Isa
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Post by Isa on Sept 21, 2006 8:18:43 GMT -5
C'mon, we've all read and enjoyed a really cheesy book, what's yours? Mine would have to be Ken Follet's A Dangerous Fortune. This novel has very little literary merit, but I got completely hooked on the story line and ended up spending an entire weekend at home to finish it.
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Sept 21, 2006 8:26:57 GMT -5
"Just friends" by Robyn Sisman. I´ve read it a dozen times and I love the cover. It´s total chick lit about how men and women can´t be just friends . It looks out of place between the classics
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Paige
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Post by Paige on Sept 21, 2006 11:28:03 GMT -5
im not ashamed of any of the books i like thank you very much! i could care less if someone thinks im retarded for liking a book.
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Sept 21, 2006 11:53:01 GMT -5
The Winnie-the-Pooh books, by A.A. Milne. Everyone stares at me enough without adding that.
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Sept 21, 2006 12:02:58 GMT -5
*stares* I don´t like Winnie the pooh on tv but I´ve never read the books.
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Sept 21, 2006 12:06:13 GMT -5
The TV shows made it all lesson-y and condescending. The books are a bit different.
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Sept 21, 2006 12:13:34 GMT -5
I think I´ll take a look in the bookstore. I´ve never even seen the books. How old are they? Yeesh, I´m so ignorant!
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Sept 21, 2006 12:18:01 GMT -5
They're very old. After World War One I think.
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Sept 21, 2006 12:21:07 GMT -5
I've only read Winnie-the-Pooh, but I loved it! I should really get The House at Pooh Corner too. And I prefer the original drawings to the Walt Disney ones. (Those two books were published in the 1920s if I'm not mistaken).
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Sept 21, 2006 12:28:42 GMT -5
1920's sounds about right. The Disney drawings are too cute for me. They work with the Disney version, but the originals are better with the books. I have Winnie-the-Pooh, and House at Pooh Corner. I'm trying to find Milne's poems too, but it's been slow going.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Sept 21, 2006 14:58:29 GMT -5
I still like reading the books that I read (or they were read to me) in elementary school: practically all the Roald Dahl books, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Edwards, The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbitt, Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, and The Rain Catchers by Jean Thesman. But I would read them again in front of people. I don't care what people think of the books I read.
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Darcy
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Post by Darcy on Oct 2, 2006 12:34:03 GMT -5
C'mon, we've all read and enjoyed a really cheesy book, what's yours? Mine would have to be Ken Follet's A Dangerous Fortune. This novel has very little literary merit, but I got completely hooked on the story line and ended up spending an entire weekend at home to finish it. I've enjoyed every single Ken Follet book I've read
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Oct 2, 2006 13:30:06 GMT -5
;D thank you so much, that makes me feel a bit less pathetic!
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Oct 11, 2006 15:34:51 GMT -5
Did anyone else love the Babysitters Club books? I did. I signed up for this thing in 5th grade where every month I got 4 books. I ended up with only the first 28 though because I couldn't keep up and them all and so my mom stopped the subscription.
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Oct 11, 2006 17:28:53 GMT -5
Yes, I loved the Baby-sitters club. I even had the Babysitter's baby sister, or whatever they were called. I think around 45 I stopped getting all of them, and only got ones I wanted to read, which lasted until 7something. Then I gave up. And now I'm not sure what to do with them all.
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