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Post by Wolfy on Mar 22, 2006 0:03:31 GMT -5
*giggles* Yes, i guess it does. >^_^<
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Post by silverwolf on Mar 22, 2006 0:05:38 GMT -5
*attempts to shove book through the monitor to wolfchild* Ergggg....
Sorry, not working.
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Post by Wolfy on Mar 22, 2006 0:08:41 GMT -5
It's ok. I'll just stay around the library until whoever has it returns. >^_^<
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Post by Flagg on Mar 22, 2006 0:14:45 GMT -5
Hm... I'm not sure if your library(s) work like the one I worked at, but can you put it on reserve?
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Post by Wolfy on Mar 22, 2006 9:08:19 GMT -5
*slaps forehead* Duh! *sheepish smile*I forgot about that...^^;;
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Post by Flagg on Mar 22, 2006 12:52:09 GMT -5
Hey, it's always better when you forget to reserve a book than when you forget to return one. ; )
Does anyone have any favorite non-fiction books? (I know, I know... I mean what "normal" people consider non-fiction. Lord of the Rings may be true, but for some reason, most people don't want to admit it)
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Post by Shippo_no_Neko on Mar 22, 2006 19:51:11 GMT -5
I liked "Animal Farm." Okay, so not REALLY non-fiction, but a great book. It's socialist russia... with... animals. Only, reallyreally good.
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Post by RyokoDragonez on Mar 24, 2006 0:09:19 GMT -5
Oooo~! Animal Farm was good~! I loved that book so much when I read it. I love how Orwel portrayed the leaders of the USSR as pigs *Snicker*. Such a stab at the leadership at the time.
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Post by silverwolf on Mar 24, 2006 11:00:12 GMT -5
On the subject of almost real books, I've gotta mention "The Moon Is Down". It was a very insightful look into the minds of people. It was about a fictitious town in World War II.
I wanna read "Animal Farm" now.
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Post by Zolah on Mar 24, 2006 12:17:31 GMT -5
Anyone read the amulette from samarkand?
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Post by Flagg on Mar 24, 2006 13:04:12 GMT -5
Sadly I have not, Zolah. What is it about?
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Post by Awakened on Mar 24, 2006 17:09:39 GMT -5
As ryokodragon1 said, Animal Farm is the shiznitz and there is a good reason why it is required reading in colleges through out the United States. As for books that I have read there was The Hobbit, and all but the Return of the King as far as the Lord of the Rings series goes before I was finished with the second grade. I have also read A Midsummer's Night Dream, Macbeth, most of the Eye of the World Series, Dante's Inferno, the Something From the Nightside series, the Last Legionary series, and a bunch of other books that would take too long to list. However, it bares noting that Dante's Inferno, a Midsummer's Night Dream, and Macbeth still remain my all time favorites to this day. Mostly now though I just read magazines like Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, New Scientist, Discover Magazine, and occasionally the National Geographic. Does anyone here read Shakespeare much? I am thinking of getting back into reading him so fi any here can recommend any of his classics besides the two that I listed I would be grateful .
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Post by Flagg on Mar 24, 2006 18:48:29 GMT -5
I haven't read a whole lot of Shakespeare, but I was in a production of Macbeth once. That was scary times... But I can suggest Much Ado About Nothing and Twelth Night. Those are always fun.
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Post by Awakened on Mar 24, 2006 19:24:37 GMT -5
Thanks! Can you tell me what those books are about. Or maybe just Much Ado About Nothing. I seem to remember hering something about that one but darn if I can remember what.
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Post by Flagg on Mar 24, 2006 20:10:57 GMT -5
Heh, it's actually a little hard to explain (who would've guessed with Shakespeare, right?). In Much Ado, basically, two people fall in love, then two more people fall in love, then the first two people fall out of love because of a villain! And then... Well, I don't want to spoil it. ; ) I think Twelth Night is much the same, except there's more cross-dressing. Well, of course they're quite a bit different, but the basic elements of love, loss and love again are present.
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Post by Awakened on Mar 24, 2006 20:18:46 GMT -5
Thanks, I'll check it out.
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Post by Shippo_no_Neko on Mar 25, 2006 15:06:57 GMT -5
Right now, I am working on the Silmarrilion (sp?!) It is interesting >.> I'm finding it hard to get into, though. Oh, and I have 1984 on hold at the library.
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Post by Zolah on Mar 25, 2006 15:14:14 GMT -5
It is about a young boy wich suceeds in summoning a demon, quite funny ^^'' it has even small notes left by the demon in the whole book.
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Post by RyokoDragonez on Mar 25, 2006 18:45:52 GMT -5
The Silmarilion read like a history book >.<
I have to say... The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is probably my favorite play by him. I laughed so hard...
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Post by Awakened on Mar 25, 2006 19:15:33 GMT -5
I never read the Taming of the Shrew but I saw the movie. And yes, it was really funny. ^_^
Has anyone read The Screwtape Letters or the Shannara series?
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Post by Homsar on Mar 25, 2006 19:18:23 GMT -5
The Screwtape Letters are great... But then again, C.S. Lewis is great. I only read/listened to on tape (best thing to do on long car rides!) the first Shannara book. I wasn't extremely impressed by it, but I know someone who's read pretty much all of them, I think.
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Post by Zolah on Mar 25, 2006 19:18:28 GMT -5
Ive got almost all of shannara but not the first book.. so i refuse too read them *Sweatdrop*
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Post by Flagg on Mar 25, 2006 21:51:49 GMT -5
Sounds entertaining, Zolah. : )
Whee! Screwtape Letters! That's an excellent book, but then again, like Homsar said, C.S. Lewis tends to be excellent. Hee hee, I have a copy on tape, read by none other than John Cleese.
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Post by Daggertooth on Mar 26, 2006 2:13:19 GMT -5
I Read some of the Shannara series. Excelent series. But that was long ago. If I wanted to get back into it I'd probably have to read the series over again. I also read "magic kingdom for sale/sold" which was a rather interesting.
I've liked what I have read of C.S. Lewis but haven't read alot of his stuff.
Has the Wheel of time series been mentioned yet? I've been working on it slowly. It's been over a year and I'm on book 6...or 7. :sweat:
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Post by Zolah on Mar 26, 2006 3:47:21 GMT -5
Entertaining? not really ,I am kinda pissed.
anyone read anything by Robin Hobb?
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Post by Daggertooth on Mar 26, 2006 3:52:38 GMT -5
So why don't you just get the first book and start reading it. There are a lot of books to that series, why would you go get all of them but the first one?
I hate it when I accidently get a book thats not the first in the series. Most books I'm interested in are in some form of series. Is this a Scifi/fantasey thing or does this occure with every genera. Whatever, makes picking a new book at random kinda hard.
Doesn't help that stores often stalk every book except the first one.
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Post by Flagg on Mar 26, 2006 20:12:05 GMT -5
Heh, I was talking about the book you had mentioned earlier, Zolah. : ) The Amulette of Samarkand.
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Post by Awakened on Mar 26, 2006 23:09:24 GMT -5
Entertaining? not really ,I am kinda pissed. anyone read anything by Robin Hobb? Who is Robin Hobb? What did he write that you liked?
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Post by Dundee on Mar 26, 2006 23:23:12 GMT -5
God, I can't believe myself. When I was in elementary school, my mom kept on trying to get me to read Little Women, but I wouldn't. She pleaded and cried and even tried to read it to me aloud, but my soul was strictly sold to science fiction fantasy books. Just started it again about a week ago, and now I'm bashing my head against the wall because of it. Warning to those who haven't read the book, spoilers right now: WHY DID JO FORSAKE LAURIE? ? HE GAVE HER HIS HEART ON A SILVER PLATTER AND SHE SMASHED IT WITH A HAMMER!!!!!!!!!!!! And then Beth! o Beth, why must you have departed so soon? You were the sweetheart of the neighborhood, and died alone in Jo's loving grasp; aw crud, now I'm tearing up. *sniffle* I love Little Women. 'Tis most certainly one of the best pieces of literature of Jo's time.
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Post by Flagg on Mar 26, 2006 23:28:45 GMT -5
Quee! Little Women! : D I love that story. *START OFF-TOPIC COMMENT* I was in a stage production, as Laurie. That was good times. *END OFF-TOPIC COMMENT* I think the only reason we have for what Jo did is... Well, Jo is Jo. Many wonderful things she may be, but even-keeled is not one of them. Not that this is an entirely bad thing, hardly, since if she were, the story would be much less interesting! Still, it does make her do a few things that make us as readers cringe for her sake.
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