czarval
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Post by czarval on Jan 4, 2007 0:28:28 GMT -5
Which version of Pride and Prejudice do you prefer?
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Jan 4, 2007 8:28:54 GMT -5
For me the A&E miniseries is the best one by far. I was really disappointed in the new movie with Keira Knightley - in fact, since the other version was so well done, I still can't understand why they even bothered trying to make a new one. Everything felt wrong: the clothes didn't match the period, the dialogs were rushed, we barely even see Wickham, Darcy was too shy, they tried too hard to justify the mother's behavior and the scene at the end where Elizabeth goes scampering about the country in the middle of the night just made me laugh.
Edit: Hang on, I'll create a poll in the other section cause that's an interesting topic!
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bookworm148
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"Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of a sky of a tree called life."
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Post by bookworm148 on Jan 29, 2007 23:07:02 GMT -5
1. I'm addicted to books and movies.
2. I always fall for guys who don't like me back.
3. My biggest fear is having bugs in my bed.
4. I ballroom dance.
5. I really want to like coffee. I only like it with LOTS of chocolate flavoring.
6. I love the little things: looks, touches, smiles, laughter, etc.
7. My favorite show is the Golden Girls. Second is Gilmore Girls.
8. I drive when I'm angry or very upset. It's very calming with music playing.
9. I push my hair behind my ears a lot when I'm nervous.
10. I would rather spend my money on books instead of clothes or jewelry. I love both, but books are better.
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louise
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Post by louise on Jan 31, 2007 17:30:01 GMT -5
1. I'm obsessed with grasshoppers. I went to two grasshopper camps this summer, and I know it all. I cannot stop drawing them either I can recognize all the species that live in Belgium and I'm totally proud of that! 2. My favourite show is the Prisoner, a cult series from the late sixties. It's really really really awesome. Next comes Gilmore Girls, of course! 3. I'm going to visit my family in Argentina, and I'm so scared to go there... 4. This is hard to admit - once in a while... I read historical romance novels. You know. Candlelights. When I need to set my mind on something easy... 5. I love nature and camping with my friends in the nature youth movement. (like scouts, but less games and more of a nature and environmental focus) When I get inside my ubercomfy sleeping bag I can't get out anymore. Its so gooood. 6. I hate the big city I live in now. I preferred the countryside... 7. I drink coffee, but only at camp. I drink it black, not because it's 'tough' but because I think it's too much of an effort to put in milk or sugar. 8. I don't like my mom. When I turn 18, I'm out of this house. 9. Sixteen, blonde, never kissed a boy. 10. My favourite game is Boggle.
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bookworm148
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Post by bookworm148 on Jan 31, 2007 23:22:30 GMT -5
I am seventeen, brunette, and never kissed a boy also. lol
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Post by gilmoreren on Feb 1, 2007 15:14:50 GMT -5
1. I like to line my M+Ms up in alternating colour order as I eat them 2. I can drive but I haven't taken my test yet as the thought of it terrifies me 3. My job bores stresses and annoys me but I keep on doing it 4. Books completely crowd my two shelving units and I know I should give some away but I can't bear to 5. My favourite colour is purple 6. Worst habit - biting my nails 7. Watching politics makes me angry and excited 8. I love and hate that I think extremely quickly 9. I want to learn how to build websites 10. My dream is to write a screenplay or novel and live in obscure comfort somewhere beautiful
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bookworm148
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Post by bookworm148 on Feb 1, 2007 20:01:53 GMT -5
I'm so with you on 4 and 8. lol
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Feb 2, 2007 6:42:40 GMT -5
1. I'm very affectionated to my whole family (parents, granparents, cousins, ecc..). 2. I like countryside but I hate the little town where I live! I moved here when I was 17, I still don't know anybody here and it's a very annoying place...there are about 10 shops, no bookstore and a very little library. The first summer I spent here there was an outdoor cinema almost every night...but there isn't any more. 3. My car is a Panda (Fiat), it's red and almost 18 years old. I don't drive much anyway. 4. I think that friendship is one of the best things of live. I've not many but very good friends, I know 4 of them since I was born and they're very important to me and to my happiness! 5. My favourite colour is violet, almost every gradation of violet. 6. Besides books, I'm addicted with music and soundtrack from movies. 7. I've played volleyball for 7 years (and classical dancing before). 8. I'd like to be able playing drums (the same of Lane ) and taking very good photos. 9. In terms of temper, I'm a female copy of my father. 10. I like even numbers...I know, that's such a wierd thing! ;D
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Post by Dominique on Feb 2, 2007 7:20:43 GMT -5
4. I think that friendship is one of the best things of live. I've not many but very good friends, I know 4 of them since I was born and they're very important to me and to my happiness! I agree that friendship is one of the most important things in life, most of my close friends from high school (apart from neh of course, who is wonderful ) have moved away to Sydney and I feel very isolated from them now sometimes, like my world view has changed with one of them or something. Everyone has new lives now, they both have new boyfriends and jobs and I also have a boyfriend and a job and very little time (apart from tonight which I called in sick for I've had one night off from work all week). I have university friends but I feel disconnected from them also. I think early 20's is where people do a lot of growing and changing so I suppose for many people feeling like that is normal (I hope). Did you move for school or something lu? Is it a very small town?
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Feb 2, 2007 8:06:24 GMT -5
It's a town with about 4600 people...can be consider a small town? I lived in Parma with my family but we had to move because the rent was very high (and is still high) there. I'm only 15km far from Parma and there isn't high school here, so I didn't change school. I'm not so close with my friends of high school now, we were all very good friends during the first 2 years of school, then we started have problems. I sometimes see one of them, the one who used to sit near me at classes. I'm also a bit disconneted with university friends, I met only a person who is became a good new friend. I've not much in common with the other new people I met at university. Instead I've met nice people during the last 5 summer, which I spent working in factory. They're really better than uni friends! I known my best friend (best best friend) because we was neighbours, and the other best friends when I used to spent summer in countryside with my granparents, 2 of them live in other cities (very near cities) but we have always been close friends! I think it's normal at 20's, it's an age with a lot of changes..you finish school and than there's university, work...I've made a lot of changes from 19 years old to the present, but I'm glad to feel that best friends are always with me!
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bookworm148
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Post by bookworm148 on Feb 2, 2007 9:38:25 GMT -5
I like even numbers too. I have to have the volume on an even number, or have an even number of skittles to eat,e tc. lol
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Post by gilmoreren on Feb 2, 2007 17:12:43 GMT -5
I like even numbers too. I have to have the volume on an even number, or have an even number of skittles to eat,e tc. lol hey, am glad to hear someone else has a quirky numbers/order thing going on with food. I think we're pretty similar bookworm
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Post by Dominique on Feb 2, 2007 20:08:27 GMT -5
It's a town with about 4600 people...can be consider a small town? I lived in Parma with my family but we had to move because the rent was very high (and is still high) there. I'm only 15km far from Parma and there isn't high school here, so I didn't change school. I'm not so close with my friends of high school now, we were all very good friends during the first 2 years of school, then we started have problems. I sometimes see one of them, the one who used to sit near me at classes. I'm also a bit disconneted with university friends, I met only a person who is became a good new friend. I've not much in common with the other new people I met at university. Instead I've met nice people during the last 5 summer, which I spent working in factory. They're really better than uni friends! I known my best friend (best best friend) because we was neighbours, and the other best friends when I used to spent summer in countryside with my granparents, 2 of them live in other cities (very near cities) but we have always been close friends! I think it's normal at 20's, it's an age with a lot of changes..you finish school and than there's university, work...I've made a lot of changes from 19 years old to the present, but I'm glad to feel that best friends are always with me! I'm glad someone feels the same way I do
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Feb 3, 2007 16:22:41 GMT -5
I like even numbers too. I have to have the volume on an even number, or have an even number of skittles to eat,e tc. lol Wow,great, I'm not alone! a even number club. I do the same thing with food...so it's not as weird as I thought! I'm glad to hear that, Dom!
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