I always hated her in a special sort of way ever since the whole, "Jon, it should have been you," thing.
At least her chapters tend to have something interesting in them. Like that battle at the end of the first one or the Red Wedding.
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Anonymous2009-10-07 21:28
Robinson Crusoe. Required reading for my English literature degree. We're starting in the 1700's, next year is the 1800's, last year 1900's to present day.
I could feel an aura emanating from it when I picked it up and sho' nough a group of people I don't normally speak to came and told me I made a good choice. I'm in their circle now, I guess.
halfway through life, the universe, and everything. so far enjoying it more than restaurant but not as much as the first novel.
plan on reading neverwhere by neil gaiman afterwards
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Anonymous2009-10-08 20:51
JUST finished "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Marquez.
Moving on to some Roald Dahl next
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Anonymous2009-10-08 21:59
I finished Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi today. It was a great book, and a unique take on the first contact situation.
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Anonymous2009-10-08 22:43
Watership Down and Toll the Hounds. A little disappointed with both.
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Anonymous2009-10-08 23:56
>>67
well let's see, a children's book, and a fantasy book. What, exactly, were you expecting?
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Anonymous2009-10-09 0:40
How about "Lies My Teacher Told Me", by James Loewen?
I'm reading it for my Composition class... It's disgustingly well-researched and rips on a LOT of basic American conventions and confronts a lot of topics, such as the educational system, racism and sexism, heroification, social programming, and the ethnocentric viewpoint of American history textbooks.
I'm trying to write a paper on it right now.
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Anonymous2009-10-11 19:53
I just finished Dune for the third time. It had been years since i read it last
If you haven't read it, jesus christ, you need to.
Just started Unintended Consequences by John Ross. Fuck yeah gun culture and literature!
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Anonymous2009-10-14 19:11
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
cool shit. i like it. people die and so it goes.
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Anonymous2009-10-14 23:01
Reading the Hitchhiker's Guide(whole thing), going to continue The Man Who Was Thursday, might reread Roadside Picnic.
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Anonymous2009-10-15 0:52
About to read Warlock by Oakley Hall. We'll see how it is. Just finished Fresh Fields.
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Anonymous2009-10-16 5:03
>>69
To date, I've "lost" 3 copies of "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by loaning it to people who like it so much they "forget" to give it back until they move out of town.
>>70
Eh, took me 3 times to make it through the first chapter of Dune. Once I read it all the way through, I never had any desire to read it, or any of the other Dune books, ever again.
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Anonymous2009-10-16 17:21
>>74 Eh, took me 3 times to make it through the first chapter of Dune.
Seriously? How slow do you read?
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Anonymous2009-10-16 21:16
1984
I'm tired of people making weird faces when I tell them I haven't read it.
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Anonymous2009-10-16 22:01
>>76
Anon is laudably honest. It's apparently high on the list of books people lie that they HAVE read - why is beyond me: it's good and iconic, but hardly something that is really impressive to have read (like, say Thucydides in the original Greek); and it's neither so long nor so difficult that anyone who wanted to say they'd read it couldn't.
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Anonymous2009-10-17 6:49
>>77 (like, say Thucydides in the original Greek)
that's the kind of thing you save to impress harcore interlecturals & academic types. regular people actually know about Orwell
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Anonymous2009-10-17 10:35
>>78
Yeah, but anyone who actually knows Orwell knows that 1984 is not a hard read; therefore not really that impressive a thing to have read. One of the defining novels of the late twentieth century, yes; but not a major achievement to read.
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Anonymous2009-10-17 10:41
>>78
BTW, if "interlecturals" isn't a word, it certainly ought to be.