I love Watership Down so much. Watership Down is an awesome book by Richard Adams. I have already ranted about how everybody should read it, so now I’m going to review it. Well, sort of.
I love how they tell the El-ahrairah stories and El-ahrairah is so smart and he always knows what to do. And then there are the real bunnies, living in the real world, and they have to overcome all these obstacles, but they’re not as smart as El-ahrairah, so they make mistakes. But they make it through okay with their own clever plans. And in the end everybody thinks Hazel is so great that they make up El-ahrairah stories about him. And I love the very end, it’s so good.
And those bucks are so typically male. Hazel has to impress the rest of them, so he goes and does something rather stupid, even though the psychic bunny tells him not too. And they get all they way to their perfect warren, and then realize that they didn’t bring any girls. I mean DUH. If they had just brought some does with them in the first place they wouldn’t have gotten into all of those messes in the first place. ( But then it would be a really boring book and he Efrafans would have lived unhappily ever after) And after Hyzenthlay tells Hazel & Bigwig that Blackeaver is brainwashed because he’s an Efrafan, they’re like “But you’re an Efrafran too.” And she’s like “But I’m a girl, it’s only the stupid bucks that get brainwashed.” (Well, they don’t say that exactly, hence the word “like”)
There was a sequel Tales from Watership Down which I intend to read, but its mostly fragmented stories. There are several websites which are mostly kind of lame, you can find them with Google. There was an animated movie, which is probably not as good as the book, and therefore not worth seeing.
yes people, i am completely obsessed with this book. fear me.
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i read it
its not worth ranting about
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Well it depends-did you read it for skool or for fun? Cuz reading for skool can ruin any book.
saw tale of 2 cities. ♥ ♥ so saaad. *sniff* poor carton love that story though. i’m starting the historian today (if i can get my stupid project finished, notecarded, and practiced before midnight that is…)
back to skool tomorrow *gasp* noooooooooooooooo!!!
emiliana the very bored and depressed etc. i WILL read watership down….someday. but i gots lotsa other books to read, and i’d rather read them than go digging around the basement for another one One day i will read it and then you can explode into random incoherentness (and if that’s not a word, it should be) from the sheer joy of it.
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I’m reading; Trickster’s Choice, by Tamora Pierce. Wonderous piece of literature, really. Although it is fantasy, (lest you aren’t allowed to read it,) Tamora has really managed to give Tortall, Scanra, and the rest of her imaginary countries a real – world atmosphere. She’s created religion and language and climate and art forms for every single country, so they all are unique and really fun to read about. The religion in her books are particularly interesting because people can easily talk to the gods and they don’t have to bow or anything. They just have regular conversations. (I’ll fininsh later)
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I’m reading Frank Peretti’s The Oath. It’s sort of got Christian themes in it, and I’m sure they’ll get more prevalent as the story goes on, but it’s really good. It’s weird. It’s kind of this horror/suspence thing.
It’s about this town where people disappear, without any rhyme reason or explanation. The disappearances go uninvestigated, chalked up to rogue bears or something, until an “outsider” is oneday found dead, sheared in half by something. The man’s wife remembers nothing, and his brother doesn’t believe the sherrif’s explanation that it was simply a bear. He goes investigating, with a female deputy named Tracy, but he runs into trouble in the fact that all the towns people clam up when pressed for information about these starnge incidents, as if sworn to secrecy.
All but Levi Cobb, the “town crazy man”. He tells of an ancient superstition about a dragon in the mountain. At first, our heros are sceptical, but over time Steve (that’s the man whose brother got killed and has been investigating) realizes that it’s the only explanation that fits. Tracy, on the other hand, grew up in this town, and seems determined not to believe what Levi told them. This strikes Steve as strange, but it hasn’t been explained at this point in the book.
What Tracy and Steve don’t know is that, days before they disappeared, victims were “marked”. They woke up one day with a slight red rash over thier heart, which got redder, and more pronounced, no matter what they did to it. Eventually, it turned from red to brown, and then to black. The ooze from this black spot gets all over the person and everything they touch. No one will touch these people when they’re in this last stage. Evenutally, they go crazy and wander to “Old Town”, where they inevitably disappear.
It’s a really good book, one of those that’s really hard to put down.
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Read a Terry Pratchett book. Any Terry Pratchett book. You will not be disappointed.
I just saw Newsies. It was so good! The singing was great, the acting was awesome, the boys were hot, the choreography was amazing.
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I just finished The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown) and Anansi Boys (Neil Gaiman). The first was awful and the second rocked my socks.
Seriously, though. I don’t understand all the fuss about the DaVinci Code. Angels & Demons, at least, was exciting. See, I think the Brown books are good only if you know a bunch about Christian history/symbolism. Being the uneducated heathen that I am, I didn’t find it even remotely interesting, exciting. Heck, I wasn’t even attached to the characters. They were all so perfect, that, although the book is filled with cliche plot twists, I knew it would all come out right in the end. On the upside, it only took about five hours to read, so that’s not too much time wasted.
Anansi Boys was really good, though. I ♥ Neil Gaimain in general, but this one was really good. Not as good as Neverwhere, but better than Stardust, I think. Has anyone else read it on here?
Movies!
Memoirs of a Geisha was better than I was expecting it to be. They simplified the story a bit, which was fine by me, but the accents were crazily annoying. Seriously, they sounded incredibly fake. (Zeee house!) & took away a lot from the movie. Maybe if they’d been speaking Japanese, I’d have liked it more. It seemed really Americanized because of the language, which was really disappointing. However, the actresses playing the main characters were from China, not Japan, and while I don’t see anything wrong with this like some people do, I think that I’d rather they were Japanese just so they could speak their own language. Yeah.
I kind of want to see Narnia, too. I really don’t like the books, but everything I’ve heard has been so positive…
This is getting pretty long, so I’ll submit it now.
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I’ll finish my Trcikster’s Choice review.
Now, everyone’s who’s read the Keldary and Alanna books can probably say they were lots of fun to read. So is this one, but instead of becoming a knight, Alainne of Pirates Swoop is very different. As Alanna the Lioness’s only daughter, big things are expected of her. She is expected to follow in hre mother’s footsteps and become a knight, but quite frankly, she doesn’t want to. What she’d love to do is be a spy for Tortall, but George, otherwise known as Baron Cooper of Pirates Swoop, her da, doesn’t want too, because he loves her too much and doesn’t want her in danger. Since she has nothing to do otherwise, Aly spends her time sorting her father’s mail and teaching the local teenage boys how to kiss properly, of which her mother disapproves.
Aly is sick of her mother and her mother is sick of her, so Aly takes a vacation, hoping to get to a different Baron and Baroness’s house. Instead, she gets caught by Slaveholders and sold.
I won’t ruin the rest for for you, but keep in mind that this book is highly suggested by myself. It’s a little racey, although not much more than the previous Tamora Pierce books, so you don’t need to worry. Other such things are kept to a minimum.
-Your loyal book reviewer, Phoebe
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OK well I saw King Kong and IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LUV that movie. Peter Jackson ROCKS!
While I was there I saw a preview for the movie “Hoot” which is based on the book by Carl Hiaason. So of course I had to break out the book and read it again.
By the by, is anyone excited about Pirates 2? It’s coming out on July 7…*Happy dance*
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I saw King Kong, but half the battle scenes could be cut in half and the second bug scene could be permanently removed.
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yes !!!!!!!
people like tamora pierce!!!!!!!!!
are there any books besides
1:both circle of magic series
2:keladry series
3:allana series
4:tricksters queen and tricksters choice
5:the new circle of magic book
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ebeth
reading things for school can really ruin them but i didnt
bwahahaha
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yay potc2!!! happy days!!! 3’s coming out sometime after that too. at least that’s what i heard. Not that it was a very reliable source. I also heard potc2 was called “treasure of the lost abyss” Lost Abyss??? erm…ok…
weren’t they gonna get keith richards to play sparrow’s dad? that didn’t work did it.
oh well i can gossip about movies for hours but i won’t. a little virtual choklit wouldn’t be a bad return for the sacrifice though lol jk people.
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Well, there’s also the Daine/wildmage series, which is also set in Tortall… I like Pierce’s writing. While I myself liked the Trickster’s books, I thought Aly was a bit Sue-ish, especially in the first book- ooh, she’s in a situation where she needs to be able to search a room without being noticed? good thing her da taught her that when she was 8! Ooh, she needs to be able to tell if someone’s lying? Fortunantly, she has The Sight and can do that! But they’re still pretty good books.
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luv tamora pierce.
watership down is probably one of those books like hp and eragon that some people hate and some people like.
it was worth ranting about
SILFLAY HRAKA EVIL WD HATERS
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aly was very skilled, but the whole book was not centered around aly, there was more focus on the whole morals of the rebellion they were leading, and instead of aly that was going to have this great destiny it was sairi/dove, and those characters got some emphasis. aly probably wouldn’t have worked in the types of stories pierce used to write.
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Lina, the smart-alecky nice person, is reading Eldest from the Inheritance series and is lovin’ it. She is too bored to mention herself as herself, maybe some other time. “That’s way too common” says Lina the fed up. Lina the totally bored with everything is done now.
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Lina the person who speaks nonsense loves the TV show Code Lyoko, too. It’s almost all she lives for.
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yessssssss… i ammmm bacckkkkk….. mmmyyessssss…. sryyyy iii haveee justtttt readddd theeee Greattttt Treee offf Avalonnnn bookkkk twooo “Shadows on the Stars” andddd itttt wassss awesomeee!!!!!!! myyyyyesssssss… hassss anyoneeee readddd thoseeee booksss? andddd hasss anyoneee guesssseddd whoooo i ammmm? hasssss robertttt orrrr rosanneee toldddd youuuu whoooo iiii ammm? iffff theyyy havveee……..
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hey Lina the url is the web address. so if you have a website you put it in there and it makes your name a link to it
Ebeth ♥ how Lina talks in third person!
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a url is a website-thingy. don’t fill it out.
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Terry Pratchett!
I’m going to Barnes and Nobles, and then to Borders. I have about $75 dollars in gift certificates, and I’m going to get as many TP book as I can. Mostly Watch and Death books, but I also want Unseen University books, although I don’t like Rincewind so much.
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SNTD lets try kricket. are you kricket?
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I liked Memoirs as well Zallie! I was only about a third through the book, so I can’t judge the adaptation too well. Some accents were weird, but I ADORED Li Gong as Hatsumomo. She had it down great, though I always though she’d have her hair up more.
Eh. I still need to finish the book though. But I just started the Joy Luck Club and the new Warriors book (stop laughing everyone) so, yeah.
See Narnia, because I love William even more than Dan. ♥
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Well, I guess you all know what I like, since you’re all united with me in fandom, except for HP. I’m rereading the Belgariad, and there’s a lot of stuff I didn’t pick up on the first time. Like Relg, the zealot? His name is part of the word religion. I had a dream I was in the Belgariad last night. I went in and basically argued with Polgara and told Garion about himself, and then I was captured by Ctuchik and was confronting him when Kokopelli leaped out from behind a bush, threw a pie in his face and destroyed him. It was froody.
But besides that, I also like Frans de Waal, Kurlansky and basically everyone else.
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why would people not like eragon and eldest?
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shhhhhh if you like inheiritance you must do it in secret because certain people are of the opinon that:
1. paolini plagerized most of his material from the belgalariad, lotr & star warz
2. paolini has a horrible style and cannot write fantasy or anything else.
its not wise to start wars with the other musebloggers.
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heh. i like the ending.
hey axa? *holds up shield* erm…william who? *runs away very very quickly before axa can destroy her*
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I just bought 11 Terry Pratchett books.
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William Moseley? WILLIAM MOSELEY?
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Peter Pevensie. Yes, I have a disturbed affinity for British actors, I’m dealing with it fine, thank you very much.
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Oh peter. yeah i suppose he’s kinda hott. Dan is not though.
we were gonna see king kong today but we can’t. I mean we could see it at different times but that’s no fun watching it by yourself. Well watching a movie is fun by yourself. But then it’s more fun if there’s somebody to talk to afterwards who just saw it like you did.
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And Paolini’s dialogue, plot, etc is horrible, despite being plagerized, and has basically no redeming virtue like being fun to read, pulling the reader along, etc. And it doesn’t even have good fan stuff like Harry Potter.
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We just watched Newsies. *sigh* New York ain’t what it used to be.
“Your Honor, I object.”
“On what grounds?”
“On the grounds of Brooklyn.”
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My favorite character was Racetrack.
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i like the count of monte christo. anyone seen it?
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i’ve read the book…
we actually have a tape of that somewhere i think. Haven’t seen it though.
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yeah i saw it it was pretty good and just cuz paolini stole stuff doesnt mean it isnt good
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hmm… i like uh… okay im thinking… Artemis Fowl!
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Ooooooooh there’s this AWESOME anime based off it called “Gankutsuou” but that’s not terribly related.
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I love Watership Down. I like Alanna but only in the Lioness series. She has no taste in men, however. She was interested in LIAM? And JONATHAN? Talk about jerks! And sexists! In the Kel books he puts Kel on probation, even though he said, and I quote, in the first Alanna book: “…Girl, boy, or dancing bear, your the best page, the best squire-to-be…” Well, then Alanna should have left him to the demons with the dancing bear! And Liam dosn’t want her to use her magic because it makes her more powerful than him! However, George rocks. Aly too. But Aly also has no taste in men. She marries a crow, for heavens sakes, and for one book he is stupid and for the next he is… well… here is another quote from when he comes back from battle after she hasn’t seen him for a year: “…I am not a crow now. I am a man…” perfect description. He acts like a macho jerk after that. I liked him better as a bird. In fact, none of her charecters have any taste in men. I hated Cleon and Numair as well.
Anyway, I love… THE BELGARIAD!
And also ‘Year of Impossible Goodbyes’, about the Korean War. I just saw a movie called ‘Heaven Can Wait’ about this guy who dies.. and finds out it is a mistake. So they stick him back in the body of a multimillionaire who was murdered by his wife and secretary. It is a hilarious movie. I can quote:
Guy (talks to his angel in broom closet): You put me in THIS body? No, I don’t want a new body, I will get THIS body in shape! No, I SAID I don’t wan t anw body…
Wife (listening outside) to seretary: If we weren’t going to kill him, he would need YEARS of phsyciatric help.
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I liked the Tamora Pierce books a lot more when I was younger, I think. They’re still on my shelf of favourite books, but they’re there more out of nostalgia than anything else. Alanna is still my favourite. Kel’s too good at controlling her emotions, Daine just isn’t as cool and Aly never makes mistakes.
The Circle books are better anyhow.
This is more about TV series than movies, but does anyone here watch FIREFLY?
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thats life, phoenix.
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I can’t believe Racetrack was supposed to be 18. The guy who played him was 23! He looked 15 at most!
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whats wrong with numiair?
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ME! ME! ME! I’m a Firefly fanatic!
Daine and the Circle of Magic bo oks are my favourites. Aly is always right, which is a little annoying, I’l admit…
Oh, oh, oh! I still have to check and figure out it Book 2 in Cirlce Reforged is out yet. My bet is it’s Tris’s again. Than Daja, than Briar. Just like the originals… nostalgia attack…
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I always wanted to read those Tamora Pierc books, but I have no idea where to start…
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“just cuz paolini stole stuff doesnt mean it isnt good ”
Hon, that’s called plagerism. Plagerism is when an author takes the works of another person and pretends they’re his own. It is unethical and leads to lawsuits or in school failing grades and referels and all that stuff. It may be the best book in the world, but it’s still unethical. However, that’s not the problem here. Or rather, it is A problem but not THE problem. Another problem is that Paolini’s writing is simply bad, and you can tell it was written by a high-schooler. I have nothing against high schoolers writing books, but if they’re published, you would expect them to be decent, and have a good, original plot, and good characters, and not have ten thousand extra extraneous details that don’t add anything to the book. Of course, Paolini’s book was first published by a vanity press owned by his parents, who spent the next few years marketing it, but still, you would expect…
Axa- I would suggest starting with the either the Tortall books, with the first Alanna book (Can’t remember what it’s called). Then read the rest of the Alannas, the Daine series, the Kel series, and the Aly series. Or, you could start with the first Circle of Magic book, Sandry’s book, and then go on from there..
I didn’t like the last 2 or three of the “the circle opens” books. They got unnecessarily gory, I thought.. And I also didn’t like Alanna. She got too touchy and tempers-flaring-all-over-the-place..
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By the way, has anyone here ever seen any of the Beatles movies? You should, if you haven’t.
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Axa – If I were you, I’d start with Alanna: The First Adventure and Sandry’s Book. They’re the first books in their series, but in two different worlds. Once you’ve read both, decide which you like best & go from there.
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And, Phoebe, I thought that the Circle Reforged was a stand-alone book.
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I saw Heaven Can Wait a couple years ago. “Do I play polo?” “Uh. no sir.” Hehe! I’m reading Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques. It’s part of the Redwall series. Very good so far. I got another book by him for Christmas called The Angel’s Command. Has anybody read that? I haven’t read it yet.
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I admit it: I haven’t been reading anything for a really long time. Ever since I really started hanging on the internet. Now, I am reading that Frank Peretti book, I got “A Tale of Two Cities” at the library, I borrowed a few books on Chaucer and Shakespeare from my grandparents, and I’m intending to read “Watership Down” just as soon as I get a chance. I’ve seen the movie, and I liked it. I also want to read LotR, and a few other books.
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I thought you couldn’t read fantasy?
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cheesintator, i told you not to start wars with the other musebloggers.
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I’m not restricted on all fantasy, just the really magicky stuff where magic is almost a character itself. My parents don’t have a problem with me reading about other worlds, supernatural thrillers (as long as they have a Christian base), and a little bit of magic like what’s in LotR. Actually, they don’t really define where the line is, they kind of trust my judgement. I mean, they’ve told me a few books that they don’t want me to read, and I sort of use that as a guideline, but they haven’t exactly laid out criteria about what they allow and what they don’t.
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Any book that spells magic with a k is dead to me.
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for the last time… I AM NOT KRICKET, EBETH, OR EM!!!!!! sheesh… people… well… they’re musers, what can we expect…. *musersrushsleepynighttimedragon* kidding kidding!!!! ack!! don’t kill me!!!!! i have many different personalities and i love to copy people’s personalities so i can confuse you… i mean one day i’ll be a boy the next i’ll be a girl… and then i’ll be some of you musers, just to stir things up a bit!!!! it’s soooo fun…. yippee!!! someone should do this with me….
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My parents haven’t said anything, so i read anything. Oh except when i was like 11 and dad recommended the great gatsby and mom was like “no don’t read that wait until ur older” But other than that i read whatever.
tale of 2 cities ♥ ♥ ♥ only one of the best books of all time. love that one.
I’ve read the angel’s command. It was ok. I gave it to my brother though. I’m not big on brian jacques.
g2 start the historian (still haven’t started it! g2 read it by friday! aaah!!!!!!)
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who said you were me?
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*gasp* Is sleepynighttimedragon me?!?!! I don’t remember making those posts, but ever since I saw “A Beautiful Mind” I’ve been suspicious of anyone that I do not have absolute proof of identity on. I guess this is final proof that I’m completely insane (not that you needed any).
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Brian Jacques has what I believe is called “purple prose” in the fanfiction community-that is, he describes every last thing.
Alomost done with “Dawn” yesss….
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I also love samurai films. I don’t know why. They’re often super gritty movies, and the plots are hard to understand, and the motives are worse. But I love them. I also like rock movies and I hate romantic comedy.
Whatever.
Want you to know just how I feel…
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*gasps* there are more Circle books?!? I LOVED them! Sandry stinks, though. Tris is awesome, Daja is cool and, I admit it, a bit of a base for Steel, and Briar is neat as long as it’s in his point of view. Shatterglass was my favorite, especialy the part where Tris is struck by lightning, and Cold Fire.
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I like romantic comedies, occassionally. I’m not that into romance, but they’re normally funny and not that bad for a rainy afternoon when one of brothers is on the computer. They may be contrived, overly emotional, and a bit predictable, but if they’re done well they can be enjoyable.
Do any of y’all like that movie “Remember The Titans”? I like it, a lot, but after the 200,000,000,000,000 time of watching it, it gets a little old.
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Funny that you should mention “Remember the Titans,” because as it happens, I do. The events on which that movie was (loosely) based took place at my high school, T. C. Williams, when I was a sophomore. None of my close friends played football, but some had Coach Boone for gym or driver’s ed.
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I love romantic stuff! Not love and all that rot, but true romantiscism, like the Three Musketeers and Ben Hur and anything that sort of gives you that dramatic edge-of-the-seat lump in throat feeling.. I love that, it’s glorious!
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I like romantic fantasy.
Has anyopne here read “Peter and the Starcatchers”? I read it a long time ago, and hardly remember it, but I just bought it, so nyah, I’m gonna read it again.
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That’s interesting, Robert. What state did it happen in, I forget?
Oh, yeah, romanticism. I know what you mean, but I find it a bit….cloying. I prefer books like “Anne of Green Gables”. Don’t get me wrong, I like romanitcism, but I’m more into realistic plot lines.
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MG,
It happened in Alexandria, Virginia. The movie makes Alexandria look like a small town (it was filmed in DeKalb County, Georgia), but Alexandria is actually just across the river from Washington, D.C. It was the location of Washington National Airport (since renamed Reagan National Airport) and the home of several diplomats and politicians, including then-Vice-President Gerald Ford, whose son Steve was one of my classmates at T.C.
The filmmakers changed a lot of other things, too; very few of the details portrayed are 100% accurate. All of the characters really existed, though, and many people have found the movie inspiring, so I won’t quibble. (Still, they could have shown me walking into the chemistry lab or something…)
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I am outraged that horrible filmmakers ignored something that was surely way more important than any dumb football team by not putting you in the movie and mentioning that you grew up to write a Q&A column for the greatest magazine ever and running an awesome fan page for it. Horrifying.
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sweetness.
wheee the GAPA’s super-double famous now! we’ll edit you in there GAPA. we’ll show you taking a picture on your cell phone. As a sophomore. (yes yes just pretend you were a sophomore when you did that!)
good romantic comedies rock but there are sooo many that are just really stupid.
i’ve read peter and the starcatchers. It’s pretty good. Don’t read it as a real prequel of peter pan though, cuz it’s really its own book, with a totally different story and character and all.
Welp (yes that is total plagarism of my friend’s word)…i’m gonna start the historian tonight…
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Jane Austen, anyone? Even my smarmy BROTHER read it. That’s says something.
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Jane Austen is very good. I actually am not that into the romance in her novels (it’s fine, I just don’t like it that much), I really read them for the humor. She is so funny!!!!!!!!!!!
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Your life has no meaning if you haven’t read Terry Pratchett books.
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I love Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. And I ♥ the BBC miniseries of the book too. I just watched it over my Christmas vacation for the bazillionth time. It’s so funny. And the language is so beautiful. And Colin Firth is so handsome!
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Jane Austen yay! I ♥ pride+prejudice and emma.
And mr. darcy
Oh dear, i guess my life has no meaning.
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I have a friend in speech who thinks we ought to do a duo interpretation (that’s a category in competitive speaking where two people act out something from literature, be it a whole book or just a scene from it. It does have to be under ten minutes, though, and the closer you are to the time limit the better chance you have of winning.) with Pride and Prejudice. I might do it this year, even if she doesn’t want to do it with me. The reason she wants me to do it with her is we both love that book, and one time I used it in a speech. Anyway, random speech geek thing.
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MGurl — Is it supposed to be a conversation between two people from literature? How about the scene when Lady Catherine De Bourgh comes out to the Bennet’s to confront Elizabeth over her rumoured engagement to Mr. Darcy?? That’s a really funny scene (I think).
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It’s basically just anything you can act out, but it’s supposed to be from a book. I’ve seen children’s books acted out, Shakespeare, entire novels cut down to ten minutes, and a lot of other stuff. I do a scene from Anne of Green Gables where Anne blows up at Mrs. Lynde, and apologizes later. I have three characters, and I have to have a different voice and posture for all of them. In duo, it’s two people, and they each have assigned roles. That could be a good peice to do, if it’s long enough. It’s really hard to find scenes that are ten minutes long. Anyway, I’ll look into it, and decide if it would be good to do that in competition this year.
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ooh that’s a good scene.
but you know the scene i really love? The one where Mr. Bennet is reading the letter from Mr. Collins to Elizabeth and laughing like “haha he says ur gonna marry darcy! What an idea!” and Elizabeth’s sorta sitting there like “um…yeah. ha. whatever you say…oh god what am i gonna tell him…”
I ♥ Mr. Bennet…
Started the historian. it’s really good so far. Dad says everybody says the first bit’s the best and then it falls off. I wouldn’t know. I’m gonna go find out shortly though…
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That’s a great one too, Ebeth! So funny. I ♥ Mr. Bennet too.
Hmm, MGurl, that scene with Lady Catherine and Elizabeth might not be long enough if you start with their one-on-one conversation. But it might be long enough if you start earlier — like when Lady Catherine first shows up at the house and interacts the family. I don’t have a good sense of how long it takes to speak the scenes. An interesting problem!
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I’m going to reread that book after the speech and debate conference to see what jumps out at me. It could be really fun to do a scene from there.
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Mr. Bennet wins at LIFE. Yes he does.
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Mr. Bennet is stuck with Mrs. Bennet, though. She is SO annoying! Poor Mr. Bennet. I wonder why he married her.
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hmm…good question.
Maybe $?
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People often do completely unacountable things in novels. I think a lot of people would say that probably Mrs. Bennet was very pretty when she was young, and for once Mr. Bennet lost his head and didn’t weigh the options carefully.
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well, it says that she used to be pretty..
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I like the Warriors series by Erin Hunter, especially the new ones. They are so AWESOME!( I like cats a lot!)
My favorite is A Dangerous Path, Darkest Hour, Moonrise, and I think Forest of Secrets is sad!
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peoples you should read encyclopedia brittanic- *is buried under piees* MOOOOORRPPHHT!
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Oh, that’s right. Mrs. Bennet was pretty. I forgot about that. She must’ve been REALLY pretty to get Mr. Bennet to overlook her annoying personality.
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has anyone read the left hand of darkness by ursula k le guin?
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Maybe their parents made, or convinced them marry. Or Mrs. Bennet only got annoying once they were married. Which could be why Mr.Bennet is so sympathetic to Elizabeth over the whole Mr.Collins fiasco. My favorite part is Georgina totally insulting Mr. Darcy.
I ♥ Colin Firth! He was Jack in a The Importance Of Being Earnest movie, with Judi Dench (Aunt Augusta), Reese Witherspoon (Cecily), Rupert Everest (Algernon) (Be still my heart!), and Frances O’Connor (Gwendolen). It’s an AWESOME movie. I love Judi Dench. Go get it from the library. Or rent it, your choice.
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Mr. Bennet keeps telling his daughters not to marry for looks. He obviously married Mrs. Bennet for this stupid reason.
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my favourite mouvie iz findig nemo
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When does Georgina insult Mr. Darcy? I don’t remember that part. Must read it again!
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What’s the historian? I listened to a book on tape of Peter and the Star Catchers recently. It was pretty good, and the guy did great voices. Except that one guy at the beginning who boxed peoples ears sounded like a woman.
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Emiliana (#91),
I’ve read The Left Hand of Darkness–even taught a college class on it, once. But I know I don’t count.
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The historian is an extremely long book of which i have 460-some pages left to read by TOMORROW AT LUNCH!!! AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah it’s about a historian (or rather group of historians) that research dracula. Horror type book. Pretty good so far. But it’s sooooooooo……freakin…….looog and really hard to get (which is how i got into this situation in the first place-i was waiting for it) yup late night tonight.
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no, you count!
i liked it alot. (my dad recomended it too me. all of the best books ive read were redommended by my dad. (he also recommended watership down and the hitchhikers guide) but don’t tell him that)
but i cant say what i liked about it, which was strange. my mom says hi. i mean, when i think about it, not much exciting stuff happened. well no, he did get kiddnapped and stuff. but my favourite part was the part on the mountain.
what did you teach the collage course about?
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My dad had a huge science-fiction and fantasy collection. I read my way through it starting at age 10. Reading LOTR pretty much spoiled the Narnia books and Madeleine L’Engle for me.
I taught The Left Hand of Darkness when I was a teaching assistant for a required course for incoming freshmen at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (I was there studying journalism. Rosanne was a classmate of mine; we’ve been friends ever since.)
I also led discussions of books by Jane Goodall and Stephen Jay Gould, but Ursula Le Guin’s was the one the students enjoyed most. In one class, they discussed how they would adapt it into a movie. (They decided to start the movie in the middle, with Ai a prisoner of the Commensality, and then flash back to how he got there.) In another class, we discussed times we had been unable to figure out whether someone was a man or a woman, and why they made us uncomfortable. (For those who haven’t read it, the book is about an Earth man who visits a planet where the people are neither male nor female most of the time. For a couple of days a month, the Gethenians become either men or women without being able to control which. The difference has far-reaching effects on their culture. The Earth man is polite to them but privately considers them freaks; meanwhile, they think he is a freak, because on Gethen only animals stay the same sex all the time.)
There isn’t much action in the book, but there are vivid descriptions and a lot of ideas. Ursula Le Guin likes to give you plenty to think about. She also writes fantasy. Has anyone read her Earthsea books? Excellent dragons!
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Who’s read Tithe by Holly Black? Goodbookgoodbookgoodbook. Most people know her from the Spiderwick Chronicles (which I haven’t read), but Tithe and its companin, Valiant are both vedy vedy good. *read waves*
I’ve never read Ursula K. Le Guin, even though I keep meaning to. I’ll find time. Eventually…
I FINALLY got the Belgariad out from the library! *happy dance*
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I tried Earthsea, but that junky SciFi chanel Earthsea thing really put me off of it.
I haven’t read any Holly Black, but her writing website is insanely helpful. Worldbuilding, especially.
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Yes, the TV mini-series was pretty bad.
Holly Black’s site looks both Muselike and blogworthy, so I’ve added a link. Fifty pink-bunny points to Ravenclaw!
How about C. J. Cherryh? I prefer her science-fiction to her fantasy, but a lot of it is out of print just now.
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I hated the earthsea books, period. I LOVED Ender’s Game, but it was really sad. The Birchbark House is good, too. And The Black Stallion.
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Woo! Yay bunny points!
I liked Ender’s Game…until the end. It was a really good idea, but the ending kind of ruined it to me. I don’t like Orson Scott Card’s work in general, actually, except for Enchantment which is one of my favourite books ever.
I don’t know anything about CJ Cherryh, sadly. Is it like Lois McMaster Bujold?
Heh, I think I read the Birchbark House when I was really litte. Does everyone end up dead at the end in it?
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I just read The Future is Wild, which for those unfortunate fokes who don’t have A). Libraries that get (or got) Muse (for which they have become marginally unpopular) B). A subscription for more than 2 years C). A clue what I’m talking about because they’re to lazy to dig through their huge pile of Muse stuff…
Anyways, I have to go now, so if I feel like it, I’ll describe the book… and if anyone wants me too…
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Speaking of bunny points sarah’s wearing a totally flamablamablous shirt with hot pink bunnies on it!!! Even if she’s not a muser, it’s still pretty cool.
I finished the historian at 6:45 this morning. Was done w/Part 1 two days ago, so yesterday at around 10:30, 11:00 (i had loads of hw) I started reading, read until 12:30, 1:00, somewhere around there and slept a bit and then woke up at around 3:30 and read straight until 6:30, when i finished it and then looked at the clock and realized i had to rush to skool. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz tired now. BUT I MADE IT!!!!!!! YESSS!!!!! All 400+pgs. done last night. victory is sweet…
Oh AND it was pretty funny cuz right when i finished and realized i was horribly late getting up *ahem* i went downstairs where it was absolutely pitch black darkness. Wasn’t scared. Got into kitchen, turned on light. Then i heard footsteps-what you think i was scared then? No. I happened to know for a fact that there were no vampires creeping around my house. So I looked down the hall-which was still dark-to see if it was mom or james (knowing it was one of the two but not knowing which) and couldn’t see a thing, by then my eyes were adjusted to the light. So I could only see about a foot in front of me but i couldn’t tell because EVERYTHING was dark and then suddenly my brother’s face pops up RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME and i stepped back really fast and shuddered like this *shudder* And james looked at me funny and i was just like “heh….hi…” cuz of course i wasn’t officially up reading all night *coughcough* Anyway, I thought that was pretty funny. Wow it’s long too…but it needed dramatic effect. Just know that this happened (the whole face thing) in about two minutes.
ooh we get to choose new books for next semester today too! what will i suggest…hoom…*musesmusesmuses*
Anyhoo ramblings done now. Until i finish barchester towers.
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oh, yea, i forgot to wish you and libro good-luck-on-reading-stuff-at-the-last-minute.
collage courses sound more fun than middle skool courses.
where did she get that shirt? hot pink bunniez pwn!
i think i will go read something else that nobody’s read, so i can have another “i read a book nobody’s heard of” moment.
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What was so bad about Earthsea, Phoenix? I’ve never read it, but I was planning to until now. I think I may have seen a movie no one’s ever heard of. At least, it seems like the type of movie that nobody would hear of, but on the museblog I’m not so sure. It’s called Kung Pow! (no i’m not hyper, the title has a ! at the end.) and it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. It’s basically a parody of every kung fu movie ever made. All of the footage is from some old flick from Hong Kong except this new guy which they added in place af a former character. So then they just added a new voice-over and: Ta Da! Insanely funny movie. Or maybe it’s just insane. It sort of reminds me of Monty Python.
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It may be a mistake to mention this [GAPA, if you may delete the post if you wish], but I recently saw the movie “Brokeback Mountian”. It was very sad. Hate, for yourself, for others, will destroy you, body and soul. Hate crime is never justifiable.
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now i remember why i brought up the left hand of darkness. i think pwt is a gethenain! thats one to add to the list of pwt theories.
i should read that book again.
even though it was on a planet where there was no gender, there still managed to be more girls in it than the hobbit. there are absolutely no girls in the hobbit, even mentioned in passing. i forgive tolkien though, because of eowyn.
what is brokeback mountain rated?
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It was rated R, and I don’t recommend it for anyone under 14. Unless you’re a mature 13 like myself. xD
It was one of the most emotional, well thought out, real movies I have ever seen. It changed my ways of thinking in many ways.
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I really want to see Brokeback Mountain, but that’s not going to happen. Silly ratings.
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Just so you understand, Brokeback Mountain is rated R for a reason. I’m not going to go into what I think about the actual theme of the movie, since that’s something no one wants to hear, but everyone should understand that the movie contains graphic sexual content, and some really bad language. Just so you understand. Disregarding the theme, I don’t feel I personally would ever be “mature” enough to watch that content. Maybe y’all are different than me, but I want to make sure you all understand.
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:nods: Yes. The rating is definately earned. Perhaps once it comes out on DVD, you could skip those parts. :nods:
I respect that you aren’t saying anything MG, I really do -hugs- It’s a lot better than what I seen with other people on the internet…
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I don’t know much about Brokeback Mountain, and don’t think I want to. But sometimes, whether or not you are ‘mature’ enough to appreciate, or at least tolerate, certain scenes in a movie, is not a matter of maturity at all, it’s a matter of why the scene was in the movie. I think that there is way to much sex in movies. If it is really that important to put it in the movie, they can imply it easily enough. They don’t have to show it. And sometimes the sex isn’t even necessary, it’s just stuck in bcause they want to get a worse rating or appeal to all the twisted people out therek or crack jokes about it. For example, in Forrest Gump, the, erm… relationship between Forrest and Jenny was fairly important to the story, but they could have implied that it happened, especially since Jenny has a kid later. Okay, I think maybe we should talk about something else. These is getting kind of edgy.
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That’s true, but I do feel what was in the movie was necessary to build understanding and connections, and such.
I’ll stop talking about it, but the message I went out of the movie theater is to never judge someone one things like sexuality, or race and religion, for that matter. Brokeback Mountain was not a movie that you come out of laughing.
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Actually, I think the mature content in Brokeback Mountain is very necessary. If it were implied, the main idea/message of the story would be different and probably seemed ‘toned down’ so as to appeal to a younger audience or not to offend people. Also, the movie was based off a short story, wasn’t it? Making relationships less intense would sort of undermine the idea of the story, IMHO.
&, MG, I do know why it’s R.
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lets talk about daja!
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I only got two books for Christmas! Of course, I finished them in a week. time to go spend those B&N giftcards.
I read:
The Third Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Telling Pool
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I like Daja; I think she’s an appealing character. She and Briar work together nicely.
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Daja’s kind of cool. I was really proud of Tamora Pierce for making her a lesbian- read “The Will Of The Empress”, it’s definitely PG, but we know her relationships. My favorite out of the four is Tris. I don’t know why. There’s a guy in one of the books who grabs her by her hair (she keeps lightning and wind in the braids-weather mage) and she electrocutes him. That’s probably my favorite part.
I haven’t seen Brokeback Mountain yet. (Oh! Bad initials.) I’m not even going to. I have a project on Japanese movies to do. Any suggestions? Besides Hayao Miyasaki, I was going to do Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, Onibaba, etc. I love samurai movies! They’re great!
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tris is cooler. in a coupla years gayness/lesbianness will be perfectly normal, its very unrealistic for anyone to think that they can stop people from doing that, and besides, why would you want a constitutional amendment saying that? there are so many more important problems.
and about sex in books and movies, its okay when it happens once or is implied, but when its more than that the whole thing becomes about sex. the same goes for language and violence. they’re things that writers use to dramaticize things, and you can’t really get the same effect with weaker content. really good writers can still write emotional and dramatic movies/books without them, but after a while it just becomes all lame and unrealistic. i mean, wars are bloody, its unrealistic to say that you can have a war without violence, and true love doesn’t happen very often. and people swear. its a fact of life.
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Miyazaki rocks, but I highly reccommend the movie “Nobody Knows” Movie rentals stores have it, or even Best Buy or something. Te Japanese title is “Dare Mo Shinai” I think. It’s based on a true story.
I love samurai movies! My Japanese ancestors were mostly farmers/merchants, but I think there was a samurai or two way far back ( or so my mother claims).
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Daja is lesbian? I don’t remember that… but I do remember vaguely when Tris electrocutes someone with her hair.
I think that if someone is attracted to thier own gender, it’s thier right and no one should be able to say no.
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it happens in the last one. sorry for the spoiler. i agree with you though.
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i agree too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
go newsies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
newsies is the best movie and play ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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*ahem* Could all discussion of gay/lesbianism be moved to the Hot Topics thread? Thank you.
Just because something is realistic doesn’t mean it has to be shown in explicit detail. People use the bathroom, but they don’t show that in movies. Plus, I’ve never met anyone who swore like people in some movies. And sex might happen, but it’s very private, and isn’t something that should be dumped all over a screen. If someone is going for realism, maybe the first thing movie makers should do is get rid of those over contrived idiotic plots. Anyway, I just think a lot of that stuff could be toned down, without losing impact. Shock isn’t the only way to make an impression.
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well, it should be toned down. many good books/movies are ruined by it. i was just saying that many writers use it once or twice to make a scene more dramatic and emtional. plus, the bathroom has no emotional or dramatic impact.
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there is also singing newsies songs non stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don’t know, bathroom scenes can be very…er…emotional. Yes. That.
I’m with you about cutting down on sex-for-the-sake-of-sex in movies or books, but I don’t think that in Brokeback Mountain, just judging from what I’ve heard, that was a problem. The movie’s about relationships, so there will probably be some sex, but I don’t believe the directors were all ‘OMG, lets makes this movie have lots of sex, cause we don’t have anything else to put in and want to take up time, yay!’
Going to be a stupid newbie here again, but why is homosexuality a Hot Topic?
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Bad language makes no impact on me, unless it is to withdraw and not get involved in these characters. It makes me feel like I’m wasting my time when a movie has bad language, and it doesn’t make it any more emotional or dramatic. Graphic sex doesn’t make me think about the message or get what they’re trying to say. To me, both of these are completely unecessary. I can’t think of a single time bad language or sex made a scene or message more pronounced. Violence does make a statement, but I don’t have a problem with violence. I mean, I understand that some people can’t handle it, but it doesn’t bother me that much and I understand why people use it. It does make an impact. But language and sex don’t, and I find those completely unecessary.
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Yeah, but that drives those around you *coughmecough* ABSLUTELY ZARKING INSANE.
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about the Newsies thing, I mean.
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I suppose we’ll have to agree to disagree, then, because it’s just a matter of opinion we’re arguing discussing here. I think that all three of the things you mentioned (violence, sex and language) can add to a movie if they’re used correctly.
What I do find uneccessary is cutting out those things to make a movie more wholesome or family friendly. If a movie has parts that need to be cut out to make it suitable for people of all ages, it’s obviously not made to be family friendly.
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Oh, and it’s easy to display passionate romance without graphic sex. To me, showing sex cheapens the relationship the movie is portraying. It’s like, taking all the mystery out of the love, putting it all in front of us. Movies can be carried by good acting that depicts strong emotion, or a story line that makes it clear two people are in love. Sex doesn’t have to be shown for us to know two people are in love, we can see from the interaction. It’s not really necessary. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie where showing sexual content made me feel like these people were any more in love than I would have thought they were without the sex.
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Oh, fine if you want to stop talking about it. But not all movies need bad language or sex to make a point. Think about Remember the Titans, when the script was first pitched, the writer was told “take out all the curse words.” The original script was awash with n words, f words, and s words. Yet without them, the movie still remained very powerfull, and without them it was fit for family veiwing. So a lot of times that stuff’s just thrown in there, and without it the movie’s powerful and family friendly. Adult content doesn’t always mean adult themes.
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Again, if it’s sex-for-the-sake-of-sex, I’m with you, but in some cases, I think, stronger emotions can be conveyed through sex than, say, dialoge. Actions speak louder than words, huh? It all depends on the situation and how it’s handled.
I don’t think Remember the Titans is powerful or moving at all, with or without cursing.
I’ve got an example, too: Billy Elliot. Billy Elliot doesn’t have a lot of adult themes, really, but most people consider the language really foul. There’s a lot of cursing and some rude jokes, but aside from that it’s not that bad. Now, if the cursing were cut out so that it were family friendly, that would be extremely anoying and almost ruin the movie, to my mind. The language adds a lot to the film, in that the characters are so much more real when they’re talking like they would if they were, in fact, actual people. With the language, it’s powerful, without it, it wouldn’t be, although it would be more suitable for ickle kiddies.
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hey, does anyone know any really good Newbary Award books,that i can suggest to kitten? She emailed me and was wondering if i had any ideas… is Eragon a Newbary Award book?
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Eh, I think there’s too much violence, sex, and language in movies today.. And seriously, some Disney films shouldn’t be rated G- I mean, look at the costumes in The Little Mermaid!!! And they’re also violent…
Eh, the only movies I watch are Muppet Shows, Marx Brothers, and Beatles.. I get scared or something when there’s violence, or suspense, or serious emotional turmoil in movies (although I think I’m getting better about the last one)… In school when they watch movies I get alternate assignments/ they send me out into the hall or to the library to read or something…
And really, I don’t understand why people are trying to discriminate against homosexuals, and stuff… I get that some religous groups think it’s an “immoral lifestyle choice” or something, but really, marrage is a legal thing, not a religious one, since you get tax benefits, legal benefits, etc, so the government shouldn’t be discriminating against groups of people because some religous groups have an issue with it.. Frankly, it’s none of the government’s business who you want to sleep with… As the Rev. Al Sharpton said, roughly, “The government needs to get out of the bedroom and into the kitchens.” And also, I would think those religous groups would be happy to let homosexuals get married, since they have problems with having sex before marrage.. and to let them adopt, since the same religious groups are like “no, go ahead and have the baby and then put it up for adoption and add to the many unwanted kids spiraling through the system… and, oh, by the way, we’re trying to cut out a major group of people who want to adopt and not let them adopt any more..”
And Zallie, the above is why homosexuality is a “Hot Topic”, since the thread was started so to not drag into our little debates people who would prefer not to get involved.. Of course, I take the option to argue any time it’s offered, so it’s kind of futile, but still..
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I don’t think Eragon is, and anyway it isn’t a “really good” book…
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It most certainly is not a Newberry book, and it is plagerized from several classics, not the least of which is the Belgariad, and the writing stinks.
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No, Eragon isn’t a Newberry. I didn’t like it all that much. Paolini refused to take anything but the easiest way out. Don’t read A Single Shard, it was horrible.
Sex, drugs, language and violence in movies I have no problem with. Wake up, froods, it’s the real world! *gasp* They happen in real life, they happen in movies. If you hate those parts, get the DVD and fast forward. It isn’t hard. I’m going to be very callous about this because people shouldn’t be so sensitive.
Religious is spelled with two ‘i’s, people. Not Religous.
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Why don’t we just stop talking about this. I could say things, but I’m sure people don’t want to hear us argue. Let’s just talk about books and stuffins like that.
“The Witch of Blackbird Pond” was a Newberry winner, I think. Anyway, it was really good. It dealt with this girl who came to America from, somewhere, and befriended a sort of hermit like woman. Later, the woman was accused of being a witch, and then they accused the heroine. It was a great, historical fiction, portrayal of witch trials. Excellent.
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bad language is cullture.
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*shrug* Okay, whatever floats your boat.
I think I’m going to read Dune next, as I don’t think I’ll be able to get to a bookstore for a week or so. I started it a while ago, but never got much past them getting off-world.
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2004’s Newberry ( Tales of Depraux or something) was the single most horrible, undeserving,painfully average, mediocre sorty I have ever had the displeasure to read. I t hurt me to read it.
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me thinks you think too much. if you didn’t think about it, you would be able to enjoy it more. same goes for your life.
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Yes, thinking has ruined many good books, movies, and friendships for me. When I started thinking, suddenly everything I thought was fine, turned out to be completely below my level. Don’t ever start thinking, Musers, because once you start, it’s almost impossible to stop, and it’ll ruin more good, stupid fun than anything you can imagine.
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*gasp* Dune is awesome! If you don’t know what it’s about, it portrays a space-age world in which the dominent religion is Islam. Awesome literature. I didn’t like two things, however:
1) the main charecter stinks and is a jerk
2) the homicidal elite bad guys are Jews
other than that, it was AMAZING! But a lot of the cryptic sounding words are in Hebrew, so I understood it hehe
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ok i’m gonna say one thing on the earlier discussion since poor ebeth wasn’t here then and that’s all. I just want to say that i have never seen a movie with more swearing than i have in real life, and i’ve seen movies with a LOT of swearing. High skool is the ultimate R-rated movie people. But like queen j said, it’s life and we have to deal with it.
Oh yes and lizzie i got out of skool like that when we watched the twilight zone in 6th grade. *shudder* that movie traumatized me…it was my first ever horror movie. I like them better now. Aka i’m totally heartless now. Actually now that I’m used to them they seem kind of stupid and overdramatic. But seriously i was a very innocent and sheltered 6th grader. That was a very sudden awakening.
OK all done now. And yes, I know, that was two things.
I ALMOST saw king kong last weekend. But y’know i was in MI, and i was gonna go w/rach+matt, and harriet+andrew, but harriet’s mom didn’t want andrew to see it (he’s 3 yrs. younger than us) so we rented skool of rock and johnny english and had a party at rach’s house. I’d seen both of those before. Hilarious movies.
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Well, since I don’t want to start the argument back up, I will not respond to poor, missinformed Ebeth. *pats Ebeth on the head*
I hope you realize I’m joking. The other day, I was arguing somewhere on the internet with this guy about “under God” in the pledge of allegiance (I didn’t think it should be in there, he did). I was winning, but really I just wanted to understand why he thought “under God” should be in the pledge of allegiance. He just gave up and said “I am done with this topic, I refuse to argue with a child.” I was so mad. I asked him to please mask his condecesion just a little bit. I mean, come on, he couldn’t come up with anything so he played the age card? Low.
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help! sisterhood of the traveling pants! incredibally bad books are scary!-#120
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hah, thats so funny that you should mention Dune, because i wil be reading as of right now.
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how did you even know his age? He could’ve been younger than you.
When somebody uses that totally lame excuse, you’ve won. Besides you don’t want to argue with such a childlike immature person. (lol! )
poor “misinformed” me…you obviously haven’t been to my skool. Trust me, it’s bad.
traveling pants wasn’t bad for the teenage issues type of book that it was. It could be noted that i didn’t read either of the sequels, but it could also be noted that i don’t like those kinds of books anyway.
Oh yes and i finished my hw go me!
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Teenage issues books have about as much substance as slop.
Although slop CAN be tasty. -snort-
T.T Axa is in a rather bad mood, sorry if I offend any one.
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Why is there a ?I? around all of our names?
MG, you won if he pulled age.
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Oh, the guy was married (at least, that’s what he said), and had kids. I just feel sorry for his family. It was interesting to be dismissed, condecended to and patronized, it rarely happens to me.
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If that’s what he does to a total stranger (well, you know), then he must have pent up anger. I feel sorry for his family as well.
And my junior high is rather lewd. Some kids are. I just figure that, what with equivalent exchange, I don’t have to worry about them; they’ll get what they deserve in the end. Or they already have/are.
What goes around comes around.
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
we had scheduling issues so i had to go to jazz band an hour early, so i sat in the library and read dave barry.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
good stuff…
STILL haven’t seen king kong. dunno when i’m gonna, w/exams and all….
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Has anybody read the James Herriot books? (All Cratures Great and Small, ect.) Very funny.
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A great insult, compliments of Shakespeare: ‘You shall ingest the poison of your spleen!’ Or something like that. I’m reading Julius Ceaser for school.
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Haha, MG, I hope you virtually patted the poor fellow on the head for that… Yeah, I don’t think the “Under God” should be in there either, but maybe we should discuss this under “Hot Topics” because it might get a bit.. political and isn’t about Books & Movies, v. 2006.1…. But I’d like to if you want to.. Is the thread still open?
The other day, we got our report cards for last semester. My friend was waiting for me by my locker and listening to people’s conversations in the hall. She then said to me, “Hey, did you hear those boys? They were saying, ‘hey, did you pass anything?’ ‘yeah, I passed speech..’ ‘Oh, I didn’t pass anything.'”
Yeah, we’ve got some.. interesting kids at our school.
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That is pretty sad. Poor kids.
I hate when people pull rank/age/gender on me. Although it can be useful. I hate being underestimated but if people persist in underestimating you, you can use it against them.
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I finished Lord Brocktree! Yes, it’s taken me a terribly long time, but it was a very good book. I’m moving on to something a little lighter: Hank the Cowdog! Good old Hank. There’s a spider living in my keyboard.
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yay fer you! i’m still on page 200-something of Dune. *sigh* i liked Leto. oh well. Ebeth, have you started those ‘cat who did stuffins’ books yet?
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oh, and i know that we’re way beyond this subject, but tamora pierce answered the question “why is there sex in your books” or something like that, on her website, if anybody is interested.
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so? dija? dija? come on? aaaannnsswweerrr ttthhhee qquueessttiioonnn!
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yup yup. I’m near the end of “the cat who sniffed glue” I think Qwill’s moustache deserves a fan club all by itself haha it gives me amusing mental images…these would make great movies btw…not too long, not boring, not too complicated but not too simple. I suppose there’s a bit too much thinking though. v/o’s always sound corny to me…oh well.
Yes I ♥ Koko!!! GO KOKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and I LOVE pickax!!! It’s a lot like where i was born. Where is this set anyway? Northern MI, Minnesota, something like that?
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illinois, i think. mrm.. meybeh
YES! THEY ARE SO AWESOME!
we own a bunch, but i’ve read them all. i should really make a move to get more of them.
i like everything except i wish he would get somewhere with his stupid girlfriend grr… and peoples keep dying!
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mrm.. i know we have sniffed glue, but i cant find it. i think peoples borrowed it. anyways, was it the one where he licked picturs? mmm no, letters? oh wait! its the one where he knocks the books off the shelves! yez! yezyezyezyez! rite?
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I LOVE DUNE! *slobberdrool*
But I HATE PETER! DIEDIEDIEDIEPETERDIE!
what is Tamora Pierce’s website?
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OMGS, I’m reading DUNE right now!11!!!one!!!11eleven
I ♥ it so far.
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no it’s the one where he licked envelopes+stamps and things.
the one with the books was the cat who read shakespeare ♥ loved that one.
What are the ‘cat who did stuffins’ books? Anybody read Adam of the Road
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they’re by Lillian Jackson Braun. they’re all called “the cat who…”
verb-direct object or linking verb-predicate nom./pred. adj.
mysteries. murder mysteries. good:)
nope. never heard of it
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Sounds good. Adam of the Road is about a minstrel who loses his dog and has to find him again. Trust me, it’s waaaaaay better than it sounds.
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most books are. for instance, if i told you that watership down was about a bunch of rabbits that have to leave their warren and find another one encountering obstacles along the way; you would probably think it was an extremely boring.
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i like watership down. (bad person. wont give me my best copy back. grr)
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AAARGH! I forgot to post my rant on ivanhoe, and then i LOST it, and now i’m too lazy to try and type it up again from memory. *sulkpout* Terrible, terrible. Grrr.
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I am glad Adam of the Road is better than it sounds, because it sounds TERRIBLE. I also like P.G. Wodehouse.
Has anyone seen Donnie Darko? It’s a really good movie I watched the other day at a friend’s house. Froody to the maharajah.
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QUOTE: What are you reading? What are you watching? What do you think?
In response: I don’t!
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I’ve never heard of Donnie Darko. Have you read Adam of the Road, Queen J.? Has anyone ever seen/read Tuck Everlasting? I just watched the movie again yesterday. I’ve never read the book, but I plan to. The movie is surprisingly good, considering it’s a Disney.
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Does anyone here like Patricia C. Wrede? She wrote the Enchanted forest chronicles, sorcery and Cecilia and some other books that are now out of print (I’ve read them anyways though!)
You guys should go to used bookstores and indepedant bookstores. B&N gets enought buisness.
A Single Shard and The Tale of Desperaux and The Witch of Blackbird pond are all excellent books. Hence their newberry-ness. Eragon isn’t excellent. It isn’t bad, just not excellent. It steals a lot of general fantasy themes and isn’t very creative. A good newberry honor or newberry medal (I forget which is which there are two books) are The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword both by Robin McKinley. I would read The Blue Sword first, though it is second in order of time in the books. I think it was published first.
Another excellent book is I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. It isn’t fantasy. It is more of a romantic comedy type book set in the ’30s in england.
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There are too many awards! At least for movies. The book awards are at least for different things! What is the difference between the Oscars the Golden Globes and the Screen Actor’s Guilds?! Hmmm…for some reason I like the word ‘guild’.
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anyone here like… wow i cannot think of any books right now.. see ya later ya’ll!!! muahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
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im here! who r u sleepynighttimedragon? who likes science fiction…
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I started reading the color of magic last night…
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Howdy once again
I’ve posted twice already, but I never thought to post here. If you read my other posts (one of which is located in requests/ideas) you’ll notice I have quite a few ideas regarding the creation of a Kokopelli and Company movie. The movies and books section seemed like a dandy section for posting the following new ideas.
Ideas for the scene in Chad’s lab when we meet Kokopelli
1. Feather peeks from behind the door into Chad’s lab. Chad is standing in front of a huge machine with a catapult like arm.
2. Chad seems to be talking to somebody, but nobody else appears to be in the room.
3. Kokopelli’s voice can be heard from somewhere, but it is not clear where he is.
4. Chad says the line: “It needs to be more precise.”
5. Koko’s voice (in a mock stupid voice): “It needs to be more plecise.”
6. All of a sudden, the hunchbacked form of Kokopelli, appears from the shadows, and walks along the wall.
7. He dissapears briefly inside the shadow of a tall floor lamp.
8. Feather continues to stare.
9. Koko’s stick shaped arms appear inside the shadow of the lamp, and start shaking themselves aggresivley at Chad.
10. Koko the lamp’s voice: “Chad, any idiot knows it needs to be more plecise.”
11. Chad: “Well you see what we need is-”
12. Chad stops short, because as he is starting to speak, Koko the lamp’s left arm raises into the air, and with it, raises a stickshaped device with the words -matter composter- written across it.
13. The sticklike object floats menacingly across the room towards Chad.
14. Koko the lamp’s line: “What, playtell is the bottom line here?”
15. Koko the lamp’s actions: Kokopelli’s left arms moves around in various motions, the sticklike object moves with it, and ends up in Chad’s righthand nostril.
That’s all for now, I wonder what happens next
See you later
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Clever and detailed. I’d love to see that animated.
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I FINALLY saw King Kong. copying off my xanga cuz i am lazy…
Saw King Kong yesterday. WHAT IS UP WITH ALL THE SLOW-MO?!!?!?!?!?!??! Insane…That’s why it was three hours long!!!! The fights dragged on a bit too. Other than that it was great. Oh except i hated that one girl. she was such a weed. (excuse the britishness. molesworth this time. Not that i’ve actually gotten molesworth yet…actually i haven’t even ordered it. i need over $90…Need job, need job, need job. but yeah i’ve just been reading the excerpts and stuffins i finds. obsseeeeeeesssed! ) Yeah but back to topic she was a wet noodle. Blech. *hearts* king kong though. and that writer dude.
Aaaaaaanyway…Oh yes i saw part 2 of ivanhoe yesterday too. It was the tournamnet. The jousting was pretty good. the melee was gruesome and way too long, but it wasn’t bad for all that. And i suppose that was the point, it being so long…it’s in the book anyway. all hail the book. Yeah.
OOOOOOOOHHHHHH yes and dad finally found an audiobook-an unabridged audiobook-of a tale of two cities. been looking for that for ages. yep yep. probably won’t fit on the trusty shuffle but i can steal dad’s ipod. happy days…
so there you go.
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i am reading the inkheart trilogyit is so coo!l. read it! it is by Cornelia Funke who is a very good writer!she has also written thief lord,dragon riderand sum others…
King Kong is good but i think the part on the empire state building went on and on and on.
i saw Narnia it is so good!it is filmed in new zealand which is where i live! I think they shud do a movie on the other 5 books even though they left out the first.the voyage of the dawn treader is really good it is my favourite one. how do u get the smiley faces?
happy new year…even though it was ages ago i didnt no how 2 finish off!
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I read Inkheart. I liked it but it was so scary! I haven’t read the others in the series yet because I’m not in the mood to be scared. The basic idea for the story is really cool. I’m not sure if I should say what it is, though, because that might spoil it for people who haven’t read it yet…
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Yay, a thread for books and movies!
Hmm, I haven’t had a lot of time to watch movies lately, but I have seen some good ones. Phantom of the Opera (has anyone seen the old silent movie? definitely worth it if you haven’t), Pirates of the Caribbean (can’t wait for the second one!), Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, the new Narnia, Millions and so forth are some of my recent favorites. Has anyone ever seen Bedazzled? The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine movie is excellent as well. Very surreal.
As for books, let’s see. I do like the Warriors series, but I haven’t gotten around to reading the new ones yet. My all-time favorite/best book list is, in no particular order:
Phantom of the Opera
Dracula
The Invisible Man
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Metamorphoses
Rebecca
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
I really need to get offline, but before I go, I just have to ask. Has anyone by chance read ‘Trilby’ by George Du Maurier? I thoroughly enjoyed it, but so far no one I’ve mentioned it to has ever heard of it. Is anyone familiar with this book? If not, I’d recommend it if you like genuinely bizarre stories.
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is the new narnia REALLY good? because i dont believe it
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other book(s) in the series? has the third one come out?
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I loves the inkheart books!!! (I ♥ dustfiniger ) i’ve read both of those…and the Thief Lord, also by cornelia funke. that’s an awesome book too.
The new narnia IS good. Really. Not like the old one…
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YES!!! It is! It is amazing!
My favorite books (but not in order):
The Belgariad (series)
The Hitchikers’ Guide to the Galaxy (series but not Mostly Harmless)
The Wanderer
Heartbeat
Walk Two Moons
Pride and Prejudice
The View From Saturday
The Horse and his Boy (and mostly all the rest of the Narnia books)
The Mists of Avalon (even though it made me really depressed)
SIsters of the Raven
Murder on the Orient Express
LOTR
books I like but don’t make it up to favorite:
Rhapsody (even though it is rather Mary-Sueish)
Dragonsdawn
Owlflight
The Black Griffin
Brightly-Burning
Warriors
Redwall
Orphans of Chaos
Jane Eire (how the heck d’tou spell that?)
Little Women
Lords of Grass and Thunder
HP#s 1, 3, 6
The House of Deis Drear
a whole lot more
books I want to read:
The Foundation Trilogy
Those books, I forgot what they are called, with Storm-Bringer
The Davinci Code (actually I just started it today)
Books I dislike:
Zel
The Cay
Lord of the Flies
Harry Potter #s 2, 4
Blood and Chocolate
Joust–because portrayes dragons as animals and I HATE that
Books I really, really hate:
That plageristic, crowd-pleasing, badly written, overly hyped, puny excuse for a novel otherwise entitled ERAGON!!!
Harry Potter #5
The Red Pony
Books I scorn:
practically everything written for adolescants like me
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ooh the view from saturday. that was one i borrowed in like fifth? sixth? grade…I ♥ Good book. yayness.
What is Blood and Chocolate? They spelled choklit wrong!!!! ARRGH! DIE FIENDS!!!!!! FORTH EORLINGAAAAAAAAAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
has anybody here read ttyl? (the book) *gasp* the paaaaain…the paaaaaaaain. started it in…schuler’s i think (back when we had a schuler’s) and read a random page. I was like omg this is idiotic. Flipped away from the page to another page. Read that page. “How stupid is that!” were my words. Read a couple more pages, flipping around, just to make sure the whole book was that inane and was about to put it back on the shelf when i saw a trash can. Aaaah…the urges…must….throw…in…NO! Mustn’t! Then i’d probably have to buy it! The shame! So i put it back on the shelf. But i think the world would’ve benefited if i’d have thrown it in the trash instead.
I can’t recommend any of these books enough. READ THEM.
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Oh yeah, and Watership Down makes my favorite list as well.
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have any of you read the roman mysterie series by caroline lawrence?if you havnt they are a must read! im not going to give you a book report but it is about four kids a jewish boy,a mute ex-begger boy,an ex afican slavegirl and a high born girl.it is set in ancient Italy and the kids live in Ostia.they go around the country and even to Greece solving mysteries.the author plans to write 18!
here is a list of the books that are out.(in the reading order)
THE THIEVES OF OSTIA
THE SECRET OF VESUVIUS
THE PIRATES OF POMPEY
THE ASSASINS OF ROME
THE DOLPHINS OF LAURENTUM
THE TWELVE TASKS OF FLAVIA GEMINA
UUUMMMM
THE GLADIATOR OF CAPUA
THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES
they are really good books!!!
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Sorry, Sam the Tenrec (can I call you ST? or Sam? Or Tenrec?), I never read ’em. A thousand pardons and welcome to the Blog!
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sigh, i hate nt knowing what time it is in america.is it sunny.it is raining here oh well no difference to all the other millions of years of rain GRRR RAIN.
it is 11:40 am here on the 26 january
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St i read em . there ok-ish
and ST where do u live?
And have you read R A salvatore? he is like awesomee fantasy and he has written around 30 books! more than Tamora Pierce!
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Hello Sam the Tenrec! You have the same middle name as Alexander the Great. Isn’t that fun to know? And me, of course. R.A. Salvatore is very cool. David Eddings I like because his books have humor in them.
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Hello hello Sam the Tenrec! That thing about the middle name is cool. I did read the first book in the series by Caroline Lawrence awhile ago, and I agree, it was good! I have yet to get around to reading the rest of the series, though. Just finished Inkheart today! I love it! I didn’t think it was possible, but I liked it more than the Thief Lord. I forgot the Hitchhiker’s Guide series in my last post! Those are some seriously amazing books. The old radio series is most entertaining as well.
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watership down & empire of the ants are good
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there was a t.v series of hitchhikers guide ages ago and my dad bought them on dvd so i could watch them!!!it is a cool series must read the book some time…
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hitchhikers series on t.v is good
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referring to dark lord of darkness and for others info i live in new zealand at the bottom of the world the last stop be fore antarctica. be cause i have a completely different time zone so that is why you will see the time on it is very late sometimes
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who has seen Monty Python and the search for the holy grail!
it is so cool!
ni ninininini we are the knights that say ni!
with nasty sharp pointy teeth!
soz but it is SO funny!
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woohoo smilleys
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Monty python rocks!!! I can recite the entire script of the holy grail by memory. No lie.
Been reading wodehouse. YAY funny old brits!!!!!!!!!!!!! Named after drinks too!!! haha i love that…
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watching october sky good movie
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ebeth: do it
most people havnt seen monty pythons flying circus which is actually the funniest thing that they do.
“oh! mrs. nickabator exploded!”
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i thought that there were only two inkheart books. am i correct?
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Yeah. But it’s a trilogy so she’s writing another one.
dark lord of darkness-look at the old monty python thread..everything i did was from memory. I’d start over again just for you but i g2g in like five min. so yeah. I just might though if i’m still in study hall tomorrow…
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yeah, but its gonna be a trilogy. i went to the library today, but i couldn’t find the color of magic. but i did get wolf queen, a young wizards book, the latest snicket book, and abarat. W00T!
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whaddas w00t mean, people?
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“w00t” and it’s alternate spellings all mean the same thing; “We own the other team”. It is, in fact, a 1337 (leet or l33t) word. It has however, taken on the meaning of a general exclamation of satisfaction or happiness.
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W00t means yay. It apparently came from dungeons and dragons (which I have never played) people would say “wow! loot!” It is l33t word for yay. I find it amusing when people say l33t words aloud. I have friends who say w00t and pwned all the time. ^_^
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i like the inkhearts too.
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I knew what w00t meant, but now I’m really confused. Or confuzzled. Wot’s a 133t word? Yay, that is, w00t for Monty Python and the Holy Grail and all their other stuff. I’ve never seen Flying Circus, but they’re going to show it on PBS in Febuary. PBS is so underrated. PBS rules, persons! At least, the one in P*********. W00t as well for Inkheart, although I have yet to read the second one. I think it’s called Inkspell. Am I right? Dustfinger is such a great character. A pyromaniac prehaps, but a great character none the less. And I like Gwin. If I had a ferret, I would name it Gwin. The excerpts from other books are done very well, and they are, usually, uncannily pertinant (I don’t know how to spell that.) to the chapter.
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By the by, has anyone ever heard of the book The Pushcart War? I listened to a book on tape. It’s about a war which starts in NYC over large, obnoxious trucks taking over the streets.
It’s a good one, although it might be out of print. Look at the library; that’s where I found it.
Wenda: I think that there are too many trucks. And the trucks are too big.
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Oh yeah, I’ve read it. It’s a good book.
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133t=1337=l33t=Leet
Wikipedia says: Leet, usually written as “l33t” or “1337” in Leetspeak, is an online culture and/or attitude, as well as a language code (although the language code was originally refered to as “kr4g” or “krag”), among the Internet population. The word itself is derived phonetically from the word “elite”, and is a cipher, or cryptic form of spelling replacing letters with numbers, symbols, and other letters that look or sound alike. Leetspeak was first used on Bulletin Board Systems, and then later adopted by users of Online Multiplayer Games and other Internet communities.
Spelling variation does not always follow a set convention. The same word may be spelled differently by different people, or even by the same person to confuse others even more. This is symptomatic of the desire or affected desire to elude comprehension by others unfamiliar with the foreign art form.
Basically, symbols for letters. Don’t be a leet punk, kids.
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wh@t? us l33t punk5? n3v3r!
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has anyone read The Thief Lord? Cornelia Funke wrote it before Inkheart and Inkspell, +its really good. it has a surprising twist
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w00t
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I LOVE THE PUSHCART WAR!
I don’t love the Theif Lord, though. It was just…ehhhh. A cool idea, but not very well done.
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I love the Pushcart War too! I like how it seems like it’s describing real history. (FUNNY real history, that is.)
I read it when I was about 12. I must have led a sheltered life because that was the first encounter I had with the concept of pea shooters.
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I ♥ the thief lord! *hiss* zallie!! Ok it could’ve been done better. And it was pathetic how they didn’t swear at all. “Oh dear we’re going to be caught! Open the door goshdarnit!”
never read the pushcart war…
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I read The Thief Lord, but not in a while so I’ll have to read it again. I thought it was good that they didn’t swear. Okay, they were street kids who would probably have very erm colorful vocabularies, but it’s a refreshing break from her other technicolored works. How ’bout The Westing Game? Anybody read that? Hey Sam. Welcome to the alternate reality of the Muse Blog. ‘Cause it certaintly isn’t reality in the real sense…. Did I just post this twice? Sorry.
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That’s funny, yesterday’s_kinked_moose. I just finished reading The Westing Game last weekend. I enjoyed trying to solve the mystery. Did you read it?
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pushcartwar=good my dad read it to me when i was small bcuz he liked it alot
westing game i- i was supposed to read in 4th grade, was never interested. maybe i should try again?
Theif lord=good but i like her other stuff better.
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If you like solving puzzles, you’ll probably like reading The Westing Game. It’s not a deep, life-changing, mind-altering, hilarious, tragic book or anything like that. But it’s fun for puzzlers.
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I like it, and I solved the song thinger, but it is impossible to solve until the very end because Sandy yelled ‘Ashes’.
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I was all set to like the Theif Lord too, because I love Venice and steam-punk books, but it just kind of died for me. I wasn’t interested at all. It seemed like it was translated too, is English Cornelia Funke’s second language?
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Yep, Cornelia Funke is German and writes in German. The Thief Lord was originally Herr der Diebe.
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Phoenix (242) I didn’t solve the song part of the mystery until the end either. I don’t want to say too much about the clues, etc., in case any Musers want to read the book. But I will say that I didn’t figure out the main mystery on my own. When it was explained in the end it all fit together really nicely, though. I especially liked how Turtle’s penchant for kicking people helped solve the mystery. Do you think she kicked people on purpose to help solve it? Of course, she’s not real — so there’s not really an answer to that question. But I still wonder about it anyhow.
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I solved the song about ten pages before Turtle kicked Barney, but it might have helped that my cousin was parading around the house singing it at the top of her lungs.
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Ha! Parading cousins can really come in handy.
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I have read both The Pushcart War and The Westing Game. I love the Westing Game! I have seen a play version of The Pushcart War. The Pushcart War was my first experiance with pea shooters too.
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HAH AH! I knew it. That would account for the funky writing.
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Everything is illuminated. Book club book. Right.
Well the broken english stuff was cool, but it was a bit confusing right at the beginning. The book was great, really funny, and then the second part was good too but in a really different way. The first bit’s sort of the search, but then they go into all the war stuff. In detail. Lots of detail. Which i dunno…i didn’t really dislike it, but it was different from the first bit. Very…explicit too. I could see my young, innocent mind flying out the window (HA like i ever had one…). But yeah, pretty good altogether. People who saw the movie said it was less confusing than the book, and it had a bit more order to it. And we all agreed (Oh the political incorrectness!) that elijah wood SO does not look jewish.
Next month we’re doing shadow divers. And i’m NOT going to get it the night before! I’m NOT going to procrastinate! I’m going to BE PREPARED!!!
Yeah right.
Ah well, that’s life.
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Ack. In English class (and I almost typed that as “En ingles”. Ack.), we’re reading Great Expectations. Actually, we aren’t reading it in English class. We’re reading it outside of English. And I think that it’s currently my second least-favorite book (the world history textbook I had to study last year for the Credit By Acceleration test thingy was worse). Basically, it goes like this:
Pip: Let me mope around and whine about my life and pine after some b**** and generally make myself unpleasent.
Lawyer dude: yo, you’ve just come into a bunch of money.
Pip: Too bad, I still hate my life. Now I’ll just go commit suicide.
Okay, so maybe I added the part about suicide, but why do all of the characters have to be so unpleasant? And so far (chapter 40) there doesn’t seem to be that much conflict and basically he just sits around and spends money… And it’s all unbelievable and I just don’t like Dickens.
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Hey Dickens is great! Although i haven’t read Great Expectations. I like Turtle. I like kicking people too.
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Come, fellow Musers! Surely you won’t let this good thread die! IT LIVES! I mean, we talk about books and movies everywhere else anyway.
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in itk today, there was a q about puddnhead wilson, so my head was screaming TWAIN! TWAIN! so of course i pressed the buzzer and said kipling. WHYYYYY?!?!?!?!
erm…what have i read…i read uncle fred in the springtime! amazing book. ♥
other than that not much…
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Yea! Somebody’s here! I just finished The Angel’s Command the other day. It was pretty good, although lots o’ people died, as is common Jaquces’ books. I’m reading Inkheart again now. Has anyone heard of the short story ‘the Unicorn in the Garden’ by Idon’tremember? Best short story ever. And shortest too.
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I’m reading an interesting book right now. It is called The Eyre Affair and it is set in a sort of futuristic ’85 (they don’t have computers but they can stop time and travel into books) it is really good. you might like it. it is an adventure book.
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Sure, I’ll try it. Who am I to turn down a good book?
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hey, has anyone seen the movie Evolution? its a science fiction/ comedy… really good…
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Was that the one which had a three-eyed smiley face on the jacket?
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YES!!! yes the weird (but kute) 3eyed alien!!!!
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Oh dear. I belive my last post got eaten by the WordPress errors.
My group used that evolution poster on the title page of a powerpoint for science once.
I love The Westing Game.
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the book or the movie? the movie was AWFUL!!! ((pretend thats underlined)) the book was good though… (im talking about the westing game)
hey the comp games for narnia and goblet of fire (grr movie) r out, but the movies wont be for like three months!!
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say what? those movies are both out already…Unless i somehow traveled back in time…*gasp* *looks around nervously*
lol
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I also really like Th Westing Game!
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I didn’t know there was a Westing Game movie! Is it really so bad? I’m tempted to watch it because I liked the book so much.
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spaking of computer games, i found a pern one on the internet.
doesn’t look too good, though.
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I liked the westing game. we read it in class. But i cheated and read ahead because it was good.
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haha…i remember i did that all the time in third grade…we did a whole load of read-in-class books (aka sleep while the teacher reads out loud) and i’d finish the book in maybe two or three class periods and then sleep the rest of the time and still get As on the tests and things…
i’ve never read the westing game…
i just finished the plot thickens by pg wodehouse (yes i’m on a wodehouse rage now you can’t stop me mwahahaha. Actually you people started it. You have only yourselves to blame. lol)
but tonight i reading pride+prejudice again so i can read that enthusiasm book.
Has anybody seen the new pink panther? Is it any good? I want to go see it…
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let us discuss books that are bloody terrible. not simply aweful because you had to read them for skool, but actually, genuinely terrible.
starting with: The Cry of the Icenmark.
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I saw the pink panther! da dup…da dup…da dup da dup da dup ba dup da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…ba da da da da dup.
YAAAY!
I liked the old ones better. But still.
The white hair really bugged me. errrrgh. DYE YOUR HAIR!!! AAAAHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It probably should’ve been rated PG-13…
But ok…
Yeah some of the jokes were pretty dubious
But it was a funny movie overall.
STILL not as good as the old ones!!!!
FUNNY THOUGH!!!
I would like to buy a hamburger.
eye wood like tuo byebye a damburgrar.
Squee!
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funny movie
hoos read my sisters keeper? soooooosooooossooooo sad…
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Nope never read it, lilbro. Is it like a female version of Cain and Abel or something? Bloodiest book ever. Let’s see… Well, the prize would have to go to (drumroll) The Call of the Wild! So how does it feel to be the worst book ever, CotW? Seriously, it was awful. A horriblel thing to make children read, too. Terribly violent. In the comments portion at the back of the book (it was from the library, thank goodness) I recall writing ‘wretched, dreadful, and hideous’. Second bloodiest goes to The Giver. According to my mother, I shoud read it again when I’m an old granny. Ha! Not bloody likely! I assume I’ll have better things to do when I’m an old granny than read horrific books. I’ll probably be knitting underwear or whatever grannies are supposed to do. Third bloodiest? Is there a prize for that? How ’bout Skipping Christmas? I started reading it when I had a cold one night and I litterally could not get through it becasue of how unpleasant it was to read. It wasn’t a bad story or anything, just very poorly written. The characters were ENTIRELY flat. No description. No characterization. And the conversations were SO unrealistic. It was like they were trying to say the bare minimum of words necessary. People don’t talk like that! It was utterly boring. It did help me fall asleep though. They should use that on those Nyquill comercials. “You’ll sleep like a log! A baby! A-” “Like I would if I was reading Skipping Christmas.” Nyquill. The best sleep you ever got with a cold medicine.
yes peoples, you know what comes now… *snickers evily*
RRRREEAAAADDDDWWATTTEERRSSSSSHHHHIIPPPPDDOOOWWWWWWNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love Watership Down so much. Watership Down is an awesome book by Richard Adams. I have already ranted about how everybody should read it, so now I’m going to review it. Well, sort of.
I love how they tell the El-ahrairah stories and El-ahrairah is so smart and he always knows what to do. And then there are the real bunnies, living in the real world, and they have to overcome all these obstacles, but they’re not as smart as El-ahrairah, so they make mistakes. But they make it through okay with their own clever plans. And in the end everybody thinks Hazel is so great that they make up El-ahrairah stories about him. And I love the very end, it’s so good.
And those bucks are so typically male. Hazel has to impress the rest of them, so he goes and does something rather stupid, even though the psychic bunny tells him not too. And they get all they way to their perfect warren, and then realize that they didn’t bring any girls. I mean DUH. If they had just brought some does with them in the first place they wouldn’t have gotten into all of those messes in the first place. ( But then it would be a really boring book and he Efrafans would have lived unhappily ever after) And after Hyzenthlay tells Hazel & Bigwig that Blackeaver is brainwashed because he’s an Efrafan, they’re like “But you’re an Efrafran too.” And she’s like “But I’m a girl, it’s only the stupid bucks that get brainwashed.” (Well, they don’t say that exactly, hence the word “like”)
There was a sequel Tales from Watership Down which I intend to read, but its mostly fragmented stories. There are several websites which are mostly kind of lame, you can find them with Google. There was an animated movie, which is probably not as good as the book, and therefore not worth seeing.
yes people, i am completely obsessed with this book. fear me.
i read it
its not worth ranting about
Well it depends-did you read it for skool or for fun? Cuz reading for skool can ruin any book.
saw tale of 2 cities. ♥ ♥ so saaad. *sniff* poor carton
love that story though. i’m starting the historian today (if i can get my stupid project finished, notecarded, and practiced before midnight that is…)
back to skool tomorrow *gasp* noooooooooooooooo!!!
emiliana the very bored and depressed etc. i WILL read watership down….someday. but i gots lotsa other books to read, and i’d rather read them than go digging around the basement for another one
One day i will read it and then you can explode into random incoherentness (and if that’s not a word, it should be) from the sheer joy of it.
I’m reading; Trickster’s Choice, by Tamora Pierce. Wonderous piece of literature, really. Although it is fantasy, (lest you aren’t allowed to read it,) Tamora has really managed to give Tortall, Scanra, and the rest of her imaginary countries a real – world atmosphere. She’s created religion and language and climate and art forms for every single country, so they all are unique and really fun to read about. The religion in her books are particularly interesting because people can easily talk to the gods and they don’t have to bow or anything. They just have regular conversations. (I’ll fininsh later)
I’m reading Frank Peretti’s The Oath. It’s sort of got Christian themes in it, and I’m sure they’ll get more prevalent as the story goes on, but it’s really good. It’s weird. It’s kind of this horror/suspence thing.
It’s about this town where people disappear, without any rhyme reason or explanation. The disappearances go uninvestigated, chalked up to rogue bears or something, until an “outsider” is oneday found dead, sheared in half by something. The man’s wife remembers nothing, and his brother doesn’t believe the sherrif’s explanation that it was simply a bear. He goes investigating, with a female deputy named Tracy, but he runs into trouble in the fact that all the towns people clam up when pressed for information about these starnge incidents, as if sworn to secrecy.
All but Levi Cobb, the “town crazy man”. He tells of an ancient superstition about a dragon in the mountain. At first, our heros are sceptical, but over time Steve (that’s the man whose brother got killed and has been investigating) realizes that it’s the only explanation that fits. Tracy, on the other hand, grew up in this town, and seems determined not to believe what Levi told them. This strikes Steve as strange, but it hasn’t been explained at this point in the book.
What Tracy and Steve don’t know is that, days before they disappeared, victims were “marked”. They woke up one day with a slight red rash over thier heart, which got redder, and more pronounced, no matter what they did to it. Eventually, it turned from red to brown, and then to black. The ooze from this black spot gets all over the person and everything they touch. No one will touch these people when they’re in this last stage. Evenutally, they go crazy and wander to “Old Town”, where they inevitably disappear.
It’s a really good book, one of those that’s really hard to put down.
Read a Terry Pratchett book. Any Terry Pratchett book. You will not be disappointed.
I just saw Newsies. It was so good! The singing was great, the acting was awesome, the boys were hot, the choreography was amazing.
I just finished The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown) and Anansi Boys (Neil Gaiman). The first was awful and the second rocked my socks.
Seriously, though. I don’t understand all the fuss about the DaVinci Code. Angels & Demons, at least, was exciting. See, I think the Brown books are good only if you know a bunch about Christian history/symbolism. Being the uneducated heathen that I am, I didn’t find it even remotely interesting, exciting. Heck, I wasn’t even attached to the characters. They were all so perfect, that, although the book is filled with cliche plot twists, I knew it would all come out right in the end. On the upside, it only took about five hours to read, so that’s not too much time wasted.
Anansi Boys was really good, though. I ♥ Neil Gaimain in general, but this one was really good. Not as good as Neverwhere, but better than Stardust, I think. Has anyone else read it on here?
Movies!
Memoirs of a Geisha was better than I was expecting it to be. They simplified the story a bit, which was fine by me, but the accents were crazily annoying. Seriously, they sounded incredibly fake. (Zeee house!) & took away a lot from the movie. Maybe if they’d been speaking Japanese, I’d have liked it more. It seemed really Americanized because of the language, which was really disappointing. However, the actresses playing the main characters were from China, not Japan, and while I don’t see anything wrong with this like some people do, I think that I’d rather they were Japanese just so they could speak their own language. Yeah.
I kind of want to see Narnia, too. I really don’t like the books, but everything I’ve heard has been so positive…
This is getting pretty long, so I’ll submit it now.
I’ll finish my Trcikster’s Choice review.
Now, everyone’s who’s read the Keldary and Alanna books can probably say they were lots of fun to read. So is this one, but instead of becoming a knight, Alainne of Pirates Swoop is very different. As Alanna the Lioness’s only daughter, big things are expected of her. She is expected to follow in hre mother’s footsteps and become a knight, but quite frankly, she doesn’t want to. What she’d love to do is be a spy for Tortall, but George, otherwise known as Baron Cooper of Pirates Swoop, her da, doesn’t want too, because he loves her too much and doesn’t want her in danger. Since she has nothing to do otherwise, Aly spends her time sorting her father’s mail and teaching the local teenage boys how to kiss properly, of which her mother disapproves.
Aly is sick of her mother and her mother is sick of her, so Aly takes a vacation, hoping to get to a different Baron and Baroness’s house. Instead, she gets caught by Slaveholders and sold.
I won’t ruin the rest for for you, but keep in mind that this book is highly suggested by myself. It’s a little racey, although not much more than the previous Tamora Pierce books, so you don’t need to worry. Other such things are kept to a minimum.
-Your loyal book reviewer, Phoebe
OK well I saw King Kong and IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LUV that movie. Peter Jackson ROCKS!
While I was there I saw a preview for the movie “Hoot” which is based on the book by Carl Hiaason. So of course I had to break out the book and read it again.
By the by, is anyone excited about Pirates 2? It’s coming out on July 7…*Happy dance*
I saw King Kong, but half the battle scenes could be cut in half and the second bug scene could be permanently removed.
yes !!!!!!!
people like tamora pierce!!!!!!!!!
are there any books besides
1:both circle of magic series
2:keladry series
3:allana series
4:tricksters queen and tricksters choice
5:the new circle of magic book
ebeth
reading things for school can really ruin them but i didnt
bwahahaha
yay potc2!!! happy days!!! 3’s coming out sometime after that too. at least that’s what i heard. Not that it was a very reliable source. I also heard potc2 was called “treasure of the lost abyss” Lost Abyss??? erm…ok…
weren’t they gonna get keith richards to play sparrow’s dad? that didn’t work did it.
oh well i can gossip about movies for hours but i won’t. a little virtual choklit wouldn’t be a bad return for the sacrifice though
lol jk people.
Well, there’s also the Daine/wildmage series, which is also set in Tortall… I like Pierce’s writing. While I myself liked the Trickster’s books, I thought Aly was a bit Sue-ish, especially in the first book- ooh, she’s in a situation where she needs to be able to search a room without being noticed? good thing her da taught her that when she was 8! Ooh, she needs to be able to tell if someone’s lying? Fortunantly, she has The Sight and can do that! But they’re still pretty good books.
luv tamora pierce.
watership down is probably one of those books like hp and eragon that some people hate and some people like.
it was worth ranting about
SILFLAY HRAKA EVIL WD HATERS
aly was very skilled, but the whole book was not centered around aly, there was more focus on the whole morals of the rebellion they were leading, and instead of aly that was going to have this great destiny it was sairi/dove, and those characters got some emphasis. aly probably wouldn’t have worked in the types of stories pierce used to write.
Lina, the smart-alecky nice person, is reading Eldest from the Inheritance series and is lovin’ it. She is too bored to mention herself as herself, maybe some other time. “That’s way too common” says Lina the fed up. Lina the totally bored with everything is done now.
Lina the person who speaks nonsense loves the TV show Code Lyoko, too. It’s almost all she lives for.
yessssssss… i ammmm bacckkkkk….. mmmyyessssss…. sryyyy iii haveee justtttt readddd theeee Greattttt Treee offf Avalonnnn bookkkk twooo “Shadows on the Stars” andddd itttt wassss awesomeee!!!!!!! myyyyyesssssss… hassss anyoneeee readddd thoseeee booksss? andddd hasss anyoneee guesssseddd whoooo i ammmm? hasssss robertttt orrrr rosanneee toldddd youuuu whoooo iiii ammm? iffff theyyy havveee……..
hey Lina the url is the web address. so if you have a website you put it in there and it makes your name a link to it
Ebeth ♥ how Lina talks in third person!
a url is a website-thingy. don’t fill it out.
Terry Pratchett!
I’m going to Barnes and Nobles, and then to Borders. I have about $75 dollars in gift certificates, and I’m going to get as many TP book as I can. Mostly Watch and Death books, but I also want Unseen University books, although I don’t like Rincewind so much.
SNTD lets try kricket. are you kricket?
I liked Memoirs as well Zallie! I was only about a third through the book, so I can’t judge the adaptation too well. Some accents were weird, but I ADORED Li Gong as Hatsumomo. She had it down great, though I always though she’d have her hair up more.
Eh. I still need to finish the book though. But I just started the Joy Luck Club and the new Warriors book (stop laughing everyone) so, yeah.
See Narnia, because I love William even more than Dan. ♥
Well, I guess you all know what I like, since you’re all united with me in fandom, except for HP. I’m rereading the Belgariad, and there’s a lot of stuff I didn’t pick up on the first time. Like Relg, the zealot? His name is part of the word religion. I had a dream I was in the Belgariad last night. I went in and basically argued with Polgara and told Garion about himself, and then I was captured by Ctuchik and was confronting him when Kokopelli leaped out from behind a bush, threw a pie in his face and destroyed him. It was froody.
But besides that, I also like Frans de Waal, Kurlansky and basically everyone else.
why would people not like eragon and eldest?
shhhhhh if you like inheiritance you must do it in secret because certain people are of the opinon that:
1. paolini plagerized most of his material from the belgalariad, lotr & star warz
2. paolini has a horrible style and cannot write fantasy or anything else.
its not wise to start wars with the other musebloggers.
heh. i like the ending.
hey axa? *holds up shield* erm…william who? *runs away very very quickly before axa can destroy her*
I just bought 11 Terry Pratchett books.
William Moseley? WILLIAM MOSELEY?
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Peter Pevensie. Yes, I have a disturbed affinity for British actors, I’m dealing with it fine, thank you very much.
Oh peter. yeah i suppose he’s kinda hott. Dan is not though.
we were gonna see king kong today but we can’t. I mean we could see it at different times but that’s no fun watching it by yourself. Well watching a movie is fun by yourself. But then it’s more fun if there’s somebody to talk to afterwards who just saw it like you did.
And Paolini’s dialogue, plot, etc is horrible, despite being plagerized, and has basically no redeming virtue like being fun to read, pulling the reader along, etc. And it doesn’t even have good fan stuff like Harry Potter.
We just watched Newsies. *sigh* New York ain’t what it used to be.
“Your Honor, I object.”
“On what grounds?”
“On the grounds of Brooklyn.”
My favorite character was Racetrack.
i like the count of monte christo. anyone seen it?
i’ve read the book…
we actually have a tape of that somewhere i think. Haven’t seen it though.
yeah i saw it it was pretty good and just cuz paolini stole stuff doesnt mean it isnt good
hmm… i like uh… okay im thinking… Artemis Fowl!
Ooooooooh there’s this AWESOME anime based off it called “Gankutsuou” but that’s not terribly related.
I love Watership Down. I like Alanna but only in the Lioness series. She has no taste in men, however. She was interested in LIAM? And JONATHAN? Talk about jerks! And sexists! In the Kel books he puts Kel on probation, even though he said, and I quote, in the first Alanna book: “…Girl, boy, or dancing bear, your the best page, the best squire-to-be…” Well, then Alanna should have left him to the demons with the dancing bear! And Liam dosn’t want her to use her magic because it makes her more powerful than him! However, George rocks. Aly too. But Aly also has no taste in men. She marries a crow, for heavens sakes, and for one book he is stupid and for the next he is… well… here is another quote from when he comes back from battle after she hasn’t seen him for a year: “…I am not a crow now. I am a man…” perfect description. He acts like a macho jerk after that. I liked him better as a bird. In fact, none of her charecters have any taste in men. I hated Cleon and Numair as well.
Anyway, I love… THE BELGARIAD!
And also ‘Year of Impossible Goodbyes’, about the Korean War. I just saw a movie called ‘Heaven Can Wait’ about this guy who dies.. and finds out it is a mistake. So they stick him back in the body of a multimillionaire who was murdered by his wife and secretary. It is a hilarious movie. I can quote:
Guy (talks to his angel in broom closet): You put me in THIS body? No, I don’t want a new body, I will get THIS body in shape! No, I SAID I don’t wan t anw body…
Wife (listening outside) to seretary: If we weren’t going to kill him, he would need YEARS of phsyciatric help.
I liked the Tamora Pierce books a lot more when I was younger, I think. They’re still on my shelf of favourite books, but they’re there more out of nostalgia than anything else. Alanna is still my favourite. Kel’s too good at controlling her emotions, Daine just isn’t as cool and Aly never makes mistakes.
The Circle books are better anyhow.
This is more about TV series than movies, but does anyone here watch FIREFLY?
thats life, phoenix.
I can’t believe Racetrack was supposed to be 18. The guy who played him was 23! He looked 15 at most!
whats wrong with numiair?
ME! ME! ME! I’m a Firefly fanatic!
Daine and the Circle of Magic bo oks are my favourites. Aly is always right, which is a little annoying, I’l admit…
Oh, oh, oh! I still have to check and figure out it Book 2 in Cirlce Reforged is out yet. My bet is it’s Tris’s again. Than Daja, than Briar. Just like the originals… nostalgia attack…
I always wanted to read those Tamora Pierc books, but I have no idea where to start…
“just cuz paolini stole stuff doesnt mean it isnt good ”
Hon, that’s called plagerism. Plagerism is when an author takes the works of another person and pretends they’re his own. It is unethical and leads to lawsuits or in school failing grades and referels and all that stuff. It may be the best book in the world, but it’s still unethical. However, that’s not the problem here. Or rather, it is A problem but not THE problem. Another problem is that Paolini’s writing is simply bad, and you can tell it was written by a high-schooler. I have nothing against high schoolers writing books, but if they’re published, you would expect them to be decent, and have a good, original plot, and good characters, and not have ten thousand extra extraneous details that don’t add anything to the book. Of course, Paolini’s book was first published by a vanity press owned by his parents, who spent the next few years marketing it, but still, you would expect…
Axa- I would suggest starting with the either the Tortall books, with the first Alanna book (Can’t remember what it’s called). Then read the rest of the Alannas, the Daine series, the Kel series, and the Aly series. Or, you could start with the first Circle of Magic book, Sandry’s book, and then go on from there..
I didn’t like the last 2 or three of the “the circle opens” books. They got unnecessarily gory, I thought.. And I also didn’t like Alanna. She got too touchy and tempers-flaring-all-over-the-place..
By the way, has anyone here ever seen any of the Beatles movies? You should, if you haven’t.
Axa – If I were you, I’d start with Alanna: The First Adventure and Sandry’s Book. They’re the first books in their series, but in two different worlds. Once you’ve read both, decide which you like best & go from there.
And, Phoebe, I thought that the Circle Reforged was a stand-alone book.
I saw Heaven Can Wait a couple years ago. “Do I play polo?” “Uh. no sir.” Hehe! I’m reading Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques. It’s part of the Redwall series. Very good so far. I got another book by him for Christmas called The Angel’s Command. Has anybody read that? I haven’t read it yet.
I admit it: I haven’t been reading anything for a really long time. Ever since I really started hanging on the internet. Now, I am reading that Frank Peretti book, I got “A Tale of Two Cities” at the library, I borrowed a few books on Chaucer and Shakespeare from my grandparents, and I’m intending to read “Watership Down” just as soon as I get a chance. I’ve seen the movie, and I liked it. I also want to read LotR, and a few other books.
I thought you couldn’t read fantasy?
cheesintator, i told you not to start wars with the other musebloggers.
I’m not restricted on all fantasy, just the really magicky stuff where magic is almost a character itself. My parents don’t have a problem with me reading about other worlds, supernatural thrillers (as long as they have a Christian base), and a little bit of magic like what’s in LotR. Actually, they don’t really define where the line is, they kind of trust my judgement. I mean, they’ve told me a few books that they don’t want me to read, and I sort of use that as a guideline, but they haven’t exactly laid out criteria about what they allow and what they don’t.
Any book that spells magic with a k is dead to me.
for the last time… I AM NOT KRICKET, EBETH, OR EM!!!!!! sheesh… people… well… they’re musers, what can we expect…. *musersrushsleepynighttimedragon* kidding kidding!!!! ack!! don’t kill me!!!!! i have many different personalities and i love to copy people’s personalities so i can confuse you… i mean one day i’ll be a boy the next i’ll be a girl… and then i’ll be some of you musers, just to stir things up a bit!!!! it’s soooo fun…. yippee!!! someone should do this with me….
My parents haven’t said anything, so i read anything. Oh except when i was like 11 and dad recommended the great gatsby and mom was like “no don’t read that wait until ur older” But other than that i read whatever.
tale of 2 cities ♥ ♥ ♥ only one of the best books of all time.
love that one.
I’ve read the angel’s command. It was ok. I gave it to my brother though. I’m not big on brian jacques.
g2 start the historian (still haven’t started it! g2 read it by friday! aaah!!!!!!)
who said you were me?
*gasp* Is sleepynighttimedragon me?!?!! I don’t remember making those posts, but ever since I saw “A Beautiful Mind” I’ve been suspicious of anyone that I do not have absolute proof of identity on. I guess this is final proof that I’m completely insane (not that you needed any).
Brian Jacques has what I believe is called “purple prose” in the fanfiction community-that is, he describes every last thing.
Alomost done with “Dawn” yesss….
I also love samurai films. I don’t know why. They’re often super gritty movies, and the plots are hard to understand, and the motives are worse. But I love them. I also like rock movies and I hate romantic comedy.
Whatever.
Want you to know just how I feel…
*gasps* there are more Circle books?!? I LOVED them! Sandry stinks, though. Tris is awesome, Daja is cool and, I admit it, a bit of a base for Steel, and Briar is neat as long as it’s in his point of view. Shatterglass was my favorite, especialy the part where Tris is struck by lightning, and Cold Fire.
I like romantic comedies, occassionally. I’m not that into romance, but they’re normally funny and not that bad for a rainy afternoon when one of brothers is on the computer. They may be contrived, overly emotional, and a bit predictable, but if they’re done well they can be enjoyable.
Do any of y’all like that movie “Remember The Titans”? I like it, a lot, but after the 200,000,000,000,000 time of watching it, it gets a little old.
Funny that you should mention “Remember the Titans,” because as it happens, I do. The events on which that movie was (loosely) based took place at my high school, T. C. Williams, when I was a sophomore. None of my close friends played football, but some had Coach Boone for gym or driver’s ed.
I love romantic stuff! Not love and all that rot, but true romantiscism, like the Three Musketeers and Ben Hur and anything that sort of gives you that dramatic edge-of-the-seat lump in throat feeling.. I love that, it’s glorious!
I like romantic fantasy.
Has anyopne here read “Peter and the Starcatchers”? I read it a long time ago, and hardly remember it, but I just bought it, so nyah, I’m gonna read it again.
That’s interesting, Robert. What state did it happen in, I forget?
Oh, yeah, romanticism. I know what you mean, but I find it a bit….cloying. I prefer books like “Anne of Green Gables”. Don’t get me wrong, I like romanitcism, but I’m more into realistic plot lines.
MG,
It happened in Alexandria, Virginia. The movie makes Alexandria look like a small town (it was filmed in DeKalb County, Georgia), but Alexandria is actually just across the river from Washington, D.C. It was the location of Washington National Airport (since renamed Reagan National Airport) and the home of several diplomats and politicians, including then-Vice-President Gerald Ford, whose son Steve was one of my classmates at T.C.
The filmmakers changed a lot of other things, too; very few of the details portrayed are 100% accurate. All of the characters really existed, though, and many people have found the movie inspiring, so I won’t quibble. (Still, they could have shown me walking into the chemistry lab or something…)
I am outraged that horrible filmmakers ignored something that was surely way more important than any dumb football team by not putting you in the movie and mentioning that you grew up to write a Q&A column for the greatest magazine ever and running an awesome fan page for it. Horrifying.
sweetness.
wheee the GAPA’s super-double famous now! we’ll edit you in there GAPA.
we’ll show you taking a picture on your cell phone. As a sophomore. (yes yes just pretend you were a sophomore when you did that!)
good romantic comedies rock but there are sooo many that are just really stupid.
i’ve read peter and the starcatchers. It’s pretty good. Don’t read it as a real prequel of peter pan though, cuz it’s really its own book, with a totally different story and character and all.
Welp (yes that is total plagarism of my friend’s word)…i’m gonna start the historian tonight…
Jane Austen, anyone? Even my smarmy BROTHER read it. That’s says something.
Jane Austen is very good. I actually am not that into the romance in her novels (it’s fine, I just don’t like it that much), I really read them for the humor. She is so funny!!!!!!!!!!!
Your life has no meaning if you haven’t read Terry Pratchett books.
I love Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. And I ♥ the BBC miniseries of the book too. I just watched it over my Christmas vacation for the bazillionth time. It’s so funny. And the language is so beautiful. And Colin Firth is so handsome!
Jane Austen yay! I ♥ pride+prejudice and emma.
And mr. darcy
Oh dear, i guess my life has no meaning.
I have a friend in speech who thinks we ought to do a duo interpretation (that’s a category in competitive speaking where two people act out something from literature, be it a whole book or just a scene from it. It does have to be under ten minutes, though, and the closer you are to the time limit the better chance you have of winning.) with Pride and Prejudice. I might do it this year, even if she doesn’t want to do it with me. The reason she wants me to do it with her is we both love that book, and one time I used it in a speech. Anyway, random speech geek thing.
MGurl — Is it supposed to be a conversation between two people from literature? How about the scene when Lady Catherine De Bourgh comes out to the Bennet’s to confront Elizabeth over her rumoured engagement to Mr. Darcy?? That’s a really funny scene (I think).
It’s basically just anything you can act out, but it’s supposed to be from a book. I’ve seen children’s books acted out, Shakespeare, entire novels cut down to ten minutes, and a lot of other stuff. I do a scene from Anne of Green Gables where Anne blows up at Mrs. Lynde, and apologizes later. I have three characters, and I have to have a different voice and posture for all of them. In duo, it’s two people, and they each have assigned roles. That could be a good peice to do, if it’s long enough. It’s really hard to find scenes that are ten minutes long. Anyway, I’ll look into it, and decide if it would be good to do that in competition this year.
ooh that’s a good scene.
but you know the scene i really love? The one where Mr. Bennet is reading the letter from Mr. Collins to Elizabeth and laughing like “haha he says ur gonna marry darcy! What an idea!” and Elizabeth’s sorta sitting there like “um…yeah. ha. whatever you say…oh god what am i gonna tell him…”
I ♥ Mr. Bennet…
Started the historian. it’s really good so far. Dad says everybody says the first bit’s the best and then it falls off. I wouldn’t know. I’m gonna go find out shortly though…
That’s a great one too, Ebeth! So funny. I ♥ Mr. Bennet too.
Hmm, MGurl, that scene with Lady Catherine and Elizabeth might not be long enough if you start with their one-on-one conversation. But it might be long enough if you start earlier — like when Lady Catherine first shows up at the house and interacts the family. I don’t have a good sense of how long it takes to speak the scenes. An interesting problem!
I’m going to reread that book after the speech and debate conference to see what jumps out at me. It could be really fun to do a scene from there.
Mr. Bennet wins at LIFE. Yes he does.
Mr. Bennet is stuck with Mrs. Bennet, though. She is SO annoying! Poor Mr. Bennet. I wonder why he married her.
hmm…good question.
Maybe $?
People often do completely unacountable things in novels. I think a lot of people would say that probably Mrs. Bennet was very pretty when she was young, and for once Mr. Bennet lost his head and didn’t weigh the options carefully.
well, it says that she used to be pretty..
I like the Warriors series by Erin Hunter, especially the new ones. They are so AWESOME!( I like cats a lot!)
My favorite is A Dangerous Path, Darkest Hour, Moonrise, and I think Forest of Secrets is sad!
peoples you should read encyclopedia brittanic- *is buried under piees* MOOOOORRPPHHT!
Oh, that’s right. Mrs. Bennet was pretty. I forgot about that. She must’ve been REALLY pretty to get Mr. Bennet to overlook her annoying personality.
has anyone read the left hand of darkness by ursula k le guin?
Maybe their parents made, or convinced them marry. Or Mrs. Bennet only got annoying once they were married. Which could be why Mr.Bennet is so sympathetic to Elizabeth over the whole Mr.Collins fiasco. My favorite part is Georgina totally insulting Mr. Darcy.
I ♥ Colin Firth! He was Jack in a The Importance Of Being Earnest movie, with Judi Dench (Aunt Augusta), Reese Witherspoon (Cecily), Rupert Everest (Algernon) (Be still my heart!), and Frances O’Connor (Gwendolen). It’s an AWESOME movie. I love Judi Dench. Go get it from the library. Or rent it, your choice.
Mr. Bennet keeps telling his daughters not to marry for looks. He obviously married Mrs. Bennet for this stupid reason.
my favourite mouvie iz findig nemo
When does Georgina insult Mr. Darcy? I don’t remember that part. Must read it again!
What’s the historian? I listened to a book on tape of Peter and the Star Catchers recently. It was pretty good, and the guy did great voices. Except that one guy at the beginning who boxed peoples ears sounded like a woman.
Emiliana (#91),
I’ve read The Left Hand of Darkness–even taught a college class on it, once. But I know I don’t count.
The historian is an extremely long book of which i have 460-some pages left to read by TOMORROW AT LUNCH!!! AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah it’s about a historian (or rather group of historians) that research dracula. Horror type book. Pretty good so far. But it’s sooooooooo……freakin…….looog and really hard to get (which is how i got into this situation in the first place-i was waiting for it) yup late night tonight.
no, you count!
i liked it alot. (my dad recomended it too me. all of the best books ive read were redommended by my dad. (he also recommended watership down and the hitchhikers guide) but don’t tell him that)
but i cant say what i liked about it, which was strange. my mom says hi. i mean, when i think about it, not much exciting stuff happened. well no, he did get kiddnapped and stuff. but my favourite part was the part on the mountain.
what did you teach the collage course about?
My dad had a huge science-fiction and fantasy collection. I read my way through it starting at age 10. Reading LOTR pretty much spoiled the Narnia books and Madeleine L’Engle for me.
I taught The Left Hand of Darkness when I was a teaching assistant for a required course for incoming freshmen at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (I was there studying journalism. Rosanne was a classmate of mine; we’ve been friends ever since.)
I also led discussions of books by Jane Goodall and Stephen Jay Gould, but Ursula Le Guin’s was the one the students enjoyed most. In one class, they discussed how they would adapt it into a movie. (They decided to start the movie in the middle, with Ai a prisoner of the Commensality, and then flash back to how he got there.) In another class, we discussed times we had been unable to figure out whether someone was a man or a woman, and why they made us uncomfortable. (For those who haven’t read it, the book is about an Earth man who visits a planet where the people are neither male nor female most of the time. For a couple of days a month, the Gethenians become either men or women without being able to control which. The difference has far-reaching effects on their culture. The Earth man is polite to them but privately considers them freaks; meanwhile, they think he is a freak, because on Gethen only animals stay the same sex all the time.)
There isn’t much action in the book, but there are vivid descriptions and a lot of ideas. Ursula Le Guin likes to give you plenty to think about. She also writes fantasy. Has anyone read her Earthsea books? Excellent dragons!
Who’s read Tithe by Holly Black? Goodbookgoodbookgoodbook. Most people know her from the Spiderwick Chronicles (which I haven’t read), but Tithe and its companin, Valiant are both vedy vedy good. *read waves*
I’ve never read Ursula K. Le Guin, even though I keep meaning to. I’ll find time. Eventually…
I FINALLY got the Belgariad out from the library! *happy dance*
I tried Earthsea, but that junky SciFi chanel Earthsea thing really put me off of it.
I haven’t read any Holly Black, but her writing website is insanely helpful. Worldbuilding, especially.
Yes, the TV mini-series was pretty bad.
Holly Black’s site looks both Muselike and blogworthy, so I’ve added a link. Fifty pink-bunny points to Ravenclaw!
How about C. J. Cherryh? I prefer her science-fiction to her fantasy, but a lot of it is out of print just now.
I hated the earthsea books, period. I LOVED Ender’s Game, but it was really sad. The Birchbark House is good, too. And The Black Stallion.
Woo! Yay bunny points!
I liked Ender’s Game…until the end. It was a really good idea, but the ending kind of ruined it to me. I don’t like Orson Scott Card’s work in general, actually, except for Enchantment which is one of my favourite books ever.
I don’t know anything about CJ Cherryh, sadly. Is it like Lois McMaster Bujold?
Heh, I think I read the Birchbark House when I was really litte. Does everyone end up dead at the end in it?
I just read The Future is Wild, which for those unfortunate fokes who don’t have A). Libraries that get (or got) Muse (for which they have become marginally unpopular) B). A subscription for more than 2 years C). A clue what I’m talking about because they’re to lazy to dig through their huge pile of Muse stuff…
Anyways, I have to go now, so if I feel like it, I’ll describe the book… and if anyone wants me too…
Speaking of bunny points sarah’s wearing a totally flamablamablous shirt with hot pink bunnies on it!!! Even if she’s not a muser, it’s still pretty cool.
I finished the historian at 6:45 this morning. Was done w/Part 1 two days ago, so yesterday at around 10:30, 11:00 (i had loads of hw) I started reading, read until 12:30, 1:00, somewhere around there and slept a bit and then woke up at around 3:30 and read straight until 6:30, when i finished it and then looked at the clock and realized i had to rush to skool. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz tired now. BUT I MADE IT!!!!!!! YESSS!!!!! All 400+pgs. done last night. victory is sweet…
Oh AND it was pretty funny cuz right when i finished and realized i was horribly late getting up *ahem* i went downstairs where it was absolutely pitch black darkness. Wasn’t scared. Got into kitchen, turned on light. Then i heard footsteps-what you think i was scared then? No. I happened to know for a fact that there were no vampires creeping around my house. So I looked down the hall-which was still dark-to see if it was mom or james (knowing it was one of the two but not knowing which) and couldn’t see a thing, by then my eyes were adjusted to the light. So I could only see about a foot in front of me but i couldn’t tell because EVERYTHING was dark and then suddenly my brother’s face pops up RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME and i stepped back really fast and shuddered like this *shudder* And james looked at me funny and i was just like “heh….hi…” cuz of course i wasn’t officially up reading all night *coughcough* Anyway, I thought that was pretty funny. Wow it’s long too…but it needed dramatic effect.
Just know that this happened (the whole face thing) in about two minutes.
ooh we get to choose new books for next semester today too! what will i suggest…hoom…*musesmusesmuses*
Anyhoo ramblings done now. Until i finish barchester towers.
oh, yea, i forgot to wish you and libro good-luck-on-reading-stuff-at-the-last-minute.
collage courses sound more fun than middle skool courses.
where did she get that shirt? hot pink bunniez pwn!
i think i will go read something else that nobody’s read, so i can have another “i read a book nobody’s heard of” moment.
What was so bad about Earthsea, Phoenix? I’ve never read it, but I was planning to until now. I think I may have seen a movie no one’s ever heard of. At least, it seems like the type of movie that nobody would hear of, but on the museblog I’m not so sure. It’s called Kung Pow! (no i’m not hyper, the title has a ! at the end.) and it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. It’s basically a parody of every kung fu movie ever made. All of the footage is from some old flick from Hong Kong except this new guy which they added in place af a former character. So then they just added a new voice-over and: Ta Da! Insanely funny movie. Or maybe it’s just insane. It sort of reminds me of Monty Python.
It may be a mistake to mention this [GAPA, if you may delete the post if you wish], but I recently saw the movie “Brokeback Mountian”. It was very sad. Hate, for yourself, for others, will destroy you, body and soul. Hate crime is never justifiable.
now i remember why i brought up the left hand of darkness. i think pwt is a gethenain! thats one to add to the list of pwt theories.
i should read that book again.
even though it was on a planet where there was no gender, there still managed to be more girls in it than the hobbit. there are absolutely no girls in the hobbit, even mentioned in passing. i forgive tolkien though, because of eowyn.
what is brokeback mountain rated?
It was rated R, and I don’t recommend it for anyone under 14. Unless you’re a mature 13 like myself. xD
It was one of the most emotional, well thought out, real movies I have ever seen. It changed my ways of thinking in many ways.
I really want to see Brokeback Mountain, but that’s not going to happen. Silly ratings.
Just so you understand, Brokeback Mountain is rated R for a reason. I’m not going to go into what I think about the actual theme of the movie, since that’s something no one wants to hear, but everyone should understand that the movie contains graphic sexual content, and some really bad language. Just so you understand. Disregarding the theme, I don’t feel I personally would ever be “mature” enough to watch that content. Maybe y’all are different than me, but I want to make sure you all understand.
:nods: Yes. The rating is definately earned. Perhaps once it comes out on DVD, you could skip those parts. :nods:
I respect that you aren’t saying anything MG, I really do -hugs- It’s a lot better than what I seen with other people on the internet…
I don’t know much about Brokeback Mountain, and don’t think I want to. But sometimes, whether or not you are ‘mature’ enough to appreciate, or at least tolerate, certain scenes in a movie, is not a matter of maturity at all, it’s a matter of why the scene was in the movie. I think that there is way to much sex in movies. If it is really that important to put it in the movie, they can imply it easily enough. They don’t have to show it. And sometimes the sex isn’t even necessary, it’s just stuck in bcause they want to get a worse rating or appeal to all the twisted people out therek or crack jokes about it. For example, in Forrest Gump, the, erm… relationship between Forrest and Jenny was fairly important to the story, but they could have implied that it happened, especially since Jenny has a kid later. Okay, I think maybe we should talk about something else. These is getting kind of edgy.
That’s true, but I do feel what was in the movie was necessary to build understanding and connections, and such.
I’ll stop talking about it, but the message I went out of the movie theater is to never judge someone one things like sexuality, or race and religion, for that matter. Brokeback Mountain was not a movie that you come out of laughing.
Actually, I think the mature content in Brokeback Mountain is very necessary. If it were implied, the main idea/message of the story would be different and probably seemed ‘toned down’ so as to appeal to a younger audience or not to offend people. Also, the movie was based off a short story, wasn’t it? Making relationships less intense would sort of undermine the idea of the story, IMHO.
&, MG, I do know why it’s R.
lets talk about daja!
I only got two books for Christmas! Of course, I finished them in a week. time to go spend those B&N giftcards.
I read:
The Third Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Telling Pool
I like Daja; I think she’s an appealing character. She and Briar work together nicely.
Daja’s kind of cool. I was really proud of Tamora Pierce for making her a lesbian- read “The Will Of The Empress”, it’s definitely PG, but we know her relationships. My favorite out of the four is Tris. I don’t know why. There’s a guy in one of the books who grabs her by her hair (she keeps lightning and wind in the braids-weather mage) and she electrocutes him. That’s probably my favorite part.
I haven’t seen Brokeback Mountain yet. (Oh! Bad initials.) I’m not even going to. I have a project on Japanese movies to do. Any suggestions? Besides Hayao Miyasaki, I was going to do Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, Onibaba, etc. I love samurai movies! They’re great!
tris is cooler. in a coupla years gayness/lesbianness will be perfectly normal, its very unrealistic for anyone to think that they can stop people from doing that, and besides, why would you want a constitutional amendment saying that? there are so many more important problems.
and about sex in books and movies, its okay when it happens once or is implied, but when its more than that the whole thing becomes about sex. the same goes for language and violence. they’re things that writers use to dramaticize things, and you can’t really get the same effect with weaker content. really good writers can still write emotional and dramatic movies/books without them, but after a while it just becomes all lame and unrealistic. i mean, wars are bloody, its unrealistic to say that you can have a war without violence, and true love doesn’t happen very often. and people swear. its a fact of life.
Miyazaki rocks, but I highly reccommend the movie “Nobody Knows” Movie rentals stores have it, or even Best Buy or something. Te Japanese title is “Dare Mo Shinai” I think. It’s based on a true story.
I love samurai movies! My Japanese ancestors were mostly farmers/merchants, but I think there was a samurai or two way far back ( or so my mother claims).
Daja is lesbian? I don’t remember that… but I do remember vaguely when Tris electrocutes someone with her hair.
I think that if someone is attracted to thier own gender, it’s thier right and no one should be able to say no.
it happens in the last one. sorry for the spoiler. i agree with you though.
i agree too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
go newsies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
newsies is the best movie and play ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*ahem* Could all discussion of gay/lesbianism be moved to the Hot Topics thread? Thank you.
Just because something is realistic doesn’t mean it has to be shown in explicit detail. People use the bathroom, but they don’t show that in movies. Plus, I’ve never met anyone who swore like people in some movies. And sex might happen, but it’s very private, and isn’t something that should be dumped all over a screen. If someone is going for realism, maybe the first thing movie makers should do is get rid of those over contrived idiotic plots. Anyway, I just think a lot of that stuff could be toned down, without losing impact. Shock isn’t the only way to make an impression.
well, it should be toned down. many good books/movies are ruined by it. i was just saying that many writers use it once or twice to make a scene more dramatic and emtional. plus, the bathroom has no emotional or dramatic impact.
there is also singing newsies songs non stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know, bathroom scenes can be very…er…emotional. Yes. That.
I’m with you about cutting down on sex-for-the-sake-of-sex in movies or books, but I don’t think that in Brokeback Mountain, just judging from what I’ve heard, that was a problem. The movie’s about relationships, so there will probably be some sex, but I don’t believe the directors were all ‘OMG, lets makes this movie have lots of sex, cause we don’t have anything else to put in and want to take up time, yay!’
Going to be a stupid newbie here again, but why is homosexuality a Hot Topic?
Bad language makes no impact on me, unless it is to withdraw and not get involved in these characters. It makes me feel like I’m wasting my time when a movie has bad language, and it doesn’t make it any more emotional or dramatic. Graphic sex doesn’t make me think about the message or get what they’re trying to say. To me, both of these are completely unecessary. I can’t think of a single time bad language or sex made a scene or message more pronounced. Violence does make a statement, but I don’t have a problem with violence. I mean, I understand that some people can’t handle it, but it doesn’t bother me that much and I understand why people use it. It does make an impact. But language and sex don’t, and I find those completely unecessary.
Yeah, but that drives those around you *coughmecough* ABSLUTELY ZARKING INSANE.
about the Newsies thing, I mean.
I suppose we’ll have to agree to disagree, then, because it’s just a matter of opinion we’re
arguingdiscussing here. I think that all three of the things you mentioned (violence, sex and language) can add to a movie if they’re used correctly.What I do find uneccessary is cutting out those things to make a movie more wholesome or family friendly. If a movie has parts that need to be cut out to make it suitable for people of all ages, it’s obviously not made to be family friendly.
Oh, and it’s easy to display passionate romance without graphic sex. To me, showing sex cheapens the relationship the movie is portraying. It’s like, taking all the mystery out of the love, putting it all in front of us. Movies can be carried by good acting that depicts strong emotion, or a story line that makes it clear two people are in love. Sex doesn’t have to be shown for us to know two people are in love, we can see from the interaction. It’s not really necessary. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie where showing sexual content made me feel like these people were any more in love than I would have thought they were without the sex.
Oh, fine if you want to stop talking about it. But not all movies need bad language or sex to make a point. Think about Remember the Titans, when the script was first pitched, the writer was told “take out all the curse words.” The original script was awash with n words, f words, and s words. Yet without them, the movie still remained very powerfull, and without them it was fit for family veiwing. So a lot of times that stuff’s just thrown in there, and without it the movie’s powerful and family friendly. Adult content doesn’t always mean adult themes.
Again, if it’s sex-for-the-sake-of-sex, I’m with you, but in some cases, I think, stronger emotions can be conveyed through sex than, say, dialoge. Actions speak louder than words, huh? It all depends on the situation and how it’s handled.
I don’t think Remember the Titans is powerful or moving at all, with or without cursing.
I’ve got an example, too: Billy Elliot. Billy Elliot doesn’t have a lot of adult themes, really, but most people consider the language really foul. There’s a lot of cursing and some rude jokes, but aside from that it’s not that bad. Now, if the cursing were cut out so that it were family friendly, that would be extremely anoying and almost ruin the movie, to my mind. The language adds a lot to the film, in that the characters are so much more real when they’re talking like they would if they were, in fact, actual people. With the language, it’s powerful, without it, it wouldn’t be, although it would be more suitable for ickle kiddies.
hey, does anyone know any really good Newbary Award books,that i can suggest to kitten? She emailed me and was wondering if i had any ideas… is Eragon a Newbary Award book?
Eh, I think there’s too much violence, sex, and language in movies today.. And seriously, some Disney films shouldn’t be rated G- I mean, look at the costumes in The Little Mermaid!!! And they’re also violent…
Eh, the only movies I watch are Muppet Shows, Marx Brothers, and Beatles.. I get scared or something when there’s violence, or suspense, or serious emotional turmoil in movies (although I think I’m getting better about the last one)… In school when they watch movies I get alternate assignments/ they send me out into the hall or to the library to read or something…
And really, I don’t understand why people are trying to discriminate against homosexuals, and stuff… I get that some religous groups think it’s an “immoral lifestyle choice” or something, but really, marrage is a legal thing, not a religious one, since you get tax benefits, legal benefits, etc, so the government shouldn’t be discriminating against groups of people because some religous groups have an issue with it.. Frankly, it’s none of the government’s business who you want to sleep with… As the Rev. Al Sharpton said, roughly, “The government needs to get out of the bedroom and into the kitchens.” And also, I would think those religous groups would be happy to let homosexuals get married, since they have problems with having sex before marrage.. and to let them adopt, since the same religious groups are like “no, go ahead and have the baby and then put it up for adoption and add to the many unwanted kids spiraling through the system… and, oh, by the way, we’re trying to cut out a major group of people who want to adopt and not let them adopt any more..”
And Zallie, the above is why homosexuality is a “Hot Topic”, since the thread was started so to not drag into our little debates people who would prefer not to get involved.. Of course, I take the option to argue any time it’s offered, so it’s kind of futile, but still..
I don’t think Eragon is, and anyway it isn’t a “really good” book…
It most certainly is not a Newberry book, and it is plagerized from several classics, not the least of which is the Belgariad, and the writing stinks.
No, Eragon isn’t a Newberry. I didn’t like it all that much. Paolini refused to take anything but the easiest way out. Don’t read A Single Shard, it was horrible.
Sex, drugs, language and violence in movies I have no problem with. Wake up, froods, it’s the real world! *gasp* They happen in real life, they happen in movies. If you hate those parts, get the DVD and fast forward. It isn’t hard. I’m going to be very callous about this because people shouldn’t be so sensitive.
Religious is spelled with two ‘i’s, people. Not Religous.
Why don’t we just stop talking about this. I could say things, but I’m sure people don’t want to hear us argue. Let’s just talk about books and stuffins like that.
“The Witch of Blackbird Pond” was a Newberry winner, I think. Anyway, it was really good. It dealt with this girl who came to America from, somewhere, and befriended a sort of hermit like woman. Later, the woman was accused of being a witch, and then they accused the heroine. It was a great, historical fiction, portrayal of witch trials. Excellent.
bad language is cullture.
*shrug* Okay, whatever floats your boat.
I think I’m going to read Dune next, as I don’t think I’ll be able to get to a bookstore for a week or so. I started it a while ago, but never got much past them getting off-world.
2004’s Newberry ( Tales of Depraux or something) was the single most horrible, undeserving,painfully average, mediocre sorty I have ever had the displeasure to read. I t hurt me to read it.
me thinks you think too much. if you didn’t think about it, you would be able to enjoy it more. same goes for your life.
Yes, thinking has ruined many good books, movies, and friendships for me. When I started thinking, suddenly everything I thought was fine, turned out to be completely below my level. Don’t ever start thinking, Musers, because once you start, it’s almost impossible to stop, and it’ll ruin more good, stupid fun than anything you can imagine.
*gasp* Dune is awesome! If you don’t know what it’s about, it portrays a space-age world in which the dominent religion is Islam. Awesome literature. I didn’t like two things, however:
1) the main charecter stinks and is a jerk
2) the homicidal elite bad guys are Jews
other than that, it was AMAZING! But a lot of the cryptic sounding words are in Hebrew, so I understood it hehe
ok i’m gonna say one thing on the earlier discussion since poor ebeth wasn’t here then
and that’s all. I just want to say that i have never seen a movie with more swearing than i have in real life, and i’ve seen movies with a LOT of swearing. High skool is the ultimate R-rated movie people. But like queen j said, it’s life and we have to deal with it.
Oh yes and lizzie i got out of skool like that when we watched the twilight zone in 6th grade. *shudder* that movie traumatized me…it was my first ever horror movie. I like them better now. Aka i’m totally heartless now. Actually now that I’m used to them they seem kind of stupid and overdramatic.
But seriously i was a very innocent and sheltered 6th grader. That was a very sudden awakening.
OK all done now. And yes, I know, that was two things.
I ALMOST saw king kong last weekend. But y’know i was in MI, and i was gonna go w/rach+matt, and harriet+andrew, but harriet’s mom didn’t want andrew to see it (he’s 3 yrs. younger than us) so we rented skool of rock and johnny english and had a party at rach’s house. I’d seen both of those before. Hilarious movies.
Well, since I don’t want to start the argument back up, I will not respond to poor, missinformed Ebeth. *pats Ebeth on the head*
I hope you realize I’m joking. The other day, I was arguing somewhere on the internet with this guy about “under God” in the pledge of allegiance (I didn’t think it should be in there, he did). I was winning, but really I just wanted to understand why he thought “under God” should be in the pledge of allegiance. He just gave up and said “I am done with this topic, I refuse to argue with a child.” I was so mad. I asked him to please mask his condecesion just a little bit. I mean, come on, he couldn’t come up with anything so he played the age card? Low.
help! sisterhood of the traveling pants! incredibally bad books are scary!-#120
hah, thats so funny that you should mention Dune, because i wil be reading as of right now.
how did you even know his age? He could’ve been younger than you.
When somebody uses that totally lame excuse, you’ve won. Besides you don’t want to argue with such a childlike immature person. (lol!
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poor “misinformed” me…you obviously haven’t been to my skool.
Trust me, it’s bad.
traveling pants wasn’t bad for the teenage issues type of book that it was. It could be noted that i didn’t read either of the sequels, but it could also be noted that i don’t like those kinds of books anyway.
Oh yes and i finished my hw go me!
Teenage issues books have about as much substance as slop.
Although slop CAN be tasty. -snort-
T.T Axa is in a rather bad mood, sorry if I offend any one.
Why is there a ?I? around all of our names?
MG, you won if he pulled age.
Oh, the guy was married (at least, that’s what he said), and had kids. I just feel sorry for his family. It was interesting to be dismissed, condecended to and patronized, it rarely happens to me.
If that’s what he does to a total stranger (well, you know), then he must have pent up anger. I feel sorry for his family as well.
And my junior high is rather lewd. Some kids are. I just figure that, what with equivalent exchange, I don’t have to worry about them; they’ll get what they deserve in the end. Or they already have/are.
What goes around comes around.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
we had scheduling issues so i had to go to jazz band an hour early, so i sat in the library and read dave barry.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
good stuff…
STILL haven’t seen king kong. dunno when i’m gonna, w/exams and all….
Has anybody read the James Herriot books? (All Cratures Great and Small, ect.) Very funny.
A great insult, compliments of Shakespeare: ‘You shall ingest the poison of your spleen!’ Or something like that. I’m reading Julius Ceaser for school.
Haha, MG, I hope you virtually patted the poor fellow on the head for that… Yeah, I don’t think the “Under God” should be in there either, but maybe we should discuss this under “Hot Topics” because it might get a bit.. political and isn’t about Books & Movies, v. 2006.1…. But I’d like to if you want to.. Is the thread still open?
The other day, we got our report cards for last semester. My friend was waiting for me by my locker and listening to people’s conversations in the hall. She then said to me, “Hey, did you hear those boys? They were saying, ‘hey, did you pass anything?’ ‘yeah, I passed speech..’ ‘Oh, I didn’t pass anything.'”
Yeah, we’ve got some.. interesting kids at our school.
That is pretty sad. Poor kids.
I hate when people pull rank/age/gender on me. Although it can be useful. I hate being underestimated but if people persist in underestimating you, you can use it against them.
I finished Lord Brocktree! Yes, it’s taken me a terribly long time, but it was a very good book. I’m moving on to something a little lighter: Hank the Cowdog! Good old Hank. There’s a spider living in my keyboard.
yay fer you! i’m still on page 200-something of Dune. *sigh* i liked Leto. oh well. Ebeth, have you started those ‘cat who did stuffins’ books yet?
oh, and i know that we’re way beyond this subject, but tamora pierce answered the question “why is there sex in your books” or something like that, on her website, if anybody is interested.
so? dija? dija? come on? aaaannnsswweerrr ttthhhee qquueessttiioonnn!
yup yup. I’m near the end of “the cat who sniffed glue” I think Qwill’s moustache deserves a fan club all by itself
haha it gives me amusing mental images…these would make great movies btw…not too long, not boring, not too complicated but not too simple. I suppose there’s a bit too much thinking though. v/o’s always sound corny to me…oh well.
Yes I ♥ Koko!!! GO KOKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and I LOVE pickax!!! It’s a lot like where i was born. Where is this set anyway? Northern MI, Minnesota, something like that?
illinois, i think. mrm.. meybeh
YES! THEY ARE SO AWESOME!
we own a bunch, but i’ve read them all. i should really make a move to get more of them.
i like everything except i wish he would get somewhere with his stupid girlfriend grr… and peoples keep dying!
mrm.. i know we have sniffed glue, but i cant find it. i think peoples borrowed it. anyways, was it the one where he licked picturs? mmm no, letters? oh wait! its the one where he knocks the books off the shelves! yez! yezyezyezyez! rite?
I LOVE DUNE! *slobberdrool*
But I HATE PETER! DIEDIEDIEDIEPETERDIE!
what is Tamora Pierce’s website?
OMGS, I’m reading DUNE right now!11!!!one!!!11eleven
I ♥ it so far.
no it’s the one where he licked envelopes+stamps and things.
the one with the books was the cat who read shakespeare ♥ loved that one.
ah. right. i knew that.
ummm… peter? piter?
paul?
http://www.tamora-pierce.com
What are the ‘cat who did stuffins’ books? Anybody read Adam of the Road
they’re by Lillian Jackson Braun. they’re all called “the cat who…”
verb-direct object or linking verb-predicate nom./pred. adj.
mysteries. murder mysteries. good:)
nope. never heard of it
Sounds good. Adam of the Road is about a minstrel who loses his dog and has to find him again. Trust me, it’s waaaaaay better than it sounds.
most books are. for instance, if i told you that watership down was about a bunch of rabbits that have to leave their warren and find another one encountering obstacles along the way; you would probably think it was an extremely boring.
i like watership down. (bad person. wont give me my best copy back. grr)
AAARGH! I forgot to post my rant on ivanhoe, and then i LOST it, and now i’m too lazy to try and type it up again from memory. *sulkpout* Terrible, terrible. Grrr.
I am glad Adam of the Road is better than it sounds, because it sounds TERRIBLE. I also like P.G. Wodehouse.
Has anyone seen Donnie Darko? It’s a really good movie I watched the other day at a friend’s house. Froody to the maharajah.
QUOTE: What are you reading? What are you watching? What do you think?
In response: I don’t!
I’ve never heard of Donnie Darko. Have you read Adam of the Road, Queen J.? Has anyone ever seen/read Tuck Everlasting? I just watched the movie again yesterday. I’ve never read the book, but I plan to. The movie is surprisingly good, considering it’s a Disney.
Does anyone here like Patricia C. Wrede? She wrote the Enchanted forest chronicles, sorcery and Cecilia and some other books that are now out of print (I’ve read them anyways though!)
You guys should go to used bookstores and indepedant bookstores. B&N gets enought buisness.
A Single Shard and The Tale of Desperaux and The Witch of Blackbird pond are all excellent books. Hence their newberry-ness. Eragon isn’t excellent. It isn’t bad, just not excellent. It steals a lot of general fantasy themes and isn’t very creative. A good newberry honor or newberry medal (I forget which is which there are two books) are The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword both by Robin McKinley. I would read The Blue Sword first, though it is second in order of time in the books. I think it was published first.
Another excellent book is I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. It isn’t fantasy. It is more of a romantic comedy type book set in the ’30s in england.
There are too many awards! At least for movies. The book awards are at least for different things! What is the difference between the Oscars the Golden Globes and the Screen Actor’s Guilds?! Hmmm…for some reason I like the word ‘guild’.
anyone here like… wow i cannot think of any books right now.. see ya later ya’ll!!! muahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
im here! who r u sleepynighttimedragon? who likes science fiction…
I started reading the color of magic last night…
Howdy once again
I’ve posted twice already, but I never thought to post here. If you read my other posts (one of which is located in requests/ideas) you’ll notice I have quite a few ideas regarding the creation of a Kokopelli and Company movie. The movies and books section seemed like a dandy section for posting the following new ideas.
Ideas for the scene in Chad’s lab when we meet Kokopelli
1. Feather peeks from behind the door into Chad’s lab. Chad is standing in front of a huge machine with a catapult like arm.
2. Chad seems to be talking to somebody, but nobody else appears to be in the room.
3. Kokopelli’s voice can be heard from somewhere, but it is not clear where he is.
4. Chad says the line: “It needs to be more precise.”
5. Koko’s voice (in a mock stupid voice): “It needs to be more plecise.”
6. All of a sudden, the hunchbacked form of Kokopelli, appears from the shadows, and walks along the wall.
7. He dissapears briefly inside the shadow of a tall floor lamp.
8. Feather continues to stare.
9. Koko’s stick shaped arms appear inside the shadow of the lamp, and start shaking themselves aggresivley at Chad.
10. Koko the lamp’s voice: “Chad, any idiot knows it needs to be more plecise.”
11. Chad: “Well you see what we need is-”
12. Chad stops short, because as he is starting to speak, Koko the lamp’s left arm raises into the air, and with it, raises a stickshaped device with the words -matter composter- written across it.
13. The sticklike object floats menacingly across the room towards Chad.
14. Koko the lamp’s line: “What, playtell is the bottom line here?”
15. Koko the lamp’s actions: Kokopelli’s left arms moves around in various motions, the sticklike object moves with it, and ends up in Chad’s righthand nostril.
That’s all for now, I wonder what happens next
See you later
Clever and detailed. I’d love to see that animated.
I FINALLY saw King Kong. copying off my xanga cuz i am lazy…
Saw King Kong yesterday. WHAT IS UP WITH ALL THE SLOW-MO?!!?!?!?!?!??! Insane…That’s why it was three hours long!!!! The fights dragged on a bit too. Other than that it was great. Oh except i hated that one girl. she was such a weed. (excuse the britishness. molesworth this time. Not that i’ve actually gotten molesworth yet…actually i haven’t even ordered it. i need over $90…Need job, need job, need job. but yeah i’ve just been reading the excerpts and stuffins i finds. obsseeeeeeesssed!
) Yeah but back to topic she was a wet noodle. Blech. *hearts* king kong though. and that writer dude.
Aaaaaaanyway…Oh yes i saw part 2 of ivanhoe yesterday too. It was the tournamnet. The jousting was pretty good. the melee was gruesome and way too long, but it wasn’t bad for all that. And i suppose that was the point, it being so long…it’s in the book anyway.
all hail the book. Yeah.
OOOOOOOOHHHHHH yes and dad finally found an audiobook-an unabridged audiobook-of a tale of two cities. been looking for that for ages. yep yep. probably won’t fit on the trusty shuffle but i can steal dad’s ipod.
happy days…
so there you go.
i am reading the inkheart trilogyit is so coo!l. read it! it is by Cornelia Funke who is a very good writer!she has also written thief lord,dragon riderand sum others…
how do u get the smiley faces?
King Kong is good but i think the part on the empire state building went on and on and on.
i saw Narnia it is so good!it is filmed in new zealand which is where i live! I think they shud do a movie on the other 5 books even though they left out the first.the voyage of the dawn treader is really good it is my favourite one.
happy new year…even though it was ages ago i didnt no how 2 finish off!
I read Inkheart. I liked it but it was so scary! I haven’t read the others in the series yet because I’m not in the mood to be scared. The basic idea for the story is really cool. I’m not sure if I should say what it is, though, because that might spoil it for people who haven’t read it yet…
Yay, a thread for books and movies!
Hmm, I haven’t had a lot of time to watch movies lately, but I have seen some good ones. Phantom of the Opera (has anyone seen the old silent movie? definitely worth it if you haven’t), Pirates of the Caribbean (can’t wait for the second one!), Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, the new Narnia, Millions and so forth are some of my recent favorites. Has anyone ever seen Bedazzled? The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine movie is excellent as well. Very surreal.
As for books, let’s see. I do like the Warriors series, but I haven’t gotten around to reading the new ones yet. My all-time favorite/best book list is, in no particular order:
Phantom of the Opera
Dracula
The Invisible Man
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Metamorphoses
Rebecca
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
I really need to get offline, but before I go, I just have to ask. Has anyone by chance read ‘Trilby’ by George Du Maurier? I thoroughly enjoyed it, but so far no one I’ve mentioned it to has ever heard of it. Is anyone familiar with this book? If not, I’d recommend it if you like genuinely bizarre stories.
is the new narnia REALLY good? because i dont believe it
other book(s) in the series? has the third one come out?
I loves the inkheart books!!! (I ♥ dustfiniger
) i’ve read both of those…and the Thief Lord, also by cornelia funke. that’s an awesome book too. 
The new narnia IS good. Really. Not like the old one…
YES!!! It is! It is amazing!
My favorite books (but not in order):
The Belgariad (series)
The Hitchikers’ Guide to the Galaxy (series but not Mostly Harmless)
The Wanderer
Heartbeat
Walk Two Moons
Pride and Prejudice
The View From Saturday
The Horse and his Boy (and mostly all the rest of the Narnia books)
The Mists of Avalon (even though it made me really depressed)
SIsters of the Raven
Murder on the Orient Express
LOTR
books I like but don’t make it up to favorite:
Rhapsody (even though it is rather Mary-Sueish)
Dragonsdawn
Owlflight
The Black Griffin
Brightly-Burning
Warriors
Redwall
Orphans of Chaos
Jane Eire (how the heck d’tou spell that?)
Little Women
Lords of Grass and Thunder
HP#s 1, 3, 6
The House of Deis Drear
a whole lot more
books I want to read:
The Foundation Trilogy
Those books, I forgot what they are called, with Storm-Bringer
The Davinci Code (actually I just started it today)
Books I dislike:
Zel
The Cay
Lord of the Flies
Harry Potter #s 2, 4
Blood and Chocolate
Joust–because portrayes dragons as animals and I HATE that
Books I really, really hate:
That plageristic, crowd-pleasing, badly written, overly hyped, puny excuse for a novel otherwise entitled ERAGON!!!
Harry Potter #5
The Red Pony
Books I scorn:
practically everything written for adolescants like me
ooh the view from saturday. that was one i borrowed in like fifth? sixth? grade…I ♥ Good book. yayness.
What is Blood and Chocolate? They spelled choklit wrong!!!! ARRGH! DIE FIENDS!!!!!! FORTH EORLINGAAAAAAAAAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
has anybody here read ttyl? (the book) *gasp* the paaaaain…the paaaaaaaain. started it in…schuler’s i think (back when we had a schuler’s) and read a random page. I was like omg this is idiotic. Flipped away from the page to another page. Read that page. “How stupid is that!” were my words. Read a couple more pages, flipping around, just to make sure the whole book was that inane and was about to put it back on the shelf when i saw a trash can. Aaaah…the urges…must….throw…in…NO! Mustn’t! Then i’d probably have to buy it! The shame! So i put it back on the shelf. But i think the world would’ve benefited if i’d have thrown it in the trash instead.
Way too long and detailed flashback/rant ended
yeah…well…i g2g now…
Favorite books not in order:
LOTR
Enchantment (Orson Scott Card)
Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)
Old Kingdom Trilogy (Garth Nix)
Sally Lockhart Trilogy (Philip Pullman)
I can’t recommend any of these books enough. READ THEM.
Oh yeah, and Watership Down makes my favorite list as well.
have any of you read the roman mysterie series by caroline lawrence?if you havnt they are a must read! im not going to give you a book report but it is about four kids a jewish boy,a mute ex-begger boy,an ex afican slavegirl and a high born girl.it is set in ancient Italy and the kids live in Ostia.they go around the country and even to Greece solving mysteries.the author plans to write 18!
here is a list of the books that are out.(in the reading order)
THE THIEVES OF OSTIA
THE SECRET OF VESUVIUS
THE PIRATES OF POMPEY
THE ASSASINS OF ROME
THE DOLPHINS OF LAURENTUM
THE TWELVE TASKS OF FLAVIA GEMINA
UUUMMMM
THE GLADIATOR OF CAPUA
THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES
they are really good books!!!
Sorry, Sam the Tenrec (can I call you ST? or Sam? Or Tenrec?), I never read ’em. A thousand pardons and welcome to the Blog!
sigh, i hate nt knowing what time it is in america.is it sunny.it is raining here oh well no difference to all the other millions of years of rain GRRR RAIN.
it is 11:40 am here on the 26 january
St i read em . there ok-ish
and ST where do u live?
And have you read R A salvatore? he is like awesomee fantasy and he has written around 30 books! more than Tamora Pierce!
Hello Sam the Tenrec! You have the same middle name as Alexander the Great. Isn’t that fun to know? And me, of course. R.A. Salvatore is very cool. David Eddings I like because his books have humor in them.
Hello hello Sam the Tenrec! That thing about the middle name is cool. I did read the first book in the series by Caroline Lawrence awhile ago, and I agree, it was good! I have yet to get around to reading the rest of the series, though. Just finished Inkheart today! I love it! I didn’t think it was possible, but I liked it more than the Thief Lord. I forgot the Hitchhiker’s Guide series in my last post! Those are some seriously amazing books. The old radio series is most entertaining as well.
watership down & empire of the ants are good
there was a t.v series of hitchhikers guide ages ago and my dad bought them on dvd so i could watch them!!!it is a cool series must read the book some time…
hitchhikers series on t.v is good
referring to dark lord of darkness and for others info i live in new zealand at the bottom of the world the last stop be fore antarctica. be cause i have a completely different time zone so that is why you will see the time on it is very late sometimes
who has seen Monty Python and the search for the holy grail!
it is so cool!
ni ninininini we are the knights that say ni!
with nasty sharp pointy teeth!
soz but it is SO funny!
Monty python rocks!!! I can recite the entire script of the holy grail by memory. No lie.
Been reading wodehouse.
YAY funny old brits!!!!!!!!!!!!! Named after drinks too!!! haha i love that…
watching october sky
good movie 
ebeth: do it
most people havnt seen monty pythons flying circus which is actually the funniest thing that they do.
“oh! mrs. nickabator exploded!”
i thought that there were only two inkheart books. am i correct?
Yeah. But it’s a trilogy so she’s writing another one.
dark lord of darkness-look at the old monty python thread..everything i did was from memory. I’d start over again just for you
but i g2g in like five min. so yeah. I just might though if i’m still in study hall tomorrow…
yeah, but its gonna be a trilogy. i went to the library today, but i couldn’t find the color of magic. but i did get wolf queen, a young wizards book, the latest snicket book, and abarat. W00T!
whaddas w00t mean, people?
“w00t” and it’s alternate spellings all mean the same thing; “We own the other team”. It is, in fact, a 1337 (leet or l33t) word. It has however, taken on the meaning of a general exclamation of satisfaction or happiness.
W00t means yay. It apparently came from dungeons and dragons (which I have never played) people would say “wow! loot!” It is l33t word for yay. I find it amusing when people say l33t words aloud. I have friends who say w00t and pwned all the time. ^_^
i like the inkhearts too.
I knew what w00t meant, but now I’m really confused. Or confuzzled. Wot’s a 133t word? Yay, that is, w00t for Monty Python and the Holy Grail and all their other stuff. I’ve never seen Flying Circus, but they’re going to show it on PBS in Febuary. PBS is so underrated. PBS rules, persons! At least, the one in P*********. W00t as well for Inkheart, although I have yet to read the second one. I think it’s called Inkspell. Am I right? Dustfinger is such a great character. A pyromaniac prehaps, but a great character none the less. And I like Gwin. If I had a ferret, I would name it Gwin. The excerpts from other books are done very well, and they are, usually, uncannily pertinant (I don’t know how to spell that.) to the chapter.
By the by, has anyone ever heard of the book The Pushcart War? I listened to a book on tape. It’s about a war which starts in NYC over large, obnoxious trucks taking over the streets.
It’s a good one, although it might be out of print. Look at the library; that’s where I found it.
Wenda: I think that there are too many trucks. And the trucks are too big.
Oh yeah, I’ve read it. It’s a good book.
133t=1337=l33t=Leet
Wikipedia says:
Leet, usually written as “l33t” or “1337” in Leetspeak, is an online culture and/or attitude, as well as a language code (although the language code was originally refered to as “kr4g” or “krag”), among the Internet population. The word itself is derived phonetically from the word “elite”, and is a cipher, or cryptic form of spelling replacing letters with numbers, symbols, and other letters that look or sound alike. Leetspeak was first used on Bulletin Board Systems, and then later adopted by users of Online Multiplayer Games and other Internet communities.
Spelling variation does not always follow a set convention. The same word may be spelled differently by different people, or even by the same person to confuse others even more. This is symptomatic of the desire or affected desire to elude comprehension by others unfamiliar with the foreign art form.
Basically, symbols for letters. Don’t be a leet punk, kids.
wh@t? us l33t punk5? n3v3r!
has anyone read The Thief Lord? Cornelia Funke wrote it before Inkheart and Inkspell, +its really good. it has a surprising twist
w00t
I LOVE THE PUSHCART WAR!
I don’t love the Theif Lord, though. It was just…ehhhh. A cool idea, but not very well done.
I love the Pushcart War too! I like how it seems like it’s describing real history. (FUNNY real history, that is.)
I read it when I was about 12. I must have led a sheltered life because that was the first encounter I had with the concept of pea shooters.
I ♥ the thief lord! *hiss* zallie!! Ok it could’ve been done better. And it was pathetic how they didn’t swear at all. “Oh dear we’re going to be caught! Open the door goshdarnit!”
never read the pushcart war…
I read The Thief Lord, but not in a while so I’ll have to read it again. I thought it was good that they didn’t swear. Okay, they were street kids who would probably have very erm colorful vocabularies, but it’s a refreshing break from her other technicolored works. How ’bout The Westing Game? Anybody read that? Hey Sam. Welcome to the alternate reality of the Muse Blog. ‘Cause it certaintly isn’t reality in the real sense…. Did I just post this twice? Sorry.
That’s funny, yesterday’s_kinked_moose. I just finished reading The Westing Game last weekend. I enjoyed trying to solve the mystery. Did you read it?
pushcartwar=good my dad read it to me when i was small bcuz he liked it alot
westing game i- i was supposed to read in 4th grade, was never interested. maybe i should try again?
Theif lord=good but i like her other stuff better.
If you like solving puzzles, you’ll probably like reading The Westing Game. It’s not a deep, life-changing, mind-altering, hilarious, tragic book or anything like that. But it’s fun for puzzlers.
I like it, and I solved the song thinger, but it is impossible to solve until the very end because Sandy yelled ‘Ashes’.
I was all set to like the Theif Lord too, because I love Venice and steam-punk books, but it just kind of died for me. I wasn’t interested at all. It seemed like it was translated too, is English Cornelia Funke’s second language?
Yep, Cornelia Funke is German and writes in German. The Thief Lord was originally Herr der Diebe.
Phoenix (242) I didn’t solve the song part of the mystery until the end either. I don’t want to say too much about the clues, etc., in case any Musers want to read the book. But I will say that I didn’t figure out the main mystery on my own. When it was explained in the end it all fit together really nicely, though. I especially liked how Turtle’s penchant for kicking people helped solve the mystery. Do you think she kicked people on purpose to help solve it? Of course, she’s not real — so there’s not really an answer to that question. But I still wonder about it anyhow.
I solved the song about ten pages before Turtle kicked Barney, but it might have helped that my cousin was parading around the house singing it at the top of her lungs.
Ha! Parading cousins can really come in handy.
I have read both The Pushcart War and The Westing Game. I love the Westing Game! I have seen a play version of The Pushcart War. The Pushcart War was my first experiance with pea shooters too.
HAH AH! I knew it. That would account for the funky writing.
Everything is illuminated. Book club book. Right.
Well the broken english stuff was cool, but it was a bit confusing right at the beginning. The book was great, really funny, and then the second part was good too but in a really different way. The first bit’s sort of the search, but then they go into all the war stuff. In detail. Lots of detail. Which i dunno…i didn’t really dislike it, but it was different from the first bit. Very…explicit too. I could see my young, innocent mind flying out the window (HA like i ever had one…). But yeah, pretty good altogether. People who saw the movie said it was less confusing than the book, and it had a bit more order to it. And we all agreed (Oh the political incorrectness!) that elijah wood SO does not look jewish.
Next month we’re doing shadow divers. And i’m NOT going to get it the night before! I’m NOT going to procrastinate! I’m going to BE PREPARED!!!
Yeah right.
Ah well, that’s life.
Ack. In English class (and I almost typed that as “En ingles”. Ack.), we’re reading Great Expectations. Actually, we aren’t reading it in English class. We’re reading it outside of English. And I think that it’s currently my second least-favorite book (the world history textbook I had to study last year for the Credit By Acceleration test thingy was worse). Basically, it goes like this:
Pip: Let me mope around and whine about my life and pine after some b**** and generally make myself unpleasent.
Lawyer dude: yo, you’ve just come into a bunch of money.
Pip: Too bad, I still hate my life. Now I’ll just go commit suicide.
Okay, so maybe I added the part about suicide, but why do all of the characters have to be so unpleasant? And so far (chapter 40) there doesn’t seem to be that much conflict and basically he just sits around and spends money… And it’s all unbelievable and I just don’t like Dickens.
Hey Dickens is great! Although i haven’t read Great Expectations. I like Turtle. I like kicking people too.
Come, fellow Musers! Surely you won’t let this good thread die! IT LIVES! I mean, we talk about books and movies everywhere else anyway.
in itk today, there was a q about puddnhead wilson, so my head was screaming TWAIN! TWAIN! so of course i pressed the buzzer and said kipling. WHYYYYY?!?!?!?!
erm…what have i read…i read uncle fred in the springtime! amazing book. ♥
other than that not much…
Yea! Somebody’s here! I just finished The Angel’s Command the other day. It was pretty good, although lots o’ people died, as is common Jaquces’ books. I’m reading Inkheart again now. Has anyone heard of the short story ‘the Unicorn in the Garden’ by Idon’tremember? Best short story ever. And shortest too.
I’m reading an interesting book right now. It is called The Eyre Affair and it is set in a sort of futuristic ’85 (they don’t have computers but they can stop time and travel into books) it is really good. you might like it. it is an adventure book.
Sure, I’ll try it. Who am I to turn down a good book?
hey, has anyone seen the movie Evolution? its a science fiction/ comedy… really good…
Was that the one which had a three-eyed smiley face on the jacket?
YES!!! yes the weird (but kute) 3eyed alien!!!!
Oh dear. I belive my last post got eaten by the WordPress errors.
My group used that evolution poster on the title page of a powerpoint for science once.
I love The Westing Game.
the book or the movie? the movie was AWFUL!!! ((pretend thats underlined)) the book was good though… (im talking about the westing game)
hey the comp games for narnia and goblet of fire (grr movie) r out, but the movies wont be for like three months!!
say what? those movies are both out already…Unless i somehow traveled back in time…*gasp* *looks around nervously*
lol
I also really like Th Westing Game!
I didn’t know there was a Westing Game movie! Is it really so bad? I’m tempted to watch it because I liked the book so much.
spaking of computer games, i found a pern one on the internet.
doesn’t look too good, though.
I liked the westing game. we read it in class. But i cheated and read ahead because it was good.
haha…i remember i did that all the time in third grade…we did a whole load of read-in-class books (aka sleep while the teacher reads out loud) and i’d finish the book in maybe two or three class periods and then sleep the rest of the time and still get As on the tests and things…
i’ve never read the westing game…
i just finished the plot thickens by pg wodehouse (yes i’m on a wodehouse rage now you can’t stop me mwahahaha. Actually you people started it. You have only yourselves to blame.
lol)
but tonight i reading pride+prejudice again so i can read that enthusiasm book.
Has anybody seen the new pink panther? Is it any good? I want to go see it…
let us discuss books that are bloody terrible. not simply aweful because you had to read them for skool, but actually, genuinely terrible.
starting with: The Cry of the Icenmark.
I saw the pink panther! da dup…da dup…da dup da dup da dup ba dup da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…ba da da da da dup.
YAAAY!
I liked the old ones better. But still.
The white hair really bugged me. errrrgh. DYE YOUR HAIR!!! AAAAHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It probably should’ve been rated PG-13…
But ok…
Yeah some of the jokes were pretty dubious
But it was a funny movie overall.
STILL not as good as the old ones!!!!
FUNNY THOUGH!!!
I would like to buy a hamburger.
eye wood like tuo byebye a damburgrar.
funny movie
hoos read my sisters keeper? soooooosooooossooooo sad…
Nope never read it, lilbro. Is it like a female version of Cain and Abel or something? Bloodiest book ever. Let’s see… Well, the prize would have to go to (drumroll) The Call of the Wild! So how does it feel to be the worst book ever, CotW? Seriously, it was awful. A horriblel thing to make children read, too. Terribly violent. In the comments portion at the back of the book (it was from the library, thank goodness) I recall writing ‘wretched, dreadful, and hideous’. Second bloodiest goes to The Giver. According to my mother, I shoud read it again when I’m an old granny. Ha! Not bloody likely! I assume I’ll have better things to do when I’m an old granny than read horrific books. I’ll probably be knitting underwear or whatever grannies are supposed to do. Third bloodiest? Is there a prize for that? How ’bout Skipping Christmas? I started reading it when I had a cold one night and I litterally could not get through it becasue of how unpleasant it was to read. It wasn’t a bad story or anything, just very poorly written. The characters were ENTIRELY flat. No description. No characterization. And the conversations were SO unrealistic. It was like they were trying to say the bare minimum of words necessary. People don’t talk like that! It was utterly boring. It did help me fall asleep though. They should use that on those Nyquill comercials. “You’ll sleep like a log! A baby! A-” “Like I would if I was reading Skipping Christmas.” Nyquill. The best sleep you ever got with a cold medicine.
Hey! I like The Giver! But I entirely agree about Skipping Christmas. Flatter than Kansas.
What did you like about The Giver? The pills, the dreams, the memories… It was entirely too strange. Strange in a BAD way.