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Monkeyinafryingpan Vice Captain
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 Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:13 pm
xsparklersx I love reading. This past summer I read Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. I've recently been wading my way through Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. In the series genre I think I'd have to go with the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis as my childhood favorite, though I like Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Shadow series and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Tolkien is brilliant if you look at him overall, but I find him to be verbose and in some cases, he's just plain boring. I mean, come on, we don't need him to tell us that the grass on the hills was green, the sky was partly cloudy, and there were some suspicious looking bushes in the distance that might possibly be a problem in another hour or two when the protagonist gets near them (only to find that there really wasn't anything to them and no one was hiding behind them). That's just filler nonsense. I think one of my favorite books as a teen would have to be Remember Me, by Cheryl Lanham. I'll admit that I smile, laugh, and weep every time I read it. It's about a bratty teenage girl named Leeanne who gets caught for a peer pressured attempt at shoplifting and is sentenced to community service in a hospice on the shady side of town. She meets two guys, one of which (Gabriel Mendoza) is an 18-year-old hospice resident, that ultimately change her life. I've been losing the people that I love since I was four and I guess I love this book because many of them were like Gabe. He reminds me mostly of my Dad. Leeanne and Gabe fight, debate, and can't stand each other, but underneath that is a bond that no force on Earth could break. A touching story, beautifully written. What's interesting is that I have a strange love for all things (including literature) that pertain to certain human tragedies. I am fascinated by the Holocaust, the sinking of the Titanic, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'm not emo or anything, though. I'd just as soon pick up a book full of soft, fuzzy bunnies and white, fluffy baby seals and start squealing at the cuteness. I also enjoy books that I couldn't possibly read in a school library because I'd laugh too much. You write the largest posts,lol. I too am fascinated by the Holocaust and the sinking of the Titanic. I always wonder what was not said, what happened in truth, what was running through the victims' minds, how many people were involved. They are amazing events, and although we know a lot about them, there is still so much we just don't know.
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:43 pm
Monkeyinafryingpan xsparklersx I love reading. This past summer I read Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. I've recently been wading my way through Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. In the series genre I think I'd have to go with the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis as my childhood favorite, though I like Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Shadow series and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Tolkien is brilliant if you look at him overall, but I find him to be verbose and in some cases, he's just plain boring. I mean, come on, we don't need him to tell us that the grass on the hills was green, the sky was partly cloudy, and there were some suspicious looking bushes in the distance that might possibly be a problem in another hour or two when the protagonist gets near them (only to find that there really wasn't anything to them and no one was hiding behind them). That's just filler nonsense. I think one of my favorite books as a teen would have to be Remember Me, by Cheryl Lanham. I'll admit that I smile, laugh, and weep every time I read it. It's about a bratty teenage girl named Leeanne who gets caught for a peer pressured attempt at shoplifting and is sentenced to community service in a hospice on the shady side of town. She meets two guys, one of which (Gabriel Mendoza) is an 18-year-old hospice resident, that ultimately change her life. I've been losing the people that I love since I was four and I guess I love this book because many of them were like Gabe. He reminds me mostly of my Dad. Leeanne and Gabe fight, debate, and can't stand each other, but underneath that is a bond that no force on Earth could break. A touching story, beautifully written. What's interesting is that I have a strange love for all things (including literature) that pertain to certain human tragedies. I am fascinated by the Holocaust, the sinking of the Titanic, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'm not emo or anything, though. I'd just as soon pick up a book full of soft, fuzzy bunnies and white, fluffy baby seals and start squealing at the cuteness. I also enjoy books that I couldn't possibly read in a school library because I'd laugh too much. You write the largest posts,lol. I too am fascinated by the Holocaust and the sinking of the Titanic. I always wonder what was not said, what happened in truth, what was running through the victims' minds, how many people were involved. They are amazing events, and although we know a lot about them, there is still so much we just don't know. yeah...most of my posts are long. I guess that's because, at least for the most part, I only post when I have something substantial to say. I could be like the Krausers of the world and just post random pics and smileys if you like.
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Monkeyinafryingpan Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:46 am
Hahahahahahahahahahaha, very true, we have enough krauser in the guild as it is, lmao. rofl sweatdrop sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:24 am
Monkeyinafryingpan Hahahahahahahahahahaha, very true, we have enough krauser in the guild as it is, lmao. rofl sweatdrop sweatdrop Hehe, yeah, he posts enough random stuff for everyone...two times over. sweatdrop blaugh
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Monkeyinafryingpan Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:12 pm
Yes, he does post a lot, but so do you, especially with college I find that amazing, Krauser is 13, nothing to do.
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:44 pm
I get bored a lot. After going to a hellish college prep high school, I have entered the world of college, where I am not challenged until I have procrastinated and left everything for the week before/of midterms and finals. xp
I mean, I used to get 5 hours of sleep a night if I was lucky. Usually 3 or 4. Now I can get a whole 10 if I really wanted. Instead I lounge around doing things like posting on Gaia so I don't feel like an overslept slug all the time. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:03 am
xsparklersx I get bored a lot. After going to a hellish college prep high school, I have entered the world of college, where I am not challenged until I have procrastinated and left everything for the week before/of midterms and finals. xp I mean, I used to get 5 hours of sleep a night if I was lucky. Usually 3 or 4. Now I can get a whole 10 if I really wanted. Instead I lounge around doing things like posting on Gaia so I don't feel like an overslept slug all the time. sweatdrop lets sleep in bed your my mommy smile heart
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:13 am
Krauser5821 xsparklersx I get bored a lot. After going to a hellish college prep high school, I have entered the world of college, where I am not challenged until I have procrastinated and left everything for the week before/of midterms and finals. xp I mean, I used to get 5 hours of sleep a night if I was lucky. Usually 3 or 4. Now I can get a whole 10 if I really wanted. Instead I lounge around doing things like posting on Gaia so I don't feel like an overslept slug all the time. sweatdrop lets sleep in bed your my mommy smile heart I've never given birth to anything. Therefore you are definitely not my offspring. stare
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Monkeyinafryingpan Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:53 am
xsparklersx I get bored a lot. After going to a hellish college prep high school, I have entered the world of college, where I am not challenged until I have procrastinated and left everything for the week before/of midterms and finals. xp I mean, I used to get 5 hours of sleep a night if I was lucky. Usually 3 or 4. Now I can get a whole 10 if I really wanted. Instead I lounge around doing things like posting on Gaia so I don't feel like an overslept slug all the time. sweatdrop I'm in the whole prep thing now, almost done thank god. Of course I have medical school to look forward to, which will be no fun at all.
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:48 am
i love "the notebook" (finished last week)
and "the geisha"
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:01 pm
I have lots of books I love.
I love The Picture or Dorian Grey, Dr. Faustus (A play, actually), Good Omens, Wicked, and Running with Scissors.
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:21 pm
The Picture of Dorian Grey was VERY interesting, even though very odd at times. Slightly fantastical, but not nough to make it unrealistic.
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Monkeyinafryingpan Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:28 pm
I like the Redwall series by Brian Jacques and the Hitchhiker series by Douglas Adams.
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:26 pm
half_devil333 I like the Redwall series by Brian Jacques and the Hitchhiker series by Douglas Adams. Redwall I confess I have never heard of, Hitchhiker however I heard was good, I should go read that...
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Monkeyinafryingpan Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:45 pm
half_devil333 I like the Redwall series by Brian Jacques and the Hitchhiker series by Douglas Adams. I love the Redwall series. The writing is excellent, and the stories are amazing. You see these animals on the cover and expect something thats rather different than whats inside. Its an incredible world. And I've only just started the Hitchhiker series, but I am totally in love with it so far. It has a wonderful sense of the absurd. ~~~~~~~~~~~ My favourite book is Tripoint, by CJ Cherryh, closely followed by..pretty much any other CJ Cherryh book. sweatdrop Huge fan. I also really love anything by Tanya Huff (and really, I tried to pick one set of hers that I liked best, but I really couldn't... sweatdrop )
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