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#26

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:59pm

oh my goodness I LOVE The Giver!! that book seriosuly gave me the creeps...Who wants to be "perfect" if it means living in a cold, mechanical world like that one? ::shiver:: The end always gets to me...it totally leaves you hanging wit hyour mouth open!! I adore it =)

#27

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 11:09pm

Heart of Darkness and the Scarlet Letter. I just wanted to put my eyes out with those books.

#28

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 11:22pm

Heart of Darkness.

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#29

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 11:39pm

The Good Earth
Nectar in a Sieve
Things Fall Apart
I didnt even finish Heart of Darkness.

And though you didn't ask, worst short story: The Metamorphosis.

And Crime & Punishment... It would have been good if about 200 pages shorter. It just dragged horribly.

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#30

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 11:42pm

The Giver. I thought is was random, and uttely insane. Then the sequel, Gathering Blue. Horrible.

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#31

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 11:43pm

The Giver is certainly not for everyone, but it is one of my favorite books.

#32

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 11:45pm

Millie please don't bring up The Metamorphasis.

I can't even put into words my detestation for that story.

Ugh, now I'm disgusted to have wasted five seconds thinking about it.

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#33

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 11:45pm

I like The Scarlet Letter, but I can understand not liking it. Hawthorne is VERY into LOTS of imagery.
Might I suggest reading some of his short stories before you make a final judgement on him. I like Rappachini's (sp?) Daughter more than SL.

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#34

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 11:46pm

Governor- Have you read The Outsiders?

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#35

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 11:51pm

I made the mistake of buying American Psycho from the discount bin. I couldnt even finish it. I was so disgusted. I actually came close to throwing up at one point. Bret Easton Ellis has a depraved imagination. That is the only book that I have ever put in the trash can.

#36

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 11:52pm

The Outsiders is (as SticktoPriest would say) Solidly in my top 3 favorite books of all time.

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#37

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 11:53pm

I haven't gotten the chance to read it yet, Monkey, but I have seen the movie. My friends have recommended the book over the movie.

#38

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 11:55pm

I think I was just mocked.

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#39

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Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:00am

Actually I wasn't mocking you. I wrote the phrase and then realized if I didn't credit you I might get mocked myself. It was, and always is, love.

Gov- The Outsiders movie is one of the best movie adaptations of a book I've ever seen but the book is of course better.

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#40

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Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:02am

I'm fascinated by all the books being mentioned that are considered classics. Subjectivity is an amazing thing.

#41

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Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:05am

I have the feeling that these people were forced to read these books for school. I know I usually enjoy books less (even great books) when I'm required to read them. Takes away from the fun of it.

Feel lucky, kids. Required reading in college is mostly very heavy...*yawn*...slow...non-fiction. Interesting, but...slow.

#42

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Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:06am

How funny that so many of you dislike Hawthorne. I find him one of the best American writers, namely because his own family's history and his own wrestling with those familial demons so influenced his writing. American neuroses at its best.
I tend to dislike Austen myself...and any of those eye-poking Anne of Green Gables books.
Also not a Harry Potter fan. I've read them all and own them, but give me Beverly Cleary, or the Encyclopedia Brown novels, or Bunnicula if you're going for children's books.

#43

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Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:06am

I can admire a book for its reputation and its overall themes/messages but sometimes I just find them boring lol.

DGrant- Sean Patrick Flanery was Power *swooooooooooooooons*

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#44

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:08am

Princess, you hate Slaughterhouse Five......**GASP** that is my favorite book of all time. And it does make sense, you just have to know what you are looking at.

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#45

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:09am

Plum, in what universe was all your collegiate reading non-fiction?
Then again, I was an English major with an emphasis on American lit, so what do I know? :) I got to read lots of fiction. All fiction, all the time.

#46

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:13am

Old Man and the Sea

#47

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:13am

Oh as for Harry Potter, I read maybe a chapter of the first book before I stopped. I did however see the first movie but that doesn't count really because, well, I won't lie, I fell asleep.

The only entertaining part was the guy from I Claudius being in it.

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#48

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Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:14am

Okay, don't kill me, but I really hated "Wuthering Heights." (ducking the barrage of flying books) It dragged on and on; WAY too slow for my taste. Although I didn't hate that as much as "Ceremony." Talk about incomprehensible. And disgusting. The first two chapters contain nothing but the main character vomiting over and over. Actually, a lot of the books I read for AP English my senior year of high school were bad. Go figure.
And I must say, I am a big honkin' Harry Potter fan. But it's certainly an acquired taste, not for everyone.

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#49

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:14am

BTS.....read the 3rd, 4th and 5th. They are incredible

The 1st and 2nd are not too great.

The movies are atrocious.

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#50

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:14am

Not all nonfiction, but mostly. I'm currently in Shakespeare, and I took another English class in which the reading was all autobiographies and memoirs. So, nonfiction. My other classes have been in linguistics, early Islamic history, American politics, computer science, biology, psychology, musicianship (sight-singing and ear training), set design, the history of musicals, and political theory. Not a ton of room for fiction there, though I am reading a couple of the plays of Aristophanes for political theory. :P