WTF are you READING right now?

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WTF are you READING right now?
Topic Started: Oct 20 2004, 07:08 AM (6,275 Views)
Barbie	Oct 20 2004, 07:08 AM Post #1
Unregistered	A thread for what you're reading! Books, magazines, whateva, post it in here. As for me, I'm trying like mad to finish The Unifying Force. Only 150 pages to go!
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Wes	Oct 20 2004, 08:23 AM Post #2
like some cat from japan Posts: 1,927 Group: Members Member #11 Joined: October 15, 2004	Reading, eh? Shatterpoint and YJK: Jedi Shadow (the three-book thing - I'm on Shadow Academy)... Am also flicking through Rebel Stand to remind myself what Wes was doing during the war, should probably check Destiny's Way and TUF for that, too...
	I like deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.


Tenel Ka	Oct 20 2004, 08:27 AM Post #3
WHAT'DYOO DO TO YER LEG, STU? Posts: 5,861 Group: Admin t(-.-)t Member #1 Joined: March 1, 2004	I'm reading the Lemony Snicket books - I know they're kids books... but they're so damn addicting!
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Barbie	Oct 21 2004, 03:12 PM Post #4
Unregistered	Finished TUF (yay!) and have started in on Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead.
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Jacen	Oct 21 2004, 11:57 PM Post #5
We have to succumb to the feelings we could never face. Posts: 2,605 Group: Members Member #7 Joined: March 4, 2004	Isard's Revenge
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Jaina	Oct 22 2004, 04:36 PM Post #6
Unregistered	The Golden Compass for class! Yay adolescent lit. Oh, and a mix between Magician: Master, Staying Dead, and Vector Prime (omg, I have a LIBRARY CARD to the library in the town by school!). Right now focusing on the lovely SW library book though.
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Wes	Oct 22 2004, 04:50 PM Post #7
like some cat from japan Posts: 1,927 Group: Members Member #11 Joined: October 15, 2004	You're doing His Dark Materials in class?! <3 Whoever your teacher is, I love him/her and wish he/she was my English teacher. Am still reading Shatterpoint and YJK. >_>; But I half-read Dark Apprentice the other night, and now sincerely hope that KJA doesn't write post-NJO at all. Sure, consult him on characters and events and stuffness, but don't let him turn my favourite characters into idiots again. ;_;
	I like deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.


Jaina	Oct 22 2004, 06:40 PM Post #8
Unregistered	Yeah, we're doing His Dark Materials, Book 3 of Harry Potter, The Grey King (from The Dark is Rising Sequence), and some others. It's like the best lit class ever. We get to sit there and talk about these really great books (and the prof is very interesting) and for my paper, I can rant about character deaths! Whee! Hmm...I haven't read the Jedi Academy triology in a looooooong time. But I did like KJA's YJK books.
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Wes	Oct 22 2004, 06:54 PM Post #9
like some cat from japan Posts: 1,927 Group: Members Member #11 Joined: October 15, 2004	OMG <3 Northern Lights, Prisoner of Azkaban, and the Dark is Rising sequence (which I haven't read in so long...)? You have the best class ever. All we do in English is poems... :x eh... the YJK books aren't bad, though he manages to mess one or two things up there as well (TIEs in atmosphere... ;\) . . . I guess I should just remind myself that the JAT was his first time writing in the SW universe... unless he did the Sith comics before that? I don't know. ^^;
	I like deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.


Jaina	Oct 22 2004, 07:10 PM Post #10
Unregistered	Yes, I know! It's absolutely great!!! Especially cause I couldn't find any humanities courses I liked in the school bulletin, and we're required to take one, and then this was being offered to the semester, and I was like: so taking it! The class rocks. It's definately one of my favorites, although nothing beats archaeological methods. And poems? Yuck. We did that too much in English classes in high school. I hated it. Hmm, I think I've come to accept that any SW author is capable of making mistakes, especially authors new to the galaxy. Picked up a few minor mistakes the other day reading <i>Dark Journey</i>. I have no clue if KJA did any Sith comics. I just know he did YJK and the four "adult" novels.
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Wes	Oct 22 2004, 07:22 PM Post #11
like some cat from japan Posts: 1,927 Group: Members Member #11 Joined: October 15, 2004	He did the Sith wars, or something blah, about Exar Kun and stuff 4000 years before ANH. I haven't read them though. And a couple other comics... We didn't do poems this much last year, but we've already written essays on like... four since we came back to school. Hopefully there'll be no more for the rest of the year though... >_>;
	I like deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.


Jaina	Oct 22 2004, 07:31 PM Post #12
Unregistered	Oh, okay. I have a bunch of the comics, but it's been too long since I've gone through them. They sort of just sit on a shelf. I think there were Jedi Academy comics, cause...hehe...cartoon Kyp! When I go home again, I really ought to find all of those and scan in some of the pics on to my computers to use in photoshop. Could be fun. Yikes, that sounds a lot like my AP Lit class senior year. Not fun. Are you going to get to read any books at all?
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Wes	Oct 22 2004, 07:50 PM Post #13
like some cat from japan Posts: 1,927 Group: Members Member #11 Joined: October 15, 2004	Leviathan! hehe, I borrowed that from the library a few weeks ago. . . Kyp looks horrible in some of the panels, and he has blue eyes in some of them too, but still amusing. Apparently we'll be reading a book next term... I don't know which book. Not until after Christmas, though. But, we have to do a Personal Study, where we choose our own book to read and write a report on. I was gonna do Traitor, but my teacher said no. ;_; So I picked The Perks of Being A Wallflower and The Curious Incident Of The Dog In the Night-time, to compare...
	I like deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.


Jaina	Oct 22 2004, 08:03 PM Post #14
Unregistered	Hehe. Yeah, that was the name. Wow, it's been too long since I've read them. I really need to dig up some of this old stuff when I go home again. Wow, you have to wait till after Christmas to read a book? o_O I think I'd go mad. Hehe...reading <i>Traitor</i> for class would be awesome. Too bad your teacher said no though. Another reason why I <3 my lit class...I can use <i>Star Wars</i> to support my argument in my paper. Hehehehehe. I've heard of <i>The Perks of Being A Wallflower</i>, but I've never read it. Never heard of <i>The Curious Incident Of The Dog In the Night-time,</i> though. What are they about?
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Wes	Oct 22 2004, 08:13 PM Post #15
like some cat from japan Posts: 1,927 Group: Members Member #11 Joined: October 15, 2004	You should go read them both, they're great.... Perks... is about a kid just starting high school, who's mostly been a loner up to now, and his only friend from middle school committed suicide... He makes friends with some seniors in school and starts to branch out, socialise a bit more, with the whole sex/drugs/rock&roll thing. The main character's really interesting, and what you're reading are his letters to an anonymous character, so you get all his personal feelings and emotions on everything... it's really good. The Curious Incident... is kind of similar, the voice of the main character anyway... It's set in England though, and is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and goes to a special school. He's really smart (doing his A-Level maths three years early), but has a lot of trouble understanding emotions, and connecting to people. So what you get is an almost entirely objective account of what's happening with his family and friends, and of the dog's death, because all he knows are facts. He doesn't understand the emotions and sometimes the meanings behind them, but we do, which makes it all the more interesting. hm..
	I like deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.


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