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Best Of Issac Asimov. Greatest sci-fi writer ever.


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I don't know if you could say I'm "reading" them, but I feel very Calvin-and-Hobbesy right now, so I'm reading my "long" Calvin and Hobbes books, "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat" and "The Days Are Just Packed."

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I don't know if you could say I'm "reading" them, but I feel very Calvin-and-Hobbesy right now, so I'm reading my "long" Calvin and Hobbes books, "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat" and "The Days Are Just Packed."


Those totally count as reading. Comic strip collections comprise the majority of my literary consumption these days...

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Yeah, I just checked out the Tenth Anniversary Book. Fun retrospective.

I also got Scott Adams' "Dilbert Future", full of predictions about the future.

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Star Wars X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar... It's okay, not really that great, but tge humor makes up for lack of quality.

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Poetry and Designs of William Blake.

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I feel like I need a good poetry book. Huh.

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Shel Silverstein FTW, CT.

I have a whole book of Poe stuff somewhere...

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I love Shel Silverstein, but I meant I needed a NEW poetry book. :P

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Oh.

Try Barnes & Noble. Or if you have any Internet time, check out PodSlam.org for some killer slam poetry.

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For World Lit class: Just finished Naguib Mahfouz's Midaq Alley. It was interesting in that it had no main character or real villain, but it was still not boring somehow. Next up is I, Rigoberta Menchú, the memoir of the woman in the title, who is actually running for President of Guatemala now. All the books in this class are about people in various countries coping with the changes of modernization. Which is great, but, you know, how about some classics of world literature?

After school crap's out of the way, I've realized it's time to go through all the Calvin & Hobbes strips again. I haven't done that in at least a year now, maybe two--and that's a startling omission. After that, probably One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez and anything else that might have magical realism in it.

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All the books in this class are about people in various countries coping with the changes of modernization. Which is great, but, you know, how about some classics of world literature?


Well, it doesn't exactly say "CLASSIC world lit" in the class name, now does it? :P

In all seriousness, I always like it when classes try to teach modern literature. I've met some interesting books that way. And discovered that I'm really envious of Barbera Kingsolver's writing style. I love the fact that her prose, while as elaborate as I generally like to make mine, is flowing and waltz-like in ways I can NEVER manage.

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I feel like I need a good poetry book. Huh.


I thought Crank was a good poetry book. Although, it isn't really a "poetry book" in the sense that it's a catalogue of poems, it's more like a novel wrote in poetic form and using strange formatting to tell the story beyond blocks of text consuming the page. Like-wise, I wouldn't say that it's just a novel with the space key hit in odd places plus a couple of tabs.

Lastly, if you can find any, Jim Morrison's poetry collections always seemed interesting to me.

(I realize these might not seem overly "mature" but they're still good).

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Flawless by Sara Shepard.

It's a really interesting book- the second in a series. Covers a lot of subplots and has a really creepy/baffling main plot.

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Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn: Specter of the Past

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Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn: Specter of the Past
do you like starwars or something?

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Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn: Specter of the Past
do you like starwars or something?

Yep. Plus there are enough of the books to keep reading for quite a while...

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Ugh…The Great Gatsby for English…soooooo…boring!

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I feel like I need a good poetry book. Huh.


I thought Crank was a good poetry book. Although, it isn't really a "poetry book" in the sense that it's a catalogue of poems, it's more like a novel wrote in poetic form and using strange formatting to tell the story beyond blocks of text consuming the page. Like-wise, I wouldn't say that it's just a novel with the space key hit in odd places plus a couple of tabs.


I think I saw Crank once and considered checking it out, but didn't. However, since I may end up going to the library on Thursday, I'll look out for that.

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Two new books:

Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn: Vision of the Future
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Star Wars: Survivor's quest

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Those totally count as reading. Comic strip collections comprise the majority of my literary consumption these days...
Mine too. I just got the new Pearls Before Swine collection. As usual, it wins.

I'm also reading some Jules Verne stuff, from a seven-book compilation. Of course, the scientific principles are almost completely implausible, but for the 19th century, you take what you can get.

Speaking of the 19th century, the gifted class is reading Ivanhoe for class. I don't care how classic it is, I still don't like it. I'm tired of the Middle Ages by now, and the paragraph-length sentences with intricate syntax get irritating rather quickly. The book will be over soon enough, though.

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Still re-reading Dragon Rider. Oddly enough, I'm liking it way more the second time through than I did the first, even though I still really liked it. But I feel like I'm liking it on some "deeper" level. Huh? Make sense, me.

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Still re-reading Dragon Rider. Oddly enough, I'm liking it way more the second time through than I did the first, even though I still really liked it. But I feel like I'm liking it on some "deeper" level. Huh? Make sense, me.


Well, as a wise user (you) once quoted a wise man (Willy Wonka) at me:

"A little nonsense now and then
Is treasured by the wisest men."

I'll now run away.

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CT: Saul Williams or T.S. Eliot. Two of the best poets to have ever lived.

or, if you want your head to explode, here's what i'm knee deep in right now:
Songs of Innocence and of Experience - William Blake
Othello
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A Man Without a Country - Vonnegut

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The Bartimeaus Trilogy #3: Ptolemy's Gate

A great book so far, I've read the first two and they are AWESOME!

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