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 Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:44 am
dianersj Angela's Ashes By Frank McCourt quotes from the back of the paperback I saw the movie based on this book. It was so depressing that I felt like a billionaire when I left the movie theater.
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:50 am
[Oh Johnny] 
Well..I dont' know about "Of the week," But I'm currently reading the complete collection of Edgar Allen Poe. His poetry enthralls me; he's such a twisted, tortured genius. Pity his life was cut so very short.
Edgar Allan Poe is indeed a great writer domokun I love his story about the black cat.
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:02 am
This week I'm reading The Dragon Quartet book 2 by Marjorie B. Kellogg. Pretty good fantasy; good writing technique. And dragons. Woot!
(My first post! Whoopee!)
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:05 am
Edgar Allen Poe's work is beautiful. I'll always be a fan of "The Raven".
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:35 pm
You sould consider Blood And Chocolate. It is a great book you should check it out sometime.
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:38 pm
I'd say, "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Summary taken from Wikipedia: A young American Jew, named after the author himself, journeys to Ukraine in search of Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather’s life during the Nazi liquidation of Trachimbrod, his family shtetl. Armed with many copies of an old photograph of Augustine and his grandfather, maps, cigarettes, and a fanny pack filled with Ziploc bags, Jonathan begins his adventure with Ukrainian native and soon-to-be good friend, Aleksandr "Alex" Perchov, who is his own age and very fond of American pop culture, albeit culture that is already out of date in the U.S. Alex is "premium" in his knowledge of the English language and therefore becomes the translator. Alex’s “blind” grandfather and his "deranged seeing-eye b***h," Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, accompany them on their journey.
At its core, the novel is a Holocaust story. The writing and structure received critical acclaim for the manner in which it switches between two story arcs: fragments of Foer-the-character's novel-in-progress, where he tells in highly literary English a quasi-magical story about the citizens of Trachimbrod; and a straightforward narrative of searching for Trachimbrod (which is an invented name for the real village Trochenbrod), as told by Alex in broken English. They are tied together by letters sent from Alex to Foer and attached to Alex's version. Alex's narrative is most notable for its broken English, as if a foreigner learned English with a thesaurus without ever hearing it spoken.
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I enjoyed the book and film very much. Its quite funny.
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:33 pm
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is my favorite American book
but, my favorite book is the naruto manga
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:46 am
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
One of my personal favorite books. heart Read it sometime.
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:11 am
By far the best book I've read this week is 'I am not myself these days' by Josh Kilmer-Purcell. It's a memoir about his days as a drag queen in New York.
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:49 am
My mom-in-law gives me a lot of books. I just finished "16 Lighthouse Road" by Debbie Macomber. It's not usually the sort of book I read, but it was a good story. I'll probably not read it again, but I am tempted to check out more of her books.
Peace everyone,
Laura
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:49 am
Miyou_darkninja99 You sould consider Blood And Chocolate. It is a great book you should check it out sometime. There was a movie made of that don't think i like it
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:51 pm
My favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It is now considered the top classic in the U.S. that everyone should read, and it is for a good reason!
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:24 pm
I just finished "The Star Scroll" by Melanie Rawn. It was good, even though it was a bit hard to follow at times.
I'm also reading The Legacy of the Drow: Collecters Edition.
I've got that inane talent for being able to read a multitude of books at the same time. This morning I counted at least 10 that I'm currently reading, and I've probably got more laying around.
Some say I've got too much spare time...
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:26 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:58 am
D a n g i o Miyou_darkninja99 You sould consider Blood And Chocolate. It is a great book you should check it out sometime. There was a movie made of that don't think i like it I have yet to see the movie, but I agree Blood and Chocolate is a really good book. Lately I have been reading A Tale of Two Cites . Honestly, not my favorite book but it is okay, but you have to have a good attention span for it.
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