Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:33 pm
dreamer wrote:I haven't read Atlas Shurgged yet, because it's insanely long (the copy I picked up in the bookstore was just over 1,000 pgs) and I already have a stack of other books to read. I read a plot summary though, and I'm looking forward to reading it, when I get that chance.
Sat Sep 16, 2006 5:58 am
Sugarinii wrote:Erm...Speak. Everyone else seems to hate it and says it's horribly written, I guess I just like it because I can identify with it. Eh. Plus the cover art is cool.
Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:41 am
Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:38 am
dreamer wrote:ryan.riverside wrote:There was a week that I decided to read Ayn Raynd. So I read both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged that week. They are my two favorite books, but the whole reason that I read them in the first place was because my American Literature professor told me that they were the absolute worst books ever written. He said that if anyone read them, liked them, and took a test over it (this was The Fountainhead) and passed with a perfect score, they would automatically pass the reading section of the class. Needless to say I read them and loved them, though I seriously doubt anyone here has read them and likes them.
The Fountainhead is my favorite book. I picked it up because the Ayn Rand Foundation runs a scholarship essay contest for it yearly, which I entered (and lost ). I haven't read Atlas Shurgged yet, because it's insanely long (the copy I picked up in the bookstore was just over 1,000 pgs) and I already have a stack of other books to read. I read a plot summary though, and I'm looking forward to reading it, when I get that chance.
Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:32 pm
hakojo wrote:Ugh. Eragon. That kid only got published in the first place because his parents owned the company. LotR meets Star Wars, woohoo. Someone needs to take Paolini's thesaurus and set fire to it. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if he slept with it at night. -eyeroll-
Oh yes, back on topic. Everyone I know except my best friend seems to hate A Series of Unfortunate Events. I love these books to death because I love the way they're written, and how everything in them is just so strange. I don't see why people think they're so boring and repetitive, because they really aren't.
Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:27 am
Xela of Xandra wrote:Agreed on both points- Paolini is stinky and not all that talented and ASoUE rocks.
Except that the latter is overrrrr.
Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:46 am
o_0 wrote:Um, some books I like that everyone hates... I am a Shakespeare nut. I love Wicked (but no one's read it ;_;)...
Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:43 am
Moongewl wrote:Xela of Xandra wrote:Agreed on both points- Paolini is stinky and not all that talented and ASoUE rocks.
Except that the latter is overrrrr.
Thought The End hadn't come out yet?
Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:28 pm
Xela of Xandra wrote:Moongewl wrote:Xela of Xandra wrote:Agreed on both points- Paolini is stinky and not all that talented and ASoUE rocks.
Except that the latter is overrrrr.
Thought The End hadn't come out yet?
Well. It will be overrrrrrrr.
Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:04 pm
NeoPet_online wrote:Anything by Meggin Cabot, Lauren Weisenberger and Candace Bushnell. I know they're all Chick-lit books, but they're really damn good.
halfbakedbliss wrote:Silas Marner.
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werepup wrote:xxShannon wrote:Hmm.. I liked Trainspotting.. it has a movie ( it wasn't really big)... although I don't think I know anybody personally besides the one person to told me about to that has read it..
Well as you'd expect - Trainspotting, being set in Edinburgh was and still is a really big film in Scotland. Irvine Welsh is an incredibly popular author here. You are definetely not alone.
Although it was very grimily similar to the truth... Begbie really reminds me of my uncle Alec... nice as anything when he wants to be...