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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/29/2008 11:20:26 AM   
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i never said anything about her being evil........just curious as to why people like books, or dont like books..........just a curious question!

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/29/2008 1:34:00 PM   
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why didnt you like it????

Well, for one thing, it was too long-winded. For another thing, pretty much the only people I liked in it were Meg and Beth. I don't know, it was just...not my style I guess.


We should start a thread in Morality and Ethics: Is stellaluna evil for not liking Little Women?





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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/29/2008 3:59:29 PM   
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stellaluna, i guess i am evil too. i dont go for chikkie books. that being said. am reading:


What Women Wish You Knew About Dating by Stephen W. Simpson

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/29/2008 8:57:20 PM   
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Dare I mention that I don't like Tale of Two Cities? He could have opened with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," and then launched into the story. But hey, if I'd lived in the 19th century without tv, radio, the internet and National Geographic, I might have needed it to go on and on to understand it.

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/29/2008 9:58:11 PM   
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You liked Meg??

Little Women is probably one of those books you like better when you read it at 12 rather than 28.


Lisa, we all know how you feel about Dickens.

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/30/2008 8:14:25 AM   
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I'm reading Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner.

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/30/2008 10:25:34 AM   
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You liked Meg??

Little Women is probably one of those books you like better when you read it at 12 rather than 28.



lol......i think i've read Little Women, Little Men and Jo's Boys, prob. 8 times so far!!!!!
And i loooooooooooooooooooooooooooove the movies!!!

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/30/2008 11:14:10 AM   
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Little Women is probably one of those books you like better when you read it at 12 rather than 28.

Or 37. I felt like it was a too-descriptive stringing together of little moral stories. Blech.

Dickens is fabulous if you skip over the descriptive parts. And yeah, back in the day they didn't have anything else to do anyway.

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/30/2008 1:54:16 PM   
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You liked Meg??

Little Women is probably one of those books you like better when you read it at 12 rather than 28.


I agree

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Lisa, we all know how you feel about Dickens.


I guess Hemingway ruined Dickens for me.

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/30/2008 7:14:22 PM   
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Little Women is probably one of those books you like better when you read it at 12 rather than 28.

Or 37. I felt like it was a too-descriptive stringing together of little moral stories. Blech.

Dickens is fabulous if you skip over the descriptive parts. And yeah, back in the day they didn't have anything else to do anyway.


Dickens bored me and Oliver Twist was too much like my own childhood of being an orphan. I haven't liked any of his work.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/30/2008 9:59:02 PM   
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Dickens has some great essays. He really was a good writer, but I don't really care for his novels. It's not the length or the description...it's the emotional manipulation.


I love Little Women but even I skip things. I don't get overwhelmed by the moralism because it seems like a story of moral and physical growth. If you think Alcott is heavy-handed then don't read any of her contemporaries. She's one of the better of the lot.


I'm pages away from finishing the new Sherlock Holmes book (don't bother with it) and the Phil Vischer biography (better then I thought).

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/30/2008 10:19:46 PM   
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Gah! I can't discuss classics. One day though (my entire bottom shelf of the bookshelf is full of them, I just don't feel that far removed from high school yet - which is weird because they always made us read Canadian fiction rather than classics in high school, and I'm still scared of them.)

Anyways.....

I'm reading "Let the Church Say Amen" by ReShonda Tate Billingsley.

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/30/2008 10:24:06 PM   
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what is Canadian Fiction???

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 6/30/2008 11:12:55 PM   
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Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Timothy Findley - those are the ones I had to read in high school.

There is also - Carol Shields, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, W.P. Kinsella, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mordecai Richler, Miriam Toews, Douglas Coupland, Will Ferguson, to name a few good ones.

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/1/2008 9:03:24 AM   
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Plague Ship, the newest book in The Oregon Files series by Clive Cussler and Jack DuBrul. It was one of my anniversary presents from my sweetheart of a wife, Mary. BOY! Do I love that woman!!

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/1/2008 9:20:41 AM   
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Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Timothy Findley - those are the ones I had to read in high school.



I managed to talk one teacher into letting me replace Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman with Margaret Lawrence's The Stone Angel. Vastly better novel.

I like Dickens in small quantities well spaced out.

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/1/2008 9:27:10 AM   
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i didnt know atwood was canadian.........some of her stuff is alittle........weird......but, i've enjoyed some of her novels.

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/1/2008 9:31:09 AM   
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i didnt know atwood was canadian.........some of her stuff is alittle........weird......but, i've enjoyed some of her novels.


Some of her stuff is ghastly!

BTW, happy Dominion Day.

(For the foreigners out there, that's the old fashioned name for Canada Day.)

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/1/2008 10:37:48 AM   
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I like Margaret Atwood and I've read everything Rohinton Mistry has ever written.

I'm almost finished with Life of Pi. Wierdness.

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/1/2008 11:41:00 AM   
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Lori Wick's, "Just Above A Whisper".

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/1/2008 3:30:46 PM   
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Plague Ship, the newest book in The Oregon Files series by Clive Cussler and Jack DuBrul. It was one of my anniversary presents from my sweetheart of a wife, Mary. BOY! Do I love that woman!!


I'm so jealous!!! I'll have to wait till I can get this from the library!!

That Mary sounds like a keeper! Aren't you lucky to have her!!

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/1/2008 4:01:20 PM   
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What is the Oregon series about???

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/1/2008 4:04:43 PM   
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In my ongoing journey through George MacDonald's novels, I'm now on What's Mine's Mine.

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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/1/2008 11:55:00 PM   
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The Uncensored bible. It's about the, should I say it, more risque parts of ther bible. It's by two Dallas Theological Seminary graduates who now preach in Tennesee. After reading it, it's like god's grace is so amazing.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/2/2008 6:52:34 AM   
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I like Margaret Atwood and I've read everything Rohinton Mistry has ever written.

I'm almost finished with Life of Pi. Wierdness.


I need to go back and read A Fine Balance again. I read it while in university, when I didn't really have the time and effort to read a long novel. I didn't give it what I should have.

Life of Pi...hmmm....that was a strange one for me.

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