Meme - Get Bookish!

[indira14]

Gacked from hungrytiger11

BOLD the books you have read.ITALICIZE the ones you’ve heard of/only read part of. The BBC says if you've read more than seven, you've read more than the average person.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Ring s- JRR Tolkein
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter Series- J.K. Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird

Comments

[indira14]

Ah, yes, thank you~! Devouring any book within two feet of me is an ingrained habit, which is exactly why i don't have a book collection. I borrow most of it from the library.

So, Gone with the Wind is well over 1,000 pages
It is four hours long

;_; I'm very excited to see it described as the "Harry Potter of its time", but what is really intimidating is the length. That, and between the excange and all the request fics still pending, I don't think I can manae much time for it. D: However, I shall still buy the book if for nothing more than the fact that I fell in love with the front cover. (And yes, I shall finish reading it... even though it's a 1000> paes long. D:) Hopefully, it's one those booksthat are so attention-grabbing that reading through it is not a tedious business at all. I do hope it's one of those books that makes time fly by...

I remember working for two weeks translating one chapter in my French class only to walk into my English class, where we were reading the book, and finding that chapter condensed into a paragraph (the book was abridged). - o.o' I have no idea what to say to that. Except. Abridged books are... not my cup of tea.

But I did very much like the animated version of CoMC... even though I don't remember much except dark night skies. /memory failure./

Ooookay. Now I'm really skeptical about starting Jane Eyre. I borrowed it from my friend today. App. 3 hours ago, and while I was talking about it with her, I remembered your comments about the main character and asked my friend what she thought. She simply told me that the main character was a bit, uh, "bonchito" (that is a bengali word that roughly translates to 'deprived of something' or something like that. I don't know for sure my traditional bengali-speaking skills are abysmal, at best ;_;). So do you suppose I should start reading it? Since I have the book with me and everything...

Same goes for me - I really do think Lolita would be an interesting read. It's not often that writers here cross the social taboo of older man/younger woman, so yes, I'm excited. nodnod.

And I was wondering if you could explain the main plots of His Dark Materials and To Kill a Mocking Birds without giving too much away? It's very weird that I've heard of TKaMB for all my life but have never been curious about it at all. *is ashamed of ignorance*

I don't know how much I'll like Winnie the Pooh, though - I remember adoring the cartoon when I was young but now... :/

I don't know about a review, but if I do write reviews, I'd probably write one on His Dark Materials, provided I can get my hands on the book somehow... we'll see. :)

[hungrytiger11]

His Dark Materials starts in an alternative universe where people have what they call "deamons," animals that, while having a seperate body from you are still a part of you (and these daemons can talk) You might call it your anima if you read Carl Jung. The animals shape says something about the person. Anyway, a girl Lyra lives in Oxford when a string of strange kidnappings pulls her to the North and into an epic battle of religious oppression versus free thought.

As Narnia is to Christianity, so His Dark Materials is to Atheism, according to the author. (which is why I like the series but don't agree with all the themes). It loosely pays homage to on John Milton's Paradise Lost too. I think you'd really enjoy it. It is a richly woven world, with intense themes and beautiful writing. The characters are strong (the women are especially strong, important women) and they are flawed too; very realistic.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming of age story set in the Deep South of the United States in the nineteen-thirties. This was during the great depression, and is while people were still segregted based on the color of their skin. It was also a decade that saw a lot of lynchings, and hate-crimes. A little tomboy retells of her summer during the year her father, a white laywer, defends a black man in rape case. It is considered by many to be one of the best piece of writing on racism in the United States. It is a very, very good story. The movie of it, while not as good as the book, is still a movie that is considered one of the to 100 best made in Hollywood.