Oh. Which books?

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Old 03-09-2008, 11:46 PM

When I moved apartments yesterday, my dad reminded me of a book I got at a library sale a few years ago and never read. Apparently he read it when he was about my age. So I'm excited to put Shardik on my reading list as well.

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Old 03-10-2008, 12:02 AM

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volume II
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(with introduction and notes by Kyle Freeman)

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
(Introduction and notes by Luc Sante)

Heart of Darkness and selected short fiction
-Joseph Conrad
(introduction and notes by A. Michael Matin)

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Old 03-10-2008, 12:04 AM

I've never been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan, but I loved the Count of Monte Cristo.

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Old 03-10-2008, 12:09 AM

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I've never been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan, but I loved the Count of Monte Cristo.
I read the great illustrated classics version of The Count of Monte Cristo a long time ago and enjoyed it. I saw it with the other classics and decided to give a real edition a try xD

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Old 03-10-2008, 12:33 AM

I remember Great Illustrated Classics! Almost every one had the exact same number of pages...

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Old 03-10-2008, 12:39 AM

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I remember Great Illustrated Classics! Almost every one had the exact same number of pages...
It's good for getting younger kids into the classics if you ask me xD Pictures make everything that much better and are good for book reports xD;

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Old 03-10-2008, 12:42 AM

I have nothing against the Great Illustrated Classics. I read many of them, and then went on to read the real versions better. I was just laughing about the page numbers because I literally had that number memorized. I would get upset if there were less pages, but be happy if there were more.

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Old 03-10-2008, 12:48 AM

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volume II
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(with introduction and notes by Kyle Freeman)

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
(Introduction and notes by Luc Sante)

Heart of Darkness and selected short fiction
-Joseph Conrad
(introduction and notes by A. Michael Matin)
I've never read any of them. In fact, the only one I've heard of is The Count of Monte Cristo, which I'll have to read next year . . . possibly.

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Old 03-10-2008, 01:31 AM

1.Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
2.New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
3.Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
4.The Davnci Code by Dan Brown
5.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rawling


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Old 03-10-2008, 01:32 AM

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Heart of Darkness and selected short fiction
-Joseph Conrad
(introduction and notes by A. Michael Matin)

Hooray, we'll both have to read that at the same time. I'm going to reread it at the same time I pick up Youth. The last time I saw the book was in high school, so it should be fun to revisit.

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Old 03-10-2008, 02:09 AM

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Hooray, we'll both have to read that at the same time. I'm going to reread it at the same time I pick up Youth. The last time I saw the book was in high school, so it should be fun to revisit.
The Youth actually was included in this edition xD Well, I kind of picked up this because one of my favorite movies, Apocalypse Now, was inspired by the book Heart of Darkness

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Old 03-10-2008, 07:52 AM

If you want any funny contextual references for Heart of Darkness, I still have my English folder and a woefully full memory. P: Chinua Achebe's is acute and pretty interesting - plus his poetry is good. x3

xD When I had to re-read it before the exam, I sat in the bath and read it aloud. Does anyone else sometimes find it tough to re-read books? Especially in quick succession? x3 Reading aloud stopped my mind wandering, and it was hilarious, inventing all the voices.

"The horror, the horror! *splash*"

...I then proceeded to DROP my book in the bath water on the night before the exam and had to put it on the radiator to dry overnight. It's one of the only two books I've dropped in the bath (German revision notes don't count), so of all the luck!

...I have to battle some gales to get to my school bus, if my mum decides to let us go. It's thrilling outside my window.

 


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