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Gothique Chic
19 May 2007, 02:50
Basically the same thing as What Are You Listening To but with books, obviously.

A Clockwork Orange by Anothy Burgess
Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind.
Book Eight of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.
Book the Tenth of Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Then after those I'm onto:
Book Nine of The Wheel of Time
Book the Eleventh, Twelth & Thirteenth of Lemon Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events.
And The Silmarillion by J.R.R Tolkien.
And for some reason I really fee like reading Jane Austen.

And now onto you...

alexlover
19 May 2007, 05:06
I've read all the Series of Unfortunate Events. [i proud biggrin.gif ]

I'm not reading anything. Though I actually feel like reading Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen recently too.
Aswell as re-reading the Spiderwick Chronicles.

Last two books I read was
Atonement by Ian McEwan - Being made into a film
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory - being made into a film with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johanson. laugh.gif

And you're reading Perfume!! How do you like it? My friends thought the movie was pure $hite. sad.gif

Gothique Chic
19 May 2007, 06:15
I thought you'd like that one.
My English teacher first told me about it last year because he thought it was a really good piece of descriptive work.
It definately is.
It may not seem like much when you first read it, but its very engaging especially when you see Grenouille just standing there smelling the world around him & dissection & each smell & storing it in his head.
The way its written is almost much like that of the way Lemony Snickets is written, (with much less sarcasm of course) but rather in the way that the narrator knows the end of the stroy & thats it's a dark & unhappy one & continues to give subtle clues to the protagonists fate.
The anology of Grenouille as a tick is a very precise one in his charactisation. He's basically immune to everything & emotion around him except for his rahter obssesive take on scents & creating the perfect scent & well as just to live.
Although I'm up to only chapter 8 because I started today, its already super good.
I really want to see the movie now.
Have you seen it?

A Clockwork Orange is really really good too.
I'm just near the end of part one & already proven its reputation as a classic.
Alot of the ultra-violence that happens in the book is masked cleverly with the language that Alex & his droogs use which is a mix between Russian & slang amoung other things, but upon reflection & actual thought you realise that what these teenagers are doing are rather horrendous acts of ultra violence.
I want to see the movie for this too.

Now all I've got to do is get through the rest of the Wheel of Time books, which is not an easy thing because there are so many books & they're so thick alot of information gets spread out & it gets hard to remember certain plot points & things.
But they're still hella good.

lunal111
19 May 2007, 18:00
Well...

i've just finished reading Physic, which is the third book of the septimus heap series.
i like them.
My favourite books.
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then in english i read the same books every lesson.
after about 2 or more months i change it.
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god i'm so lazy.

i usually start to get into book in the summer holidays when i'm bored.
+ it's a hell of a lot of money to keep buying books. and don't say anything about the library, because i've practically read all the teens books in the library already.
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and i hate the series of Unfortunete events...
i got up the one with that elevator in it, and i cried when the children were trapped in there.
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i laugh now, but then...

it was scary.

lunal111
19 May 2007, 18:02
and i'm also studying Dracula at school, which includes reading it.

thats fighting for No.1 on my list.

it's friking amazing so far.

read it.
now.
go!

Gothique Chic
20 May 2007, 01:16
Bram Strokers Dracula?
I have been meaning to read that.
I'll add it to the list.
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alexlover
20 May 2007, 07:52
Same. smile.gif

I've read Frankenstein for school, it's a good novel but I'm more interested in Mary Shelleys life, so much death occured it would be good to see a movie or the like on her. And she only wrote it when she was 17, pretty good seeing with all the sub-plots and hints about politics at that time.

I would really recommend seeing the movie of Perfume, it's not as good as the book blatantly but I still really enjoyed it. [you sounded really smart at that part, smile.gif Gothique]

And A Clockwork Orange is another I mean to read, I saw some of the movie, which I know was banned when it first came out, but I think I fell asleep because it was on so late. ph34r.gif I remember laughing at some points but it was more uncomfortable laughter than thinking it was funny. Yeah, it's really one I should read.

lunal111
20 May 2007, 10:41
QUOTE (Gothique Chic @ May 20 2007, 05:16 AM)
Bram Strokers Dracula?
I have been meaning to read that.
I'll add it to the list.
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thats the one.

My cool english teacher is carazy about it.

choxi/moxi
20 May 2007, 15:39
i just finnished the princess bride (love that movie)
and trying to read the life of pi
and california blue (adore this book!! gooo read it! now!)

alexlover
20 May 2007, 17:19
Life of Pi?

Isn't that like a scientists book? ph34r.gif

If not I'd be interested to know what it's about. smile.gif