Wht, everyone lived happily ever after?
I can't really remember the ending except for

If you're interested, Gashole, would you like to see my ending?

Sure.

Following the link, Gashole. Oh, and I would REALLY appreciate some feedback as to how my writing is as well (I love constructive criticism!). Leave me a review on the site? I wrote this 2 years ago, so it's probably not too good though . . . there's a review button at the bottom of the page of the link.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2087594/1/

EDIT: Removed spoiler tags for more convenient access, so anyone can go see. Only click on it if you really want to read!

on LOTF, i really liked the ending. Damn, it just tore into you at the end.

and steinbeck is always a good read...usually

Yes! It's been so long, I cannot recall.

EDIT: Added spoiler tags.

Ah, cool. I'd leave a feedback there, but to do so you have to register, right? I do have a membername, but for the life of me I can't remember my password and which e-mail address I used when I registered.

Agree about Steinbeck.

No, I don't think you need to register to review. But perhaps now you do, since they've made changes. You could always try again.

Click spoiler to see answer to your question.

Ahh, I remember now! Thank you, Thievesvinegar!

hmmm... books i read... Harry Potter 1-4 (after being spoiled by MJHermi, i didn't bother reading the 5th book)... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Works (sherlock holmes, Lost World, my favorite of all: white company)...

Jessica Zafra's Twisted (a compilation of her columns and other writings), chicken pox for the soul, and her other books...

Robert fulghum's "Uh-oh: some observations from both sides of the Refrigerator Door"

a few McBain, and literature.

I read when I feel like it. No forcing, since I almost never comply when I'm being forced.

Baroness Orczy is another favorite of mine. Please tell me that someone aside from myself has heard of the "Scarlet Pimpernell" ?

~ais

Oh! I LOVE The Scarlet Pimpernel! I remember that I really loved Percy! He was good-looking in the movie I saw, too.

lord of the flies was great.

and im glad that sooo many pepul like to read !



p.s. my ankle isn't feeling much better. lol not that anyone cares or anything! lol jk i dont care

( i thot it would have been funny to add cant read lol)

What happened to your ankle?

And to stay on topic: Who here reads Harry Potter?

the lord of the flies book was excellent, the movie sucked. ugh. i've been to busy to read lately but my favorites of all time are the phantom tollbooth and where the red fern grows (all discovered in 4th grade, what a lucky year for reading). once i have more time i've resolved to read the classics: pride and prejudice, emma, most of the jane austen works....and walden by thoreau, if i'm up to it ;; for some reason i really like reading children's chapter books for fun at the library, it takes me back dunno why but i really like the redwall series, even if it's repetitive as hell. i want to reread the narnia series because the last time i read it was in elementary school or middle school....shakespeare is good too, but i usually don't read it outside of class. currently i'm reading sun tzu's art of war; i attempted to read some of the chinese version, but i couldn't understand very much of it (except for the "sun" in his name! cause it's the same sun in my last name too maybe he's some ancestor of mine).

harry potter, good stuff...i need to reread the 5th book because i rushed through it so quickly last time, i don't remember anything that happened =P

speaking of rushing, i read the da vinci code in two days between STAR testing (california's standardized tests)...i want to read the other books by dan brown! angels and demons especially.

I've been wanting to pick up the "Da Vinci Code" as well, but haven't had the time or wanted to spend the money (even if I have a discount card at the Chapters store!). Was it good?

I've read four of Shakespeare's comedies on my own time, and I quite enjoyed them. And it's a good thing I read them because if I did not, I would actually have to read one for a class I'm taking now, so I'm ahead in some respects!

yeah, i liked it! i'm usually not interested in more suspenseful books but this one really caught my attention. i really like riddles and codes, and the way dan brown tied everything together was amazing. it's one of those books you really can't put down, so only read it if you've got very good self control or a lot of time. i think it's worth the money, and i want to get his other two books, angels and demons, and digital fortress. i'm into art and a lot of da vinci code centered around art featured in the louvre, and the mona lisa the most. sometimes his descriptions are a little cheesy but overall i think it's a great read my dad hid it during most of the school year because he knew i'd start reading it and not be able to stop....;;

Ahh, I see. What does the book mention regarding the Mona Lisa? I've always been intrigued by that painting, and why she has no eyebrows. Also the many controversies to who she is (Da Vinci's female alter-ego, his mother, his lover, etc.).

*yawns* I should go to bed, now, haha! It's 0200 hours!

ahh, see, but that would ruin the book for you! it does play a big part in the book: the painting itself, the mona lisa in it, da vinci most of all (i saw it a year or two ago when i went to paris, i think i would have been more interested in it if this book had been published earlier and i had read it ;; the crowds at the louvre are crazy...). but i'd say....read it and find out reject your gut asian stinginess and buy it! XD

I love Harry Potter! I am so waiting for book 6! My favorite characters are James and Lily and Sirius! Oh and I like Lupin too! So, I read it for the older generation, rather than Harry and his generation!

I also read Diana Wynne Jones books. I liked Howl's Moving Castle. Want to see the new Ghibli Studios movie based on it.

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause was pretty good

Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality are ok, On a Pale Horse is my favorite. But I stopped reading them after the 4th book becuase they got to.....dirty? for me.... To many "I am sleeping with this person now, but then that person next week"- type of dirty.

I have noticed that most of the books i like to read are in the young adult section. I don't seem to like "adult" books.

I love reading! Before I got acess to internet, I could only read without stopping. Have you seen 'Read or die' anime? My apartment koos exactly like Yomiko's. For those who haven't see I'll describe - books are EVERYWHERE. On the floor, on the tables, on shelves etc. I can't live without them. *blushes* Today I bought new Andrea Norton's book...

Haha! I'm such a Scrooge when it comes to money, true. Plus, I'm a starving student, LOL. I suppose I will buy it after all. It's on sale now, and I do get a discount! (There's that Asian stinginess again!)

I think I buy more books after getting that discount card than hitherto . . . heh.

Ah, so the Asian stinginess is well-known after all. So I'm not the only one.
I used to buy books only in libraries' shops. Cheap stuff, cost only between 50 cents to 1 dollar without tax. And if you're lucky, you do find good books. But like I said, I don't really buy books nowadays. (Except for textbooks, which make a $6 book cheap in comparison. )

Yeah, textbooks really lighten up the wallet . . . I'm planning on returning all the ones that I don't want to keep (like my Linguistics text! I hate that course so much!). Good thing the university takes your textbooks, labelled them as "USED", and sell them back to other people who may want them . . .

Universities pay only 50% of the original price, though. If you want better money, just offer your books straight to people who need them. Lower the prices slightly from those of the bookstore. Selling over the Internet is also good.

but its not that great of a deal, b/c it depends on what kind of books you have ,if they're needed again or whatever so they offer you different deals. I was offered 10 bucks for my $60 psy book and 40 bucks for my $110 microsoft apps. one. Which was the worst class i've ever wasted my time in.

Yes, very true, Thievesvinegar and Gashole. At least you're still getting money back though, instead of nothing.

lol thank u for caring ~! I tripped on a tennis ball in the middle of playing felt like it broke for the first two days
its ok now tho!

reading is fun! speaking of "da vinci code" i bought that for my dada on his birthday lol

Reading atm: Great Expectations (for school *sighs*), Sea of Swords by RA Salvatore, just started the new discworld novel, Going Postal, which has started good (but I have too much of a hangover to carry on with atm *sighs harder*).

I've read a lot of stuff in my time, within the last 4 months, I've read One Flew over the cuckoo's nest, all of the Harry Potter's (again), the LoTR and the hobbit (again, why does everyone hate it?O_o), the earthsea chronicles, the Thomas Covenant books, possibly some william gibson, a LOAD of RA Salvatore (mostly good old Drizzt, but I read all his star wars books as well lol). There's more but I'm too tired to type properly any more.

I bought The Da Vinci Code today, xrninja! But who knows when I'll get around to actually reading it?

EDIT: Never mind about the uncertainty of when I'll read it. I'm already on chapter 15 . . . haha!

lol quistis is it good? well i assume so since u r on chapter 15 lol

but is it?

It's exceptional thus far (currently on chapter 27)! I love the factual tidbits here and there regarding architecture and the like. And I loved the excellent explanation of PHI (maybe I just didn't understand it when I was little). I'm very intrigued and am curious of the anagnorisis of this book.

Chapter 27?? That's so insane, you read too fast.

Actually, the chapters are quite short. But according to some of my friends, I read a little faster than the average person, which really comes in handy now that I have all these required texts/novels to read for my courses . . .

And if you're curious, I'm on chapter 43 now. And I figured out the account number before the characters did! I'm proud of myself!

quisitis what .. ehrm.. grade? r u in lol

like college or out already?

i might start reading it cuz its sittin here at home too lol--i think i will cuz the book im reading now is very light reading and im gonna get into somethin else soon.

I am a first-year university student, ANBU (may I call you ANBU?). And you should start reading it! It's quite good. I actually should be doing my essay that is due tomorrow, but I just can't put the book down . . .

is it that good Quistis? I never really go for new books, nor do i know much about them b/c i usually go to the back of secondhand bookstores and just browse around there.

ook! where do u live (like what country) i know u ay have answered this b4 but i dont remember.....

u can call me whatever u want... ANBU, Lucky, whatever u want its all good

sup guys

The name is KM

i am 20
live in Montreal canada
3rd year university
reason i joined, got to love anime

KMZ--thats very cute and all buttttt... the newcomers thread is at the VERY TOP and is pinned so go there and repeat that... so if u r gonna say nothin about books in this thread or something that has spawned from book talk plzz don't post it .

sorry if it sounded snappy its just that this sorta thing has been happening a lot lately...

It's excellent, though I would recommend it for the more "well-read" reader, since some concepts and references might be lost on some people. It's amazingly intricate, and for those who like Leonardo da Vinci's artwork and the "conspiracies" regarding said works will find the book very enjoyable.

And ANBU, I live in Canada.

Hmm.. what is your exact definition of "well-read"? I'm one of those people who read a lot (a common definition of "well-read") but I can never remember details. Unless I finish the book within a week, I'm probably going to forget half the facts I'm supposed to remember.

I suppose my definition of a "well-read" person would be an individual who is knowledgeable in many things due to a fair amount of reading/research, and generally being able to pick out standard allusions (Greek mythology, well-known idioms, etc.) in a piece of literature. *shrugs*

i do read manga but i also read normal books like harry potter , love the books, but probably my fave is the ender series, i loved ender's shadow, enders games is good too

Did you mean Ender's Game? I've been wanting to read that, but never did manage to find a copy in the bookstore or in the library.

i haven't finished it yet but its good, ender's shadow is a parallel book about a kid named bean, its really good i recommend it