What are you reading right now?

gottaSCREM · 01-10-2007, 05:47 PM

Romeo and Juliet (go ahead and make fun, I sort of deserve it)

tdoc210 · 01-10-2007, 06:01 PM

i ahd to read that in 9th grade english. Shakespeare surley makes for fun tests, i got a 120 on the test, though r and j is actually one of his more boring works, Hamlet, and macbeth are much better.

NaNaNer · 01-11-2007, 08:00 AM

^^Hamlet is one of Shakespeares best "stories" I think he was a much better poet..

DontRunMeOver · 01-11-2007, 08:17 AM

I don't know about Romeo and Juliet not being as good, I think to an extent the story has had such a big impact on so much romantic fiction since then that a lot of the ideas in Romeo and Juliet almost seem cliched... when in fact they were borrowed from Romeo and Juliet in the first place. Depends upon your perpective.

I was reading 'Shalimar the Clown' by Salman Rushdie but I think I left it in Australia

Oh, RIGHT-TRACK, now I've started reading 'The Wasp Factory'. You were right, 'tis mighty good and quite the oddity.

tardis · 01-11-2007, 08:37 AM

Recently finished 'Breakfast of Champions' by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., great book!

Currently working my way through 'The Message' by Eugene H. Peterson. I recently said it was written by God, but it was, in fact, a man who authored the novel. It is a novel, I think.

Kevorkian Logic · 01-28-2007, 12:40 PM

On the Road again

and this random book I found in my library from like 1910 called the Psychology of Sex. The terminology it uses is amusing

Crowe · 01-28-2007, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Mamagarmr

i ahd to read that in 9th grade english. Shakespeare surley makes for fun tests, i got a 120 on the test, though r and j is actually one of his more boring works, Hamlet, and macbeth are much better.

Boring? I don't know about that.

A Comedy of Errors and As You Like It are probably my favorites of Shakeypoo. Although I do have a soft spot for The Tempest -.^

Right nooowww I am reading Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs - Klosterman, a little late I'll admit... but I finished Killing Yourself to Live not too long ago. Concurrently, I am reading Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll, and as soon as I am finished with the Klosterman novel I'll start on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - a book by Philip K. D!ck, who you might know as the author of A Scanner Darkly, and Blade Runner.

Loser · 01-28-2007, 01:23 PM

Huckleberry Finn. It was too southern....Alittle over southern but it had a good message.

Kevorkian Logic · 01-28-2007, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowe

I'll start on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - a book by Philip K. D!ck, who you might know as the author of A Scanner Darkly, and Blade Runner.

That sounds like a promotional campaign for the book.

Ma Cherie · 01-28-2007, 01:44 PM

women poets of china

professional cooking(text book)

and a few magazines

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tdoc210 ashes against the grain Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: new hampsha Posts: 2,617	i ahd to read that in 9th grade english. Shakespeare surley makes for fun tests, i got a 120 on the test, though r and j is actually one of his more boring works, Hamlet, and macbeth are much better. __________________ We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.

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NaNaNer Truth Seeker Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: The Hallway Posts: 489	^^Hamlet is one of Shakespeares best "stories" I think he was a much better poet.. __________________ Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." “See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cds and burn 'em. 'cause you know the musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years.... rrrrrrrrreal f**kin high on drugs.”

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tardis La La La Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: British Columbia Posts: 48	Recently finished 'Breakfast of Champions' by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., great book! Currently working my way through 'The Message' by Eugene H. Peterson. I recently said it was written by God, but it was, in fact, a man who authored the novel. It is a novel, I think. __________________ I am the flood who purifies

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Kevorkian Logic Imperfectly Perfect Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,290	On the Road again and this random book I found in my library from like 1910 called the Psychology of Sex. The terminology it uses is amusing __________________ "it is only through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect that a certain type of perfection can be attained"

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Ma Cherie The Forums Sadistic Ghost Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: beyond midnight, in the abyss of time, the syren in the night Posts: 457	women poets of china professional cooking(text book) and a few magazines __________________ I'm not a freak on a leash, I'm just the freak holding the leash. http://www.myspace.com/yukiko_mori

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gottaSCREM A Thorn For Every Heart Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: U.S.A Posts: 248	Romeo and Juliet (go ahead and make fun, I sort of deserve it)

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Loser The Professor Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New York City Posts: 1,113	Huckleberry Finn. It was too southern....Alittle over southern but it had a good message.