What Are You Reading?

Madoka wrote:


This novel follows the general Monomyth pattern, but several twists and inversions of the pattern give them originality.


I am enjoying it alot. There was a 45 episode anime of the series in 2002 that I liked quite a bit. I am sure I am losing some in the translation to English, but the translation seems well done so far.

Monomyth, eh...I sense a Joseph Campbell fan...

Juuni Kokki is truly one of the best anime of all time...

I just finished Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary. I liked it, although I'm still wondering why our English professor chose that book for us to read. It's something that would usually be chosen as book reports for grade schoolers. But I really, really liked it though.

Wynter wrote:

I'm getting mine in the mail soon. :yippee:

ive just bought mine yesterday.. and im half way done.. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:The ingredient label on the box of my Reduced Fat Triscuits.

I read that too. The ending was kind of predictable tho.

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Tasted like crap. Ordered a pizza instead. ^_^

I don't read much. I bought a few books a year or two ago and never had the chance to read them. In the past few weeks, I managed to read them. Read Dune's Buthlerian Jihad prequel trilogy and finished the 7th book of the original series Hunters of Dune. They're not as good as the first 3 books or the house trilogy, but still interesting. Scifi, politics, religion, ecology, bitching... You can't go wrong with bestsellers I guess. :) Now, I have to wait till July 2008 to know how it ends. :(


Now I back to reading The handbook of Japanese Grammar. =T

slashersam016 wrote:

ive just bought mine yesterday.. and im half way done.. :victory:

>>so jealous!<<

I'm gonna re-read all the ones before it before I read mine... which is coming in five more days!

rereading HP6

kenjilina wrote:

ha ha almost up to date now. :beaten:

got a letter today to say my subscription has now expired. after only eight issues?! i don't think so!! :angry:

Got myself a sneak peak at the first 100 or so pages of HP7.

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1 minor character dies in chapter 1, two semi-major character die in ch 4 that's all before 100 pages have past. you get some good background info, FINALLY, on Dumbledore's past in ch 2.

krim wrote:Got myself a sneak peak at the first 100 or so pages of HP7.

Sneak peek??? How'd you get that? Do they have them at the bookstores already? *gets ready to pillage Borders*

:shamefulcry: :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry:
Having spend the last 2 years reading minimum 50 pages of case studies and technical notes each day for my master, I canLt bring myself up anymore to read books. The most intellectual I can read are Mangas and graphic novels. :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry:
I used to looooooooove books and the Harry Potter franchise. Now I have to wait for the movies to be released :shamefulcry:

krim wrote:Got myself a sneak peak at the first 100 or so pages of HP7.

Spoiler — click to reveal

1 minor character dies in chapter 1, two semi-major character die in ch 4 that's all before 100 pages have past. you get some good background info, FINALLY, on Dumbledore's past in ch 2.

Spoiler — click to reveal

Damn, I didn't know characters were gonna get killed off so soon! I'm glad they provide the info on Dumbledore, tho. I've been DYING to find out whether it was a hoax or what...

I've taken a break from Comicbook reading to re-read all the HP books, since I'll be getting the final one in a few days. So right now I'm reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Hopefully I'll be able to finish it tonight.

Let me just say that JKR left a whole slew of minutiae clues in HP6, if you're well versed in the book, you're going to get a lot of "ohhh! that's what that was all about" moments when you're reading 7.

if you're the type of reading who wants/likes to guess what's coming ahead then read 6 again before 7 comes out and look for strange sentences that really aren't needed, or that seem obvious.

if not, then forget the minutia and wait patiently for saturday.

krim wrote:Let me just say that JKR left a whole slew of minutiae clues in HP6, if you're well versed in the book, you're going to get a lot of "ohhh! that's what that was all about" moments when you're reading 7.

if you're the type of reading who wants/likes to guess what's coming ahead then read 6 again before 7 comes out and look for strange sentences that really aren't needed, or that seem obvious.

if not, then forget the minutia and wait patiently for saturday.

Thanks for the tip! :victory:

I'm re-read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets now. :mrgreen:

krim wrote:Let me just say that JKR left a whole slew of minutiae clues in HP6, if you're well versed in the book, you're going to get a lot of "ohhh! that's what that was all about" moments when you're reading 7.

if you're the type of reading who wants/likes to guess what's coming ahead then read 6 again before 7 comes out and look for strange sentences that really aren't needed, or that seem obvious.

if not, then forget the minutia and wait patiently for saturday.

i'm going thru the whole series looking for clues, a bit over halfway done rereading HP4 now, hope i'll finish 6 by tmrw night :woot:

I am getting SOOOOOOOOO excited about the HP7 midnight opening tomorrow, now the big question is...
Will it look weird if a 22 year old goes dressed as a Hogwarts student??? :beaten: judging from last years reception I don't think I'd have anything to worry about :XD should I dress up or not hrrrrmmm
I just hope it's not thundering like this tomorrow kawaiioooooooooo *cries*

Don't worry, just google star trek / star wars conventions. It should make you feel more confident. ;)

I'm now on the third HP book, Prisoner of Azkaban. So many things I missed which I'm getting again after re-reading!

Hopefully I'll be done this one tomorrow. Too bad I won't be able to read number 7 right away. I still have three more to re-read. :pout:

all those people queueing in the rain for hp7. :beaten: :hehe:

They're all going to get sick and won't be able to read it. :hehe:

tabana wrote:They're all going to get sick and won't be able to read it. :hehe:

Serves 'em right. :twisted: