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Post by Dominique on Dec 21, 2006 18:11:49 GMT -5
I often get bored in the movie because I've already read the book. This happened to me in most of the harry potter movies (except the last one).
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Post by Bina on Dec 22, 2006 13:40:20 GMT -5
I hate that they always leave out what I think is important and the characters look nothing like I imagined them. I was lucky with Harry Potter cause I watched a movie first.
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Kristie
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"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Dec 29, 2006 11:49:09 GMT -5
Here are a few quotes from the last book I read, Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl, that I liked:
"'Always live your life with your biography in mind. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you'll be living grandly.'" -Dad (p.48)
"'American's need to master lingual before they attempt bilingual.'" -Dad (p.159)
"'Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times.'" -Dad (p.180)
"'He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make imporvements.'" -Hannah (p.186)
"'Never presume to know what a person is, was, or will be capable of.'" -Dad (p.249) **Blue obviously should've taken her father's own advice when thinking of anyone, even himself
"'What are fantasies? What we use to pillow ourselves against the world.'" -Dad (p.466)
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Kristie
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"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Jan 1, 2007 18:18:44 GMT -5
These are some quotes I found when I was reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
"That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want." -Montag p.85
"Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't the time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see 99% of them is in a book." -Faber p.86
"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. It doesn't matter what you do so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away." -Granger p.156-7
"Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories." -Granger p.157
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Post by Dominique on Jan 4, 2007 0:53:20 GMT -5
"Even the clouds tried to look the other way. Sometimes I imagined how everything appeared above those clouds knowing without question that the sun was blond, and the endless atmosphere was a giant blue eye." The book thief by Markus Zusak
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Jan 4, 2007 18:11:48 GMT -5
These are from The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig:
"'Actually, only Papa was really murdered, but Mama might as well have been. She loved Papa so much--they must have said good-bye three dozen times before we left. When they killed Papa, they killed her, too. Theirs was a love match, you see.' Oddly enough--for one who had thus far assiduously avoided matrimony--Richard did see. His own parents had married for love, and had stayed in love, rather distressingly so. At least it had been distressing for the poor adolescent boy forced to witness his parents holding hands under the table. Not to mention all the times Richard had accidentally stumbled upon his parents kissing in corridors. But for all he made faces and the occasional inarticulate noise indicating extreme disgust (because everyone knew that parents weren't supposed to engage in intimate behavior), Richard secretly thought it was rather sweet. He thought it was rather sweet the way his indomitable mother would blush and flutter at a whispered comment from his fater, and he thought it rather sweet the way his dignified father would bolt abruptly out of depates in the House of Lords just to take tee with his mother...Richard had seen perhaps one couple in ten who shared some sort of affection, one couple in a hundred truly in love. And he had realized, for the first time, that what his parents had was something wonderful and rare, and that he himself could never stoop to settling for anything less." -Amy & Richard (thought) p.74-5
"Infatuation is not even a poor cousin of love." -Amy (thought) p.264
"To the male mind, female plus bedroom equals just one thing." -Eloise (thought) p.269
"'You don't think she lived happily ever after?' 'That's an ending for books, not for people.' 'What are books about, if not people?'" -Richard & Amy p.289
"'Mother, would you stop flirting with Father for a moment and listen?' 'I never stop flirting with your father. That's why we have such a happy marriage. And I hope that all of you find spouses with whom you can happily flirt for the rest of your lives.'" -Richard & Lady Uppington p.318
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Jan 5, 2007 2:57:49 GMT -5
That sounds like a pretty good book.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Jan 5, 2007 12:14:16 GMT -5
it's pretty good. a little fluffy and stupid, but still entertaining...it's not a difficult or long read. i like it
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Post by Dominique on Jan 6, 2007 18:44:49 GMT -5
"MOST PEOPLE ARE OTHER PEOPLE. THEIR THOUGHTS ARE SOMEONE ELSE'S OPINIONS, THEIR LIVES A MIMICRY, THEIR PASSIONS A QUOTATION. . " --oscar wilde
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Post by Isa on Jan 6, 2007 20:12:17 GMT -5
That's a good one! I love Oscar Wilde. I've got these ones from The Picture of Dorian Gray:
"There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book."
"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his ennemies."
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
"Genius lasts longer than Beauty."
"There is no such thing as a good influence."
"The bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself."
"You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
"I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given."
"Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity."
"I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says."
"I never talk during music - at least, during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation."
"The plain women are very useful. If you want to gain a reputation for respectability, you have merely to take them down to supper."
"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied."
"To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour."
"He says things that annoys me. He gives me good advice."
"Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
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Post by Dominique on Jan 6, 2007 20:34:55 GMT -5
lol I love Oscar Wilde, he's so good for quotations!
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Post by Paige on Jan 24, 2007 17:12:18 GMT -5
we had to read this short lil poem in our lit class...and i just kinda liked it.
A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me "A sense of obligation." ~Stephen Crane
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Jan 24, 2007 18:45:37 GMT -5
good one!
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Jan 25, 2007 16:33:53 GMT -5
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." ~Sherlock Holmes (A Case of Identity)
"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent." ~Sherlock Holmes (A Case of Identity)
"I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?" ~Sherlock Holmes (The Sign of Four)
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