A thank you to people who actually READ books

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A thank you to people who actually READ books

Posted: 3/20/05 at 5:06pm

So I was in school on Friday, and I had this HUGE HUGE HUGE discussion with this girl who I never thought liked books, but has great taste in them. So thank you to those of you who actually read, and not books like what Meg Cabot writes (those are fun, but sort of one-night books if you know what I mean). But real, long books from authors like Morgan Lleywelyn, Ken Follet, etc..

Thanks

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 5:07pm

youre welcome?

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 5:08pm

yeah I didnt expect any replies but sure lol

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 5:13pm

reading is fun. knowledge is power. *cue School House Rock music*

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 5:28pm

I love books.

David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

re: A thank you to people who actually READ books

Posted: 3/20/05 at 5:30pm

I haven't read a book in a while...I need to visit Barnes and Noble soon. Perhaps tomorrow.

re: A thank you to people who actually READ books

Posted: 3/20/05 at 5:31pm

currently reading: Shogun.

you?

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 5:32pm

i just started Mirror, Mirror

::bust a move::

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 5:34pm

I'm in the middle of Asimov's "Foundation and Empire" (the second of the orriginal FOUNDATION trilogy). I've already read the trilogy 3 times but I do love it.
I just finnshed Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress".

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 6:09pm

One of my favorite writers is Neil Gaiman. He's able to be funny and incredibly creepy at the same time. Even his comi books are truly amazing.

So now you've met the court of 364, and if you ever wish to come...don't.

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 6:16pm

Re-re-rereading "The Fatal Shore" About the first European settlers of Australia.

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 6:28pm

That you've even read a book at all is startling Captain Obvious.

Morgan Lleywelyn & Ken Follet? There's a veritable Algonquin Roundtable right there.

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 6:29pm

"...So thank you to those of you who actually read, and not books like what Meg Cabot writes (those are fun, but sort of one-night books if you know what I mean). But real, long books from authors like Morgan Lleywelyn, Ken Follet, etc.. "

And WHAT exactly is wrong with Meg Cabot's books? I highly enjoy them, especially since they're one-night reads. It's a refreshing break, especially if you (well, for me, at least) just finished a long book (and esp. if said book was beaten to death by analyzing it...ugh...)

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 6:54pm

about to start the Shoal of Time

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 7:44pm

Books are my escape. I like a great variety of books, but I need to read more non-fiction. It annoys my dad sometimes that the majority of my books are fiction. I'm in the middle of Shakespeare's Scribe and will probably either read The Virgin Blue next(love Tracy Chevalier) or something different. Dont' know yet. One of the best books I've read is In My Hands. A very sad book at times, but really quite extraordinary.

"The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long"-Edgar in King Lear

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:10pm

your welcome! I love to read. I am now re-reading catcher in the rye. Man how i love it! oh and i love conversation surrounding a good read as well. :)

"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:29pm

I love reading books... I just wish I owned more.

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 9:51pm

Fabala- nothing is wrong with meg cabot. nothing, i like one-night reads too, its just that I like books that are a bit more intelligent if that makes sense...I like BIG books!

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 10:00pm

When I was 8 years old, I read The Count of Monte Cristo because it was one of the thickest books I could find in my house. It's still one of my favorites.

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Wanting life but never knowing how

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 10:14pm

This week I'm reading "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf (kind of forgot to do it last week for class...) and beginning "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce. Very excited about this one :)

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~!

Posted: 3/20/05 at 10:17pm

ooh I heard "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" was super good!!

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:00pm

I just finished C.P. Taylor's "Good" (it was), but that's the last bit of non-school reading I'm going to be doing for a while. Okay, back to Con Law...

#23

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:17pm

I would like to thank those who actually write the books for me to read.

And one of you knows who you are.

Rest in peace, Iflitifloat.

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Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:21pm

i read TRASH, pure TRASH

Jackie Collins is a literary GODDESS!

just kidding, folks...

#25

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Posted: 3/21/05 at 1:27am

I love reading, so you're welcome? I just finished "Lysistrata" the other day and I'm now reading "The Clouds" (kind of on an Aristophanes kick...), and I'm re-reading "1984."

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