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Holiday Reading (pg. 6)
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by heavenisblue
I am with you on that. I am making a few friends read it over the break before the movie comes out (early 2009 sometime I think) because I just don't see the movie being able to live up to the book. |
my fear as well :) although Rachel McAdams is great! I'm sure she'll do a great job:)
Eric Bana was a fantastic King Henry in The Other Boleyn Girl! |
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| nadezhda |
| quote: | Originally posted by The Highroller
Did you actually get through it? I read about 1/3 of it once and gave up. I picked it up again a year later, read the whole thing (although it took me a while), and it ended up being one of the best books I've ever read. The way the novel builds (or deteriorates) is incredible.
The names are so damn hard to keep up with though. |
no. :( i got about halfway through, but i was waiting weeks in between reading it because it required concentration and i wasn't in the mood, so whenever i picked it up again, i was even more lost. the family chart at the beginning doesn't help either, when everyone has the same name! it got to the point where i didn't even care what was going on. everyone i've spoken to has said similar things: they had to read it a few times to get what was going on, it took them 8 months to read, etc. it shouldn't be that much of a struggle! i may try again later. i did really like the quirkiness of it though. |
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| exstasie |
| quote: | Originally posted by ExtremeWays
Reading "Liar's Poker" by Michael Lewis (a non-fiction account of an 80's Wall Street bond salesman)
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SOunds interesting.
Might pick that up!
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| English Rachel |
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
I'm reading Slash's autobiography...
Pretty interesting... |
He's from the city I am from!
MK - I have a new earth, I think you will enjoy it
Kris - I have Time Traveller's Wife, I WILL get time to read it someday |
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| The Ear |
| quote: | Originally posted by ExtremeWays
Reading "Liar's Poker" by Michael Lewis (a non-fiction account of an 80's Wall Street bond salesman)
and re-reading The Great Gatsby. |
I shall require LP when you're finished good sir.
That one has been on my list for a while. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by English Rachel
He's from the city I am from!
MK - I have a new earth, I think you will enjoy it
Kris - I have Time Traveller's Wife, I WILL get time to read it someday |
Rachel, you should! :) I shed a few tears at the end and re-read the last chapter at least 3 times :) it's just such an amazing story all together... modern Romeo & Juliet story almost!
ladies we should meet up and trade books! I read mine too fast and then have nothing to do with them! |
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| ExtremeWays |
| quote: | | I shall require LP when you're finished good sir. That one has been on my list for a while. |
Its f'ing hilarious. Also fascinating, in that he outlines in detail the birth of the mortgage-securities market and the attitudes of the guys in those days who saw it as a brilliant, foolproof cash-cow.
Interestingly enough, the narrator of Gatsby, Nick Carraway, is also a bond salesman living in an age of material excess and moral degradation... I didn't intend to read them together but it's a wonderful coincidence. |
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| English Rachel |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
Rachel, you should! :) I shed a few tears at the end and re-read the last chapter at least 3 times :) it's just such an amazing story all together... modern Romeo & Juliet story almost!
ladies we should meet up and trade books! I read mine too fast and then have nothing to do with them! |
Perhaps we should have a monthly book club |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by English Rachel
Perhaps we should have a monthly book club |
perhaps! :) like Jane Austen Book Club (another good book AND a movie) :) |
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| Halycon |
| ive slowly been makingmy way throught Dante alighieri's Devine Comedy. |
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| Moral Hazard |
The Beirenstein Bears "Inside Outside Upside Down"
Dr. Seuss "In a People House," "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish"
and probably a few more lovely volumes from my daughter's shelf. |
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| Halycon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
The Beirenstein Bears "Inside Outside Upside Down"
Dr. Seuss "In a People House," "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish"
and probably a few more lovely volumes from my daughter's shelf. |
no where's waldo? |
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