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Post by keyodie on Dec 30, 2008 14:22:21 GMT -5
Looking for Alaska - John Green
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Hravan
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Post by Hravan on Dec 31, 2008 12:20:09 GMT -5
Currently reading: Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien (7th time since September.... I do worry sometimes ) Lords of the Bow - Conn Iggulden The Aeneid - Virgil The Odyssey - Homer Agamemnon - Aeschylus Oedipus Rex - Sophocles Electra - Euripides Medea - Euripides Blah.... Stupid classics work.... Have to have fully revised the Aeneid and Odyssey by Monday (class test) and I have an A level exam on Agamemnon, Oedipus and Electra on the 14th..
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Post by keyodie on Dec 31, 2008 13:42:20 GMT -5
I loved Oedipus!! xD
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Hravan
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Post by Hravan on Dec 31, 2008 15:09:47 GMT -5
I love it too! Funniest thing ever was when one of my friends said "I love the name Oedipus! I want to call my son Oedipus!" Errrr... Tash... you want your son to kill his father and then marry you? lol The whole class just looked at her. Agamemnon is the best though.. Oh yesh... You've got to love Clytemnestra. Best line in the whole play is how Cassandra describes Clytemnestra: "Smouldering mother of death to smoke relentless hate upon those most dear." It's sort of our catchphrase now (our little classics group - yes we be sad ). So much so that when my friend had her Cambridge interview, they asked her about Agamemnon and all she could think of was said phrase.
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Post by ladytera on Jan 1, 2009 8:50:20 GMT -5
Just started something called Outsider, just finished something called the Secret Hour. It wasn't bad, drama, suspense, romance, but low key on all three. I probably won't remember the story line in a week. I don't really know what the current one's about yet, I'm only four or five pages in. Oh, and my sister's Humanities part 1 book. That's not continuous, it more of a here and there when I have a place to rest the huge monster while reading, instead of having to hold it where I can see it, like in bed, or hanging out the window.
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Post by keyodie on Jan 1, 2009 12:58:08 GMT -5
Hahaha omg yeah. Naming your son Oedipus = not a good idea.
I'll be reading Lord of the Flies soon if I can get myself to read it... I missed it at school and I figure I pretty much have to read it, what with all the references and all.
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Post by pansy on Jan 2, 2009 11:46:55 GMT -5
LOL. Naming your kid Oedipus isn't a good idea. Personally I liked The Iliad the best out of Homer's bunch. But then again I'm just an Achilles/Patroclus shipper so. -shrug-
I'm currently reading: Looking for Alaska - John Green
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Post by ladytera on Jan 9, 2009 19:56:38 GMT -5
Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell. I'm apparently off my romance kick. This one is a little irritating though. I've done most of the Kay Scarpetta novels in audio book format, and I'm finding the writting format seems kind of disjointed and choppy. On the other hand, that may be this particular story. I noticed her books started getting kind of annoying in the last few books of this series. Still, it's not a bad story if you can deal with it being a little dark, and you're ADD enough to like the way it jumps around.
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Post by pansy on Jan 10, 2009 14:20:49 GMT -5
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green. Good stuff Dante's Inferno - Dante Alighieri I recently finished Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle. Very cute. =3
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Post by Esteleth on Jan 10, 2009 17:50:29 GMT -5
Wuthering Heights by Anne Bronte. It's kind of hard to get past the old language, but I'm liking it so far.
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Post by pansy on Jan 17, 2009 8:21:46 GMT -5
Aww! I adore Wuthering Heights. =] Heathcliff~ <3
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