What are you reading?
#77
Posted 23 June 2005 - 03:50 AM
Just tell us! And now that you've been laughed at, it doesn't matter.
I just finished reading The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing. I'd like to go read Catch 22 again because it is the greatest book on the planet (with 1984 trailing closely behind, in my opinion).
And I liked Christine. Not as much as some of the other books King has written, but it was enjoyable. Too Kill a Mockingbird was very good too.
I'll probably end up reading Glamis the Great again because I need to get editing book 2 and all.
I just finished reading The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing. I'd like to go read Catch 22 again because it is the greatest book on the planet (with 1984 trailing closely behind, in my opinion).
And I liked Christine. Not as much as some of the other books King has written, but it was enjoyable. Too Kill a Mockingbird was very good too.
I'll probably end up reading Glamis the Great again because I need to get editing book 2 and all.
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#78
Posted 23 June 2005 - 04:20 AM
QUOTE (Slade @ Jun 23 2005, 03:50 AM)
And I liked Christine. Not as much as some of the other books King has written, but it was enjoyable. Too Kill a Mockingbird was very good too.
You people are goddamn freaks, you do know that, right?
I particularly like how To Kill A Mockingbird's merits just got mentioned as an afterthought to Christine's.
In other news, I'm reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest for the second time this week. It's just utterly awesome on so many levels, so many, in fact, that I'm not going to bother listing any of them.
#79
Posted 23 June 2005 - 12:13 PM
It is an absolutely awesome book, definitely one of my favorites. Maybe I'll reread it soon. I think my copy is missing page 84 though
The trippy part where the narrator was dreaming was really cool.

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....We'd be lying though.
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Remember Emu's face, people; one day it's going to be on the news alongside a headline about blowing some landmark to smithereens, and then we can all sigh and say, "She was such a normal person".....
....We'd be lying though.
-Laughlyn
If my doctor tells me to exercise, I am going to force him to do my homework.
-Mirithorn
- Do Not Use the Elevators - deviantART - Infinite Monkeys -
#81
Posted 24 June 2005 - 05:04 AM
VANITY FUCKING FAIR
Let's see how long it takes me to get heartily tired of this enormous paper brick.
Also Pullman's Northern Lights. I distinctly remember the trilogy sucking, badly, but people have bullied me into re-reading it. Apparently my opinion will magically change this time around. Stupid Pullman.
Let's see how long it takes me to get heartily tired of this enormous paper brick.
Also Pullman's Northern Lights. I distinctly remember the trilogy sucking, badly, but people have bullied me into re-reading it. Apparently my opinion will magically change this time around. Stupid Pullman.
#83
Posted 28 June 2005 - 02:34 PM
I'm so torn. At first, I was reading 1984. But I only got a few pages in before I picked up The Zombie Survival Guide. And I only got about halfway done with that before I bought Hex in the City by Simon R. Green.
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I finally got a sig!
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Oh God, I had no idea! How can they keep it going? You mean, Return of the Children of the Corn etc? Children of the Corn 2? Children of the Corn and the Prisoner of Azkaban? I Know What You Did With The Children Of the Corn???? Yes, it's horrible!!!!
-Some guy on IMDB.com just finding out that there was more than one Children of the Corn movie
#86
Posted 30 June 2005 - 09:33 PM
Vanity Fair, still. About a fifth through it now. This book is surprisingly awesome, and I'm really getting into it even though it's the size of a house. It oozes sarcasm to the point where it squelches when I try to close it, and I have to keep it in a special bag so it doesn't seep into the furniture.
This post has been edited by Rhubarb: 30 June 2005 - 09:34 PM
#87
Posted 02 July 2005 - 04:44 PM
QUOTE (floppydisk @ Jun 29 2005, 08:54 AM)
You can send me the Zombie Survival Guide. It'll take some reading material off your hands.
But then how will I survive the zombies?

Oh, and...
Argh!
That Simon R. Green novel turned out to be the fourth in a series of five, and since it led right into the fifth book, the ending sucked. Whoa is me.
I finally got a sig!
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Oh God, I had no idea! How can they keep it going? You mean, Return of the Children of the Corn etc? Children of the Corn 2? Children of the Corn and the Prisoner of Azkaban? I Know What You Did With The Children Of the Corn???? Yes, it's horrible!!!!
-Some guy on IMDB.com just finding out that there was more than one Children of the Corn movie
#89
Posted 19 July 2005 - 09:48 PM
Well, I did Half-Blood Prince in my usual set time limit, and right now I'm working on a simultaneously hilarious and deeply disturbing set of stories collectively titled The Further Adventures of the Joker.
Check out my crappy drawings!
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#90
Posted 19 July 2005 - 10:59 PM
FINALLY finished Vanity Fair. What an awesome book. Definitely a new favourite. Now I'm reading The Once And Future King again, for want of anything else. Apparently someone's giving me Half-Blood Prince soonish, but I'll mainly only be reading it because people apparently want to discuss it with me.
Almost finished The Amber Spyglass, and it's boring and dull and trite and I'm glad I got the trilogy over with so no one else can go OMG IT'S SO COOL YOU MUST HAVE READ IT WRONG GO AND READ IT AGAIN.
Almost finished The Amber Spyglass, and it's boring and dull and trite and I'm glad I got the trilogy over with so no one else can go OMG IT'S SO COOL YOU MUST HAVE READ IT WRONG GO AND READ IT AGAIN.