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Fic Talk => General Discussion => Topic started by: mare on February 27, 2008, 08:40:03 PM
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All this Stephen King talk made me curious as to what you guys have been reading.
At the moment i'm reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piquolt (spelling?) I hope tat's hjer name. The book is in the car but i'm pretty sure that's it. It's an awesome book about a horrible school shooting told from the view point of everyone from the vitims and their families to the shooter and his. I highly recommend it!'
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Actually, funny that you mention Stephen King (He's my favorite author. I've read nearly everything he's ever written), cause I'm reading his new book Duma Key and also his other new-ish book Lisey's Story. I'm also reading Atonement and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. I'm a reading fiend! lol
Nineteen Minutes sounds really interesting! I might have to check into that.
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Well obviously you know I picked up some Richard Bachman but other than that I'm reading The Dwelling by Susi Moloney which is about a house that is haunted and kills the owners. So it goes through all these different owners of the house and how the house gets rid of them, and ultimately the spirits are searching for the "right" owner of the house.
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ooh that sounds good.
I think I might buy Stephen King's new book when i'm done with this one, although I still have a book waiting in the wings. Deception Point by Dan Brown was really great too. It was one of those 'you can't put it down' type books.
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I like Stephen King too, but I haven't read an adult book in awhile LOL. I think the last one was Nicholas Sparks "A Bend in the Road" over Christmas break. Now I'm reading "Otis Spoffard" by Beverly Cleary. :D
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LOL I just read The Remarkable Farkle McBride.
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Over Christmas I spent most of my time reading I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert... I think I truely busted a gut a couple times. And there's this Canadian humour writer named Will Ferguson who has written many books but I read his latest called Bastards & Boneheads: Canada's Glorious Leaders Past and Present... it's very entertaining.
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LMAO I really want to read Stephen Colbert's book and Jon Stewarts. Those guys crack me up!
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I love those two too! Haven't read their books either though. Although I did look at Jon Stewart's "America" book (the one that is like a mock textbook) in a bookstore, and it was pretty funny looking.
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LMAO I really want to read Stephen Colbert's book and Jon Stewarts. Those guys crack me up!
The footnotes in Colbert's book absolutely killed me.
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I haven't read a book for pleasure in like forever. I'm with Julie in the only books I feel like I read anymore or geared towards an elementary schooler.
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For a lot of you that makes sense but if I were reading the Hardy Boys or something you'd all think I was a freak cuz I'm not a teacher lol
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not true lol I just read a Hardy Boys book just for fun because I had to teach in the school's library.
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I just got "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" for my birthday, so I'll probably start reading that soon.
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Well, for class I'm reading "Native Speaker" which is actually pretty good. Outside of class, I'm reading "Girl in the Tangerine Scarf".
Mare, I loved Deception Point, too! It was so interesting even though I'm not a super science-y person. His books are always so well-written and make me think they're really happening somewhere in the world lol
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I just finished reading Lilah by Marek Halter and now am reading Empress by Shan Sa. Shocker they are both historical fiction. :) Lilah based on the woman from the Bible and Empress based on the one and only female Emperor in China.
Next on my list is The Hidden Diaries of Marie Antonette (sp?). Or The Innocent Traitor ... about Jane Grey.
I haven't read Deception Point yet but I've read Angels & Demons and The DaVinci code so I will probably pick up that one as well. You want to talk books I LOVE them. :-D
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I'm in the middle of one of the Harry Potter books at the moment. Well, I'ev been in the middle of it for a while-I think it's the 2nd to last one. and still somehow I have managed not to find out exactly what happens at the end of the last book. I am kinda going through a "I wanna read all those books I was supposed to read in high school, but never actaully read" phase. So I just finished Night by Eli Weisel and The Giver by Lois Lowry. I have the Scarlet Letter, just haven't gotten around to it yet...
And I agree, Nineteen Minutes founds really interesting, I'll have to go check that one out, too!
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I'm in the middle of one of the Harry Potter books at the moment. Well, I'ev been in the middle of it for a while-I think it's the 2nd to last one. and still somehow I have managed not to find out exactly what happens at the end of the last book. I am kinda going through a "I wanna read all those books I was supposed to read in high school, but never actaully read" phase. So I just finished Night by Eli Weisel and The Giver by Lois Lowry. I have the Scarlet Letter, just haven't gotten around to it yet...
And I agree, Nineteen Minutes founds really interesting, I'll have to go check that one out, too!
The Giver! I loved that book!
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Ugh the Scarlet Letter brings back horrible memories lol
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I know Kelly (honey) brought this series up earlier this year, but Stephanie Meyer's Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse are so so so good! They're geared towards the high school crowd, but they have mass appeal like Harry Potter does. I think a lot of people on this board would like them. My 8th grade campers recommended the books to me last year as well as an art teacher I worked with, so I finally picked it up and devoured the books lol
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Ugh the Scarlet Letter brings back horrible memories lol
Oh, absolutely! In AP English my junior year of high school, we had to dissect it to pieces and then watch this horrible horrible film version of it. It was bad.
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eegads the Scarlet Letter *dies and not in a good way*
Better book, East of Eden by John Steinbeck (and I LOVED it before Oprah's damn bookclub)
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Ugh the Scarlet Letter brings back horrible memories lol
lol Yeah, I got it, and I'm having trouble actually opening it. I borrowed a few from the library, and the others on my list I couldn't find, so I settled for it. I read parts of it in high school, but mostly I skated by using the cliffs notes or whatever their called. I have a feeling I won't open it before I have to return it.
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the only D I ever got in high school was for a paper I wrote on that book and how much I detested it and it's weak plot. Had I known my teacher was the queen of the Scarlet Letter fan club, I would have rethought my decision. lol yes i'm STILL not over it!
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Oh, absolutely! In AP English my junior year of high school, we had to dissect it to pieces and then watch this horrible horrible film version of it. It was bad.
Same here! So bad...
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lol Yeah, I got it, and I'm having trouble actually opening it. I borrowed a few from the library, and the others on my list I couldn't find, so I settled for it. I read parts of it in high school, but mostly I skated by using the cliffs notes or whatever their called. I have a feeling I won't open it before I have to return it.
I have a feeling that you're probably not going to open it lol Save yourself the horror and the agony...
Oh, Mare, I'm totally not over getting the first of many C's that that particular English teacher bestowed upon me. I'd never had a C in my life and then that one showed up...and I'm still not over it!
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AP English-ick. THAT brings back bad memories. My senior year was the first year my school started offering AP classes, so of course I had to sign up for the ones I could-AP english, and AP Honors Calculus. I dropped the english one and went to a 'regular' class 2 weeks into the year. The teacher was known to be evil. Her name was Yamamotto, but everyone called her Yamahomo-"Yeah I'm a homo". We were mean.
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AP English-ick. THAT brings back bad memories. My senior year was the first year my school started offering AP classes, so of course I had to sign up for the ones I could-AP english, and AP Honors Calculus. I dropped the english one and went to a 'regular' class 2 weeks into the year. The teacher was known to be evil. Her name was Yamamotto, but everyone called her Yamahomo-"Yeah I'm a homo". We were mean.
Do teenagers come in a 'not mean' model? lol
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It was awful lol and this lady was a witch to begin with. :p
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Do teenagers come in a 'not mean' model? lol
lol we weren't horrible...she was just evil...okay fine, we were horrible, just like all the rest of the teens.
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teens come in "mean" and "uber-mean" models. take your pick lol
my AP English teacher was this femi-Nazi woman who was obsessed with drama to the point where her life was drama, and it eked into her class, too. any paper that included something about women suffering would get an A. don't get me wrong, i'm a feminist too, but she was like those stereotypical ones and everyone knew it. She also had that creepily high-pitched voice and I cringed whenever I heard it lol
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I didn't mind my AP English class except for being forced to dissect books. I am of the belief that some books were written for enjoyment and not with all the hidden meanings we place in them. *shrugs*
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We didn't really do as many books in my class as we did Shakespeare but goddamn we read this book... The Stone Angel I think it was called, I didn't even make it through the first chapter and I ended up skimming and pretending I had read it. Luckily I'm an excellent bullshitter.
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I did that with Tale of Two Cities in 8th Grade lol it was the worst of times! hehe
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We didn't really do as many books in my class as we did Shakespeare but goddamn we read this book... The Stone Angel I think it was called, I didn't even make it through the first chapter and I ended up skimming and pretending I had read it. Luckily I'm an excellent bullshitter.
YOU bullshit *gasps* I never would have thought ;)
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I think the best play I ever read in high school was called "School for Scandal". It was all about passive aggression among the high Society in London in the 1800s. Awesome. The behavior of the women in that play is still so relevant today...sadly. And I can totally say that because I go to an all-women's school and, lately, the stupid passive aggressiveness is driving me up the walls!!!
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YOU bullshit *gasps* I never would have thought ;)
I'm as surprised as you are!!
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My favorite play in High school was The Glass Menagerie... I loved it so much I have a blue rose as part of my tattoo...
the "romantic interest" called the girl blue roses ... she had plerosis but he miss heard and called her blue roses.. I loved it.
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The teacher I got stuck with after I ditched my AP english class (with the evil teacher, who was by the way like 3 feet tall!) was this really old guy obsessed with westerns. So we got to read all these western-y books-of course I don't remember any titles or authors, I've almost blocked that entire experience from my brain. I wanted to poke my eyes out with a spork the entire year. It was a lose-lose situtaion in my opnion.
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i LOVE reading, but when I have to dissect books to itsy bitsy pieces...i get so mad at books...and that's like blasphemy for me lol
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sheesh, y'all were freaking talkative today. I'm not even going to read this thread right now. I'll have to catch up later. But I'm reading the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer. I'm on the third book noe "Eclipse" (yup that vampire romance series) and it still rocks my freaking world!
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sheesh, y'all were freaking talkative today. I'm not even going to read this thread right now. I'll have to catch up later. But I'm reading the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer. I'm on the third book noe "Eclipse" (yup that vampire romance series) and it still rocks my freaking world!
Seems a few people are reading that.
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I'm readin "Endurence" for class... The last book I read for fun was "Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities" and that was over break. lol I recently finished "Nickle and Dimed" a few weeks ago... Worst. book. ever.
My favorite book of all time, though, is Pride and Prejudice. ;D
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I'm readin "Endurence" for class... The last book I read for fun was "Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities" and that was over break. lol I recently finished "Nickle and Dimed" a few weeks ago... Worst. book. ever.
My favorite book of all time, though, is Pride and Prejudice. ;D
Endurance as in Shackelton? (sp?) I read that for a class once. Crazy story.
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Well, it's not written by him, but it's about him, yes. lol
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I've been wanting to pick up Lisey's Story, and the other recent Stephen King book. I've just haven't had a chance.
Right now I'm reading Anne Rice's "The Witching Hour", I've read all her Vampire Chronicles fics, so now I'm diving into her Mayfair Witches series.
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Well, it's not written by him, but it's about him, yes. lol
yeah, thats what I meant. so yeah, I actually liked that one. He's a really interesting guy.
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yeah, thats what I meant. so yeah, I actually liked that one. He's a really interesting guy.
Well, since it's not him writing about it, hopefully the author doesn't spend the entirety of the book complaining. lol
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I've been wanting to pick up Lisey's Story
Awesome book!
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My favorite book of all time, though, is Pride and Prejudice. ;D
I prefer Jane Erye. OOOOH if ANY of you like Jane Erye too I HIGHLY recommed The Thirteenth Tale!! SO GOOD!