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#1001
Old 06-04-2008, 07:04 PM

XD
True.
I hope you enjoy the whole series~!

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#1002
Old 06-04-2008, 07:07 PM

Thank you~ I might be able to finish this one today and pick up the next one >w<

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#1003
Old 06-04-2008, 07:16 PM

I am currently reading "The Naming" by Alison Croggon.

I keep getting the feeling that I have run across the terms in this book elsewhere. Pellinor is a very, very familiar name, but I can't place it other than this book. Anyone have any ideas?


Twilight vampires do sparkle...it amused me when I first read it, but I like the concept.

Ender's Game is really good, but it's been ages since I read it. I ought to read it again.

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#1004
Old 06-04-2008, 07:20 PM

Oh dear. There are so many good books I want to read now D8;

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#1005
Old 06-04-2008, 07:25 PM

I know the feeling. Every time I go to the library I have to be dragged away from it because I just keep picking books up. I always feel overwhelmed when I first go into a library, because there are just so many books. I want to read them all! (I wish I was immortal so I could go read them all...)

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#1006
Old 06-04-2008, 07:30 PM

@ Ayaji:
Pelennor Fields is the site of a huge battle in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. That's probably where you first heard the name.

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#1007
Old 06-04-2008, 07:58 PM

Oh! Very true...although I think I've seen it spelled this way before. I keep having vauge feelings that it might be something by Ursula K LeGuin...I think maybe I'll google it>>

I haven't read Lord of the Rings in ages. I really need to finish reading the Silmarillian.

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#1008
Old 06-04-2008, 08:18 PM

Gah! Lord of the Rings! D8 I need to read that XD

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#1009
Old 06-04-2008, 08:20 PM

I should dig my copy out and re-read it...it's been ages since I did last.

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#1010
Old 06-04-2008, 08:25 PM

I don't even have a copy DX;

And seeing as how I'm starting college next year, I'm not sure I can afford much ^^;

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#1011
Old 06-04-2008, 08:59 PM

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LOL. Sometimes I burst out laughing when I'm reading, and my parents wonder about my sanity XD
Heh. Yesterday when I was reading Pride and Prejudice, someone in the book said something that completely pwnd the other person, so I laughed and yelled out "OH! NINETEENTH CENTURY BURN!" I'm sure if my mom had been in the house, she would have thought I was insane. XD

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*points and laughs at Cherry*

You've been infected! And now you'll never be the same again.
Go read some Dostoevsky to get your mind away from the sparkly vampires.
I have. ;_; I HAVE A DISEASE! DX
and yeah. I'm planning on reading a Clockwork Orange once I'm finished with this.
But now I'm afraid I might have to read the sequel to Twilight first.... ;_; What has this book done to me!

And you're right, they are sparkly. I haven't gotten to that part in the book yet, but the fandom is so rabid online, and my boyfriend loves the books that I'd already read about that.

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#1012
Old 06-04-2008, 09:01 PM

ROFL. I would have loved to hear you say that XD

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#1013
Old 06-04-2008, 09:05 PM

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@ Ayaji:
Pelennor Fields is the site of a huge battle in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. That's probably where you first heard the name.
There is also the Book of Pellinor series. Pellinor sounding the same as Pelennor.

The first one is called The Naming, then The Riddle, then The Crow, and finally -or so i know- The Singing.

EDIT: xD. Just read Ayajis post. Man I am like o.o. Before that though, I had only heard about Pelennor from Lord of the Rings, So I cannot really help.

Her first book was called The Gift but has since been remade and republished to be the Naming. That is where you might have heard it from Ayaji.

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#1014
Old 06-04-2008, 11:50 PM

Finished Ender's Game. Now I have nothing to read D8; (booo!)

I should work on my projects now >_>

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#1015
Old 06-05-2008, 12:31 AM

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Don't read it if you don't like being giggly. XD
I nearly shot myself in the head when I kept finding myself with this huge, dorky smile on my face, nearly giggling.
I'd keep stopping, and then twisting my face up into this angry expression to try to kill the smile. XD It was so dorky.
Twilight is really good.
I was the same way. I would get this huge smile on my face and my mom would look over and be like "what's with the smile, something good happen?" Then I would just start laughing and tell her to read the book.
I tried to stop smiling by making other faces but it always went back to a smile.

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#1016
Old 06-05-2008, 05:18 AM

I want to read Twilight...

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#1017
Old 06-05-2008, 07:27 AM

@Suki – What you said expressed just the sentiment I was trying to get at; with some books, you can tame things within your imagination to suit your own limits. However others, I’ve found, can get inside your head and genuinely unsettle you (War of the Worlds and Brave New World did this to me. >~<)

Chocolat the movie, or Chocolat the book? Actually, the movie follows the book generally pretty closely; there are only a few deviations, but I do prefer the book. It’s all about misperceptions and assumptions, good-intent, individuality, and acceptance. Although it’s Church against chocolate, it’s more about the misuse of power that comes with being a religious leader, and that we need to learn not to dehumanise and, unfounded, set ourselves against people because they hold different beliefs. The writing is very, very good if you like a lot of description and texture. It always left me hungry. In regard to The Lollipop Shoes, I reckon you could read them independently of one another… most of the background that’s necessary is explained, and I had a couple of years in between reading them. The only thing I’d say is reading Chocolat makes you feel the change in Vianne’s character from book-to-book more acutely.

As for Dracula, if you do ever decide to read it, I found it easy to get through. ^ ^ There aren’t any “I vant to svuck your blurd” bits. In fact, I can only think of one example of overt blood-sucking; the rest is only hinted at/aborted before anything can happen. And Dracula and his three females are more subtle than that. The few critical pieces I’ve read about it suggest it’s very sexualised – but that’s the point, ‘the power of the Gothic… is to use the supernatural as an image for real and carefully depicted social fears’. Taken in a Victorian climate, the vampires are just as wicked for representing promiscuity and deviance as well as being plain Satanic. >~< It’s cautionary, but still very enjoyable. I just adore Van Helsing.

Nothing I’ve said above constitutes a spoiler, does it? @[email protected] *just realised how much she’s getting in to it*

@Platinum – If you enjoyed 1984, try Brave New World, if you haven’t already. As I said above, it got inside my head, but it’s extremely clever. I really enjoyed My Sister’s Keeper as well. Try Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time-Traveller’s Wife?

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#1018
Old 06-05-2008, 03:40 PM

Gah. I really need to read that!.. I've been wanting to read Brave New World for almost six months now >_<

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#1019
Old 06-05-2008, 11:09 PM

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Twilight is really good.
I was the same way. I would get this huge smile on my face and my mom would look over and be like "what's with the smile, something good happen?" Then I would just start laughing and tell her to read the book.
I tried to stop smiling by making other faces but it always went back to a smile.
It would only go away if I made faces and asserted in my head how ridiculous that I was being. XD But there would still be a hint of it there.


Aaand... I finished Twilight last night. XD Nearly 500 pages in 26 hours. o_o
I ordered New Moon today.... XD

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#1020
Old 06-05-2008, 11:48 PM

I went and ordered the witching hour. I got a credit because a book I mailed out finally got to its destination ^.^

Can't wait! -into the whole fantasy world-

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#1021
Old 06-06-2008, 12:04 AM

AHA!
-points at Cherry-

Teaches you to judge a book by its... its...
Reviews and fans. >>;

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#1022
Old 06-06-2008, 12:26 AM

@PlatinumChild: I love all those dystopian novels to death. If you like 1984 and Brave New World, you might also like these:

The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess (same man who wrote A Clockwork Orange)
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
Neuromancer by William Gibson

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#1023
Old 06-06-2008, 12:40 AM

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It would only go away if I made faces and asserted in my head how ridiculous that I was being. XD But there would still be a hint of it there.


Aaand... I finished Twilight last night. XD Nearly 500 pages in 26 hours. o_o
I ordered New Moon today.... XD
That's fast. Everyone I talk to has read it in less then 2 days. I was slower on it. I read it in 3 days.
Do you know if the 4th one has come out yet?

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#1024
Old 06-06-2008, 01:34 AM

@ lilith:
Breaking Dawn comes out on August 2nd~ X3 -can't wait-

The special edition of Eclipse has a preview of it.
I like the cover of the new one~

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#1025
Old 06-06-2008, 01:51 AM

Tenten - And it's synopsis and details. XD

Lilith - Like tenten said, it comes out in August.
And yeah, I was shocked by how fast I read it. XD I stayed up until four reading it the first time I picked it up. Read about half the book in four hours. XD



My boyfriend is a big twilight fan (he's the one who got me to read it) and he and I were arguing earlier about the set up of the biology classroom earlier. o_o;
Like, how we pictured it in our heads.
He insists that there's three rows next to each other, and Bella and Edward's table was in the middle row, and about in the middle of the room. And that Bella sat on the left of the table, and Edward on the right.
I insist that there are two rows next to each other, they're about three rows back fro the front, and Edward's on the left and Bella on the right.
XDDD
We weren't being super serious about the argument, though. Just being dorks. XD

 


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