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You do realize Mr. Winch is a character from that series, right, SD ? Or to be more precise, an alias of a certain renegade mastermind...
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Kung Fu Jawa
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I got bored with Landover, so I'm on to the Eyes of the Dragon.
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Tell me what you thought of Slaughter house!
Shadowdog- Yeah. I got to where Ben meets the alking dog and monkeys. Then he does the landview thing. I don't know. I just wasn't into it. I'm sure I'll come back to it at some point.
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quote:Originally posted by Kung Fu Jawa: Tell me what you thought of Slaughter house!
Well, as a work of literature, I thought it was very good. The writing style was unorthodox, but it also made it interesting. The story itself was very compelling, and very entertaining. The characters are realistic, and you can connect with them.
However, I personally didn't like it much, because of certain things that bugged me. The writing style, which is actually very good, after a while just started to annoy me. Whether he did this intentionally or not is beyond me, but it just started bugging me.
However, that's my only complaint about it. The story was very compelling, and drew me in & didn't let go. The book actually does make you feel the emotions in the book, to the point where I was almost depressed during certain parts of the book.
overall, I'd give it an 8 - 8.3/10.
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quote:Originally posted by Joedark0: Reading "Things Fall Apart" for an english class.
Hate it.
How can you hate it?? Its one of the greatest books of the 20th century...
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Empty?? Nonsensical???? You can't get Africa and its colonial legacy, if you haven't read this book...this book is ridiculously deep, but you are entitled to you opinion, don't mean to attack you, its just one of my favorite books, then again I'm a poli sci, history major focusing in IR...
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Well I am thinking of reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens soon or maybe next month, hmmm.
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Kung Fu Jawa
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Finished Eyes of the Dragon.
I think I'm ready to go on to The Drawing of the Three.
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I am getting near the end of Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. Really good book. It's set in France in the 1200's and in present day France (well 2005, but you know what I mean!)
It flits between the 2 time zones and both sets of characters are hunting for the same thing. The hunt is for the Holy Grail, but as I have about 150 pages left (out of 700) I'm not sure how it will finish yet!
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I've been reading Nine Stories by JD Salinger and I suggest it for anyone. out of all of them though, if nobody reads any of the others they should read the sixth: "For Esme with Love and Squalor", it's my favorite short story I've ever read.
the language is used by J.D. in a way that most authors don't really go, he's excellent with image and in most of his stories (in Nine Stories) he focuses mostly on the dialogue. The dialogue is very good for the characters.
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