We haven't done this in a while....

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:36pm

and I like reading about it, so:

What book are you reading right now and do you like it so far?

[ShuQ]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:39pm

Well I just finished 'To Kill A Mockingbird' in the 10th Grade English Class. Loved it. Iwas wondering where I could get more info (a script) for the play...

[ShuQ]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:39pm

Well I just finished 'To Kill A Mockingbird' in the 10th Grade English Class. Loved it. Iwas wondering where I could get more info (a script) for the play...

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:40pm

Crime and Punishment~Feodor Dostoevsky

Reading it for school. Only twenty pages into it. It is okay so far.

Also re-reading Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical FOLLIES .

[insomniak]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:41pm

No book, because I recently discovered that my school library has plays. I've read Fame, The Fantasticks, Angels in America and plan to start Little Shop of Horrors later. They've also got a ton of things I've never heard of, which should be fun. Right now I'm just picking up familiar titles.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:45pm

For school, just finished Candide and am now moving on to Frankenstein.

For pleasure, just finished Faggots, and I'm in the middle of Gone With the Wind. I'm going to start either Women in Love or Take it Like a Man this weekedn.

[insomniak]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:49pm

I loved Frankenstein! The movie really doesn't do it justice, it entirely misses Shelley's point about the definition of humanity- what are the requirements and can an artificially created being feel enough to be human and even if it can, does that qualify it? (sorry for the run on sentance)

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:50pm

You know, I've never read it before, nor have I ever seen the movie. I'm excited.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:52pm

Priest: EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE is fascinating, enjoy it!

I don't really have time to read anything for fun right now - I was reading QUATTROCENTO, but I had to shelf it for now because it was very poorly written and failed to engage me. I've just read THE CENCI by Shelly and HEDDA GABLER by Ibsen, both of which I rather liked. For fun, I'm attempting to read MARRYING MOZART by Stephanie Cowell. Just for fun.

[Jess1483]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:00am

Can I be a dork and tell you that I'm really enjoying my book for philosophy called "Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of our Traditional Ethic." It's thought-provoking at the very least.

[Plum]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:02am

What is this "fun" concept you speak of?

I'm currently reading and translating Eight Old English Poems. I'm also continuing with Sullivan and Gunther's Constitutional Law. Oh, joy.

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:21am

For those interested in Frankenstein - there was a TV adaptation made in the early 70's starring James Mason, Leonard Whiting (of Zefferelli's Romeo & Juliet fame) and Jane Seymour. It actually stayed fairly close to Mary's novel, if you're interested. I think it is available on video.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070074/

[insomniak]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:24am

Thank you, DGrant. I didn't know that existed, I'd just heard of the Robert DeNiro remake and that it wasn't great.

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:27am

With just a little bit of research, I've discovered that it is available on video, but in a very reduced version - that which was released internationally in theatres. It was originally done as a two-night n=mini-series for TV, so much has been left out.

Also, I must correct myself and say that it is not a true adaptation of her novel - but cleaves more to her themes than most.

[Kimsus123]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:30am

I'm reading Sophie's World for my Humanities class. I actually love it!! most people are just confused by it. I think the author is genius.

[insomniak]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:31am

I'll take what I can get, DGrant. It makes me sad that something like Frankenstein was turned into a cheap, thoughtless monster flick.

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:32am

Right now I'm reading Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress for our bookclub.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385722206/qid=1108531902/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-4295339-0740848?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:34am

Right now I'm bouncing between a HUGE biography of Victor Hugo, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Yeeeeeesh.

[Plum]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:35am

I think Frankenstein is very well-suited to being cheesily adapted. Like so many books of its time, it's so filled with melodrama it's unintentionally funny sometimes.

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:38am

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091142/

See the film Gothic. It puts into context what those writers were experiencing - namely Laudnum.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 10:40am

Glamour. It's one of those tall, thin, glossy books with lots of pictures.

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 10:45am

I just re-read GAYWYCK by Vincent Virga. I started the sequel, VADRIEL VALE, last night but don't know if I'm gonna make it through it. Only so much gothic-style lit I can take in one month, I guess.

[mominator]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 11:28am

I am re-reading A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

[orion59]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 11:35am

I'm reading a book entitled Death's Acre. It's a book written by a well known forensic anthropologist and describes some of his case work in great detail...not a book for those with a weak stomach. It is fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in that type of thing and can stand reading about the formation of maggots on a corpse or the process of decay of the human body once it is dead.

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 11:37am

Priest, I love Crime and Punishment.
I just finished Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and I couldn't put it down, it was amazing. Now I'm reading The God of Small Things for the third time. That's another one of my favorites.