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Post by concreteangel on Mar 11, 2009 0:34:58 GMT -5
I'm reading Dorian Gray as well. It's quite the odd book... especially with the huge homosexual theme and the time period it was written in. I SparkNotes'd the whole thing, and now I'm actually reading it to do my dialectical journal. The ending is quite creative. Lord Henry's and Dorian's relationship somewhat creeps me out, though. I'm no homophobic, but just the way they are with each other is creepy.
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Piro
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Chipmunk Queen
Nom nom nom
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Post by Piro on Mar 12, 2009 17:57:03 GMT -5
^ It is kinda weird... Uhg, I hate Lord Herny. He's a butt. Have you read the ending, yet? It's really good. Poor little guy. I feel so bad for Dorian.
Actually, I'm reading Brave New World now. =] I love future-ie books.
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Post by concreteangel on Mar 12, 2009 20:56:45 GMT -5
The ending is amazing. How he stabs the picture and it kills him? Omg it was so good!
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Yakuza
Avatar Aang
I've Got A Restrainin' Order Against Satan's Daughter
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Post by Yakuza on Mar 29, 2009 0:14:32 GMT -5
^ It is kinda weird... Uhg, I hate Lord Herny. He's a butt. Have you read the ending, yet? It's really good. Poor little guy. I feel so bad for Dorian. Actually, I'm reading Brave New World now. =] I love future-ie books. Aldous Huxley is a genius. If you like that book, I will recommend "Island", also by Huxley. Its almost kinda the same story line as Brave New World... but its very different in how the utopia society exists. After I get done reading Harlan Coben's new murder mystery, I'm going to start War and Peace. I've always wanted to read it and fudge all I am going to read it.
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Splendi
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I've lost my place but I can't stop this story..
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Post by Splendi on Apr 5, 2009 0:41:51 GMT -5
Ogosh lets see.. I'm reading 1984 (Orwell) and Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut) for English class, and on the side I'm rereading Looking for Alaska (Green) and starting Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (authors name escapes currently).
(omg splendi's posting!!)
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Piro
Korra Krew
Chipmunk Queen
Nom nom nom
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Post by Piro on Apr 19, 2009 19:20:17 GMT -5
@yazuka: Ooo! I'll be sure to check it out! I love Huxley.
@splendii: AHHHHH 1984 IS MY FAVOURITE EVERRRR BOOK.
Anyhoo. I'm reading Vanity Fair by... William Makepeace Thackery, methinks, and A Clockwork Orange by... whoever, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ....Yeah, I'm bad at reading one book at a time.
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Post by I Can Fly Now on Apr 24, 2009 13:09:00 GMT -5
I was reading "Mooncalled" by Patricia Briggs, but I couldn't really get into it. It was okay, but the characters weren't very engaging, and the story was kind of "more of the same" for me. Now I've just started reading "Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman. "Coraline" was the first book of his I'd ever read, about a month ago, and I liked his writing style a lot. So I thought I'd give this one a try, and I'm already really enjoying it. I like how his writing can be at once both funny and sad, and his storylines don't ever seem stale or recycled.
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Post by nymphadora on Apr 24, 2009 20:14:38 GMT -5
Today I read Same Difference by Siobahn Vivian. I really liked her writing style, but wasn't too happy with the end. I feel like the main character didn't really learn the lesson she was supposed to (or it wasn't made clear to the reader). I was getting aggravated with her through a lot of the book and would be upset if she remained ignorant after the ending.
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Ana
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Post by Ana on May 2, 2009 14:05:25 GMT -5
I'm re-reading "Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling. I think the book reading to me much easier this time. Other than Harry and his chestmonster, the romance in HBP wasn't that bad. I mean, it wasn't overpowering and it was nice Harry got a few happy moments before it all came falling down.
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Post by falthor on May 17, 2009 2:33:19 GMT -5
Piro: A Clockwork Orange is by Anthony Burgess. Love it.
As for myself, I'm reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joseph Heller's Catch-22, and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.
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Post by Victim ~*of *~Circumstances on May 17, 2009 6:23:49 GMT -5
If I wasn't reading "Catcher in the Rye" for English I'd finally be able to finish all these other books I bought (so close to finishing "A Thousand Splendid Suns"!) It's not a bad book but 22 chapters later and I'm still not getting into it much. I just don't like Holden as a character/narrator, hopefully the ending won't be as dissapointing for me as "The Great Gatsby" which actually made me tear up a bit.
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Post by falthor on May 17, 2009 14:52:19 GMT -5
Catcher in the Rye sucks. It really does.
Ba dum ksh.
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Saami
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Zhao x Azula: Shine on you crazy diamond
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Post by Saami on May 17, 2009 18:00:44 GMT -5
Reading Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
Fanfic wise, I'm rereading Just a Farm Girl (Legend of Zelda) by Sapphira603 on Fanfiction.net
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West
Finale Katara
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Post by West on May 27, 2009 18:39:25 GMT -5
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Who knew that the scientist's name is Frankenstein and not the monster? ....well I do now.
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Post by Kohana on May 30, 2009 4:16:00 GMT -5
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
So far I'm only half-way, but I'm really liking it. I love the way the plot is slowly unravelling and the way Roy describes thoughts, scenery, etc... so vividly.
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