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@ 20-07-2003 21:02 TheHappyColour | 527 posts
| 1.What book are you reading right now?
(Not right at this moment as you are reading this, but the book you are currently reading)
2.Or the book you last read?
3.And do you like it?
4.What is it about?
Hmm...long poll.
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 0  @ 20-07-2003 21:05 carole | 27,348 posts
| 1.What book are you reading right now?
(Not right at this moment as you are reading this, but the book you are currently reading)
2.Or the book you last read?
3.And do you like it?
4.What is it about?
Hmm...long poll.
1. Beloved, by Toni Morrison.
3. I love it, its well written (i read in English), and its very American (if that makes sense).
4. Its set in rural Ohio after the Civil War. The main character is Sethe, she escaped from slavery, and lives with her daughter in a haunted house. Well its a chronicle of slavery and its consequences. | | 0 @ 20-07-2003 21:05 carole | 27,348 posts
| Forgot to delete your first post. meh | | 0 @ 20-07-2003 21:06 Shira88 | 12,250 posts
| 1.What book are you reading right now? A girl with a pearl earing.
3.And do you like it? I LOVE it !!! It is so beautiful !!
4.What is it about? It tells the story of the painting "a girl with a pearl earing" of the painter Vermar in Holland ( I think), in the 18th century.. | | 0 @ 20-07-2003 21:17 volcomgirl355 | 655 posts
| I'm readin 2 books....
What book are you reading right now?
While My Pretty One Sleeps, by:Mary Higgins Clark
And do you like it? yes! i love ALL her books!
What is it about? Its a lot to explain...but its a murder kind of book...ya i would start explaining but i wouldnt stop!!!
THE OTHER BOOK...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....its required reading....
Do i like it?? HECK NO!!! AHHH  i hate it....
Its about this lil hick boy named tom who is all mischeivous n stuff n its like all his adventures...(get it? the ADVENTURES of tom sawyer hehe)
°KiM°
| | 0 @ 20-07-2003 21:43 TheHappyColour | 527 posts
| i need to do mine!
1. Fight club - Chuck Phuilnuk(something like that)
3. Yea it's really good - perhaps better than the film (which is amazing).
4. It's about this guy who has insomnia and meets this other guy and they start a fight club which escalates to anarchy and terrorism. Twist at the end. | | 0 @ 21-07-2003 01:37 Auj_da_paj | 693 posts
| 1.What book are you reading right now? Travels with Charlie
(Not right at this moment as you are reading this, but the book you are currently reading)
2.Or the book you last read?
3.And do you like it? NO, it's freaking boring. I can't get through one page without falling asleep
4.What is it about? John Steinbeck's trip across the US with his poodle named Charlie. | | 0 @ 21-07-2003 01:41 Fluffy_Duck | 566 posts
| 1.What book are you reading right now? or just finished reading?
Just finished the Harry Potter 4
3.And do you like it?
It was ok i guess...suspenceful
4.What is it about?
Its about a wizzard...goes into tournament...fights evil wizzard...etc. | | 0 @ 21-07-2003 01:52 cRaZy_T | 2,193 posts
| 1.What book are you reading right now?
(Not right at this moment as you are reading this, but the book you are currently reading)
none
2.Or the book you last read?
I 4get, I'll just say Rage - Stephen King
3.And do you like it?
It was the best book I ever read
4.What is it about?
The book is about a kid who holds his class hostage | | 0 @ 21-07-2003 05:28 joy_division | 614 posts
| 1.What book are you reading right now?
(Not right at this moment as you are reading this, but the book you are currently reading)
Lexicon Devil:The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs By Brendan Mullen
3.And do you like it? Its about one of my favorite bands, the germs and it has a bunch of comments from people who were actually there...
4.What is it about? *ahem*...a riviting chronicle of the rise of LA's punk band the Germs and about the life of its lead singer, heroin addict Darby Crash. Its just a good book...even if your not a big Germs fan...it has commentary from a lot of imprtant figures in the late 70's- early 80's Los Angeles punk scene...Read this if you are interested about some good ol' fashion punk history!!
*Bitter and hideously depressed...* | | 0 @ 21-07-2003 05:37 KingJeZter | 9,999 posts
| 2.Or the book you last read?
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawkings
3.And do you like it?
yeah its good for something to read at night before sleeping, and its quite challenging to understand really, but I manage to get the general idea...
4.What is it about?
err, its about what the universe is being concieved as by humans today, the scientific models we have developed through the years. Also other things like black holes, wormholes, quarks, uncertainty principle, quatum physics, super gravity theory, strings theory, natural forces (i.e. gravity, weak forces, strong forces, etc.) entropic theory, imaginary time, the quest for the unification of all theories of physics etc. | | 0 @ 25-07-2003 09:50 Soar | 26 posts
| 1. Eric - Terry Prachett
3. yeah, its good, very funny
4. its about a demonologist called eric who summons deamons, except ends up summoning an inept wizzard called Rincewind... and his homocidal luggage... | | 0 @ 25-07-2003 09:56 baaigones | 3,172 posts
| 1.What book are you reading right now?
Kurt Cobain's diaries
3.And do you like it?
Yep, it's quite interesting for a music-lover like me
4.What is it about?
Do I really need to explain ? Well, it's a book containg extracts from Kurt Cobain's diaries, all random stuff, letters he wrote to The Melvins, to Mark Lanegan, some drawings, rough first versions of song lyrics ... | | 0 @ 25-07-2003 09:58 Groovejet | 5,848 posts
| I haven't read a book in YEARS.. (shame on me) The last one I read was Garland's "the Beach" (I also read it in English). It was absolutely awesome, I finished in in a few days, I used to come home tired and sleepy, but as I started reading I went on until very late night.. For those of you who haven't yet read it, I REALLY suggest!! | | 0 @ 25-07-2003 10:03 stupot | 14,962 posts
| 2.Or the book you last read?
erm last book i read was harry potter. i doubt u all wanna hear about that so the on b4 was The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
3.And do you like it?
yeh it was really god, detailed and all that
4.What is it about?
about a girl called lyra and a kid called will. its the second part of a trilogy with The Northern Lights and The Amber Spyglass and theyre about those two kids. the girl lives in an alternative world/dimension to us and the boy lives in our dimension. and they discover windows between these dimensions which u cut open by using this subtle knife thing. some how everything was linked and it all fitted together and it worked really well but i cant for the life of me remember wot happened. god, i need to read the third one. | | 0 @ 29-07-2003 02:25 shadys_baby | 3,787 posts
| these polls are confusing me | | 0 @ 29-07-2003 09:55 QUPNCY | 9,291 posts
| The last non related school book i read was called something like "learning to fly" i don't even remember who it was by.
It was such a great book.. & a recount of what life is like to some people.
it was about a young boy, Seymour, i think he is about 12 or something, who is sent to stay with his mothers friend for the summer break while because she is working & unable to take care of him during the day.
The women he is sent to stay with is an old, lonely, conservative type, who does not make any effort to make the stay even the slightest bit enjoyable for the boy.
During the days when is doing her own thing, working in the garden, cleaning the house etc, she usually sends him to the shop to pickup the food for dinner that night, one day he meets a girl called Angie, a 19 year old rebel, she is so nice to Seymour, the boy & takes him out with her.
The two become good friends and angie provides a sort of mothership that seymour never really encounted, anyway there is a lot to learn about Angie & her past, she is a drug, sex addict etc.
It's a good book i enjoyed it, i heard it was made into a movie, under a different title tho. i will try and find out the proper title, just my memory isn't too good 
| | 0 @ 30-07-2003 04:56 Egginator | 15,398 posts
| weeee
1. Just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude...by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. Before that I read LOTR finally
3. oh yes...very good
4. Um...it's about this family who lives in a town in the Caribbean somewheres...and how their line died with the town they founded...haha...it actually is very good, i just suck at summarizing things
| | 0 @ 05-08-2003 10:06 Welho | 121 posts
| 1.What book are you reading right now?
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2.Or the book you last read?
Before that I read 'So You Want To Be a Wizard' in finnish (Haluatko velhoksi?)
3.And do you like it?
Yes I like them both very much. I'm reading that Harry Potter like the fourth time now...
4.What is it about?
If you don't know what Harry Potter is about... My god...
The other is about boy and girl who became wizards and go find a Book of Light (I suppose it's something like that in english...) | | 0 @ 05-08-2003 11:20 Darling15 | 8,440 posts
| hmmm....im not reading anything at the moment  but my favorite books are anything by chaim potok (oh dont worry its in english and sooooo good!) i luv harry potter books (surprise surprise) and when i was about 11 i LUVED anne of green gables... | | 0 @ 05-08-2003 12:29 up_all_night | 305 posts
| Well... people have been offering me lots of books.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (3rd time I read it) - J. K. Rowling
- Os Maias (crap book you have to read for school)
Writter: Eça de Queirós
- Bridget Jones' New Diary - Helen Fielding
- Lolita (Don't read it!!) - Vladimir Nabokov
- Capitães da Areia (Captains of the sand) - Jorge Amado
For now I'm only reading these... and I advise you not to read any of them (except Harry Potter, it's not so depressing compaired to the others).
| | 0 @ 05-08-2003 12:40 jeremiah1180 | 198 posts
| One of the best books that I've read lately is Sue Monk Kidd's 'The Secret Lives of Bees'.....its about a little white girl who lives with her racist father and black nanny.....then when the nanny insults some of the towns biggest bigots the two women run away and meet the Boatwright sisters (April May and June.......Lily calls them the calendar sisters) ....they move in with them and learn all about keeping bees...and a whole lot more about life ....and surprisingly more about the mother Lily never knew...great for anyone who didn't know their own mother like me! | | 0 @ 05-08-2003 12:48 up_all_night | 305 posts
| Well... what these books are about:
Capitães da Areia (Captains of the sand/ Sand Captains) - its about some teenagers in Brasil that rob rich people's houses and live in a big tent in the beach and they like to have sex with the girls that go to the beach and to kill each other. It's crap!
Lolita - Its about a 30 year man that has an obcession about a 12 year girl called Lolita and marries her ugly monster-type mother just to be close to her... soon the mother dies and he becomes step-father of the girl, he gets on the road with her and starts to have sex with her in every hotel they go to... then the girls runs away and gets pregnant. Don't read it!
Bidget Jones' New Diary - A funny women that makes evething look to complicated and her life becomes a comedy. | | 0 @ 19-08-2003 07:50 baaigones | 3,172 posts
| 1.What book are you reading right now?
"What a carve up" - Jonathan Coe
3.And do you like it?
Yes I do, it's responsible for (a minor part of) my lack of sleep lately, need to read a part of it every night before I go to sleep (haven't got much time during the day)
4.What is it about?
It's a fictional family history, but mixed with real (recent) history, a family influencing Britain's history all revolving around two 'murders', one in 1942 and one in 1961, seems one giant puzzle but slowly pieces fall into place. | | 0 @ 19-08-2003 08:06 baaigones | 3,172 posts
| (one week back into history, but I couldn't get online then  )
1.What book are you reading right now?
"Dead famous" - Ben Elton
3.And do you like it?
Do I ? You bet I do, read it in two days.
4.What is it about?
'Big Brother', but not as we not it. The audience is bored of watching ordinary people doing nothing for months in reality tv so nobody expects the new series of Big Brother to become a succes but ... somehow this show is different, this show attracts more viewers ever when on day 27 one of the housemates gets killed with thousands of people watching live on the net and 40 cameras recording every move in the house. And still police have no clue who did it, inspectors have thousands of hours of tape to watch and investigate, with the whole world watching because the 'surviving' contestants stay in the house, all of them suspects of the murder, but all of them staying in the house to become (dead) famous ...
Excellent book, respect to Ben Elton 
| | 0 @ 23-03-2004 03:03 jeremiah1180 | 198 posts
| Reviving a very dead post here....but I had too---I just read a book recently called "the five people you meet in heaven" by Mitch Albom....anyone who is questioning why they are here-what purpose does their life serve? They need to read this book!!! |
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