The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part five- Page 87

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:02am

I can't get pita bread anywhere nearby, so I make do with saltine crackers.

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:02am

Hawthorne...I really didn't like The Scarlet Letter. -_- Hmm, let me look up what I said about it last summer. (This is really just a reason to procrastinate).

This is my recommendation:
"I didn’t like the book. It was boring and the only real plotline was Chillingworth’s need of revenge. It was just about her life after the letter was put on and nothing more. I would not recommend the book, for the same reason."

I wasn't nice. Eh...it may have been due to the fact that I was reading entire books in a row. Oh well.

/end procrastination.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:04am

I remember having to watch a lackluster PBS production of The Scarlet Letter last year. The guy who played Dimmesdale was really attractive. Mmm. Just pray that you get to watch it in class.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:07am

Ack, I read The Scarlet Letter in my junior year of high school when I had the bitchiest English teacher ever. The tests she gave us on that book...eeeks.

[Zyla]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:07am

I've never read "The Scarlet Letter," but I actually like Hawthorne's short stories. Key words: Short stories.
I think I'll get off now. But before I go, one last picture...

Adam in overalls!

[Katt]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:07am

Was that the one with Demi Moore, where they changed the ending? When asked about it, Demi goes: "Oh, well no one has really read the Scarlet Letter so it doesn't matter if the ending was changed."

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:08am

I actually liked The Scarlett Letter, but I'm a geek for classic literature. I used to read Dickens for fun when I was little.

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:08am

*has no idea what anyone is talking about*

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:08am

I'm not reading The Scarlet Letter, I'm reading Hawthorne's lesser known and equally as torturous The Blithedale Romance.

[Amber_C2003]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:08am

I agree...his short stories are really good.

Overalls make me happy.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:09am

We had to watch the Demi Moore version.

I hated American Lit almost completely, with the only exceptions being... umm... Fitzgerald. And Emily Dickinson. The Brits definitely have us thoroughly defeated in the literature department, even just comparing the past 200 years. Updated On: 1/31/06 at 12:09 AM

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:09am

*dances*

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:10am

I read both The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. It was torture.

I disliked American lit as well, sans The Great Gatsby.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:10am

Are you happy? Or are you trying to entertain us?

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:11am

Well, the pineapple is back .

[Katt]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:14am

I'm reading the Great Gatsby right now.

[gertrudejessalynn]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:14am

<--- So is Adam... me in my avatar just does *not* work.

[Amber_C2003]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:14am

The Great Gatsby is love.

Seriously...its probably my favorite book that I've studied for school purposes (and in my personal top 5).

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:14am

As vain as I am, I got tired of looking at myself.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:17am

Ooh, I loved The Great Gatsby!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:17am

Haha, perhaps I should change mine as well.

Amber, I feel the same way. It's probably my #2 ever. It was such a nice treat to read it at the end of a horrible English year.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:18am

I LOVE The Great Gatsby, and if you enjoy it then you might want to pick up some of Fitzgerald's other novels. Tender is the Night is one of my favorite books. This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned are slower, but still good reads.

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:19am

I liked Gatsby, but I didn't love it.

Lexi, I really like that picture of you.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:21am

I think I might change mine back too, unless anyone particularly likes what I like to call my "Human iPod" pic.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:23am

I don't even remember what we read in American Lit. Bad Puritan poetry? The Crucible? Dry existentialist writing? I read The Catcher in the Rye that year, but that was for a project where you chose what you wanted to read.

I think Americans just don't have as much of a flair for the romantic or something, which is unfortunate.