The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part five- Page 93

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:05pm

Books are stupid. Whty do ew neede thum!

[Katt]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:06pm

I lyke books they dteach yew hoW 2 spell and rede proprly

[tlp70]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:06pm

I absolutely hated The Scarlet Letter. Why does it take 40 pages to describe a tree? Ugh! That book was a nightmare for me in high school.

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:07pm

Hah, Tracie, maybe it was my page-long diatribe about what a bitch she is that scared her off the communities.

Katt, I really enjoyed the plot of The Scarlet Letter, but the execution was horrible. It's so hard to read.

[Dramatic_Irony]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:07pm

I got nothing out of that book. It teaches you not to have an affair if you don't like the color red.

[Katt]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:07pm

Hah, well one of the few books that I really didn't like was "Out of the Dust". We had to read that in seventh grade.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:09pm

I refuse to read Lovely Bones or Lucky until I gradute and get out of this city.

I was dead tired earlier and didn't really want to go to class, so I was just looking forward to getting through it so I could come back and sleep. We even watched a movie during class, so I could have slept, but because of Mandi's post, I was too wired. I even walked out into the rain without an umbrella, so I got soaked on the way to class, but I was grinning like an idiot.

(actual picture of orangeskittles)

*pokes CS* You can always come now here, we're closer than NYC

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:09pm

Katt, I absolutely abhored that book. It won a considerable amount of awards and I just... don't... get it.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:10pm

Back to the book discussion, yes!

I love George Orwell. I liked both Animal Farm and 1984, but 1984 is one of my all-time favorite books. I love everything about it. It was frustrating to read it in AP English, because neither the teacher (whose opinion I really respected) nor the rest of the class seemed to enjoy it half as much as I did.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:10pm

hey everyone :)

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:11pm

I was tempted Skittles. The bus was stopping in Syracuse.

[Katt]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:13pm

It was a terrible book Lexi. I tried to like it, because I always try to find something good about a book, but it just stunk.

[Dramatic_Irony]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:15pm

All my favorite books depress me. I just realized this- and that thought depresses me.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:15pm

I really did like 1984, I just didn't like how it ended.

[Dramatic_Irony]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:17pm

See my last post, orange skittles. 1984 is one of my favorite books, without a doubt.

Also, a sort of modernized version of 1984, there's a book called 'After'. No idea who it's by.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:18pm

i'm not a big reader

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:19pm

I thought the ending was perfect. Horribly depressing, but absolutely perfect to drive home the point of the novel.

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:20pm

Skittles, I do think it's a very depressing ending, but I don't think the novel could have really ended any other way.

On another note, I think O'Brien is SUCH a good villain. I only wish Orwell had mentioned he was some sexy, suave guy... it would only made him better.

[Dramatic_Irony]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:20pm

I've never found a book with an ending I didn't like- or at least one that I thought was less than perfect for the book. If I have, I've blocked it out.

[Katt]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:22pm

Is that even possible DI?

What about Harry Potter Five? [And three, and four, and six...] Updated On: 1/31/06 at 04:22 PM

[Dramatic_Irony]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:25pm

Oh, the ending was perfect for the book. BAD. Okay, maybe I'm being a little harsh. What I really didn't like was that the 6th HP book seemed like a whole different series. Harry was all...grown-up. I missed CapsLock!Harry reading Half Blood Prince.

Movies on the other hand...I want to edit movies. I had so many changes I wanted to make when I saw the HP movies. Like, why was his broom at the end of the 3rd movie? And why was Ron and Hermione's fight exactly 3 lines long.


...but I'm over it. Honestly.

Updated On: 1/31/06 at 04:25 PM

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:27pm

I wrote probably the best paper I've ever written (which isn't saying much, but still) on 1984 analyzing the generation gap between Winston and Julia and how it contributed to their outlooks on life and their relationship. Totally random, but that was one of the first papers where we were ever told, "Just write about whatever you want."

I LIKED Harry Potter 5, Katt! I'm a total sucker for angst, though. It was so bleak, but I still liked it a lot.

I can probably give you a list of books NOT to read if you want to keep that record, D_I.

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:28pm

I haven't been interested in Harry Potter since 2001ish. I actually used to have a Harry Potter website that received 1,500,000+ hits (hey, back in '99-'00, that was a pretty big deal for some tween like me ) -- I was absolutely obsessed with the series. After the fourth book, I lost interest very quickly.

IMO, she killed off the best character (Sirius) in book five. One flaw in Rowling's writing is that her characters are VERY black and white. Sirius was one of the only characters with shades of gray.

[Katt]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:29pm

Oh I liked Harry Potter Five a lot, but all the books after Chamber of Secrets have depressing endings.

Posted: 1/31/06 at 4:30pm

... but I'm guessing she'll end the seventh on a very uplifting note.