lol I like how you left in some of my comments as your own!
You should read Harry Potter so I can analyze the rampant unresolved homosexual tensions with you. Bwahahaha.
re: #86, the man writes well but GOD is it depressiong....."bad things happen to good people repeatedly" pretty much sums this one up. This description is PERFECT for Marquis de Sade. Except instead of "bad things", it's really "horrible, terrible, unfathomable sexual abuse and torture". You should read "Justine".
haha i would definitely enjoy the marquis de sade....lmao....
i dont know, i never had the desire to read harry potter, i read part of the first one and got sick (possibly because i was reading it on the bus) - talk about negative conditioning, lol. Plus i never really liked sci fi. Also i dont like the over-hyped nature of the HP series.
haha, that's how a person knows that you don't like sci-fi... when you call something that isn't sci-fi, sci-fi. HP is speculative fiction, magic realism (cf. 100 years of solitude) or fantasy at best. Now, you want real sci-fi, you should read Dune. That book is fucking awesome.
HP will never be a great literary work of art. But it's got a charming quality to it that's slightly reminiscent of Roald Dahl or CS Lewis. That... and the rampant unresolved homosexual tensions. Bwahahaha.
Some you haven't read...acmahAugust 5 2008, 22:57:39 UTC
As opposed to quantity, I'll go for quality, here (aka I'm too lazy to copy the whole list to my lj). I took a look at your list and the ones you haven't read, and from those listed below a few that I have read, and especially liked:
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - Some interesting philosophical ramblings 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - I read this back in high school, when we read 1984 by George Orwell. A weird sort of distopian novel. but I guess this probably falls into that "sci-fi" category that you don't like 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - Again, sort of weird. Explores the effect a girl being murdered has upon the family/community, creepy that it's told from the perspective of the child, who looks down from "heaven" on everything. 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - I've read part of the original french, and all of the english version. Nice little flight of fancy for kids, and reading between the lines it's a sort of social commentary.
Wow Jenny you are apparently really tight-fisted with your love of books, judging by how many you underlined. :) Come on you didn't love the Narnia books? Or Life of Pi?
As for HP, I agree with Weija, except for the homosexual tensions thing (you can talk about that with me but I may or may not get angry), and I would just call it fantasy, not magic realism. And I advise you to get over the negative conditioning. :)
Guess what, I was at my new apartment today with my mom, doing some cleaning before we move in my stuff, and as I was cleaning the windows this pretty French woman on the sidewalk motioned for me to open the front door for her, and then got me to carry her backpack and said she was visiting her friend, and I didn't try any French on her.
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You should read Harry Potter so I can analyze the rampant unresolved homosexual tensions with you. Bwahahaha.
re: #86, the man writes well but GOD is it depressiong....."bad things happen to good people repeatedly" pretty much sums this one up.
This description is PERFECT for Marquis de Sade. Except instead of "bad things", it's really "horrible, terrible, unfathomable sexual abuse and torture". You should read "Justine".
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i dont know, i never had the desire to read harry potter, i read part of the first one and got sick (possibly because i was reading it on the bus) - talk about negative conditioning, lol. Plus i never really liked sci fi. Also i dont like the over-hyped nature of the HP series.
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HP will never be a great literary work of art. But it's got a charming quality to it that's slightly reminiscent of Roald Dahl or CS Lewis. That... and the rampant unresolved homosexual tensions. Bwahahaha.
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25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Some interesting philosophical ramblings
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- I read this back in high school, when we read 1984 by George Orwell. A weird sort of distopian novel. but I guess this probably falls into that "sci-fi" category that you don't like
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- Again, sort of weird. Explores the effect a girl being murdered has upon the family/community, creepy that it's told from the perspective of the child, who looks down from "heaven" on everything.
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- I've read part of the original french, and all of the english version. Nice little flight of fancy for kids, and reading between the lines it's a sort of social commentary.
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As for HP, I agree with Weija, except for the homosexual tensions thing (you can talk about that with me but I may or may not get angry), and I would just call it fantasy, not magic realism. And I advise you to get over the negative conditioning. :)
Guess what, I was at my new apartment today with my mom, doing some cleaning before we move in my stuff, and as I was cleaning the windows this pretty French woman on the sidewalk motioned for me to open the front door for her, and then got me to carry her backpack and said she was visiting her friend, and I didn't try any French on her.
I mention this only because of the French. :P
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