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08-05-2006, 08:00 PM
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Some easy reads.. links for reviews/summary.
The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm - Nancy Farmer Redwall (and series) - Brian Jacques Ender's Game (and an the subsequent series) - Orson Scott Card Some not so easy reads... Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse The Stranger - Albert Camus Candide - Voltaire The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri This is where you will find the Inferno, the most famous of the 3 books. The other books are also excellent, so read the whole thing and not just the Inferno. This is also where you will find the famous quote "Abandon all Hope, Ye who enter here" the most used translation... My favorite Shakespeare (I'm one of the few, sad people I know who has read his complete works =/ ) The Tempest Macbeth (where the Sound and Fury quote comes from) As You Like It (my fav Shake comedy) Really I would put more, but the more I think about it - the more exhausting it seems... some authors.. Hesse, Hemmingway, more Camus!, Tolstoy, Bradbury, ASIMOV (why haven't I seen him in the thread yet?) more Palahniuk, Tom Wolfe anyone? Please someone get some Vonnegut up here... Galapagos for the win. I'm tired. Any body a philosophy fan out there? Haven't seen any DesCartes, Rousseau, saw someone recommend Plato's Republic... that's not a fun read, imo. Interesting, but defintely not fun. Get Sartre's "No Exit" or Beckitt's "Waiting for Godot" these are plays, but freakin' awesome... UH, for a fun read someone grab some Neil Simon. Biloxi Blues GO. Hell, if you want good Plato get something short... Allegory of the Cave is a fun read.
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08-05-2006, 08:02 PM
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08-05-2006, 08:39 PM
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I like all the Lord of the rings books but I kind of have a problem with all the movies of them.
All the movies they make from books are so corny because they leave like so many main parts and characters out of the movie that made the books really interesting. Example: The lord of the rings had many characters in it like Frodo and Gandalf but they forgot tom bombadil out of the movie which I hated because I wanted to see what he would look like in a movie. |
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08-05-2006, 09:36 PM
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Location: so i read the question as "Where YOU live" which was kinda funny instead of "Where you live"
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The Tipping Point by Malcome Gladwell.
-This is a work of nonfiction analyzing how and why certain things "tip". An example of something tipping would be the drastic drop in crime in NY during the mid-90s. The author explains the different key people/things very well and keeps your attention easily. It's also a quick and easy read. And I have to read it for AP World Geo. so joy =/ But read that if you're interested in the sociology of pop occurances (ignore all the spelling mistakes that have just happened  )that is moses's reccomendation for the howeverlong it seems fit.
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08-09-2006, 07:55 PM
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butt say x
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Right now I've added to my list: The Communist Manifesto and Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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08-09-2006, 09:05 PM
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^omfg levi..omfg... i have a KGB official watch
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We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. |
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08-09-2006, 09:12 PM
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I'm reading the Aeneid and the Illiad and Dante's Inferno
it helps that I've read all of these before
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08-09-2006, 09:22 PM
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also reading Phantom by Terry Goodkind just finished with 1984. i highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good book |
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08-09-2006, 10:08 PM
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The Illiad is my favorite out of that The Odyssey and the Aeneid. And the Inferno is a great read. It's probably one of my favorite epics of all time.
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