What are you currently reading? — Page 11

#251

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Posted: 2/22/08 at 10:20pm

The Great Gatsby was the only book I remember enjoying in Honors English.


Currently, I'm reading various plays for my directing class. So far, I've quite liked English Made Simple.

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#252

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/22/08 at 10:36pm

D2, how are you liking Sense and Sensibility?

It always takes me through such a rollercoaster of emotions.

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I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.

#253

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/22/08 at 11:37pm

Read Freak Show by James St. James. His writing is just so unique and the story is something that everyone can relate to. One of the best books I've ever read, hands down. I laughed! I cried!
Amazon

#254

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/23/08 at 12:07am

The Sign and the Seal by Graham Hancock

#255

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/23/08 at 11:20am

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.

Frances McDormand plays Miss Pettigrew in a new movie and I just saw the trailer yesterday, and want to read the book.

#256

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/23/08 at 11:42am

Scotland: The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson

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#257

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/23/08 at 11:46am

I just read THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. Awful. Moving on to THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, HIROSHIMA, and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

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#258

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/23/08 at 11:48am

I'm reading WICKED for the 100th time.

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"Writing is like prostitution. First, you do it for love, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." ~ Moliere

#259

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/23/08 at 3:19pm

I'm currently reading Middlesex. What an amazing book.

I'm supposed to be reading The Great Gatsby for class, but the book I'm reading is way too entertaining.

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Call me Travis. :)

#260

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Posted: 2/24/08 at 3:07am

The Queen of Babble by meg Cabot. If you are ever depressed, her books are PERFECT.

#261

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 8:58am

I read "The Appeal" by John Grisham - very good for a Grisham but lacking the normal suspense aspect of his normal law novels.

On Saturday read all of "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" by Gregory Maguire. Very cute, and I just engulfed the story. I really can't wait to read the other two fairy tale ones he wrote.

Now I have started "Born Standing Up" by Steve Martin, his autogiography.

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#262

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 9:07am

Finishing THE CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen.

Next up: THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES by Roberto Bolano.

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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

#263

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Posted: 3/10/08 at 10:18am

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. It's not bad.

#264

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Posted: 3/10/08 at 10:34am

You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers. It's ok.

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"My name's Lenny. What's yours?"

#265

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 10:41am

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane (Unfortunately I saw the movie first and now I have trouble imaginging the characters without seeing their movie counterparts. And that's especially bad because I think Laura Linney and Kevin Bacon were miscast in that film).

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#266

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 10:42am

CORRECTIONS--that's what I'm reading now, Roscoe!

Just finished PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT...it's like I'm on some Jewish lit kick

#267

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 11:54am

I am breaking my prohibition against reading memoirs to read An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck, in preparations for "Bent" rehearsals.

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"I am open, and I am willing, For to be hopeless would seem so strange. It dishonors those who go before us, So lift me up to the light of change." Holly Near

#268

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:00pm

Lil, are you liking CORRECTIONS? I read about half of it when it first came out, didn't work for me at all. Picked it up on a whim a week ago, and have been engrossed. Funny what 7 years will do.

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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

#269

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:01pm

"I am breaking my prohibition against reading memoirs"

Why don't you read memoirs?

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#270

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:31pm

It's not too bad--about 30 pages in...the last thing that I tore through was GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES by Ruth Reichl. I'll probably try to finish CORRECTIONS if it half-way holds my interest.

#271

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:53pm

I read several memoirs last year, goth, and I found them to be self-indulgent therapy sessions for the writers and, ultimately, not worth my time.

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"I am open, and I am willing, For to be hopeless would seem so strange. It dishonors those who go before us, So lift me up to the light of change." Holly Near

#272

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:56pm

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I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.

#273

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:26pm

"I read several memoirs last year, goth, and I found them to be self-indulgent therapy sessions for the writers and, ultimately, not worth my time."

Unfortunately, everyone these days is writing a book, whether they have anything worthwhile to say or not.

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#274

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:34pm

Exactly. And some of them have interesting premises but turn out to be, again, not worth the time.

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"I am open, and I am willing, For to be hopeless would seem so strange. It dishonors those who go before us, So lift me up to the light of change." Holly Near

Updated On: 3/10/08 at 01:34 PM

#275

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 3/10/08 at 2:03pm

I just finished Without You by Anthony Rapp...
and just started reading The Dead Zone by Stephen King.