or legos

BLASPHEMY.

Huh. As the youngest, I feel obliged to tell you that bribery will get you everything. I once was quiet for an entire half hour because my brother promised to give me a dollar if I did it. I also tasted a gob of horseradish for a quarter (CHARGE MORE oh sweet merciful heavens horseradish sucks).

Shut up. And yes, it was :P

Well yeah, bribery also works on your fellow classmates. =P And sometimes bribery works on II.

And sure, if you guys say so, I’ll keep reading P+P.

@whoever called me grasshopper: I ain’t any grasshopper!

Seabiscuit

I’ll admit the beginning was a bit slow, but after that everything just went “click”. It’s non-fiction but it reads like well written fiction. Highly recommended.

I’ve just finished reading Somebody’s Crying by Maureen McCarthy and I gotta admit, it’s a powerful hearty book. Interesting…. very interesting. It’s got a different way of writing too, one that I’m not entirely used to and I swear I saw some mistakes. Otherwise a very good book.

.... The summary’s not very good. Meh, the story’s a lot better than it seems.

Finally, I’m getting into another book, Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore.

Finally got to reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

After finishing Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, I had the choice (on my eReader), whilst away, to read either classics or pick up with where I last left off with Eragon. Which I have now read, fully, for the second time.

And I’d actually forgotten how ok it was, I mean, sure, at times it was laughably bad, but it was just… ok. Fun and average.

So now I’m re-reading Eldest because I hate myself, and boy, I’d forgotten how actually bad it is.

Because once I start something, I have an odd compulsion to finish. And it’s actually kind of nice to get all rose-tinted nostalgic about 2006.

And hah, thanks to the eReader, it is not a physical brick! That and I left the physical brick in Australia. ‘Cos you have to punish convicts somehow.

Shadowmarch, Shadowplay, and Shadowrise, respectively. This is going to take a while.

I’ve added two books to my sci fi pile, which I’m slowly and orgasmically making my way through. On Revelation Space right now which is decent space opera, off to Foundation and Empire next. :3

You paid for the psychological damage of Eragon? ಠ_ಠ

No, I have not. What’s it about? I’ll look it up if you don’t feel like writing it out.

Okay, The Reivers by Faulkner is not working for me. His prose is really, really difficult to read.

Sample:

Yet—and John had explained it to all of us and had our confederated sympathy and understanding, unified and impregnable front to the world and even to Father himself if that unimaginable crisis had ever arisen, which it would not have except for Boon Hogganbeck—telling us (John) how he had earned the price of the pistol by doing outside work on his own time, on time apart from helping his father on the farm, time which was his own to spend eating or sleeping until on his twenty-first birthday he had paid the final coin into his father’s hand and received the pistol; telling us how the pistol was the living symbol of his manhood, the ineffaceable proof that he was now twenty-one and a man; that he never intended to, declined even to imagine the circumstance in which he would ever, pull its trigger against a human being…

Then there’s like, half a page left of the paragraph.

It’s tiring.

Well, it does make sense, but slogging through a page of that is more than dull.

But perhaps it’ll pick up.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire IN SPACE.

Pretty much, only ten times more awesome than that. But maybe I get warm for political action.

Indeed. It’s my favorite sci-fi series ever

It probably is mine too, but I’ve only read the first. I have the next three waiting.

I need to read Foundation. The whole ‘fall of the Roman Empire’ idea just made me ten times more interested.

I need to read Foundation as well...RVL has been pestering me about it for a while now.

I'm on a PD James kick--that is, when I can find time between doing a math paper a day, reading my History textbook, reviewing French grammar, and re-reading books for AP English. And I still have Bio and Econ to start studying for.

I took it one step further, I’ve also been on and off reading The Making of Eragon book. My favourite quotation is about how they weren’t allowed to even mention Lord of the Rings whilst making it.

I think we should spork this, because it also has gold.

I’m a few chapters into Second Foundation, but I really need to start again because I tend to skim-read sometimes, and I have the feeling this will get me badly confused.

Bleh. I hate starting books again if I haven’t finished them.

The film adaptation is weird, though. I’m sure Winnie isn’t supposed to be that old.

Ick no, I didn’t like the film adaptation, even though I watched it before reading the book. It was full of pretty people and mediocre acting. Bleh.

Hey, it’s RVL! I haven’t seen you in ages!

Heheh, I was on vacation. Even vampires need those every once in a while. ;) Glad to see that my absence was noticed though! :D

RVL, have you read “The Vampire’s Vacation”? :D Or, better, “The Vampire’s Holiday”, which is a bit more tongue-in-cheek.

Just started Shadowplay. I’m ridiculously excited about it.

I am now hold number 16 on Fang.

It better be damn good lulz.

Still on a PD James kick. Those books are so depressing--in every single one of them, the only character with any ounce of humanity always gets murdered. ALWAYS. And no one ever seems to give a damn--in the one I'm reading now, the only person who seems to be concerned about the dead boy is Cordelia (the detective), and all his friends are like, "He was weird, man. He, like, had to LOVE someone before he slept with them. Weird."

I finally finished refreshing my memory on Shadowmarch and Shadowplay, so now I’ve begun Shadowrise. It’s still freaking intense, but I’m still not able to expect anything to resolve since it’s still not the last book of the series. Man. I feel like I’m spending my whole life reading these monsters. So worth it though.

@ Inspector: That was one of my reading list books for last year, but I read Night instead because for some reason I couldn’t find All Quiet on the Western Front at the library. I want to read it anyway.

>:D

Yeah!

^^That’s not why I want to read them. I want to read them because a lot of banned books are really good and it makes feel rebellious-ish.

And I liked all the books they mentioned that I’ve actually read ( Fahrenheit 451, A Separate Peace, and Lord of the Flies). The kids in that article are ignorant. I can understand how they would be sort of disappointed because you expect something banned to be really bad, but still, the fact that they find everything boring and don’t even want to try to enjoy anything without constant sex and violence is just annoying.

Oh, I did not know that. I guess I’m ignorant too. Anyway, a lot of kids do think like that though.

Plus, their statistics are of dubious accuracy.

How can you not know that The Onion is a joke? I mean, right below the article is a link to a spot on NERF bioweapons.

I didn’t see that, and I think I knew before, but I forgot.

I finally finished Huck Finn, but I had to cheat and listen to 5 hours of an audiobook. The dialogue was just too far outside of my zone of comfort. It was a fun story, but I don’t think I want to read any more Southern literature for a while.

In the course of (not) reading Huck Finn, I finished Feet of Clay and Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, and half of Jingo. I bought Perdido Street Station by China Miéville yesterday on a recommendation from a steampunk junkie, but the prologue was a bit too purple-prosey for my taste. Hopefully it’ll get better.

Tad Williams hangover.

We started Lord of the Flies in Humanities today.

I loved that book! :D

The bookshop on campus is closing down, so had a load of reduced books ranging from 10p to £1.

IT WAS A MASSACRE.

Well, ok, I only bought three books and the Conservative Manifesto. I’m not entirely sure why on that last one. But it’s blue. And looks good.

Closing for good.

Eh, I’m not surprised, it’s not good as a normal bookshop, the books I got were classics: French, Russian and English. And the uni library is so good, I see little point in buying textbooks.

That and Amazon.

I finished reading Second Foundation and it was amazing. I love it.
But the school library’s closed for the rest of the school year and so I have to wait to go to the public library to get the next book.
Then I read Nightfall. It was pretty good, and very well thought out, but the end left me going, “WHAT?!”

All in all, they were both really good books though. :D

No One, yes.

All in all, they were both really good books though. :D

Agreed. :D

Oh my goodness, I just wasted four hours yesterday! First I watched Chuck, then I watched Mystic Pizza, then I watched Gilmore Girls! I was very good at not studying for the big, scary exams I have coming up...

I too feel very sad when a series that I really like comes to an end. But then again, it's a much better feeling than realizing that the series that you liked so much has now gone downhill. I had that revelation with A Series of Unfortunate Events and Redwall--I felt sad AND disappointed.

Today, I started Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. I’m only two essays in, but so far it’s quite good.

Finished Teckla yesterday, now I’m on to Reaper of Souls.

For an assignment, I have to write a 13th chapter telling what happened to the boys afterward in Golding’s style.

Coolest. Assignment. EVAR. 8D

Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions. So lulzy, and so depressingly true to me in so many ways.

the idea has to be approved by the teacher

Out of curiosity, what was your idea?

Finished Perdido Street Station, and I liked it quite a bit. It was very dark and disturbing, and the purple prose only lightened up a little, but it was pretty awesome. I looked up other books by China Miéville and found a YA novel, Un Lun Dun, which I read out of curiosity. I was wondering how his edgy, grotesque style would translate to YA, and I was pleasantly surprised. I also picked up The City & the City, which I’ll start reading soon.

The Liar by Stephen Fry. Might just be the book that’ll get me out of my five-month-long burnout.