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Old 02-26-2012, 07:06 AM
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I'm reading The Kite Runner and hoping to read Emily Bronte next. Anyone else read any Emily Bronte??
Wuthering Heights is a classic and her only novel, read it several times.
She also wrote poetry but I don't find it very appealing.

For more novels check out the books her siblings (Charlotte and Anne Bronte) wrote
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Old 03-31-2012, 09:46 PM
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Old 03-31-2012, 09:55 PM
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Wuthering Heights is a classic and her only novel, read it several times.
She also wrote poetry but I don't find it very appealing.

For more novels check out the books her siblings (Charlotte and Anne Bronte) wrote
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Old 03-31-2012, 10:13 PM
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Old 03-31-2012, 10:20 PM
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I'm working on Persuasion and when I finish, I will have read all six of Jane Austen's novels in order of her writing them. I'm enjoying them more and more. There's definitely a learning curve getting used to her writing.
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Old 03-31-2012, 11:06 PM
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I'm working on Persuasion and when I finish, I will have read all six of Jane Austen's novels in order of her writing them. I'm enjoying them more and more. There's definitely a learning curve getting used to her writing.
Persuasion may be my favorite.
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Old 04-01-2012, 01:10 AM
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I'm reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I'm getting through it ok, but I just don't get the point. If you're going to have a story about a person who randomly changes gender and lives forever, shouldn't it be sci-fi AND have some sort of explanation about both things. I mean, at least she says, isn't this weird, he woke up one day and was a woman. But there is no mention whatever about why she has lived for more than 300 years and why nobody questions that fact, even though it doesn't seem to be a secret.

Oh, and the book itself was apparently used as someone's reading for class. It has pencil underlining all through it, in places that seem more or less random and make it very distracting. I have gone through almost an entire pencil-top eraser making those stupid lines go away.
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Old 04-01-2012, 10:44 AM
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OMG, The Sands of Time! I read EVERYTHING Sidney Sheldon in HS. That brought back some memories! Is that the one about the diamond mines?
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Old 04-01-2012, 02:43 PM
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I'm reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I'm getting through it ok, but I just don't get the point. If you're going to have a story about a person who randomly changes gender and lives forever, shouldn't it be sci-fi AND have some sort of explanation about both things. I mean, at least she says, isn't this weird, he woke up one day and was a woman. But there is no mention whatever about why she has lived for more than 300 years and why nobody questions that fact, even though it doesn't seem to be a secret.

Oh, and the book itself was apparently used as someone's reading for class. It has pencil underlining all through it, in places that seem more or less random and make it very distracting. I have gone through almost an entire pencil-top eraser making those stupid lines go away.
Virginia Woolf is, in my opinion, a writer to trudge through only because you have to for your lit class. In other words, I am not a fan.
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Old 04-01-2012, 02:50 PM
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There are some "classics" that I will just never understand how they got that standing. I've read a few of the Russian classics and they were fine, but The Brothers Karamazov? Wow, boring. Pointless. Unintelligible. Possibly badly translated. And did I say boring? It is very seldom I abandon a book I've started (too OCD to leave something unfinished, even if it's unpleasant) but I don't think I got through 100 pages of that one.

I'm about done with Orlando so I'll finish it out. I just don't get it. I think I'm supposed to think it's some feminist marvel for her time, but there aren't 5 paragraphs (I'm betting; you can bet I won't go back and count) that cover feminism or how she feels differently as a woman than as a man or how society treated her differently over time.
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Old 04-01-2012, 06:52 PM
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OMG, The Sands of Time! I read EVERYTHING Sidney Sheldon in HS. That brought back some memories! Is that the one about the diamond mines?
he.is.awesome. this book is about 4 escaped nuns on the run with Spanish terrorists.
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Old 04-28-2012, 05:19 PM
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Old 04-28-2012, 07:04 PM
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Old 04-28-2012, 07:27 PM
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Old 04-28-2012, 07:48 PM
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About 3/4 through the 4th book in the Game of Thrones series -- A Feast For Crows. I find this one a little slower than the others. They spend a lot of time introducing and building up many new characters, and I am annoyed that I'm not getting enough updates on the characters I'm already invested in. I'm usually a pretty fast reader but these books are so detailed that it takes me several weeks to plow through each one. Even so, there are so many characters and so many parallel story arcs that it's a lot to keep up with!
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