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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #675 on: April 21, 2009, 07:05:58 AM »
It's a slipstream bodice ripper fusing Crime Noir with Urban Fantasy. :)
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #676 on: April 21, 2009, 06:04:32 PM »
I just finished The Forest of Hands and Teeth, which I think is the best title I've come across in a while.  However, the book was definitely subpar.  The writing style was okay, but the narrator was annoying and an idiot, the side characters had almost no personality (except for the fanatical nun, who was overdone and cliched), and there were giant plot holes all over the place.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #677 on: April 21, 2009, 09:54:37 PM »
i am about to finish breaking dawn... i wont tell anything about it heheheh dont worry you all... but i dont know what to read next... i came across some series of books called magic bites has anyone heard of it? what do you recommend...

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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #678 on: April 21, 2009, 10:30:41 PM »
*snipes haperez from industrial warehouse roof* We all warned you *shrugs*
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #679 on: April 22, 2009, 12:28:41 AM »
I have to read three books for one of my classes. The three that I chose are Wuthering Heights (Bronte), Northanger Abbey (Austen), and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy)....I'm a couple chapters into W.H. right now....

I'm also going to start reading the Mortal Instruments trilogy by Cassandra Clare. First book is City of Bones. I intend to take it and Northanger Abbey with me to Europe next week....
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #680 on: April 22, 2009, 06:15:46 AM »
I rather enjoyed the Sparksnotes for Wuthering Heights...
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #681 on: April 22, 2009, 08:40:45 AM »
I'm midway through Elantris.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #682 on: April 22, 2009, 06:04:03 PM »
I rather enjoyed the Sparksnotes for Wuthering Heights...

Heh. I think I will too. SparkNotes is awesome....
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #683 on: April 22, 2009, 09:11:49 PM »
Wilson, I pity you when you get to Tess.  I found that book to be painfully stupid and pointless.  It was the perfect example of why a literary classic is a book that everybody wants to have read but nobody wants to read.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #684 on: April 23, 2009, 12:33:39 AM »
Not all of them. Just some.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #685 on: April 23, 2009, 01:24:53 AM »
1984 kicks ass! ;D
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #686 on: April 23, 2009, 07:43:37 PM »
Shaggy, I agree.  Many classics really are worth reading, but Tess is not one of them.  Either that or I'm just not smart enough to get it.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #687 on: April 23, 2009, 10:44:02 PM »
Lol. I can understand that.…
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #688 on: April 24, 2009, 02:23:03 AM »
I didn't like Beowulf or Brave New World but i don't mind Lord of the Flies...i think we are forced to read them b/c the previous generation is taking the fact that they had to out on us...
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #689 on: April 24, 2009, 03:27:59 AM »
I think Beowulf is kind of fun.
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