Why is EVERYONE reading the Da Vinci Code?
Meanwhile, I'm with Sergei Eisenstein - The Sense Of Film
What are you currently reading?
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Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt,
who really oddly is Anne Rice's sister who writes werewolf books, I like her better, even though I saw the plot twists coming and could have told you the ending by page 87. I didn't think I'd like the setting (Fall of Rome) but the characters were excellent, the heroine was really cool as the poor girl with noble frankish blood that is to be married to some montain lord for poltical reasons involving the pope.
Really it doesn't sound like anything more than a trashy romance novel with the unknown foreign guy she has marry and the one she loves ( maybe not love but defiantely lust). Only as a twist She's a werewolf and the one she loves is one too but she's only ever met him as a wolf.
Despite the look of something dreadfully 'womanised' and mushy it's got several gems in it. The fight scenes consist of throat ripping which is really common amongst all wolf novels, cause ofcourse wolves always kill via the throat don't they ?
The Idea the wolf and the human, whom share a body, could actually have different personalities was really cool, an idea that is not the nrom. They fight for control inside the the person and argue on simple things. My only compalint si that people where very strange in the book, everytime they where mention their entire character ethos same to shift and be almost the reverse of what it was before. The random lesbain love scene was as stated rather random then the next morning it was never spoken of again, which was a bit fucked up.
who really oddly is Anne Rice's sister who writes werewolf books, I like her better, even though I saw the plot twists coming and could have told you the ending by page 87. I didn't think I'd like the setting (Fall of Rome) but the characters were excellent, the heroine was really cool as the poor girl with noble frankish blood that is to be married to some montain lord for poltical reasons involving the pope.
Really it doesn't sound like anything more than a trashy romance novel with the unknown foreign guy she has marry and the one she loves ( maybe not love but defiantely lust). Only as a twist She's a werewolf and the one she loves is one too but she's only ever met him as a wolf.
Despite the look of something dreadfully 'womanised' and mushy it's got several gems in it. The fight scenes consist of throat ripping which is really common amongst all wolf novels, cause ofcourse wolves always kill via the throat don't they ?
The Idea the wolf and the human, whom share a body, could actually have different personalities was really cool, an idea that is not the nrom. They fight for control inside the the person and argue on simple things. My only compalint si that people where very strange in the book, everytime they where mention their entire character ethos same to shift and be almost the reverse of what it was before. The random lesbain love scene was as stated rather random then the next morning it was never spoken of again, which was a bit fucked up.
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50 Essays, A Portable Anthology
I'm taking an English class next month that's using this as the textbook. Since I can't get ahold of the syllabus until a week before class, I've decided that my best way to prepare is to read the entire book before class begins. It's complete overkill since we can't possibly cover all fifty of the essays in the book, but it's good writing so I really don't mind. It has George Orwell, Maya Angelou, Jonathan Swift and Alice Walker among others. I get the feeling I should just read this stuff for my own good.
If I read an essay or two every day I should be able to finish before class begins, and really take the pressure off myself.
I'm taking an English class next month that's using this as the textbook. Since I can't get ahold of the syllabus until a week before class, I've decided that my best way to prepare is to read the entire book before class begins. It's complete overkill since we can't possibly cover all fifty of the essays in the book, but it's good writing so I really don't mind. It has George Orwell, Maya Angelou, Jonathan Swift and Alice Walker among others. I get the feeling I should just read this stuff for my own good.
If I read an essay or two every day I should be able to finish before class begins, and really take the pressure off myself.
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Xanien
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I WAS reading The Divine Comedy by Dante Alegheri (think I spelled the last name wrong . . .) you've all heard about Dante's Inferno though, right? This contains that, AND the other two story's of the pilgrim's travels. I read Inferno, Purgatorio, and some of Pardiso but had to take the book back. Need to re-borrow it and finish that up . . .
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