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Post by KoNeko on Jan 17, 2005 2:48:07 GMT -5
Alright, I am currently reading A series of unfortunate events: The Slippery Slope, Anthony Kiedis' biography Scar Tissue and my stupid Lawyers' Practice Manual (which is 3 volumes of looseleaf paper and cost me like $250. ). It's pretty obvious which of the three I read for entertainment.
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Post by hermoine on Jan 17, 2005 9:46:39 GMT -5
My Quidditch Through the Ages copy arrived on Saturday, and I really really enjoyed it. Especially JK's humour! I think this must have been the first time I read a book while I was reading another. Oh well, first time for everything I guess.
Now I'll just have to go back to reading and using the science of deduction , until my other books arrive.
EDIT 21/1/05: I thought I should just edit this time because I'm hating having to post after one of my posts.
The books I had ordered also arrived(yeay!) and so I've started reading Tamsin which I'm deeply enjoying, because it's so in character. I really like the parts where she starts writing her own thoughts and when she does a '-' it's like she's thinking various things at once and needs to write them in a rush.
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Post by nancy on Feb 20, 2005 1:07:19 GMT -5
I just finished War of the World and today I'm going to start reading Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and then I'll read The Invisible Man by Wells. I really wanted to take out Farenheit 451 but the 6th semester kids are reading it so all 5 copies are rented. I mean, they don't even want to read it. And I also want to read Lord of the Flies soon.
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Post by KoNeko on Feb 20, 2005 1:21:20 GMT -5
Lord of the Flies is an awesome awesome book, on so many levels. Like, even if you aren't reading it for the English Lit value, it's still a really (slightly horrible) story and there's a great plot and you can see the decay of society... Great stuff. Another good book like that is Huxley's Brave New World, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Post by nancy on Feb 20, 2005 1:28:50 GMT -5
I loved Brave New World, I bought the economy edition for 20 pesos (less than 2 american bucks) about a year ago ... Now i wanna read it in english though, I enjoy reading in english... Anyway, I loved loved loved it, it's such an amzing book... there's so much to it. 1984 is an amzing book, and so is Animal Farm... Was it Orson Welles that wrote them? I can't remember. It's late.
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Post by KoNeko on Feb 20, 2005 1:32:01 GMT -5
1984 and Animal Farm were written by George Orwell. I loved Animal Farm as a kid, because we did that in English and then in History we were studying the Bolshevik revolution, so they kinda went together, which helped my understanding of it.
I think Orson Welles was an actor of some sort? Or maybe you were thinking of H.G. Wells of The Time Machine fame?
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Post by nancy on Feb 20, 2005 1:35:32 GMT -5
Nah... I got confused... Orson Welles was the dude that made the radio version of War of the Worlds in 1938 and got all those people in the states to kill themselves. Yeah. I knew there was a W in there. Now H.G. Wells... would you think Time Machine to be better than War of the Worlds? I'm really not sure... I gotta re-read Time Machine.
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Post by KoNeko on Feb 20, 2005 1:39:38 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, Orson Welles sounds familiar for some reason...
I loved the Time Machine when I read it, just because the concept of time travel then made so much more sense than other science fiction stories, and I had to read it for part of my philosophy thesis. It was interesting how the time traveller experienced time inside the machine, like how everything was in fast forward and stuff.
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Post by nancy on Feb 20, 2005 1:42:13 GMT -5
;D I'm writing my IB thesis on time travel... like folding time and stuff.. I'm so happy they're letting me do it. ;D I'm gonna read both scientific and sciencefiction books for it... I read the Time Machine when I was 10, and the last time I read it was like 3 years ago so...
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Post by KoNeko on Feb 20, 2005 1:46:39 GMT -5
Hehe, that's pretty cool. A good starter book is How to Build a Time Machine by Paul Davies. Well, I didn't have any concept of temporal or spatial physics (because I'm not really a scientist) and that book really helped. Then there's also a few by Stephen Hawking, if you want to delve into that. Otherwise check out other books about time travel paradoxes and backwards causation and stuff. If you want I'll send you a copy of my thesis I did last year.
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Post by nancy on Feb 21, 2005 18:16:44 GMT -5
I've been looking at my school library's book catalgo online and stuff. I really need to go down to the University campus and get some books this week.
I'm gonna get some by Stephen Hawking, and the illustrated editions to some of them...
if you could do that, it would be nice.
I just finished Martian Chronicles today on the bus. It's such an amazing book, I loved it. So much. I'm now going to start The Invisible Man. I love books.
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Post by hermoine on Feb 23, 2005 13:42:49 GMT -5
Guess I'm not reading the same kind of books but I've finally finished my exams and so I finished The Ragwitch and finally bought Abhorsen and am currently reading that.
I've reall come to like Garth Nix's style of writing. But I think after this I'll pick up some kind of romance type, just to see how they are written basically, and to see what my writing should include in such a theme.
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Post by Me on Feb 24, 2005 0:55:49 GMT -5
*hugs a book* I stayed in bed all of yesterday reading. Not a very productive day unless you count me finishing my book!
I started Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury but I can't seem to concentrate on it. Maybe I just need a quiet corner. *shrugs* I'll get around to reading it eventually. Sometimes I'm just not in the right mood for a certain book or author.
Let me see, two weeks ago I finished Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake.
Yesterday I finished John Irving's Widow for a Year.
I would recommend both books.
I've only read an excerpt from The Invisible Man, but from what I read it sounds like a good book. I should read that next.
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Post by nancy on Feb 24, 2005 0:59:13 GMT -5
I sadly had to return it before I finished it because there was a waiting list and I started it like... 12 days after I took it out. But I wrote my name on the list so I can get it again soon. Meanwhile, I have to read a boring essay for spanish class and a boring book for spanish... I wonder why we can't read better books this term.
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Post by hermoine on Feb 24, 2005 13:35:49 GMT -5
I know how you feel nancy. Maltese books are just too boring! I mean, you can't explain yourself in the same way as in English, and they don't have the same twists and turns those written by foreigners do.
Just out of curiosity, have any of you ever come acroos La Divina Commedia? I happened to hear the title and it sounds really intruiging.
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