Yahoo and MSN are actually compatible, Anna. If you give me your MSN name, I could add that. I think it causes some problems with visibility, though. Like, if I'm invisible to you but then go visible, it'll still tell you I'm not online.
Nancy - Ha, you know, that's possible. :lol:
And jeez, how could you reread a book that many times in such a short period of time. @[email protected]
Wait, GMail's compatible with MSN now? @[email protected]
I added you, but I dunno if it'll work. I've had problems with adding MSN people in the past. I think hammy tried to add me once and YIM was like "wtfno"
Last edited by Cherry Who?; 08-20-2010 at 08:54 PM..
The other two ok, but do you need a headset to have skype? (sorry, I'm pretty, um, technologically illiterate)
Also, here's what I've been reading/re-reading this summer: Hound of the Baskervilles, A Morbid Taste for Bones (the first in the Brother Cadfael series), The Mistress of the Art of Death, The Great Gatsby, The Count of Monte Cristo, and I'm working on Emma. Also, Michael Wood's India, but that's more like a wondrous coffee table book. So well done, but not a constant read, you know?
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No, Skype is also for IMing. It makes putting chatrooms together really easy, and we don't have to keep asking Kev to get on Yahoo to talk to him.
@anna
Ohh, I read Hound of the Baskervilles last year. :'D
/can't spoil
Here's my stack of books:
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (read)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (read)
Fight Club by Chuck Pahluniuk (read)
Push by Sapphire
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymore: An Introduction by JD Salinger
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Down and Out in London by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
and uhh a book of short stories that was edited by this guy ^
No, Skype is also for IMing. It makes putting chatrooms together really easy, and we don't have to keep asking Kev to get on Yahoo to talk to him.
@anna
Ohh, I read Hound of the Baskervilles last year. :'D
/can't spoil
Here's my stack of books:
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (read):heart:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (read)
Fight Club by Chuck Pahluniuk (read)
Push by Sapphire
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymore: An Introduction by JD Salinger Dunno this one... tell me how you like it.
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Down and Out in London by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding excellent choices!
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky What's this about?
and uhh a book of short stories that was edited by this guy ^
@ big L's
Yeeee. :'D
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is about this guy, I think he's in highschool? And he's writing all of these letters that tell what's going on with him... I don't really know what it's about exactly, but absolutely everyone who has read it say it's excellent and a lot of them say it's changed the way the see things somehow or something? xD
And ahh it's weird, I feel like I'm becoming my brother... the other day I saw him reading Wilde and Salinger, and I know he's been a fan of Pahluniuk for a while now. xD;;
I think after I'm done with this big stack, I'll finish rereading HP, then maybe start on that list of books everyone should read.
xD
Oh, and I forgot to say, Biggles, Hound of the Baskervilles is awesome. It's my favorite Holmes story. I really wish I had it, but when I read it, it was borrowed from someone. :c
Here's my to-read list, since we're all sharing:
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
American On Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot - Craig Ferguson
A Rumor of War - Phillip Caputo
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
John Dies at the End - David Wong
Last edited by Cherry Who?; 08-21-2010 at 07:39 AM..
That's great Cherry! I have many of those particular books. Well worth reading. I see a bit of a dystopian trend in your choices.
I was watching the Jeremy Brett version of Sherlock earlier, but I had to turn if off, because now I want to read that story! (It happened to be The Sussex Vampire. Even Holmes seemed to be getting creeped out.)
Got my tickets :boogie: Just in the nick of time it would seem, it's more than a month away, and some showings are already sold out.
Wait, GMail's compatible with MSN now? @[email protected]
I added you, but I dunno if it'll work. I've had problems with adding MSN people in the past. I think hammy tried to add me once and YIM was like "wtfno"
No, it's not compatible, it's just that your username is your email address and I happen to use gmail. I can't use MSN within gmail (although I can do that with AIM. Speaking of which, NAN. WHERE ARE YOUUU? It doesn't say you've added me or anything...)
Aw, that sucks. Hopefully it works for us. :<
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Why don't we all just get Skype? c:
WE CAN HEAR EACH OTHER'S VOICES. COME ON. IT'S EASY AND FUN AND CONVENIENT, GAIS.
Haha, I am so bad at Skype. I dowloaded it once, but I couldn't figure out how to open it. xD
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Here's my stack of books:
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (read)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (read)
Fight Club by Chuck Pahluniuk (read)
Push by Sapphire
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymore: An Introduction by JD Salinger
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Down and Out in London by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
and uhh a book of short stories that was edited by this guy ^
Agggh, I need to read a lot of the books you listed!!! I started reading the picture of Dorian Grey a looooong time ago, when I was way too young, because my dad suggested it... I was, like, ten? I got through about the first chapter. xD I read To Kill A Mockingbird when I was 8 or 9, and loved it all except for the trial scene. =_=
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE The Perks of Being a Wallflower!!!! My friend lent me that a few summers ago, soooo good! One of my favorites. :heart:
I'm gonna say what it's about even tho Nan already did. xD
So, it's about this kid just starting high school and (like everyone) he wants to fit in. He gets two friends (a girl and her older brother, I think?) and they start doing pretty much everything together. He falls in love with the girl, but she has a boyfriend (I think. It's been a while). So anyways, he starts going to parties with these two and everyone is doing heavy drugs at these parties, so, of course, he succumbs and gets into a whole shitload of trouble. I can't tell you the best part of the story because that would spoil it, but there's a twist that is simply amazing. :drool:
Also, Nan, if you liked that book, you should read It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. It is my absolute favorite book, I just re-read it the other day, it's about a kid with depression who goes to a mental hospital. They're making a movie of it, but... eh, I don't trust movies. xD
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Oh, and I forgot to say, Biggles, Hound of the Baskervilles is awesome. It's my favorite Holmes story. I really wish I had it, but when I read it, it was borrowed from someone. :c
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
I need to read me some Sherlock Holmes!!! And s'more Agatha Christie.
Brave New World is pretty good, but it gets really weird towards the end. The beginning is a fun read, Huxley describes the future really well, but... it gets really depressing really fast. xD;
Biggles - Anyway, you see correctly! I tend to favor dystopian and otherwise dark tales. Autobiographies, too, but the ones I like tend to fall under "dark" anyway. :lol: Unsurprisingly, my favorite book of all time is 1984.
If you've got any suggestions, feel free to throw them at me. I'm also considering reading Lolita, but I hear such mixed feelings about it. I've yet to determine, though, if those thoughts are just "ew, pedophilia [that's being described in a frank way]" or "this is really slow/drawn-out/poorly written for my tastes/etc." Have you read it?
Ooh, lucky! Be sure to tell us all about it.
Anna - Ahh, but depressing is my favorite flavor. :lol:
Also, since Kafka keeps coming up, hopefully you all will be able to appreciate the Franz Kafka rock opera... Ahh, Home Movies.
Last edited by Cherry Who?; 08-21-2010 at 07:46 AM..
O.O I mentioned I was going to read Lolita? Cos that is what is intended to be next on my list, but I was thinking that I had just been thinking it a lot.... instead of typed it out.
I just don't know anymore...
But yeah, I think you should read it. Um, let me see if I can find an article that might give you a better idea of whether or not you should... I think it was Newsweek...
LOL. I Love that one, Cherry. Always have. Plus, there's this episode centred around a school musical? That one always near makes me wet myself.
Oh, no, I've just been hearing "meh" responses from people who have read it recently. And not those "I HATE BOOKS, I DON'T READ" people, either. :lol:
Well, if you do decide to read it, let me know what you think. I could use a good opinion. And thanks for the article! I'll check that out in the morning. I'd read it now but it's 3 AM and my sleep aid's about to kick in. :lol: Night!
If it's any inspiration, my mom was telling me that back in the day, Lolita was a "book your parents wouldn't let you read" and that gave it some gravitas. Back in the day.
I've read most of that article now. I'm going to quit at page 4 since then it becomes an in-depth synopsis, and I don't want to spoil the entirety of the book. I read the basic plot of it a while ago, but I don't want to spoil all of it. What I have read of this article has convinced me to read it, though.
The way the characters are being described as being in the book reminds me of another book I've read, and if you don't mind, I'm going to suggest it to you. The Collector by John Fowles. Be very careful about what you read about it, as it may spoil the ending, which in this case, will ruin the entire book. So I'll give you a quick run-down of it myself.
After coming into a large bit of money, an emotionally problematic man stalks and then kidnaps a young woman, holding her captive in his basement. But the way in that this is different from the typical story is that the man is not quite a monster. He doesn't rape her, he doesn't harm her, he's not sick. Or at least not sick in that sense. He is very off, however, in that he does think she's going to love him eventually. He's a character you pity, not hate. The girl, on the other hand, you actually develop a bit of a loathing for, especially in the section of the book that is told by her. She's not depicted as a perfect girl in distress. She's an incredibly hypocritical, confused young woman who is incapable of thinking completely for herself. She is constantly ranting about the majority of the population and it being a slave to normalcy, yet she never thinks anything unless someone else thinks it for her. She just echoes what these other people think.
So really, you hate both of the characters, but they're very real in that sense. You don't like everyone in the world. It's an incredibly well-written book. It's a bit disturbing in that the man is a bit sick in the head, but it's not disturbing in that he's cruel or does cruel things.
There's also lots of references to The Tempest in it, so if you're a fan of Shakespeare, you'll get some nice little treats thrown at you.
Last edited by Cherry Who?; 08-21-2010 at 10:49 PM..
OH. THAT IS A GREAT BOOK. OR SO I HAVE HEARD. I HAVE A SERIOUS INTEREST IN READING IT.
And yes on the Shakespeare thing. Guess what dominates my bedroom wall?
But then, I love the Pre-Raphaelites. And that painting... Is my favourite of all time.
The naturalism (a key pre-raphaelite concern), the organic colour scheme (which serves to make the painting more immediate), The literary source (squee), and the Pathos, Oh the Pathos! (<3)
