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 Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:32 pm
I hope you told her thankyou! ^.^
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:42 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:51 pm
To my favorite books list I would like to add The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer.
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:29 pm
blaugh I knew you'd like it! 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:52 am
Geba_00 I'm about half way through the House of the Scorpion. crying I'd forgotten what a wonderful book it is! Just reminding everyone the due date is feb 30th, so get reading. wink you won't be disapointed! I hate to break it to you, but there is no February 30th.
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:10 pm
lol thats true...but i jsut ifnished it! it was good....but ill wait to talk about it til tomorrow..is taht right?
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:39 am
Well, it's the end of the month. I hope that everyone wanted to was able to finish The House of the Scorpion.
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:38 pm
Geba_00 Cool, there's one person.... note- i read it, but it was a while back...All I remember is my fav chara dies in the end. >.< I take it your favorite was Tam Lin?
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:53 pm
ConsusLata Geba_00 Cool, there's one person.... note- i read it, but it was a while back...All I remember is my fav chara dies in the end. >.< I take it your favorite was Tam Lin? God, I loved him! *sweat* Erm...well, in my world there is a feb 30th.....>.< Dang I knew this cross dementional junk would mess me up....
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:18 pm
Geba_00 Dang I knew this cross dementional junk would mess me up.... lmao! but i liekd tam lin too...and i was so mad he died, but then i was like....hm, it had to happen. but for some reasn the book REALLY irked me. there were just so many litttle things that got on ym nerves... but it couldnt take away ro mteh overall greatness of course. wink like.. i dunno matt kind of bothered me, escpecially when he made maria kiss him and such, like he got better by hte end... but i was so mad about that. sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:53 pm
I loved the book. Farmer made marvelous use of parallelism. And while the intense emotional appeal of the first half of the book is amazing, I absolutely loved the anti-socialist argument for individualism during the second half.
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:01 pm
dancing_on_hyenas Geba_00 Dang I knew this cross dementional junk would mess me up.... lmao! but i liekd tam lin too...and i was so mad he died, but then i was like....hm, it had to happen. but for some reasn the book REALLY irked me. there were just so many litttle things that got on ym nerves... but it couldnt take away ro mteh overall greatness of course. wink like.. i dunno matt kind of bothered me, escpecially when he made maria kiss him and such, like he got better by hte end... but i was so mad about that. sweatdrop I think that this book is largely intended to force people into a negative reaction at several things, especially about Matt, socialism, and dictatorships. I personally despise socialism, and although dictatorship is far from being the best alternative to socialism, Farmer shows how dictatorships can be better than socialism and that many of the evils associated with dictatorships are also inherent in a socialist society.
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:33 pm
*looks around* where did everyone go? don't tell me that no one wants to discuss the book further.
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:33 pm
ConsusLata I loved the book. Farmer made marvelous use of parallelism. And while the intense emotional appeal of the first half of the book is amazing, I absolutely loved the anti-socialist argument for individualism during the second half. lol, yes i totally agree, that was another that bothered me, the keepers, btu i knew they were SUPPSOED to bother me. its just..they were SO stupid I wanted to scream. That's when I liked matt the best, when he was contradicting them, i jsut wish teh others had done it soooner! but i guess soemtimes u jsut need fresh eyes to see some pretty plain things... yea i wantto discuss it more, but i had to go earlier, and now i have to get soem sleep. but theres more i want to say! so stay tuned! and i am very curious to more of your opnions consus.
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:10 pm
This book, I thought, was extreemly well writen....I kinda liked the voice it was told in. You know, from a 3rd person, but still matt's point of view and stuff.
I also loved how Matt wasn't all good all the time...it really showed how love can change a child.....how he emulated his original, but through the guidance and love of Selea and Tam Lin, he learned what was right and wrong, and he learned something El Patron didn't learn, which is compasion for others.
I remember the first time I read the book, I was so blazing mad at Tam Lin for drinking the poison and not staying with Matt and his mother (I just knew there was something going on between him and Selea!) I cryed punched my mattress. It's amazing how much emotion Farmer can envoke. eek
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