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minus. 1st Jul 2010 4:48 PM

Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban. I find it the most enjoyable way to practice my French.

Rabid 6th Jul 2010 5:53 PM

Ballistics, by Billy Collins, A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, anthologized by Dave Eggers. I can't wait for the 2010 edition to be released in October, even more so because David Sedaris is prefacing it.

Zela 6th Jul 2010 6:38 PM

... Twilight...

I swore never to read it. Then I saw the film. It is actually quite good. A lot of my friends will think I have been placed by an impostor... Reading Twilight! Liking it! SHOCK!
I am sorry for being a traitor but, like I said, it is ACTUALLY quite good.

Beccapixie10 7th Jul 2010 10:40 AM

The Mortal Instruments Book One - City Of Bones by Cassandra Clare.

lethifold 7th Jul 2010 10:59 AM

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

undercoverpenguin 7th Jul 2010 11:05 AM

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
I've read so many of Austen's books and just found this amoungst the clutter i call my room :]

Rabid 7th Jul 2010 4:03 PM

Quote: Originally posted by PixCii
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien


If you know what's good for you, you'll skip the chapter about The Council of Elrond. That's an hour of my life filled with utter confusion and futility that I can't get back . I love Tolkien dearly and have read all of his work, but oh, God... the council of Elrond is the absolute worst. The film version distills all of the necessary material quite nicely and eliminates Gandalf's thirty-page speech.

Zela 7th Jul 2010 4:16 PM

I watched The fellowship of the ring a week ago and loved it but I don't think I will be able to read the book. The film seems to simplify a lot but still having depth and I like it that way.

Rabid 7th Jul 2010 4:27 PM

I think that Peter Jackson did an exceptional job of pilfering what was necessary from the books while allowing a few less important characters and occurrences to fall by the wayside. After all, the fact that Frodo and Sam encounter a singing fool named Tom Bombadil on their way to Bree holds no significance whatsoever, in the grand thematic scheme. Jackson tightened up Tolkien's excesses (such as Gandalf's thirty-page speech) to make for a work that perhaps runs more smoothly than the novels, but loses none of the characters' spirits.

Jackson only made one big alteration, and despite having seen Return of the King numerous times, I still wonder why. When the hobbits return to the Shire after the destruction of the ring in the novel, they find that Galadriel's prophetic vision was ultimately accurate- the Shire was enslaved by Saruman. Frodo, too exhausted to fight another war, holes himself away in his hobbit hole while Sam leads the war to overthrow Saruman and ultimately becomes the mayor of the Shire. I think it lends a far more meaningful interpretation to Frodo giving Sam the book of his adventures and saying "The last pages are for you, Sam," because Frodo's story has come to a close- now it's Sam's turn to be the hero rather than the sidekick. Maybe, in cutting this out and going with the rosy, happy-go-lucky ending that he did, Jackson wants us to believe that evil will never return to Middle Earth because it was vanquished, but I never interpreted that to be Tolkien's perception. However, I digress. Despite his final omission (and the fact that he made Legolas and Gimli into bumbling idiots purely for comic relief), Jackson made wonderful movies out of wonderful books.

Phoeberg 7th Jul 2010 4:29 PM

Quote: Originally posted by undercoverpenguin
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
I've read so many of Austen's books and just found this amoungst the clutter i call my room :]


That's my favorite Jane Austen.

minus. 13th Jul 2010 8:27 PM

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.

LoonehWannabe 14th Jul 2010 5:42 AM

Wicked by some Greggory Maguire or something.

Lily__XD 24th Jul 2010 5:42 PM

Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

and

Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick

Rabid 24th Jul 2010 6:32 PM

The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch and Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann.

minus. 27th Jul 2010 8:49 PM

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in French, and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams.

Rabid 29th Jul 2010 12:30 AM

Maps and Legends, by Michael Chabon, and The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon.

Dreamydre 29th Jul 2010 2:28 AM

"Ask and It Is given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires" by Esther and Abraham

Beccapixie10 29th Jul 2010 8:03 AM

"Blueback" by Tim Winton.
Easiest book I've ever read - it's for English. -__-

lethifold 29th Jul 2010 8:14 AM

^Winton's work may be easy to read, but when it comes to analysis, he's very deep in his work. Look out for a lot of religious undertones and links within the stories.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith <3

fthomas 29th Jul 2010 11:40 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Zela
... Twilight...

I swore never to read it. Then I saw the film. It is actually quite good. A lot of my friends will think I have been placed by an impostor... Reading Twilight! Liking it! SHOCK!
I am sorry for being a traitor but, like I said, it is ACTUALLY quite good.


Lol, I agree. Don't hate me people 0_0.
It is really fun making fun of it, and yeah it is pretty stupid in places - but it is quite enjoyable to read

'Looking good dead', by Peter James.

RoseGirl101 30th Jul 2010 2:28 AM

Im reading the mortal instruments #3 the city of glass by something Clare

minus. 6th Aug 2010 3:00 PM

Mrs. Dalloway, by Virgina Woolf.

Rabid 9th Aug 2010 2:04 AM

Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan and The Periodic Table, by Primo Levi.

alyash94 9th Aug 2010 7:31 PM

Crime And Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

nusshine386 10th Aug 2010 2:31 AM

Soultaker by Bryan Smith


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