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Post by F. Bella Incognita on Dec 9, 2003 1:32:09 GMT -5
Hehe no worries at reading more than one book at a time. I tend to do the same. Yes, RLS can be quite tedious. But for TI, I had a bit of motivation because I wanted to be a pirate...and now I still do... Sad, isn't it?
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Post by Secret Pseudonym on Dec 9, 2003 1:38:38 GMT -5
If that's sad, then I'm positively depressed. While I was away staffing a camp this summer, I took my friend's cabin in as my foster cabin, and they literally made me their chief, and we had a pirate's code, and I wore a 'pirate medallion'. All the girls live in my town and every once in awhile I'll see one, and they still call me chief. How's that for being a pirate? For one week I was the female equivalent of Jack Sparrow -- even had green apples to eat. Except I drank water -- not rum. Glad that someone else does the many book thing too.
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Post by F. Bella Incognita on Dec 9, 2003 1:57:11 GMT -5
Haha wow! That sounds like fun. I love that you even had a code and a medallion and stuff, and green apples to boot. Awesome! The closest I ever got to a pirate experience was not very fun. I went to the Caribbean and went to this old deck on some island (they're all the same, lol) and there were these historical re-inactors of pirates, and normally it wouldn't phase me too much, but when you're five years old it's a bit overwhelming...and terrifying. One guy was taunting me to take off his eyepatch and telling me of all the horrible things I'd see if he removed it, and that sent me screaming. Another thing was they had a wax figure of someone with scurvy and that downright horrified me. So I laid off the pirate fancying for a bit...then pulled it back up again. Okay, and just to get the subject back on books ( ) I finished Jack Keroac's On the Road, Johnny's self-proclaimed favorite book. And rightly so, too, it's lovely! Johnny D has great taste. I recommend it!
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Post by The Fearless Fiend on Dec 9, 2003 10:08:28 GMT -5
Hmm, I might have to add that one to my list. Along with Treasure Island. I loved that book, and I would very much like to read it again......now, if only I knew where it was.........
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Death By Chocolate
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Post by Death By Chocolate on Dec 30, 2003 21:30:16 GMT -5
Im reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I recently watched Benny & Joon and thought it was weird that I happen to be reading the book. (You know...Joon says: "having a Boo Radley moment are we?")
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Post by The Fearless Fiend on Dec 30, 2003 22:59:08 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Donnie Braso right now by Agent Joe D. Pistone himself with Richard Woodley. It's an amazing book in which you have to keep reminding yourself that the situations in it are real, with life or death consequences, because it's so entertaining. It's also full of wonderful scenes that they didn't include in the movie. I highly recommend it. It get's FF's two thumbs up.
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I'm a model, you know what I mean...
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Post by Invisible on Jan 25, 2004 12:48:02 GMT -5
meeep! On my bookshelf? Well, on one I have lotsa Scholastic books that are like, 100 pages long with a size 18 font and my manga collection (with is still slowly growing!)...but on the other bookshelf, I have my entire Harry Potter Book Collection. I have a good and bad copy of each book, but I only have 2 hardcover copies, The Goblet of Fire and Order of the Pheonix. I'm cheat, what can I say? abd I have Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and I want Quidditch Through the Ages... So yes, I'm a Harry Potter buff.
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Post by Death By Chocolate on Jan 31, 2004 18:03:32 GMT -5
Im reading "Bloody Jack" I think you can guess why ;D This is my 100th post!
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Post by The Fearless Fiend on Feb 1, 2004 2:54:18 GMT -5
Let's see, the books currently in my book reading que are as follows:
Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson 927 pages The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Sterling 482 pgs. Insomnia by Stephen King 663 pgs Depseration by Stephen King 547 pgs A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton 468 pgs And Four Past Midnight (which has Secret Window, Secret Garden in it) that I'm re-reading in honor of the movie, by Stephen King. 744 pgs
Hmm, that's quite a list. 3324 pages if I've done my math correctly, (not likely.) Perhaps I should get reading...
-Fearless F.
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Post by The High Flyer on Feb 1, 2004 9:29:03 GMT -5
I'm rereading Harry Potter 5 for reading class and I'm DESPERATLEY looking for Secret Window, Secret Garden. And DESPERATLEY looking for the "Depp!" book and the "Modern Rebel: Johnny Depp" book and "Johnny Depps Top 10 Movies" and "Blow by Blow" book and yea, do you get it? heh
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Post by The Symbolic Sacrifice on Feb 2, 2004 21:10:56 GMT -5
Just finished The Rum Diary, halfway through On The Road, waiting in the aisle is F&L, The Count Of Monte Christo, The Turn Of The Screw and Bridget Jones Diary.
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Post by CaribbeanCrane on Feb 7, 2004 0:31:22 GMT -5
So many books lined up to read. At the moment though I'm reading the Gunslinger by Stephen King and The Sapphire Cresent (Forgotten Realms book, what else would I read? ).
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Post by Dangerbabe on Feb 7, 2004 1:17:50 GMT -5
I just finished "Watership Down" (Goooo, Hazel!!!)which I read waaaay back in high school before. Now I'm onto "All Quiet on the Western Front"--one of my all-time favorite books.
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Post by The High Flyer on Feb 7, 2004 9:53:29 GMT -5
I just finished reading a book called "A Step From Heaven", its about this korean girl that comes to America when she's like 5 or 6 with her mommy and daddy. She's told that America is like heaven, and so she thought she was going to see her dead grandpa. Yea, ok, but anyways, once they get there, things aren't going very well. They live in a rented basement of some dude, they have no money, and the dad is doing 5 jobs and still getting paid nothing, same with the mom. Then they have a son, the dad turns abusive and a aloholic, and yea. You get the rest I'm about to read a book called "Surviving the Normans", about some punk dude that burned down his school, so the mental hospital makes him live with a family, the Normans, to try to keep him under control. Hey, whatever
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Post by Little Miss Misfit on Feb 7, 2004 16:33:48 GMT -5
I just finished What's eating Gilbert Grape this morning.....loved it!!! I am going to read a steven king book next i think...
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