The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part three- Page 498

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:12pm

Thanks everyone! *waves back*. I thought you all were the safest ones to join, some of the other threads scare me, plus I also enjoy Adam.
Yes Elphie, I'm from a city just outside of Toronto.
Thanks Alix, you wouldn't believe how long it took me to come up with it, I have been changing my mind about it for days.

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:13pm

The Red Badge of Courage *was* horrible. Siddartha wasn't really my thing, either. To be honest, I'm not a fan of a lot of assigned reading-type books.

OH! I really loved The Great Gatsby, though. Also, for whatever reason, I liked the movie a lot, too. Mia Farrow was so gorgeous!

[theatrebabe]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:14pm

Oh! Another Canadian!

Yay for international Adam love.

[Alix7272]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:14pm

I love it Mandi!

I enjoyed Siddartha. In the beginning, it was really frustrating but the end made it worth it. I love Catcher in the Rye. We just read The Stranger, and the main character is similar to Holden Caulfield in some ways so we were talking about the two and whether or not we like them. I loved The Stranger too. Even though I'm completely different then those two characters and don't fully understand how a person like that could live outside of literature, I really like them.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:14pm

Our resident Canadian, Allie, should be back in a few days. She'll be so happy!

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:14pm

were reading To Kill a Mockingbird in ELA. I havent started it, Im not so much into reading unless its something I really want to read.

elphie--i love your sig from taboo =)

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:15pm

Heh, glad you like it. It's was more fun to make than doing French homework.

I really liked The Stranger. We just finished reading that. I liked Animal Farm too...but other than that, I haven't like most of the stuff I've read in school.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:15pm

"Haha! And the wearing the Dirty Sanchez shirt seemingly every day... what the hell? It's like, "Yes, Adam, we get that you're trying to be dirty. Giggle. Move on." "

Heh. At least he's choosing to repeatedly wear a shirt that doesn't have the loud busy patterns he tends to favor. Plus, it shows off the arms.

Welcome, Snowbird!

Heh, cuteness with the cowboy hats.

Aaaagh, The Red Badge Of Courage. Brings back bad memories of 11th grade. I've generally been okay with books I've been assigned to read for school, but one that I absolutely despised was Heart of Darkness.

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[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:17pm

Someone recommended Animal Farm to me when I was like 13, and I thought that it was a happy story about farm animals. I couldn't get through it. I read it again like two years later, and I loved it. I like 1984 even better, though.

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:18pm

Heh, BG. Don't get me wrong, the brown looked good on him and the shirt fit quite nicely, but I felt like that's something a 17-year-old boy in my grade would wear, not a mid 30s guy!

Alix, I'm with you on the characters. Although I can't ever imagine living and thinking like those characters do, I think we can find some of ourselves in them at times. Eeee, I love Holden.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:18pm

AHH! You guys post too fast!

Thanks, Mel, I like it, too.

Siddartha was good at the end, if I recall.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! That movie was the worst movie I have ever seen in my life! I thought it would never end. I wanted to die. Sorry, Siamese. :-/ I liked the book, though.

Oooh, Toronto! I like Toronto.

Alllieeeee! I miss her.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:19pm

I actually had to read Animal Farm in 8th grade and then write a paper detailing the parallels to the Russian Revolution. I really enjoyed the book, even though I had to analyze it to death.

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:20pm

Oh, no, it's cool, Elphie! To be fair, our English teacher fast forwarded through some of the parts he deemed too boring too watch, so... heh.

Em, I LOVE Orwell, too. Have you read Huxley's Brave New World? It's in the same vein as 1984, but I liked it more.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:20pm

I love 1984. I've read it 4 times. And I've read the book Holes probably once a year, every year, since 5th grade. I'm odd like that.

I didn't like Of Mice and Men.
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[Alix7272]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:21pm

I really loved Heart of Darkness. I disliked the story for the most part, but the writing was just...breathtaking. Because of my teacher (I had an incredible English class last year) I think it was one of the first times I really appreciated a book for the writing more than the story and now when I read, for most books, the writing is just as important to me as the story and bad writing annoys me.

I enjoyed Animal Farm well enough, but I didn't find it spectacular.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:22pm

I actually really hated Brave New World, even though it was in the same vein. It was a little bit too dry for me; I liked that 1984 created more of a story.

Of Mice and Men was sad.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:23pm

Ugh, HOD. Now THAT book was hard to get through.
I haven't read any Orwell, and I feel like that's a bad thing.

The movie...was SO. CORNY. And Mia Farrow was not at ALL the way I imagined Daisy. SO. BAD.

[opiv]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:23pm

my jaw was on the floor at the end of of mice and men. so sad

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:24pm

I think reading the end Of Mice and Men BEFORE I actually read the book contributed to me not enjoying it so much.

I loathed The Crucible. Bleh.

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:25pm

I haven't read any of these books except Brave New World which I liked. There was a movie a couple of years ago with Taye Diggs called Equilibrium which was a lot like Brave New World.
I saw the movie version of Of Mice and Men, it was sad.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:25pm

I've done Heart of Darkness in school twice -- once in high school and once in college -- and though the writing style is spectacular, I've never liked it, partially because I've been forced to analyze it until my brain might ooze out my ears.

One of my favorite books ever is The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[Alix7272]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:25pm

I couldn't believe the end of Mice and Men! We watched the movie afterwards and it was so hard to watch.

[Atrias]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:26pm

I just reread The Crucible, which I don't mind. Brave New World I couldn't stand, but that might have been partly due to the fact that I had to write a paper that analyzed its rhetorical strategies.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:27pm

I was miserably ill during the time we did Of Mice and Men in class, so my teacher had me rent the movie while I was home sick. SO SAD.

LOVE The Crucible.

(Sad Jakey!!!)

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:27pm

We're reading this book now called Running in the Family...and, uhg. It's so confusing. And there's no sparknotes on it.