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#Post#: 1648--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
DIR By: mynameisdumbnuts
Date: March 13, 2012, 6:23 pm
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> Working on Jasper Fforde's "The Fourth Bear". I loved "The
Big Over Easy."
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I love the Nursery Crime books. I really wish Fforde would write
another one.
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> I'm currently reading "Moby d*ck," and while it started
strong- where Ishmael meets Queequeg and sets out to find a
ship, ever since they've been on the Pequod, it's been a real
slog to read. Especially the chapter titled "Cetology" were he
details the different types of whales. I will finish the book,
but I am wondering why it is so acclaimed.
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I read "Moby Dick" in high school and loathed it. I think it's
so incredibly boring and needlessly long.
As for what I'm reading myself, it's "Enchantments" by Kathryn
Harrison. It's a historical fiction set during the Russian
Revolution told from the point of view of Rasputin's daughter.
I'm barely into it and it's all right. I wanted to read "The
Hunger Games" before the movie comes out, but that's not going
to happen.
#Post#: 1662--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
DIR By: Hero
Date: March 13, 2012, 8:18 pm
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> I've been told I should read the Hunger Games as well, but I
just get past the influence of Battle Royale...
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I've read the manga and novel versions of Battle Royale, and-
besides the basic premise- they are not at all alike. Hunger
Games is about the story, and not the sex-and-gorefest. Battle
Royale always struck me as reveling in the culture it was
theoretically denigrating.
...but then I see the ads for Capitol Couture nail polish and
wonder if the producers of the Hunger Games movie Just Don't Get
It, too.
#Post#: 1670--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
DIR By: PurpleLlama
Date: March 13, 2012, 9:36 pm
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Nugget, is that the Tarma and Kethry series?
#Post#: 1680--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
DIR By: Jabberwock
Date: March 13, 2012, 10:30 pm
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Right now I'm reading a library book called "Read this Next: 500
of the best books you'll ever read". I'm seriously tempted to
buy a copy and work my way through all 500. The book itself is
quite funny, and it's a mix of descriptions of the books and
book club discussion questions, which are actually reasonable
(unlike most book club guides I've seen). One question that hit
my funny bone was this one: "In this Parable, the "opposites
attract" narrative ends in personal growth for both parties. Is
that typical of this kind of story? Is it typical of real life?
Or do opposites who fall in love end up in war-torn marriages in
which one partner loves the opera while the other gambles on
dogfights and huffs glue? And then their children grow up to be
glue-huffin', dog-abusin', mezzo-sopranos who can never find
peace?"
The next book I'll be reading is "Crow Lake", for my book club.
I've read it before and I loved it, so it'll be fun to hear what
others think. Hopefully not everyone will love it, because if
everyone likes the book there's not much to talk about, I find!
#Post#: 1704--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
DIR By: Addie
Date: March 14, 2012, 7:24 am
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I'm reading "Less than zero". Not impressed but at least it's a
fast read.
#Post#: 1712--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
DIR By: Nugget
Date: March 14, 2012, 9:23 am
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> I've read the manga and novel versions of Battle Royale, and-
besides the basic premise- they are not at all alike. Hunger
Games is about the story, and not the sex-and-gorefest. Battle
Royale always struck me as reveling in the culture it was
theoretically denigrating.
>
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That's good to know! I will have to give it a chance now.
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> Nugget, is that the Tarma and Kethry series?
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Yes, it is! I love them. :)
I'm now finally reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenence. I keep hearing the word "mansplaining" in my head
over and over...
#Post#: 1716--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
DIR By: Giggle Loop
Date: March 14, 2012, 9:52 am
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I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate Moby Dick. I had to read
it in high school and college. I loved the college professor who
taught it, and she hated that I hated the book so much. There is
exactly one scene (only a few pages) that I really give a damn
about. I remember the prof saying, "I'm just so glad you like
SOMETHING!"
#Post#: 1721--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
DIR By: Mrs.E
Date: March 14, 2012, 10:05 am
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> [quote author=Mrs.E link=topic=113.msg1619#msg1619
date=1331672349]
> Just finished the first three Elmore Leonard books in the
Raylan Givens series. Reading a book called Run that I picked up
for free on Amazon.
>
> Stieg Larssons books are next on my list. I thought the Hunger
Games were a young adult series. I was going to skip reading
them. Apparently I shouldn't?
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No! You shouldn't. I would say they're young adult in the
sense that there's nothing overly graphic in them, but the story
absolutely appeals to adults as well.
[/quote]
Alrighty then, going on my wishlist!
#Post#: 1755--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
DIR By: Jabberwock
Date: March 14, 2012, 2:19 pm
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> I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate Moby d*ck. I had to read
it in high school and college. I loved the college professor who
taught it, and she hated that I hated the book so much. There is
exactly one scene (only a few pages) that I really give a damn
about. I remember the prof saying, "I'm just so glad you like
SOMETHING!"
>
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I'm with you. I tried that damned book at least 6 times, and the
first 5 times I put it down before he even made it to the damned
boat! The 6th time I got as far as the chapter where he outlines
why scientists think whales are mammals, but then totally
discounts it by saying "Ask any fisherman, they'll tell you
they're fish!" and then spends the rest of the chapter coming up
with his own ridiculous classification system for
whales-as-fish. After that I just decided that I was done, and
I'm not going to try it again.
I also couldn't get through Kafka's "the Trial". We were reading
it for book club, and I hated it. I complained about it so much
that my friend at work turned to me and said "Life is too short
to read books that you hate. When you die, they're not going to
write 'she finished books even though she hated them' on your
tombstone!". I decided she was right, and I stopped reading it.
When I went to book club everyone else had hated it too, and
only one person actually finished it.
#Post#: 1846--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
DIR By: Lisella
Date: March 15, 2012, 11:12 am
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Just as a heads up - don't let books labeled "Young Adult" or YA
stop you from picking them up. There is a lot of argument as to
what constitutes real YA versus adult books. And plenty of YA
have a lot of cursing, sex, abuse and so on.
For example, "The Lovely Bones" was originally categorized as a
YA.
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