The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part four- Page 71

[Allie]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:04pm

Here are my two suggestions:

Equus, by Peter Shaffer
The Hours, by Michael Cunningham

A Home At the End of the World is another Cunningham novel I really enjoyed. His third, Flesh and Blood, not so much so far.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:04pm

Are you saying I'm not entertaining, Nia?! I'm offended.


Books you should read:
The Time Traveler's Wife
Memoirs of Geisha
ummm.....
oh! No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species

[insomniak]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:06pm

I do want to read Equus.

Elph, that last title sounds suspiciously like something from our beloved biology course. I've read Geisha but Time Traveler's Wife sounds intriguing. What's it about?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:06pm

You've probably read it, but The Picture of Dorian Gray is my all-time favorite book.

[insomniak]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:09pm

I haven't read that, Em, but I do know that you love it.

*adds it to list*

[Allie]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:12pm

My best friend is currently reading The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream, by Paulo Coelho. He says it's really changed him. Definitely one I'm going to look for.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:12pm

I was actually serious about the last one, Nia. It is a Bio book, but it's fascinating.

The Time Traveler's Wife is about....a woman whose husband time travels, and they first meet when she is five and he is, like, 36, because he's time traveling. It's absolutely wonderful, definitely get it! It does have some sexually explicit scene, though. Think you can handle it?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:12pm

It's a quick read, and I'd be shocked if the library didn't have it. I think it's only like 150 pages. The Great Gatsby is another one of those really good books that you've probably read in school, but if you haven't you should.

I also really love this (slightly sappy but beautifully written) book called Snow Falling on Cedars, and anything by Toni Morrison. I've only read Sula, but her style pretty much carries from book to book.

Updated On: 1/19/06 at 03:12 PM

[insomniak]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:15pm

Oh, Elph.... do you really want me to answer?


Snow falling on cedars. *remembers*

Actually, I should try to find Brokeback Mountain.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:16pm

hi everybody..just got back from school

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:17pm

No, I don't, but you should definitely get it. The main character reminds me of Raul. *is crazy* Don't ask me why.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:17pm

Oh, and there's also a fantastic new translation of Don Quixote. It's big and bright red.

[insomniak]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:18pm

Actually.... where IS my library card? That could pose a problem.

Hi, M3. Where did your screen name come from?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:20pm

If you can't find it they can probably look it up.

[insomniak]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:22pm

I think I have to go. I might be on one more time today...

*waves sadly*

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:24pm

*flails*

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:26pm

BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

*hug*

[Allie]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:28pm

*hugs Nia* Byeee!

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:29pm

nia-- well my name is melanie, people call me mel, so the 3stands for an E -- M3L, my birthday is on the 24th (of this month actually lol) and then i just put little x's around it: xM3L24x :) --- its my aim sn, so i just used it for this so i didnt have to come up with a new one Updated On: 1/19/06 at 03:29 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:29pm

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:35pm

I really love The Picture of Dorian Gray. And The Great Gatsby, or any other Fitzgerald novel, especially Tender is the Night. And as far as other dark character studies, I read Crime and Punishment over the summer and really enjoyed it.

I have Memoirs of a Geisha right now, but it hasn't really hooked me in yet so I've barely started (a good thing, since I have loads of work to do). The Time-Traveler's Wife sounds interesting, Elphie.

Bye, nia! Hopefully the time'll pass itself quickly, since it sounds like you've thought of things to do...

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:36pm

Bye Nia

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:38pm

bye nia-- i'm reading to kill a mockingbird for school right now, it's good so far.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:46pm

ugh, you guys. Go to cnn.com.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/19/06 at 3:54pm

The bin Laden thing?

They took Snow Falling on Cedars out of our high school summer reading curriculum because they decided that the graphic sex scene overshadowed the other themes of the book, and that wasn't what they wanted us to take away from it.

Don Quixote is what I read when I can't sleep.