sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Mar 7, 2007 9:26:31 GMT -5
That is so cute. I always try to go through those types of lists but it never works because then i see something i really like and then ditch the other book for the nice new shiny one only to never return. It's very bad
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sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Mar 7, 2007 9:36:13 GMT -5
We have this thing for English where u can check out our assignments online and i just found out we have to read All of Slaughterhouse Five by March 19TH. I'm a bit apprehensive because i am usually not into the whole sci-fi Vonnegut thing... AT least i don't think i am. I read the Clockwork Orange and i didn't like it up til the ending. Then i started to grow into it. Is it a quick read is it hard to comprehend?? What are your thoughts???
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Mar 7, 2007 9:44:17 GMT -5
I liked Slaughterhouse-Five. It's the only Vonnegut I've read, but I enjoyed it. And I read it really quickly - in a weekend.
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Post by Michelle on Mar 7, 2007 9:45:33 GMT -5
That is so cute. I always try to go through those types of lists but it never works because then i see something i really like and then ditch the other book for the nice new shiny one only to never return. It's very bad I can't start another book until I finish the one I'm reading. So I don't have that problem.
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Post by bookaddict on Mar 7, 2007 10:07:37 GMT -5
I started Slaughterhouse-five yesterday and so far it seems good. I don't see any sci-fi in it yet. Is it a Sci-fi book?
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Post by Isa on Mar 7, 2007 11:55:56 GMT -5
Not really, IMO. Have you hit the Trafalmadore parts yet?
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bookworm148
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Post by bookworm148 on Mar 17, 2007 13:48:24 GMT -5
Anna Karenina
My grandmother gave me the complete works of Charles Dickens a while back and it's about 15 volumes long, so I definitely have some reading to do!
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sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Mar 17, 2007 14:29:23 GMT -5
i intend to read Northangar Abbey. God only knows when
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frozeninside
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Post by frozeninside on May 22, 2007 12:25:29 GMT -5
^ I bought that book like 2 weeks ago I can't wait to read it.
There are lots of Classic books that I want to read. I want to read War and Peace. I bought it a good few years ago and I have yet to start it. It's just so big and I know that I would have to be in a certain frame of mind to really get in to it.
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Post by Lu on May 22, 2007 12:56:26 GMT -5
I have read War and Peace and I liked it, but it's a very long book and you have to be in the right mood to read and get into it.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on May 22, 2007 14:30:08 GMT -5
I just wrote this list on the nominations for the next book club thread because we want to do a classic. So these are on my TBR list:
Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Great Expectations by Dickens, Mansfield Park by Austen, Tales from the 1001 Nights, Vanity Fair, Wizard of Oz, The End of the Affair by Greene, Ethan Frome, Gulliver's Travels, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Madame Bovary, and The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle, Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights, and Anna Karenina.
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Post by andrea disaster on May 22, 2007 22:20:54 GMT -5
I've checked Anna Karenina out of the library three times intent on finishing it, and life just always took over. I am determined to read it this summer.
I just got Light in August as my first Faulkner. I feel weird being a college grad who hasn't read Faulkner.
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Post by Dominique on May 22, 2007 23:16:33 GMT -5
As I Lay Dying was my first (and only thus far) Faulkner. I really liked it but I found I had to look it up on Spark notes a fair bit
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Post by Hanna on May 23, 2007 4:34:34 GMT -5
Andrea, I think you'll like Light in August, I know I did, it was my first Faulkner as well:) and Kristie, both Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are quick reads, but awesome books! They make me wanna go fishing or build a raft or something. Reading classics almost always make me wanna live in a different century!
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sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on May 23, 2007 14:09:02 GMT -5
For me too.. I read it this year, It took a while to get into largely due to the shifting viepoints. but it was good!
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