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Post by En on Dec 9, 2003 16:15:50 GMT -5
Mm... you know, I've never actually read it. Maybe I'll give it a go just so I know what you're talking about. (Me? Contrary? Never )
Meanwhile, Valkyrie, I'm gonna cast my vote with Ceri here... there are several good stories... try "The Fox." And read bits of it out loud to yourself (don't worry, no "Anglo-Saxon" words ;D), because Lawrence was very concerned with poetry, with the sound of things. *nods*
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Post by S.S Tigress on Jan 10, 2004 13:35:32 GMT -5
I didn't like The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks. I had gotten halfway and just couldn't finish. I mentioned it somewhere on another board and someone told me it gets better, just starts off slow. I finished it, regretting I ever kept going. It was completly dull. I think it the worst book Sparks has ever written.
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Post by Simply Panda on Jan 10, 2004 17:19:49 GMT -5
ohhh... I likedThe Rescue! lol.
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Post by Sarah on Jan 19, 2004 14:15:44 GMT -5
i tried to read For whom the bell tolls a lil while ago, and i couldn't follow along. it was sooo annoying! lol. but i also gave up after about 33 pages...so maybe i should've tried harder? p.s. nicholas sparks...hmmm....that sounds familar. a good familar. but i've never read the rescue...what other books has he written?
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Post by S.S Tigress on Jan 19, 2004 14:46:12 GMT -5
Most known is A Walk To Remember because of the movie. If you're a big big reader of some romance novels, The Notebook should sound familiar. Also Message In a Bottle was made a movie awhile ago as well.
They're filming for Notebook right now, I'm so excited!
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Post by Calantha on Jan 19, 2004 19:45:54 GMT -5
I didn't really like A Walk to Remember very much... But I won't say don't read it.
On the subject of Darkness a bit back, I really hated Heart of Darkness the first time I read it but really liked it the second time. It must be a book that you have to wait for the right time to read it.
A series I don't wish upon anyone: The Left Behind Series.
UGH. Major Ugh.
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Post by guinevere on Jan 21, 2004 13:33:36 GMT -5
I have the first one in the Left Behind series..bought it at a thrift shop for 25 cents--and plan on reading it eventually, maybe. the authors of said series are getting ready to sell the last one in the series--I wonder if they just ran out of ideas....
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Post by Calantha on Jan 21, 2004 16:45:11 GMT -5
Hmmm I think the biggest issue for me with it was that my beliefs...don't really get along well with the writers' beliefs and it made me angry. And I didn't feel like having that much of an open mind with reading it.
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Post by En on Jan 21, 2004 20:28:07 GMT -5
*shrugs* I didn't think they were all that well written, either. You want good post-apocalypse fiction, try A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller. It's terrific, inventive, insightful -- makes loads of sociological sense, too.
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Post by Simply Panda on Jan 23, 2004 13:28:45 GMT -5
I read the first 3 in the Left Behind series... story is good... but the authors are REALLY REALLY conservative Christians: Be prepared. Oh... and a lot of the main characters have annoying names... as in, it's all well and good for people to have different and interesting names but not when EVERYONE does. It makes the story seem not realistic(and i think they meant it to seem as realistic as possible) I stopped reading after finidng out the authors were into burning Harry Potter Books and what not. One of them was involved in that crap movie called Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged (it was a big deal when it came out, I don't know if you guys have seen it, I watched it for a research paper I did last year). The movie was quite entertaining though:HARRY POTTER IS EVIL!(shows a scene from The Craft). Lol... oh, well... can't do much about that.
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Post by En on Jan 23, 2004 13:59:06 GMT -5
Ye-eah. *mutters* How thick do you have to be....
I don't very often read books when I know I'm going to disagree deeply with the writers, though I make myself read some of them just to stay informed. Anyone else do this? Probably #1 on my all-time list for "books I made myself read even though I wanted to chuck them straight at their authors" would be The Bell Curve, which is probably the single most destructive and disgustingly maladjusted book on popular science written in the last century....
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Post by nancy on Jun 15, 2004 17:14:36 GMT -5
Oh, The Bell Curve? Is that the book about the IQ that says White people in general have higer IQ's than people of other races? I didn't read the full book, just a couple of passages for a report, and I thought it was extremely racist and Nazi-like... "Oh yeah, we're better 'cause we're white." Really really conservative? How conservative?
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Post by d on Jun 18, 2004 12:52:14 GMT -5
The Last of the Mohicans has managed to become a couple of classic movies while the book is horrible. Cooper writes the most snore-inducing prose. His ability to structure a story is nonexistent as well. I guess that's why the movies are so differetn, huh?
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Post by Ritsu on Jul 20, 2004 18:28:32 GMT -5
The Secret Garden.
I liked the movie a lot (what I remember from it), I decided to buy the book the other day (a library in Lisbon has this new collection of English Literature's classics for only 6€, I'm trying to collect them all). It's got to be the dullest book I've read for sometime. I kept on reading it because I thought the story would grow interesting but hey, it's only interesting in the beginning, when she's discovering the house and all. It gets so dull. And the characters are just so innocent. I would expect Mr. Craven to make a scene when he found out about the garden but he just accepted it. I didn't get it. No one's that benevolent.
I'm currently reading Jane Eyre, from that same collection. I have to say the way it's written is a bit boring and dull too, but it's a different kind of situation because I already knew beforehand the story was great, so I'll keep on reading it.
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Post by Simply Panda on Jul 21, 2004 0:58:03 GMT -5
my mom grounded me in the 3rd grade until i finished the secret garden... i'm still bitter. stick with jane eyre... it really does get better!
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