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Post by jz on Mar 9, 2008 19:48:26 GMT -5
One of the books I'm starting to read is the Lord of the Rings. It's really awesome ;D. If you like action and adventure books, than I recommend this book.
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Post by Slater on Mar 9, 2008 20:12:28 GMT -5
Yep, LotR is awesome. So is Ted Dekker, as most of you know. I just finished reading Skin by him. Pretty intense.
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Post by jz on Mar 10, 2008 12:32:06 GMT -5
Ted Dekker? I've heard of him, didn't he write the book thr3e?
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Post by Alilectric on Mar 10, 2008 13:13:42 GMT -5
hahaha barns you have a definite obsession with ted dekker!!! I don't have any recommendations for books you should read, but i do have recommendations about books you shouldn't read! Don't Read: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich I had to read those books in my sophomore year... worst reading year of my life.
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Post by jz on Mar 15, 2008 15:54:17 GMT -5
Ok, I WON'T read it (If I ever see it)
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Post by Alilectric on Mar 15, 2008 20:29:31 GMT -5
by making that choice you have just saved yourself from emotional death.
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Post by Dûncariel on Mar 16, 2008 14:08:45 GMT -5
We were talking about Things Fall Apart in my Literary Modernism class on Friday, actually. That was the first I'd ever heard of it.
And reading books for school almost always kills the joy. But I think that changes, once you get to college, because you sort've have to look at them in a different light. I love my upper level English classes, because they're more discussion based instead of lecture based, and that forces you to come to an understanding of the literature that you're reading by yourself.
Although, in reading books like The Sound and The Fury, by Faulkner, you sometimes wish your professor would just explain it.... because it's that crazy spastic. Sort've love parts of it.... but yeah. Interesting read.
I've pretty much only been reading academically... in the last year I've read Candide (Voltaire), Night (Elie Wiesel.... incredibly sad book), Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (by Douglass, which I'd already read, but it's good to read that book multiple times anyway), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hide (which, btw, is crazy. Crazy, crazy. You miss so much just knowing the story from pop culture), A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway. Cynicaly, depressing novel, that. You think it's getting better, and then WHAM, it starts raining again. You'd have to read the book to understand why that'd be frustrating), and To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. Lots of crazy, in there.
I sort've loved To The Lighthouse. It's good if you like stream of consciousness, but you're not insane enough to want to read The Sound and The Fury.
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Post by Slater on Mar 16, 2008 15:07:49 GMT -5
hahaha barns you have a definite obsession with ted dekker!!! No. He's just awesome, and when we're on the topic of books I'm reading, how can I not talk about Dekker?
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Post by Em on Mar 18, 2008 14:50:44 GMT -5
I read Frankenstein and loved it. One book no one should read is Moby D ick... but again, that's personal preference.
Read a bit over break, just a few fluffy Tamora Pierce books to get my mind going.
Academically, I've been reading mostly textbooks, which can be either interesting or mostly boring, depending on my mood. I've had to read Rising From the Plains by someone whose name escapes me, and, naturally, Les Miserables. Lots of Les Miserables. It's long, convoluted, and absolutely amazing and a blast to discuss.
I completely agree. The book is nuts, but its such fun. One of my favorites.
Heh, in one of my classes, the professor took a poll to see how many people read. In a room of about 25 kids, only three raised their hands that they actually read anything at all. One of them was the professor. It was sad and incrediblly shocking.
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Post by Alilectric on Mar 18, 2008 20:40:05 GMT -5
yeah, i've been just reading text books lately too... and let me tell you, algebra two is quite a gripping read. i usually don't read until the summer, when i actually start to miss it..
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Post by Dûncariel on Mar 18, 2008 23:26:53 GMT -5
I still don't know what they're thinking when they teach that book in highschools. What's even funnier is that it's the in juvenile reading section of our library... I mean, seriously.
I need to stop reading crazy-people books. I'm starting to write like a crazy person.
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Post by Em on Mar 23, 2008 0:43:44 GMT -5
I've only found that helps, since usually the professors love to see someone who can actually WRITE in their classes. It's a dying art.
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Post by jz on Mar 23, 2008 19:47:33 GMT -5
yep. Btw, how do you quote? (I'm a noob.)
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Post by Em on Mar 30, 2008 20:56:46 GMT -5
You put these brackets around what you want to quote:
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Post by Slater on Mar 30, 2008 21:17:09 GMT -5
just put [] <those brackets, and in the first bracket, but the word quote and in the second, put /quote.
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