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Post by BlindedxxFalcon on Sept 15, 2007 18:44:37 GMT -5
I love how the books mature with the charcters in Harry Potter...I think that's why it's so popular.
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Post by Keira on Sept 15, 2007 18:44:46 GMT -5
Okay, I couldn't find Radio Flyer OR Twilight. I was so dissapointed! So now I'm reading Flipped and Speak.  But, back to Speak - it's a good read, but it's also emotionally draining as I remember it. |
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Post by Tensleep on Sept 26, 2007 20:39:00 GMT -5
I just joined something really neat I thought I would share with the rest of you.
I don't know about you guys, but I do a lot of reading on line these days just because I can do three or four other things at once. That being said, I really don't get around to books that often, even though I have like 3 Billion of them floating around.
Anyways, I stumbled across this corner of Acramax.com this morning while I was going through my morning funnies. How it works is you pick any book from their list (all of them being classic novels) and they will send you a chapter of it a day or you can read the whole thing on line. I think this is fantastic. I get to read a chapter of a good book a day and I don't have to worry about getting it back to the library.
If you're interested, check it out:
books.arcamax.com/?t=anon
I started "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens today. It's not as bad as I thought it would be, what with the industrial era writing. But kind of cool to know what Ponyboy was talking about, huh?
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Post by latch22 on Sept 27, 2007 14:58:17 GMT -5
Thanks, Tens. : )
I liked Great Expectations, but I thought that the end seemed too abrupt, like he just ran out of inspiration. That's not a spoiler, is it? Well, I haven't read it since third grade, so I don't remember it all that well anyway. Don't go by me.
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Post by zevie on Sept 28, 2007 0:56:14 GMT -5
I never finished that book. My God, the man loved his run-on sentences. Wasn't he paid by the word?
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Post by Nittanylizard on Sept 28, 2007 8:19:23 GMT -5
I Wasn't he paid by the word? Man, I'd make out if I had that kind of a deal ;D. I have to work hard to not be wordy. |
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Post by Tensleep on Sept 28, 2007 11:04:16 GMT -5
Ok, gave up on Dickens, went back to Max Brand. I am much happier this way. Seriously, this guy just droned one and on. Run on sentences, strong british accents...Man...
But hey. Max Brand's Alcatraz is on the list, so I'm excited. Anyways, I've babbled enough.
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Post by BlindedxxFalcon on Sept 28, 2007 16:20:44 GMT -5
Okay, I couldn't find Radio Flyer OR Twilight. I was so dissapointed! So now I'm reading Flipped and Speak. Yeah. I really liked it though...I finished it last weekend when I barracaded myself up in my room and read the whole afternoon. I think I was mad at one of my parents... But it is an incredible read. It knds of reminds me of Cut. |
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Post by Keira on Sept 29, 2007 9:09:28 GMT -5
Now, I can't remember if I already said this or not, but I read Cut too. I only vaguely remember it though. Was it written in diary format? I might be confusing it with another. I did like it. I remember that much.
There's another book I liked as a younger-teenager called Make Lemonade (after the saying, 'When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.') by Virginia Euwer Wolff. It's about a 14 year old girl who deseperately needs/wants a job, so she finds an ad needing a babysitter. She goes to work for a 17 year old mother of two kids, in this apartment that is horrible beyond words. At first the girl is highly disgusted by the situation, but slowly begins to realize that the mother she works for is in a really bad situation, financially, and begins to watch the kids for free while she search for work and goes back to school, etc...
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But, back to Speak - it's a good read, but it's also emotionally draining as I remember it. 
