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Wardargon
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 Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject: BOOKS! |
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What are your favorite books and/or what are you reading right now?
My list of favs:
The Death Gate Cycle series by Tracy Hickman and Margarate Weis
The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik
Wings of a Falcon by Cynthia Voigt
The Dragon and the Unicorn by A. A. Attanasio
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Sarah
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| One of my all-time favourite books is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I also recently read The Colour Purple, which I really enjoyed. This year it's mostly been theory essays for me! |
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Kitty
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:09 am Post subject: |
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I read the Handmaid's Tale many years ago - very chilling!
Some of my all time favourites are:
The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Amtrak Wars series - (except for the last one) by Patrick Tilley
I haven't really been reading much lately - too busy on forums...  |
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Verudellita
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I'm now really into Virginia Woolf and I'm going to "reread" Chronicles of Narnia.
I actually don't have my favourite book, long time it was Astrid Lindgren books, I loved Pipi Longstocking and Sindibad's travels. Then LOTR and nowadays I mosty prefer classic literature one I have to read it for school lessons and two I think people should know the best pieces of literature.
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Sarah
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Oh Pride and Prejudice. I've studied it too much to make it one of my favourites. It's not even my favourite Austen, to be honest. But I do enjoy it. I prefer to read it as a social criticism and a satire than as "the greatest romance novel ever", but that's just me. 
I need to finish the Chronicles of Narnia this summer when I get a chance. I too am a big Woolf fan. "A Room of One's Own" makes me so happy! If you like feminist writers that are more lecturers/essayists then try Simone De Beauvoir, Helene Cixous, Judith Butler, Eve Sedgewick or Luce Irigaray. <3
I've just filled my brain full of random information about Romantic poets, so novels are sort of escaping me right now. But I actually like A Separate Piece in high school, and I'm a Shakespeare fan (sick, I know). Plus Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys was really good (a prequel to Jane Eyre) if anyone's a fan.
Huge fan of Harry Potter over here. And I like LotR but found them difficult to push through to the end. The Hobbit, however, is a classic for me!
Two books I cannot STAND though? Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights. Ugh. |
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Kitty
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I was fortunate not to be forced to read Pride and Prejudice! I too love it (and pretty much all Jane Austen) for the social history and certainly wouldn't class it as the greatest romance! Don't think anyone can really make that judgement about any novel! Except as a personal opinion of course.
I have tried to read LoTR three times! But it defeats me unfortunately!
Harry Potter - no way! I am apparently the only person in the whole world with absolutely no interest in it! |
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Verudellita
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well, I read Harry Potter, I have read all the books, but since my favourite character died, I liked it less and less. But I am a big fan of Malfoy and Snape. 
| Quote: | | and I'm a Shakespeare fan (sick, I know). |
I don't think that to love Shakespeare is sick. I actually really like his historical games, I did Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer Night Dream
though I like him very much. I appreciate most his sonets.
As regards the poetry I love decadence, such as Rimbaud or Baudelaire.
But Jane Eyre, dunno, but I didn't find anything new or suprisin' in the book, I read it twice, 'cause I thought I had to miss something but no way. Lost book for me.
| Quote: | | Two books I cannot STAND though? Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights. Ugh. |
Frankenstein sucks, but I really enjoyed Stokers Dracula. 
| Quote: | | I have tried to read LoTR three times! But it defeats me unfortunately! |
I had problems with the third book, I could just pass the middle part of the book so I stopped and reread it few months later. |
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Sarah
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| Kitty wrote: | | Harry Potter - no way! I am apparently the only person in the whole world with absolutely no interest in it! |
Nahhh. One of my housemates won't touch it, even to see if it's as bad as he believes it must be.
Personally, I started reading when I was twelve and got hooked. It was my first fandom! |
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Sarah
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| Verudellita wrote: | | well, I read Harry Potter, I have read all the books, but since my favourite character died, I liked it less and less. But I am a big fan of Malfoy and Snape. |
I LOVE DRACO. And Alan Rickman makes Snape hot. But anyway, I don't think either of them are really EVIL. In the grey area, sure, but...
| Quote: | | I don't think that to love Shakespeare is sick. |
Oh thank you! I have such a hard time finding people who enjoy it outside my Shakespearean English courses. Even then, some of them are only taking it because they have to. It broke my heart this year when my little brother read Romeo and Juliet and came home ranting about how it was crap. *flop* And yes, I LOVE his sonnets. Which is weird, considering my general distate for "flowery" poetry.
| Quote: | | But Jane Eyre, dunno, but I didn't find anything new or suprisin' in the book, I read it twice, 'cause I thought I had to miss something but no way. Lost book for me. |
I've also read it twice. And both times it was Jane that bugged me. Wide Sargasso Sea is by a different author. A feminist/equalist in the 60s who wrote the prequel to save the character of Bertha from her fate as that "crazy West Indian witch in the attic". It's rich with imagery and I really enjoyed it. It's also much shorter than Jane Eyre.
| Quote: | | Frankenstein sucks, but I really enjoyed Stokers Dracula. |
I love vampire books (I'm not sure why) but haven't had a chance to read Dracula yet. Unfortunately.  I really want to. Actualy have you ever read the poems "Christabel" or "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"? Those two poems, and the poet who wrote them (Coleridge) is where the idea of vampires came from in literature. Oh the things you learn in school! They're really good poems too, which is saying a lot coming from me. |
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Kitty
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| Sarah wrote: | | Kitty wrote: | | Harry Potter - no way! I am apparently the only person in the whole world with absolutely no interest in it! |
Nahhh. One of my housemates won't touch it, even to see if it's as bad as he believes it must be.
Personally, I started reading when I was twelve and got hooked. It was my first fandom! |
I'm not alone! If it isn't inappropriate, please hug your housemate! LOL
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