BSchultz19
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Congrats on the job Frankie!
I love the pig pictures. Finding random things like that on the internet always makes my day
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Some great reads on your shelves BSchultz! Especially these ones:
I listened to Jekyll and Hyde on audio not long a ago. It's a great little story - and quite a quick light read. I also loved Catch-22 - one of my all-time favourites.
These two I want to read some day too so I'd be interested in your thoughts - particularly The Iliad.
Happy reading!
I read The Odyssey in school and really liked it which made me want to read the Iliad which comes first. I haven't gotten to it yet though. I'll definitely post my thoughts on it.
Another vote for Catch 22, it's a really clever book. I have a few of your books on my TBR pile as well Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter & Nicholas Nickelby. I read Bleak House earlier this year & really enjoyed it so i plan to read another Dickens later on in the year. I'm reading Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde with my youngest son at the moment it's a graphic novel for younger children but the story seems to suit that kind of book quite well
Happy Reading
I've read Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities this year and really liked them so I have a lot more Dickens I want to read.
I love that list. Quite a few have been six star reads (my absolute favourites!), including:
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility (one of my top 3 all-time), Emma, Persuasion (you can see I'm an Austen fan!), David Copperfield (although it took two or three attempts to get going, so don't get put off. Bleak House is my favourite of his), Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, with others close behind.
On the Shakespeare material, I don't know if you've seen them before, but I've found he's definitely better being seen and then read later (I did Hamlet and Othello for A-level, loving the former and hating the latter!). I'm currently slowly making my way through Don Quixote on audio - enjoying it.
BTW, Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte Bronte, not Emily (but I'd really recommend the one she did write, Wuthering Heights, which I've just reread and loved).
It's funny that you should say that about the four Austen novels since I just bought all of them and they're in the same volume together. (It is a HUGE book)
I've seen a couple Shakespeare plays. Spark Notes has that no fear Shakespeare thing where it's the words of Shakespeare and then modernized right next to it so when something isn't quite making sense that's where I go
That's an honest mistake. I knew it was a Bronte sister and was going from memory since most of my books are packed for me to go to school soon. Wuthering Heights is on my wishlist.
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The Last of the Mohicans
I've had that book for probably 5 or 6 years now and haven't read it. I want to read it and get into it, but there are so many others that I really really want to read first or that I find and buy that go on the top of the pile.
Someday I'll read it. Someday . . .
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I ran a 5K on saturday without running for nearly a month before that. Bad idea...
I'd say I ran half or a little more of it, the rest I walked. I finished in 43 minutes 43 seconds which I didn't think was terrible. It was a small town thing and I managed to get 2nd in my division. EXTREMELY SORE though because I was stupid and didn't train at all.
I'll be starting to jog/run to get in shape for my basketball season soon. Hopefully I can do a mile in 5-6 minutes. (Scary goal)
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The maths one was so much easier than the english one!
The questions about time are the ones that took me the longest to process and answer.
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Relaxing Piano Music Consort
Very relaxing indeed
I love listening to this "album". My favorite was, is, and always will be canon in D. Loved it since I was 7 years old. -
My reading from August 2013 on.
TBR:The Best of Me- Nicholas Sparks
Les Miserables-Victor Hugo
The Scarlet Letter-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pride & Prejudice-Jane AustenThe Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Sallinger
Uncle Tom's Cabin-Harriet Beecher StoweThe Sun Also Rises-Ernest HemingwayPaper Towns-John GreenThe Fault in our Stars-John Green
The Last of the Mohicans-James Fenimore Cooper
Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen
Emma- Jane Austen
Persuasion Jane Austen
A Walk to Remember- Nicholas Sparks
The Lucky One- Nicholas Sparks
David Copperfield- Charles Dickens
Hard Times- Charles Dickens
Life of Pi- Yann Martel
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Don Quixote- Cervantes
The Iliad - Homer
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
Hamlet- Shakespeare
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
Moby Dick- Herman Melville
Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen
Othello -Shakespeare
Our Mutual Friend- Charles Dickens
This Side of Paradise- F. Scott FitzgeraldNicholas Nickleby- Charles Dickens
A Midsummer Night's Dream- Shakespeare
The Beautiful and Damned- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Little Dorrit- Charles DickensThe Perks of Being a Wallflower -Stephen Chbosky
Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson
Catch-22-Joseph Heller
The Crucible-Arthur MillerThe Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck
A Game of Thrones MartinLooking for Alaska - John Green
A lot of Dickens in my near future . I'm trying to read a lot of classics this year because it's astonishing how many I haven't read. A couple "teenage" books are thrown in.
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Reading this thread and being a teenager myself makes me want to take the time to read The Catcher in the Rye. Probably one of the next two or three books that I will read.
More to come
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I absolutely did not want to read them at first, since I simply hated all the publicity. But at the 4th book I carved, and I'm quite happy that I did. It was really a very good series. Though I have to say, I did not like the end. A bit too deus ex machina for me.
I saw the films up to the 4th, but I greatly prefer the books. I can't really get behind the films. Too much is left out or altered. I guess I am too much of a Potter fangirl, cause that really irritates and grates me to no end, whenever I try to watch them.
I was the same way. I didn't want to read it because "every kid HAS to read Harry Potter" so I didn't. I had already read the first 4 because my family liked them, but quit after that.
About two years ago one of my friends said that I should at least try it and that the final three books were the best out of all of them. They were right, I enjoyed 5, 6, and 7 more than I enjoyed the first four. Someday I'm sure I'll go back and read them all.
EDIT: Just realized that I said this exact thing like a week ago.
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I am going to sugest the only young adult book that I have ever read (that I knew to be YA) :-) , The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper are great books. There are five books in all :
Over Sea, Under Stone
The Dark Is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree
They are magic adventers based on a little bit of Arthurian legends, Celtic mythology, and Norse mythology. Really good books :-)
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely check them out. Gotta earn some money to buy them first though
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My first response to anyone who likes The Hunger Games is Divergent. I read quite a bit of YA, is there anything in particular you like.. dystopia, romance, science fiction etc?
I will try Divergent, I've seen it posted elsewhere around here. I'm willing to try anything, but I have read a lot of romance and The Hunger Games is the only dystopian I've read but I liked it a lot.
I'd recommend a look at the Bartimaeus triology or Eragon.
Bartimaeus is also about an 11 year old magician's apprentice, but the feel and atmosphere of the book are very different from Harry Potter.
Eragon is about a young farm boy who finds a dragon's egg and sets out to become a dragon rider. Much more along the lines of high fantasy, but I found it very engrossing.
I tried Eragon a couple years ago and didn't really like it, but I could try it again.
Bartimaeus sounds interesting! I might check it out
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I've been working my way through a list of classics that I own and am trying to read, but I'd like to read something "easier" at the same time. Some type of YA fiction.
I've already read The Hunger Games trilogy and Harry Potter anything similar or even any YA book that you really liked would be helpful.
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Not my type of book. But I complement you on writing a good review.
well thank you
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For me there are different things that make a book good. If I'm on the edge of my seat in excitement, I usually consider that a good book. But even if there isn't constant action I can enjoy a book and call it "good" if it has good themes. If I finish reading a book and it really makes me think, then it's a "good" book.
Personally I hate reading books that have almost no dialogue. So that would be a characteristic of a "bad" book for me. Badly developed characters or too many cliches or stereotypes is another bad characteristic in a book.
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The level that was spelling is was killed me. The other ones weren't bad, but I tend to remain calm under pressure.
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I am in love with Nicholas Sparks books. I have read almost every one of them and have loved them all. Some of them are kind of predictable because he has a very specific genre that he writes and sticks to the same types of stories.
I really liked True Believer/At First Sight because unlike some people that have posted, I love a good tragedy. Safe Haven was a good change of pace though that didn't have a terrible, tragic ending.
Someone posted that The Best Of Me will be made into a movie in 2014. If that is true I look forward to seeing it. That book would make a great movie.
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I think I reached 400 or at least got close. I didn't read as much as I thought I would or wanted to. I think the idea of having a read a thon and telling myself to read made me want to read less. Reverse psychology I guess
Fifty Shades of Grey, E.L. James
in Women's Fiction / Chick Lit
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I read the first one and was a little intrigued. I only made it halfway through the second one. I swear the author has like 100 words in her vocabulary and just used them in a different order to create this book.
I obviously have no room to talk because she is a published, best-selling author and I am a high school student without anything published, but the writing was just awful. I'm sure there are much better "erotica" books than this one with much better writing.