SHHH!!! Can you read? Want to prove it? Meet fellow book worms and discuss the literary brilliance of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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Mon May 31, 2004 6:05 pm

I just finished Deltora Quest 3: The Isle of the Dead.


My next book is the Violin Man, for an English project.

Mon May 31, 2004 6:14 pm

I'm not reading anything, but I've just finished reading Abhorsen by Garth Nix. I recommend it to many people, it's an awesome book. It's actually the third in a triology, the first two being Sabriel and Lireal.

Mon May 31, 2004 7:28 pm

paola wrote: I'm planning to read something by Agatha Christie next. Good ol' murder mysteries :)


Have you read And Then There Were None? For some reason I really liked that book when I was in middle school. I actually read it in 6th grade and then had to read it again in 8th grade for a Literature assignment.

Mon May 31, 2004 10:18 pm

uniquelyput, Jane Eyre is excellent as well. We had to read that in school, but I think it's one I would have picked anyway. I have a favorite quote from that book. *searches for it* Ah! Here is it. :) Please bear with me. It's kind of long. ;)

"She has been unkind to you, no doubt, because, you see, she dislikes your cast of character, as Miss Scatcherd does mine; but how minutely you remember all she has done and said to you! What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark of the spirit will remain -- the impalpable principle of life and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature; whence it came it will return, perhaps again to be communicated to some being higher than man -- perhaps to pass through graduations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph! Surely it will never, on the contrary, be suffered to degenerate from man to friend? No, I cannot believe that: I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest -- a mighty home -- not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end."


I had another good one from Jane Eyre, but I can't seem to find it right now. It was about living every moment to your fullest. It's an excellent quote. I guess I'm going to have to read the book again to find it. ;)

paola, how did you like Animal Farm? That was a good book. I have to get another copy of mine. My uncle gave me his copy. The pages were yellowed and it had that wonderful old book smell. :) Unfortunately, I lent ot to a friend and she never returned it. That's too bad because it was a very old edition and I doubt I'll find another just like it.

ZH!, the LotR trilogy is excellent. I'd recommend reading The Hobbit first to set it up. They are books that really need some time set aside for, though. Tolkien is wonderful, but he tends to drift. On their journey he can go off to start telling about the scenery, the pebbles under foot, everyone who has walked over the pebbles, and their stories. ;) lol Excellent books, though, when he gets back to the story. :)

Mon May 31, 2004 10:26 pm

Jennifer Government by Max Barry.
Great book- great author. I recommend it... but to anyone over 15. It has rude language. :o

Mon May 31, 2004 10:52 pm

Well right now I'm reading a book called Rayuela for one of my classes. It's one of the most senseless, long, boring books I've ever read (and I've read plenty). Not to mention you can't even read it like a normal book but you have to go around skipping forwards and backward each chapter. It's supposed to be one of the best books of latinamerican culture but...

Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:10 pm

I started reading The Gunslinger by Stephen King months ago but school got in the way and I was never abel to finish the last chapter. I 'ought to get back to that.

Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:22 pm

The diary of anne frank

Tue Jun 01, 2004 4:17 pm

None. I have read all the books in my favorite series,Winnie the Horse Gentler..now I want to try Horsefeathers and the Princes Diaries. I also kind of want to try Elizabeth Gail.

Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:04 pm

Kitten Medli wrote:None. I have read all the books in my favorite series,Winnie the Horse Gentler..now I want to try Horsefeathers and the Princes Diaries. I also kind of want to try Elizabeth Gail.


Yikes! The complete and utter girliness, it sickens me...

Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:28 pm

Eragon by Christopher Paolini. Good book, but I think it's a bit too overrated...

Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:39 pm

I'm reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. It's the prequel to The Da Vinci Code. It's good, but I like the sequel more.

Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:05 pm

I am reading Holes by Louis Sachar. Its a pretty good book

Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:18 pm

Charka wrote:I am reading Holes by Louis Sachar. Its a pretty good book


Oh, that, not much of a plot though, five men digging holes looking for treasure without even knowing it...

Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:27 pm

xerai wrote:
Charka wrote:I am reading Holes by Louis Sachar. Its a pretty good book


Oh, that, not much of a plot though, five men digging holes looking for treasure without even knowing it...


I can think of books with worse plots...they just aren't coming to mind.
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