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  • emily18
    emily18 Posts: 489
    jubilee by margeret walker
    it's a lot better than i thought it was going to be :eek:
  • kinetic
    kinetic Posts: 148
    clairenordon wrote:
    i might go for the grapes of wrath if i get a minute in between essays!!!

    Oooooh, I forgot about Steinbeck.

    I have a funny Steinbeck story: I'm originally from NJ, and my father in law was great friends with the founder of the Steinbeck Society at San Jose State University, and one night they had a black tie fundraiser. So afterwards I called and asked how it went, and he said "Oh, it was very nice. There was excellent food and there was a scruffy looking little man wearing torn jeans who played some music on his guitar. I sat next to him at dinner; you would have liked him since he was from New Jersey, too."

    Me: "What was this scruffy man's name, Dad?"
    Dad: "Bruce Springsteen."
    Me: ...(speechless)...
    Dad: "You would've thought he'd dress up for the occasion."

    Now I'm going to go on a Steinbeck kick.
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Just finished L'Etranger (The Outsider) by Albert Camus and am now looking for a new read
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • dharma69
    dharma69 Posts: 1,275
    NOT Harry Potter, that's for damned sure!
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  • Kraven
    Kraven Posts: 829
    I just read the new Harry Potter, haha, it was amazing. I loved it, only took me 8 hours to read the 750+ pages.
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  • kinetic
    kinetic Posts: 148
    dharma69 wrote:
    NOT Harry Potter, that's for damned sure!

    Yeah, I hear it's not very popular.
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,376
    I just finished The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, and I've started, Look at Me by Anita Brookner.
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  • ForestBrain
    ForestBrain Posts: 460
    Silence of the Lambs
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Just finished L'Etranger (The Outsider) by Albert Camus and am now looking for a new read

    what did you think?
    i totally related to meursault, except for that whole killing an arab thing. :)
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    catefrances wrote:
    what did you think?
    i totally related to meursault, except for that whole killing an arab thing. :)
    I have never related to a character like I did to Meursault :D I have pretty much the same outlook on life, although I care a lot more about things like the people close to me. While I wouldn't kill someone, I can see myself in the same situation in the trial as him if I did, if that makes sense :)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    Finished rereading Different Seasons by Stephen King over the weekend - forgot how different the movie version of Shawshank Redemption is from the short story version. It may be one of the rare cases where the movie is better than the short story.

    I am currently enjoying Chuck Kloisterman's IV. I love his essays and take on pop culture.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Solat13 wrote:
    Finished rereading Different Seasons by Stephen King over the weekend - forgot how different the movie version of Shawshank Redemption is from the short story version. It may be one of the rare cases where the movie is better than the short story.

    I am currently enjoying Chuck Kloisterman's IV. I love his essays and take on pop culture.

    What is different? I remember them to be pretty similiar. I know Red is not black in the short story.
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  • Coachella
    Coachella Posts: 30
    i'm listening to the golden compass on tape.
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  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    just finished Wicked, which I liked WAAAYYY more than Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister...

    am now sprinting through a second read of The Davinci Code (which is just as exciting as the first time around! god, i love this book... :o:) )

    so that I can start in on Harry Potter... yay! :D
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  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    Rabbitrocks wrote:
    I'm still reading Anna Karenina...

    i feel your pain.....

    you know what... just quit it. we tried it as a book club book, and none of us got through it... as a group, we decided to just let it go.... don't force yourself! good on ya just for trying! ;):D
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  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    rrivers wrote:
    What is different? I remember them to be pretty similiar. I know Red is not black in the short story.

    The warden doesn't shoot himself when Andy escapes - he just moves back to where he came from, Hadley (the head guard) quits two years before Andy escapes, he pays for the rock hammer originally and bribes the guards to protect him from the "Sisters" with the $500 he snuck into prison by hiding it up his ass, the secret identity that Andy assumes in the end is one he and another banking friend created and not the fictional person Andy created in the movie that was being used to launder the money, Tommy (the kid with the info about who really killed Andy's wife) just gets transferred to a minimum security prison and not killed, Andy goes through two rock hammers in the book, the scene with the Italian opera music playing is only in the movie and there are a few other differences.

    A lot of the dialogue and scenes from the short story are recreated word for word in the movie, but the director definitely embellished and tweaked a few things and I think made the story better and more uplifting.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • Yellow Bedwetter
    Yellow Bedwetter NYC Posts: 2,832
    "The What's Happening to My Body Book for Boys"

    Been reading this for 6 yrs, and I still don't get it

    haha
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Coachella wrote:
    i'm listening to the golden compass on tape.

    I read the first one earlier this year and enjoyed it. I have the second book, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    civ_eng_girl wrote:
    just finished Wicked, which I liked WAAAYYY more than Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister...

    am now sprinting through a second read of The Davinci Code (which is just as exciting as the first time around! god, i love this book... :o:) )

    so that I can start in on Harry Potter... yay! :D

    I loooved Wicked in some places, I remember the beginning especially. I thought it dragged in some places, but I have noticed that in all of his books that I have read. I have Son of a Witch, but I haven't read it yet. I think I might have enjoyed Confessions more than Wicked.

    I am also waiting on my wife to finish the new Harry Potter so I can read it. She's on page 291.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Solat13 wrote:
    The warden doesn't shoot himself when Andy escapes - he just moves back to where he came from, Hadley (the head guard) quits two years before Andy escapes, he pays for the rock hammer originally and bribes the guards to protect him from the "Sisters" with the $500 he snuck into prison by hiding it up his ass, the secret identity that Andy assumes in the end is one he and another banking friend created and not the fictional person Andy created in the movie that was being used to launder the money, Tommy (the kid with the info about who really killed Andy's wife) just gets transferred to a minimum security prison and not killed, Andy goes through two rock hammers in the book, the scene with the Italian opera music playing is only in the movie and there are a few other differences.

    A lot of the dialogue and scenes from the short story are recreated word for word in the movie, but the director definitely embellished and tweaked a few things and I think made the story better and more uplifting.

    Interesting. I think the changes made the story better. I've read the story a few times but it has been awhile.

    "Get busy living, or get busy dying" is in both which is a great quote!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."

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