I FINISHED IT!!!!

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[faolan]

... I can't resist the obvious response...

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
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No, but really, I've picked it up a few times, but I lose steam somewhere along the way (possibly because I have a hard time getting through stories when I dislike the main character...). So I'll give you a round of applause! How long did it take you to read?

[Mama Ame]

Awesome! I picked it up a few years ago, but it was a friends copy and I didn't get to finish it before I went home (I was visiting)

I have it on my kindle so I'm sure I'll get to it eventually.

[Nacho Pirate]

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Oh my god, such a good book. Congrats! xD 3/4 of the way through the sequel, I almost don't want* to finish it because who know how long it'll be until the third..

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faolan

... I can't resist the obvious response...

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
rofl

No, but really, I've picked it up a few times, but I lose steam somewhere along the way (possibly because I have a hard time getting through stories when I dislike the main character...). So I'll give you a round of applause! How long did it take you to read?

I was kinda expecting that response~!
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It took me about a year and a half to read. Every time it got to heavy or I got bored, I'd go read another book and then come back to it. I don't like starting a book and then not finishing it; so I just take a long time to finish it.

[faolan]

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faolan

... I can't resist the obvious response...

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
rofl

No, but really, I've picked it up a few times, but I lose steam somewhere along the way (possibly because I have a hard time getting through stories when I dislike the main character...). So I'll give you a round of applause! How long did it take you to read?

I was kinda expecting that response~!
4laugh

It took me about a year and a half to read. Every time it got to heavy or I got bored, I'd go read another book and then come back to it. I don't like starting a book and then not finishing it; so I just take a long time to finish it.

I thought you might be.

Not a bad strategy... well, I've been doing that with The Silmarillion for the past... um... seven years...? Yeah, must be. Which is what happens when you only open the book a couple times a year, if that. sweatdrop That, and a profound sense of "wait, why are they... hm, better go back a few pages to jog my memory."

As for never finishing a book bothering me, it did used to, but then I had honors English in high school. What I most learned from Great Expectations, Catch-22, The Canterbury Tales, and Wuthering Heights was that sometimes, I'm not going to really care what happens to the characters, and that's okay... because a copy of the cliffnotes, augmented by paying attention in class, gets enough of the idea across to (usually) get a passing grade. xd

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faolan

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faolan

... I can't resist the obvious response...

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
rofl

No, but really, I've picked it up a few times, but I lose steam somewhere along the way (possibly because I have a hard time getting through stories when I dislike the main character...). So I'll give you a round of applause! How long did it take you to read?

I was kinda expecting that response~!
4laugh

It took me about a year and a half to read. Every time it got to heavy or I got bored, I'd go read another book and then come back to it. I don't like starting a book and then not finishing it; so I just take a long time to finish it.

I thought you might be.

Not a bad strategy... well, I've been doing that with The Silmarillion for the past... um... seven years...? Yeah, must be. Which is what happens when you only open the book a couple times a year, if that. sweatdrop That, and a profound sense of "wait, why are they... hm, better go back a few pages to jog my memory."

As for never finishing a book bothering me, it did used to, but then I had honors English in high school. What I most learned from Great Expectations, Catch-22, The Canterbury Tales, and Wuthering Heights was that sometimes, I'm not going to really care what happens to the characters, and that's okay... because a copy of the cliffnotes, augmented by paying attention in class, gets enough of the idea across to (usually) get a passing grade. xd

I have The Silmarillion on my TBR. Haven't gotten to it yet, but I plan on starting it as soon as I get one of the other classics that I'm reading done.

With the school reading, I never really read any of it... I just read certain passages and was good. Or I had a friend fill me in on the goings on. I'm kinda weird. I'll read the hard stuff for pleasure, but tell me to read it for school and I'll read what I need to and be done with it. I could never read an entire book that was assigned reading in school. Just couldn't do it.

I have read Great Expectations, The Canterbury Tales, and Wuthering Heights though. Great Expectations kicked my butt.

[Sexy_Angel_Kisses_7]

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awesome.

[Alithiana]

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I FINALLY FINISHED GONE WITH THE WIND AND I'M SO HAPPY!!! emotion_awesome emotion_kirakira emotion_yatta

That is really exciting, I loved Name of the Wind when I first read it! Read Wise Man's Fear slowly and maybe you'll be done by the time the third one comes out!




aaaand now I want to re-read Name of the Wind.... sweatdrop

[LadyLazarus-Wyrda]

I picked up a copy of Gone With The Wind once, skimmed through it, read two paragraphs, then put it back down.

I like it okay as a movie, but there is no way I could ever stomach that much of Scarlett O'Hara just to actually finish the book. talk2hand

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Faol_Cailin

I picked up a copy of Gone With The Wind once, skimmed through it, read two paragraphs, then put it back down.

I like it okay as a movie, but there is no way I could ever stomach that much of Scarlett O'Hara just to actually finish the book. talk2hand

I was surprised by how much different she is in the book though. Like in the movie you can see her changing and maturing and loosing that childishness in her. In the book, though, she's still childish and selfish through out the entire thing, no matter what. She has those qualities forever, but she still manages to get stuff done. It kinda of astounded me.

[LadyLazarus-Wyrda]

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Faol_Cailin

I picked up a copy of Gone With The Wind once, skimmed through it, read two paragraphs, then put it back down.

I like it okay as a movie, but there is no way I could ever stomach that much of Scarlett O'Hara just to actually finish the book. talk2hand

I was surprised by how much different she is in the book though. Like in the movie you can see her changing and maturing and loosing that childishness in her. In the book, though, she's still childish and selfish through out the entire thing, no matter what. She has those qualities forever, but she still manages to get stuff done. It kinda of astounded me.

This makes me want to read it even less. And it's not like she changed that much throughout the movie, only a little. Rhett Butler treated her better than she deserved, and she still clung on to her stupid obsession with Ashley long enough to finally drive him away. While I do admire her tenacity and determination(possibly her only redeeming qualities), I'm not sure that someone so selfish and childish--not to mention whiny--even deserves a happy ending. In any case, I believe those two redeeming qualities I mentioned are probably the only reasons she still managed "to get stuff done".

[Electronica Babe]

Beast mode activated!

CONGRATS!

[Electronica Babe]

You should post that on a resume or on an online dating site. Shows dedication and commitment, even when things get boring. biggrin

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Faol_Cailin

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Faol_Cailin

I picked up a copy of Gone With The Wind once, skimmed through it, read two paragraphs, then put it back down.

I like it okay as a movie, but there is no way I could ever stomach that much of Scarlett O'Hara just to actually finish the book. talk2hand

I was surprised by how much different she is in the book though. Like in the movie you can see her changing and maturing and loosing that childishness in her. In the book, though, she's still childish and selfish through out the entire thing, no matter what. She has those qualities forever, but she still manages to get stuff done. It kinda of astounded me.

This makes me want to read it even less. And it's not like she changed that much throughout the movie, only a little. Rhett Butler treated her better than she deserved, and she still clung on to her stupid obsession with Ashley long enough to finally drive him away. While I do admire her tenacity and determination(possibly her only redeeming qualities), I'm not sure that someone so selfish and childish--not to mention whiny--even deserves a happy ending. In any case, I believe those two redeeming qualities I mentioned are probably the only reasons she still managed "to get stuff done".

True. And in the end, because of her inability to mature and grow, she ended up lacking that happy ending. She was a child and whiny throughout the book; the movie just made it seem like she actually had some sense while in reality she really didn't. She did the things that she did for her; not for her family or anything, but for her. And I guess that's why she didn't get that happy ending; happy endings are for characters that have more than one dimension.