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Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban. I find it the most enjoyable way to practice my French.
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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.
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... 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. |
The Mortal Instruments Book One - City Of Bones by Cassandra Clare.
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The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
I've read so many of Austen's books and just found this amoungst the clutter i call my room :] |
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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 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.
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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. |
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That's my favorite Jane Austen. ![]() |
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.
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Wicked by some Greggory Maguire or something.
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Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
and Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick |
The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch and Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in French, and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams.
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Maps and Legends, by Michael Chabon, and The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon.
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"Ask and It Is given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires" by Esther and Abraham
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"Blueback" by Tim Winton.
Easiest book I've ever read - it's for English. -__- |
^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 |
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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. |
Im reading the mortal instruments #3 the city of glass by something Clare
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Mrs. Dalloway, by Virgina Woolf.
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Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan and The Periodic Table, by Primo Levi.
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Crime And Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Soultaker by Bryan Smith
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