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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
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  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    Who Princess wrote:
    I was an English major too. See where it got me! :P :lol:

    DT, surprised you couldn't finish Dorian Gray. Yeah, the characters were ridiculous but the book is so short! I just looked at the whole story as a melodramatic joke and didn't even try to take it seriously.

    I guess at the time I just couldn't be bothered with it. I love the concept with the painting and I'll go back and finish one day I expect. I think it was the case I hadn't read anything in a while and so I was looking for something good to get me hooked again.

    Anyhoo I've just finished reading the first volume of the 'Sandman' series and now I have started 'Hyperion' by Dan Simmons. After that I have 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time' and 'The Call of Cthulhu and other weird stories' as well as a Bukowski poetry book to read so I have enough to keep me going for a while :D
  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    still working on It...
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
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  • madtowndave
    madtowndave Minneapolis, MN Posts: 4,013
    Gone Girl
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    madtowndave wrote:
    Gone Girl


    ooh i just bought this today... along with 3 other books. im trying to save it for a cruise im going on in a few weeks. not sure how successful ill be tho.
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    Who Princess wrote:
    I was an English major too. See where it got me! :P :lol:

    DT, surprised you couldn't finish Dorian Gray. Yeah, the characters were ridiculous but the book is so short! I just looked at the whole story as a melodramatic joke and didn't even try to take it seriously.

    I guess at the time I just couldn't be bothered with it. I love the concept with the painting and I'll go back and finish one day I expect. I think it was the case I hadn't read anything in a while and so I was looking for something good to get me hooked again.
    Well, it's not like it's one of those Great Works that you absolutely must read. Wilde was a good writer and very witty but he wasn't very good at creating a character that was supposed to personify evil. Lots of the story's details are laughable.

    I just meant that I got through it quickly by not taking it seriously.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Who Princess wrote:
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    Who Princess wrote:
    I was an English major too. See where it got me! :P :lol:

    DT, surprised you couldn't finish Dorian Gray. Yeah, the characters were ridiculous but the book is so short! I just looked at the whole story as a melodramatic joke and didn't even try to take it seriously.

    I guess at the time I just couldn't be bothered with it. I love the concept with the painting and I'll go back and finish one day I expect. I think it was the case I hadn't read anything in a while and so I was looking for something good to get me hooked again.
    Well, it's not like it's one of those Great Works that you absolutely must read. Wilde was a good writer and very witty but he wasn't very good at creating a character that was supposed to personify evil. Lots of the story's details are laughable.

    I just meant that I got through it quickly by not taking it seriously.

    was discussing dorian gray with my youngest yesterday after spotting her staring at herself in the bathroom mirror. she asked what it was about and i told her, then she asked if i had it. i told her yes. im hoping she picks it up.. she could do worse than read oscar wilde.


    p.s. i too am an english major. :mrgreen:
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  • Jeff Murray
    Jeff Murray Posts: 1,259
    catefrances wrote:
    madtowndave wrote:
    Gone Girl


    ooh i just bought this today... along with 3 other books. im trying to save it for a cruise im going on in a few weeks. not sure how successful ill be tho.

    I got it for Christmas... I think it is going to jump in line... hopefully the other books don't make a big stink about it!

    But first I am going to start Ken Bruen's The White Trilogy... the first three books of his London based Police dramas... first time I was able to find this at an affordable price in the States... loved his other books so I am looking forward to getting through these stories.
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  • bluegrace
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    I will soon start to read my Secret Santa's book of love poems, well not hers, but she sent it to me.
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  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin. The return of Rebus - woo hoo.
  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    I just finished The Hunger Games, and now I'm reading the second book. Not bad, but definitely written for a younger audience than me ... :?
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  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    afroannnie wrote:
    still working on It...

    still a little less than 200 pages to go...read a good bit this afternoon...then i got distracted...
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    catefrances wrote:
    was discussing dorian gray with my youngest yesterday after spotting her staring at herself in the bathroom mirror. she asked what it was about and i told her, then she asked if i had it. i told her yes. im hoping she picks it up.. she could do worse than read oscar wilde.


    p.s. i too am an english major. :mrgreen:
    I agree, your youngest might enjoy Wilde. Is she a reader like you? I've noticed for a long time that you seem to read quite a lot. (Should have guessed you were an English major! :ugeek: )
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,489
    i received the new Neil Young book (Waging Heavy Peace) for Christmas from my father in law. excited to read it!
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Who Princess wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    was discussing dorian gray with my youngest yesterday after spotting her staring at herself in the bathroom mirror. she asked what it was about and i told her, then she asked if i had it. i told her yes. im hoping she picks it up.. she could do worse than read oscar wilde.


    p.s. i too am an english major. :mrgreen:
    I agree, your youngest might enjoy Wilde. Is she a reader like you? I've noticed for a long time that you seem to read quite a lot. (Should have guessed you were an English major! :ugeek: )
    :ugeek: Love reading. As an English major, I hate writing...well, at least what I'm assigned to write.
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Forgot I had started Tina Fey's "Bossypants" a month or two ago and continuing it right now. I can not stop laughing right now. Her chapter, "Dear Internet", was unbelievably hilarious. If the comments by people are actually real, her response to them is priceless and way too funny.
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    mfc2006 wrote:
    i received the new Neil Young book (Waging Heavy Peace) for Christmas from my father in law. excited to read it!
    Awesome! Enjoy it!
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  • Jnich2424
    Jnich2424 Posts: 608
    Tina Fey's "Bossypants" Started it earlier this evening and I'm about half way through it already. Very funny book so far.
  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    vant0037 wrote:
    kandc.jpg

    If you haven't read Michael Chabon, do it. If you have a chance to go hear him speak or do a reading, do it. The man's a genius.

    I loved this book ... so brilliantly cut-wrenching.
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