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#325Currently Reading
Posted: 10/10/05 at 9:01pm
Ahh well. I suppose i will miss out. I've had my fill of sad anything. I don't watch sad films, read sad books, or listen to sad music. I'm an official happy zone. Try it. You might like it 
"the cottagers at Rotherhithe knew something of his name. From Hammersmith to Putney people shuddered at his name" - Growltiger's Last Stand
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#326Currently Reading
Posted: 10/10/05 at 9:14pmWell, maybe when I'm done Madame Bovary and listening to Surfacing I'll give the whole happy thing a try. If I haven't slit my wrists. :P
#327Currently Reading
Posted: 10/10/05 at 9:33pmSurfacing, now who is that album by. I have it, but i can't for the life of me remember who did it. Ummm, Sarah McLachlan, as a wild stab?
"the cottagers at Rotherhithe knew something of his name. From Hammersmith to Putney people shuddered at his name" - Growltiger's Last Stand
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#328Currently Reading
Posted: 10/10/05 at 9:38pmYeah. She's kind of synonymous with depressing music, isn't she? :P It's a good CD, though, and some of the songs manage to be merely wistful.
BroadwayBaby21
Broadway Star Joined: 8/20/04
#329Currently Reading
Posted: 10/10/05 at 9:51pmI just finished reading Medea for english class. pretty good.
-If you don't like your fate, change it. You are your own master.- Aida
#330Currently Reading
Posted: 10/10/05 at 10:07pm
As stated in the Stephen King thread, I am reading The Stand good escapist fiction to get me through the semester. I just finished Bag of Bones also by the King. I'm on a whole Stephen King kick, it's a good thing I read It this summer or this could go on all semester.
As far as fun books I recommend The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin. It's bizarre, but hilarious and not sad at all.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#331Currently Reading
Posted: 10/10/05 at 10:11pmOh, I forgot something funny. Carl Hiaasen books. The man has an incredibly sick sense of humor.
gettinhep
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#332Currently Reading
Posted: 10/10/05 at 10:14pm'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim' by David Sedaris.
'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt
#333Currently Reading
Posted: 10/11/05 at 3:53am
"Yeah. She's kind of synonymous with depressing music, isn't she? :P It's a good CD, though, and some of the songs manage to be merely wistful."
I wouldn't know, mate. I don't think i've ever listened to it after hearing "when she loved me" from Toy Story two. One of the saddest songs i have ever heard, that one. Didn't eat for two weeks after hearing it, and came out of therapy after 3. Think a whole album of it may send me over the edge.
"the cottagers at Rotherhithe knew something of his name. From Hammersmith to Putney people shuddered at his name" - Growltiger's Last Stand
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#334Currently Reading
Posted: 10/11/05 at 4:08am"My Face for the World to see" by Liz Renay. A work of pure genius.
stylinbohemian
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/05
#335Currently Reading
Posted: 10/11/05 at 6:30amI just finished A Tale of Two Cities for Brit Lit project thats due today and has kept me up til oh...now doing!!
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#336Currently Reading
Posted: 10/11/05 at 11:02amFound a paperback copy of the great Scott Spencer's ENDLESS LOVE....forget the cheezy movie, this book is a knockout. Like Romeo And Juliet mixed in with Lolita. And the sex scenes have brought a rosy blanch to even my seen/heard-it-all cheeks! This is a great, forgotten American classic.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#337Currently Reading
Posted: 10/11/05 at 11:27am
earlier in the thread, I posted that I was about to start reading "the march" by E.L. Doctorow.
well, I have about 100 pages left, and it is incredible. great characters, and emotions running all the way through. Doctorow is so poetic and I love his style. Sometimes he just writes a sentence or a phrase that kicks you in your gut.
also, a special note to ragtime fans: Coalhouse walkers' parents are introduced in this book. I think it is so cool how thirty years after writing Ragtime, Doctorow is still playing around with old characters and still writing backstories to other stories. Genius.
that's all. read "the march"
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#338Currently Reading
Posted: 10/11/05 at 11:57am
Coalhouse's parents? Are you serious?
*adds another item to the To-Read list*
#339Currently Reading
Posted: 10/11/05 at 11:59amwell, I'm currently reading a thread about what people are currently reading...duh!LOL...
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#340Currently Reading
Posted: 10/11/05 at 5:40pmMapp and Lucia
"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
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#341Currently Reading
Posted: 12/24/05 at 8:45pm
Just finished Preludes and Nocturnes, the first volume of the Sandman series. I've heard it isn't really representative of the whole, and I believe it, because only the last story was really great. I have to wait until the library opens again to get the next volume. Or volumes. *impatient*
I'm reading Life on the Screen for a school essay, and Notes From a Small Island for fun.
RachLaura
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/05
#343Currently Reading
Posted: 12/24/05 at 9:14pmMemoirs of a Geisha. The real test is if I can finish it before I decide to see the movie...I might not be able to wait.
#344Currently Reading
Posted: 12/24/05 at 9:19pm
Finish the book first justagirl2. From what I hear tell, the movie does not come close to the book, which I enjoyed immensely.
I am currently reading MICHELANGELO AND THE POPE'S CEILING by Ross King. He also wrote BRUNELLESCHI'S DOME, which was fascinating.
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
Beergoggles
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/05
#345Currently Reading
Posted: 12/24/05 at 9:19pmBoulevard Of Broken Dreams (A James Dean Biography)
Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!
#346Currently Reading
Posted: 12/24/05 at 9:21pmI'll try, dbillyp. It's such a fantastic book...I read about 150 pages today, so chances are I'll finish it tomorrow anyway. I'm just incredibly impatient and lazy.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#348Currently Reading
Posted: 12/25/05 at 2:32am
Ooo, loved Jane Eyre!!
Just started the Narnia series this evening -- got me one of those big fat compilation books from B&N while doing some last-minute shopping, am now on the third chapter of The Magician's Nephew.
Updated On: 12/30/05 at 02:32 AM
lizzie1326
Understudy Joined: 12/2/04
#349Currently Reading
Posted: 12/25/05 at 4:00amMemoirs of a Geisha. I'm almost finished, so I'm going to try to see if I can hold off on seeing the movie before I finish it.
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