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Post by Bianca <3 on Oct 12, 2009 13:50:07 GMT -5
You & You & You - Per Nilsson
Okay, this book was definietly different, and although it wasn't my favorite read of the year, it was definitey interesting and scarily deep. (It was originally written in Swedish btw). It revolved around three people: a strange 12 year old boy who wears galoshes; a 17 year old girl with relationship issues and lots of intercourse; and a 20 year old whose obsessed and curious about death. It def has some mature topics in it, and all the character eventually blend together. And although the ending wasn't concrete, I liked it. Plus it's only 300 pages so it doesn't take that long to read!
ANNNND sooo.... with that book I've basically completed the 2009 Reader's Challenge, since X is optional! ;D I also completed the NT one too. My list is on page five of this thread if you guys need some proof.
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Post by Tiger on Oct 12, 2009 14:15:16 GMT -5
=D Congrats, Bianca!!
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Post by M is for Morphine on Oct 16, 2009 13:48:52 GMT -5
Recently finished: Junkie by William Burroughs The Third Policemen by Flann O'Brian Laughter in the Dark by Vladmir Nabokov In progress: Run With the Hunted by Charles Bukowski I've got most of the rest of my Reader's challenge planned out: a stack of books on my floor and about 3 Ebooks open in opera: I'm torn for K between a drug dystopia novel called Kallocain and a Hunter S. Thompson book called Kingdom of Fear. The cover depicts an aged Thompson smoking, drinking, and flipping off the camera. I'll probably read them both and come in short at the end of the year. This happened a lot with the P section. Oh dang, make that 3. They have The King in Yellow on project Gutenburg! It's a collection of gothic/horror stories that inspired H. P. Lovecraft quite a lot (being itself influenced by Poe). I'm also torn between The Worm Ouroboros (a high fantasy novel from the 1920s that inspired Tolkien), and Wieland (a gothic novel from my current town of Philly) for W. Still no X, Y, or Z.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2009 23:13:18 GMT -5
ANNNND sooo.... with that book I've basically completed the 2009 Reader's Challenge, since X is optional! ;D I also completed the NT one too. My list is on page five of this thread if you guys need some proof. Congrats, Bianca! That's absolutely amazing. Give yourself a plate of cookies! Share the cookies, and you can keep the plate, too! xD I finally finished reading MYST: The Book of Atrus by Rand and Robin Miller. It wasn't a long read, but it took me a long time to read it on account of it being a terrible read. Everything was described far more than necessary, most of the description dry and more scientific in nature than anything aesthetically appealing, and the book's breadth of grammar and variance were highly lacking. (On the plus side, though, it's a great guide on all the reasons why you should hate run-on sentences and overabundant description.) All in all, there were only three points in the book that held my interest, and given the length of them, they probably accounted for only five percent of the book. The story was there, I'll give them that, they just didn't do a good job of making it engaging. Anyways, mechanics and personal views aside, it's in the same universe as the MYST series of video games, if you're familiar with them, and is essentially about people who use books to travel between and even create worlds. Like I said, the story's there, they just didn't make it come alive (probably on account of all that unnecessary description, but I digress). So, if you're interested, pick up a copy, but don't be surprised if you want to put it down soon. Now...I've just got half the alphabet and two months left. >.< Shame I can't count my history book--I'll definitely have that one read cover-to-cover by the end of the year! And it'd give me a W, too. lol.
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Post by Mr. Meepit's Puppet on Oct 26, 2009 5:01:15 GMT -5
Updated, but I still won't probably finish it xD A: The Phoenix Files: Arrival; I forget B: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns; I hate myself for this, but I forget C: D: The Dark Knight (behind the scenes AND script); dunno E: F: Five Greatest Warriors; Matthew Reilly G: H: Halo - Graphic Novel; Various Authors I: Island of Dr. Moreau; H.G. Wells J: K: L: Library of the Dead; I forget M: Macbeth; Shakespeare N: Necropolis: City of the Dead; Anthony Horowitz O: P: The Punisher: Born Q: R: S: Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones; Derek Landy T: The Time Machine; H.G. Wells U: Utopia (gonna start tonight) V: W: Watchmen; Alan Moore X: Y: You Can Get Arrested For That; Rich Smith Z: Huh, I've failed. No way I can read this many books Is there a medal for getting half way? 10 books left, not including X or Utopia.[/quote]
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Post by Tiger on Oct 26, 2009 21:28:47 GMT -5
=D Read Year Zero by Jeff Long for my "Y" book. It was really pretty good; basically, a disease from "year zero" is unleashed among the modern population. Insert big die-off and a barricaded city searching for a cure and some clones who apparently have their old memories in their DNA here.
...Really. It's quite good. I recommend it as a "Y" book to anyone still searching for one.
I've pretty much decided I'm going to read the novelization of X-Men II for my "X" book, since there're like four X-Men graphic novels at my library, and none of them featuring Nightcrawler or Wolverine or any of my other favorite muties =(
Not sure what to do for "U" and "V". Well, actually, I was thinking about "V for Vendetta", but I'm not sure whether this was a graphic novel, then a movie, or vice-versa? I'm worried that if it's an..."artistic movie novelization", that it'll wind up being too short.
Started reading The Descent, also by Jeff Long. Me and my repeated letters...
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Post by Mr. Meepit's Puppet on Oct 27, 2009 0:12:29 GMT -5
Not sure what to do for "U" and "V". Well, actually, I was thinking about "V for Vendetta", but I'm not sure whether this was a graphic novel, then a movie, or vice-versa? I'm worried that if it's an..."artistic movie novelization", that it'll wind up being too short. --- The author would s*** a puma if he heard that It was a graphic novel first, written by Alan Moore (Watchmen, anyone?), who is particularly known nowadays for the hatred of the movie version of V for Vendetta The novel has less romance, I believe, and portrays V as more evil than in the movie. Like a, is he good?
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Post by Shadaras on Oct 27, 2009 0:25:49 GMT -5
Not sure what to do for "U" and "V". Well, actually, I was thinking about "V for Vendetta", but I'm not sure whether this was a graphic novel, then a movie, or vice-versa? I'm worried that if it's an..."artistic movie novelization", that it'll wind up being too short. --- The author would s*** a puma if he heard that It was a graphic novel first, written by Alan Moore (Watchmen, anyone?), who is particularly known nowadays for the hatred of the movie version of V for Vendetta The novel has less romance, I believe, and portrays V as more evil than in the movie. Like a, is he good? It was a graphic novel, then a movie, and apparently there's a novelization of the movie out there, too. This astounds me. And I can't remember the differences in V's portrayal between the movie and graphic novel. *hasn't read/seen V for Vendetta recently*
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Post by Tiger on Oct 27, 2009 6:26:34 GMT -5
XD Thank you for the clarification...I never intended to anger the author; the first time I heard about this was when a friend had to watch the movie for a class, and said it was really, really good. Poor guy XP
...Not sure where I heard it was based on a graphic novel. But yeah. I'll read that =P
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Post by Tiger on Nov 13, 2009 21:13:36 GMT -5
Ah, well, double-posting XD
V for Vendetta was incredible ^^ I now want to read Watchmen, especially now that I know he hated the movie (and I've heard the movie's not very good, so...=P)
Aaand once I get down to business and read my "U" book, I'll have finished the challange =D
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Post by Bianca <3 on Nov 14, 2009 15:19:11 GMT -5
Whoot! You can do it Tiger!
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Post by Stephanie (swordlilly) on Nov 28, 2009 1:27:57 GMT -5
My list is updated. I still need eight more books: A, E, F, M, Q, X, Y, and Z. I shall have to read really fast during winter break if I want to catch up. xD As for the Neopian Times challenge, I seem to be failing epically at it. D8
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2009 7:04:12 GMT -5
=O I did it. <3 A: Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman B: Broken - Peter Edge C: Crushed - Peter Edge D: Dragons on the Sea of Night - Eric Van Lustbader E: Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card F: Footrot Flats, the complete collection - Murray Ball G: Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman H: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams I: Icefire - Chris D'lacey J: Jitters - David French K: The King of Lies - John Hart L: Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams M: Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams N: Natasha's Story - Michael Nicholson O: Ordeal by Innocence - Agatha Christie P: Parachutes Should Open - Errol Hitt (Coincidence, I swear) Q: Quail - Walter Rosene R: The Resturaunt at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams S: So Long and thanks for the Fish - Douglas Adams T: Tehanu - Ursela Le Guin U: Under The Dome - Stephen King V: Voidfarer - Sean McMullen W: Whale Rider - Witi Ihemaera X: X-Men - Tom DeSanto (ashamed D: It was the only X I could find) Y: Yours In Trust - Kai Sumner Z: Zodiac - Robert Graysmith
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Post by Tiger on Dec 10, 2009 17:21:01 GMT -5
=D Congrats, Sarn! Ah, I saw an ad for "Under the Dome", too, and I was like "=D That sounds really good!" Silly me, though, didn't file that away under "U"...oh well. Not like I can't still read it =P
And you can do it, Yoyote! =D
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2009 19:16:15 GMT -5
Great work, Sarn! I'll add the winners mark to you, too. ^_^
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In the meantime, however, I'm still struggling to get all my reading done. I've read quite a few books, but on occasion they've overlapped in letter unintentionally or have been textbooks, which although read COVER TO COVER, technically still don't count. With the semester finally finished, however, I'm glad to say I can put nearly all of my efforts into...READING!
So. What I've read: As part of my research for NaNoWriMo, in which I wrote a collection of Jewish children's stories, I made certain to read a good number of children's books to make sure I not only tailored my stories appropriately in subject content, but also in writing style (which was pretty much my normal style, but with a few big words cut out and a little more name-repetition). Ergo, I read A Kibbutz in Israel by Allegra Taylor, Jonathan by Jane Bearman, The World's Birthday by Barbara Diamond, and Z Is for Zombie by Merrily Kutner. That last one also gave me great ways to describe things in short, simple sentences, which is helpful for all sorts of writing. I also read a book from the Hardy Boys series (which I was very fond of as a boy), The Yellow Feather Mystery by Franklin W. Dixon. It made me realise why it's so importantly to stick to the verb "said": Otherwise, you end up with lines like "'My scarf!' Frank ejaculated." Good show, no?
To get a head start on my upcoming religion classes, I also read a book called Hinduism by Sue Denney. It was quite an informative read and I look forward to my class now more than before.
Presently, I'm reading both my S and O books, then all I need is Q, U, X, and V! ^^
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