I know, I know, braid tugging and sniffing and skirt smoothing, but the best thing to happen to that series was Robert Jordan dying, the new writer picks up the pace and runs with it
I know, I know, braid tugging and sniffing and skirt smoothing, but the best thing to happen to that series was Robert Jordan dying, the new writer picks up the pace and runs with it
I really liked it
new WoT book is in my top 3 now.
I read the first one years ago and I guess it was ok. I dunno maybe I'll start reading those after Percy Jackson.
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Kusu why is Dracula in your most hated books list? Just curious.
I haven't finished it because I went on a Vonnegut binge but I've picked it up again and I find it enjoyable.
Kusu why is Dracula in your most hated books list? Just curious.
I haven't finished it because I went on a Vonnegut binge but I've picked it up again and I find it enjoyable.
it's because i cannot stand that there is little to no tension in what, 70% of the book because it's just letters?
"oh man last night somethin creepy happened better stay here to find out more
Isn't Percy Jackson the novelization of that new teenage greek gods movie?
other way around. Basically a friend described it to me as "Harry Potter but with Greek Gods" like 2 years ago and now that I see the movie trailer at work all the time I decided to check it out. It was a good read and way more violent then Harry Potter.
Isn't Percy Jackson the novelization of that new teenage greek gods movie?
other way around. Basically a friend described it to me as "Harry Potter but with Greek Gods" like 2 years ago and now that I see the movie trailer at work all the time I decided to check it out. It was a good read and way more violent then Harry Potter.
phew, glad I've heard a few people say it doesn't suck, I have to read it for work (I work in a bookstore and they are having a party for the movie release so I have to know what's what I suppose)
While we're on the topic of poe (three pages/a thread ago)
I like The Conqueror Worm more than The Raven, but my favorite stuff of his is the C. Auguste Dupin stories(plus the balloon-hoax, which is hilarious in a it happened a century and a half ago way)
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Kusu why is Dracula in your most hated books list? Just curious.
I haven't finished it because I went on a Vonnegut binge but I've picked it up again and I find it enjoyable.
it's because i cannot stand that there is little to no tension in what, 70% of the book because it's just letters?
"oh man last night somethin creepy happened better stay here to find out more
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silly goose"
I can understand this. Every time a new passage started and something plotty was going to have happened I thought to myself "How is he going to make all this suspenseful and exciting, it's already happened." But somehow I always felt he kinda sorta pulled it off.
I think he would have done better to avoid all the letter and Diary bullshit and just write a story, but yeah.
Reading Eric Foner's history of Reconstruction. So good.
Is it the abridged or un-abridged version? Foner has managed to publish that book (or some iteration of its thesis) something like seven or eight times.
This is why he has a chair at Columbia, and I will be teaching at the local community college for the rest of my forseeable career.
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i am not the one who likes the scarlet letter here
my tastes vastly outweigh your own
Also I much prefer my scarlet in pimpernel form
shame a silly goose new rule stole him from me
I know, I know, braid tugging and sniffing and skirt smoothing, but the best thing to happen to that series was Robert Jordan dying, the new writer picks up the pace and runs with it
I really liked it
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oh the far side's autobiography came out already?
I read the first one years ago and I guess it was ok. I dunno maybe I'll start reading those after Percy Jackson.
What I really want are some good Mystery books.
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I haven't finished it because I went on a Vonnegut binge but I've picked it up again and I find it enjoyable.
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How dare you. That is like calling a black person silly goose to their face!
it's because i cannot stand that there is little to no tension in what, 70% of the book because it's just letters?
"oh man last night somethin creepy happened better stay here to find out more
love
silly goose"
other way around. Basically a friend described it to me as "Harry Potter but with Greek Gods" like 2 years ago and now that I see the movie trailer at work all the time I decided to check it out. It was a good read and way more violent then Harry Potter.
Which is pretty fricking absurd.
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it was too perfect
one of my creative writing professor's short stories is in one of the collections he assigned
phew, glad I've heard a few people say it doesn't suck, I have to read it for work (I work in a bookstore and they are having a party for the movie release so I have to know what's what I suppose)
I like The Conqueror Worm more than The Raven, but my favorite stuff of his is the C. Auguste Dupin stories(plus the balloon-hoax, which is hilarious in a it happened a century and a half ago way)
turns out he was just french
yep, as far as I know
I just saw your thread from earlier, that is awful I hope it all works out for the best even though it really really sucks right now!
hopefully!
I can understand this. Every time a new passage started and something plotty was going to have happened I thought to myself "How is he going to make all this suspenseful and exciting, it's already happened." But somehow I always felt he kinda sorta pulled it off.
I think he would have done better to avoid all the letter and Diary bullshit and just write a story, but yeah.
Is it the abridged or un-abridged version? Foner has managed to publish that book (or some iteration of its thesis) something like seven or eight times.
This is why he has a chair at Columbia, and I will be teaching at the local community college for the rest of my forseeable career.
My favorite is El Dorado
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but that's not a poem
also not a poem
fall of the house of usher
also what is that one byron (i think) story about the baron dude who killed his wife (wives?) and is all bragging about it
conqueror worm is so great
My Last Duchess, probably
But it was Browning
knew it started with a b