| 6:49 pm - OSCAR WILDE |
 silly_wanker I just got through reading "The Importance of Being Earnest" and LOVED it!!! I have also read some of "The Picture of Dorian Gray". I need to finish that one as well! I have to do a presentation on Oscar Wilde next week, and I get to be him! ;)What other works by Oscar Wilde do y'all recommend? I'd love to hear y'alls input! THANKEE! :) *huggles* (comment on this) |
| Tuesday, August 17th, 2004 |
| 9:46 am - My first post |
 whibabe04 Just started a book called " Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief" by Bill Mason. It' "the astonishing true story of a hiugh-society cat burglar". I highly reccomend it. I'm not usually into stories like this, but this one is really good. If you read it or have read it, let me know what you thought. (comment on this) |
| Monday, January 26th, 2004 |
| 10:22 pm |
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| 3:16 pm |
 robinraven Reader's SurveyWell, to get all members started off here, I thought I'd post something interesting that I found. It landed in my lap (er, inbox) from a friend who thought it would make a good fit for the community.A Reader's Survey. Yes, the LJ cliche of a survey. But this one is different, geared towards (of course) reading. hehe And it's only twelve questions.I'm going to put it on the info page for the community later, but, for now, I'm just posting it here so you can copy and paste it as a blank survey, ripe for your own input and thoughts.Just thought it would be a good introduction to the different tastes and readers we have here...Survey:1. Which book (or thing, person, or event) first made you love reading?2. Do you think that you can get a complete education from reading alone?3. Have you ever seen a film adaptation that you felt captured everything that the book was about, if not the whole story? If so, which one? If many, which was most successful?4. Are you a writer as well as a reader? If you are, what sorts of things do you write?5. If books were an emotion to you, what emotion would it be?6. Reading is to books as you are to _________...?7. Which five writers would you like to have at a dinner party or to converse with over your favorite activity?8. What is the last book you read?9. What is the last book you recommended to someone else?10. How often do you get so immersed in stories and reading that your emotions get meshed with that of the characters?11. What is the greatest compliment you could give to a writer?12. Who would you like to give it to? (5 comments | comment on this) |
| Thursday, January 8th, 2004 |
| 4:00 pm |
 zevhonith Well, goodness! It seems as though nobody's posting in here. Are we not readers?I'll start, I guess, and just be vague for now. *Ahem*My favorite book is Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. I read it for the first time when I was 12, and I've read it about 30 times in the 12 years intervening. I am an avid fan of Stephen King's Dark Tower series (I swear, all of the talent he never uses is in these books. They're brilliant. Don't think of them as King... just thing of them as an epic series.) This semester break, I've been reading everything that he's noted as being related to that series. Since it's his magnum opus, most of what he wrote earlier is incorporated into the Dark Tower, and many of his subsequent books have Dark Tower elements incorporated into them.Let's see... what else do I have to say at present. Well, I'm an English major, so I read a lot, but I can only read for fun on my school breaks. Otherwise, I'm reading only what I'm assigned. And it looks like I'm not taking any actual English classes this coming semester, so I won't be much fun for the semester proper. I'll probably post poetry and song lyrics and whatnot, though, since I do that on my own LJ all the time anyway.So, um, yeah. I know this is long for a community post, but nobody else is writing anything, so START! and maybe then I won't be as verbose. (1 comment | comment on this) |