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Post by Mira on Aug 18, 2006 22:49:06 GMT -5
I try not to judge books by their covers, but I often do subconsciously. Normally when I purchase a book, I'll go for the one with the best cover (except in cases where there are important commentary notes in the back... I often need those when reading classic lit or Shakespeare).
As far as Greek mythology, now that I've finished Candide I'm onto the Iliad. I vaguely remember reading the Odyssey before... but now I'll have a fresh perspective on Homer, I suppose.
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Post by jupiterlightning on Aug 19, 2006 0:11:22 GMT -5
I had to read the Odyssey last year. That was probably the best thing that we read all year. We had to Great Expectations and Romeo and Juliet as well. I cringed every time I had to pick up that Great Expectations book.
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Post by damarshmallow on Aug 19, 2006 16:13:18 GMT -5
I cringed too... Romeo and Juliet wasn't quite AS bad, and the movie was interesting...in it's um...weird way... I really liked the Odyssey. It was fun when we had to make drawings of all the characters before we even got very far into it...
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Post by jupiterlightning on Aug 19, 2006 18:10:20 GMT -5
Yeah. In the 1967 version, they wouldn't stop kissing each other.
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Post by blondie91 on Aug 19, 2006 20:25:17 GMT -5
I didn't like Romeo and Juliet in the least bit. Especially when we had to watch the movie. It was just...bleh. I've read a book called Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney based off of Greek Mythology and it's got Helen of Troy in it too and stuff. I loved it. Anaxandra was a cool main character.
An incredible book I read a while ago was called Hawksong, it's the first in the Kiesha'ra series followed by Snakecharm, Falcondance, and coming out this september Wolfcry and then the final installment next year. It's about a world of shapeshifters and all these troubles they're going through to make peace and keep it among certain species of shifters.
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Post by jupiterlightning on Aug 19, 2006 20:47:58 GMT -5
I love that series. The author Amerlia Atwater-Rhodes published her first book when she was 13, and even though it was rather short, it was a pretty awesome book.
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Post by Tiki-Torch on Aug 19, 2006 20:58:13 GMT -5
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. I <3 that book. I must have read it at least two dozen times.
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Post by jupiterlightning on Aug 19, 2006 21:07:00 GMT -5
I can't read the same book twice. If I do, I only get to like chapter two or so.
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Post by Tiki-Torch on Aug 19, 2006 21:08:31 GMT -5
I've read every book I have at least twice. Several of them I've read more than that.
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Post by jupiterlightning on Aug 19, 2006 21:09:04 GMT -5
You, Blondie, and Marshmallow have something in common.
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Post by Tiki-Torch on Aug 19, 2006 21:21:19 GMT -5
We all have an 'o' in our username?
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Post by jupiterlightning on Aug 19, 2006 21:22:50 GMT -5
Nice one.
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Post by Mira on Aug 20, 2006 18:38:12 GMT -5
The Iliad was kind of slow at first, so I'm working on Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe now. I'm only fifty pages in, so I can't say much about whether I like it or not yet, but Achebe keeps the pace moving a little faster in comparison to Homer.
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Post by Tiki-Torch on Aug 20, 2006 19:34:47 GMT -5
I'd have to agree that Homer does start out slow.
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Post by damarshmallow on Aug 22, 2006 20:01:08 GMT -5
I'm reading The Moon by Night which is by Madeleine L'engle. I think I may have read it a long time ago cuz it sounds familiar, but I don't really remember the plot line all too well. It's pretty good so far.
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