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Post by merricat on Jun 1, 2009 2:36:58 GMT -5
Is anyone here as much of a bookworm as I am? I devour books like they're literary waffles drenched in butter and maple syrup.
I'm currently tackling two: John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany and Coraline by Neil Gaiman. I think I'm going to try to finish the latter tonight because it's an easy read (>100 pages and it's written for 'young adults'), and I love the whole fairytale-gone-wrong thing. I believe Simon Birch was based very loosely off A Prayer For Owen Meany but I don't remember the movie at all so everything is new.
Anyone reading anything?
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Post by zoë on Jun 1, 2009 3:01:47 GMT -5
the film version of Coraline was TERRIFYING. I can't believe that they're intended audience is children, and there were kids probably younger than ten there when I saw it.
I just read Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice and it was such a beautiful play. I can't wait to read the rest of her stuff when stupid finals are over. Summers going to be so good.
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Post by merricat on Jun 1, 2009 3:05:32 GMT -5
I've never really read any plays (besides Shakespeare in school), but I saw a preview for a remake of 12 Angry Men and it looked enticing. I hate seeing movies prior to reading the books, which is why I never saw Coraline. Also, I'm too broke to afford movie tickets. I heard it was pretty freaky though. I told my friend I wanted to see it stoned, and he was like, 'DO. NOT. DO. THAT. I WOULD'VE CRIED IF I WAS STONED.'
And yeah, the best part of summer is the all the free reading time!
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Post by chris on Jun 1, 2009 3:21:02 GMT -5
Read all of John Green's books. NOW.
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Post by thesaradan on Jun 1, 2009 3:33:37 GMT -5
I'm about to read "Nazi policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers" by Christoper R. Browning for school.
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Post by zoë on Jun 1, 2009 3:41:10 GMT -5
I've never really read any plays (besides Shakespeare in school), but I saw a preview for a remake of 12 Angry Men and it looked enticing. I hate seeing movies prior to reading the books, which is why I never saw Coraline. Also, I'm too broke to afford movie tickets. I heard it was pretty freaky though. I told my friend I wanted to see it stoned, and he was like, 'DO. NOT. DO. THAT. I WOULD'VE CRIED IF I WAS STONED.' And yeah, the best part of summer is the all the free reading time! oh and also, pretty much all I read is plays (for school and whatnot) hahaha, I can't even imagine it stoned. also, the dollar theatre is my new favorite place, and its even cheaper up here than in CA. One day of the week, tickets are 50 cents. I never realized that theres no cents symbol on the keyboard. I thiiink I just decided that I'm going to ride my bike to the park every day over the summer and read. one...more...week... |
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Post by chris on Jun 1, 2009 4:22:08 GMT -5
To buy John Green's Paper Towns would cost you about 1100¢.
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Post by sean on Jun 1, 2009 9:47:20 GMT -5
bagombo snuff box
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Post by merricat on Jun 1, 2009 10:35:28 GMT -5
Vonnegut is my favourite, favourite writer, hands down.
Chris, I've never heard of John Green. What's he like?
Also, finished Coraline. It gave me nightmares. So fucking eerie, but I loved it. Seeing as how it is technically a children's book, it kind of reminded me of a really dark, twisted version of The Phantom Tollbooth. I'm excited to see the movie!
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Post by luke on Jun 1, 2009 19:38:34 GMT -5
for the play people, i'm a big fan of 'rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead'. any recommendations for me based on that?
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Post by carly on Jun 1, 2009 20:02:38 GMT -5
extremely loud and incredibly close
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Post by chris on Jun 1, 2009 21:03:22 GMT -5
Chris, I've never heard of John Green. What's he like? Awesome, funny, writes cool books.  |
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Post by zoë on Jun 1, 2009 21:23:08 GMT -5
for the play people, i'm a big fan of 'rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead'. any recommendations for me based on that? Hamlet. ha ha not funny. umm absurdism: Pterodactyls by Nicky Silver The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco (this ones just weird to read) Ten Minutes to Buffalo (can't remember who wrote this) La Dispute I haven't read that much Stoppard, but Arcadia is good. |
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Post by steveo on Jun 8, 2009 15:03:41 GMT -5
1st book i read in a while was, The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and it was really good.
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Post by wolfgangwild on Jun 9, 2009 2:22:26 GMT -5
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Post by merricat on Jun 9, 2009 20:25:30 GMT -5
Just finished A Prayer For Owen Meany... wowowowow. SO good. It starts off kind of slow, and then you totally get sucked in, and then the ending is just ZOMG. Next I'm going to read The Stranger by Camus, which has been hailed by quite a few of my friends as being a life-changer. Pretty stoked. And it's way short, 'specially compared to Owen Meany, which is like six hundred pages or something like that.
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Post by professordazzle on Jun 9, 2009 20:31:17 GMT -5
I read The Stranger towards the beginning of this school year. I'd say it's good, but I don't think it changed my life. I don't really remember it, though.
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Post by merricat on Jun 14, 2009 22:37:23 GMT -5
The Stranger blew my mind.
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Post by chris on Aug 19, 2009 0:11:01 GMT -5
Just finished Thirteen Reasons Why. Now, I'm rereading Looking for Alaska.
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Post by merricat on Aug 19, 2009 6:38:23 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Running With Scissors and re-reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and I'm going to re-read The Picture of Dorian Gray so I can be prepared for when the movie comes out (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). Can't. Wait.
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