"Honestly, Lord of the Flies. It just truly could not keep my attention which is very rare. I love all of my English teachers but by the end of the last chapter I was like : "SERIOUSLY?! You told me this is was a good book, this was not a good…"
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Book Withdrawal
Backstory to the question/conversation: I got an email from ThinkGeek yesterday and it advertised a t-shirt with the Tree of Gondor on it. And then suddenly it was like the season finale from Season…Continue
Tags: withdrawal, book, favorite
Started Jul 25, 2012
Least favorite assigned book
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This may be here somewhere, but I went through the last few pages and didn't see anything.I love reading more than most people (well, maybe not here, but in general), but I feel like there's still…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Hannah Gantz Oct 29, 2012.
Driving to VidCon?
I'm driving to VidCon from Indiana, and I was just wondering if anyone else was making a long trek by car. I just planned out where I'm staying (I've decided to camp every night during the trip,…Continue
Started Jun 5, 2012
Vonnegut
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So I started reading Vonnegut like a year ago with Slaughterhouse 5 and loved it. I moved on to Cat's Cradle and finished it in one sitting. Then I read Breakfast of Champions. It just seemed…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by David Zebarah May 29, 2012.
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Brittany Perlow replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"For me,The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing was the least favorite book I was ever assigned. I would even goes as far as to call it one of the worst books I have ever had the misfortune to read. It is literally 5 stories in one. This book was…"
Anna Sakach replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"I couldn't stand Catcher in the Rye. The entire time I spent reading it I was waiting for something resembling a plot to show up, but instead he just kept wandering around the city disliking himself for no reason other than that he…"
RandomLanguage replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"In middle school, we had to read I am the Cheese. I don't remember who the author was, but it was very strange. To this day, hearing "Farmer in the Dell" reminds me of weird feeling of this book."
William Harmer replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"'Walkabout" and 'Rabbit Proof Fence". Oh god, I couldn't read either of them!"
Tim replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book""Resource Wars" It was the dullest thing I've ever had to read, and that was way back in like 9th grade"
Jeannette Rose replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"I'm currently reading Hope Leslie by Catherine Sedgwick for my American Identities class... I cannot get through it. Thinking back to high school I'd have to say Yellow Raft Blue Waters."
Brianna Ledsome replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"Id have to say Call of the wild by Jack London, or Johnny Tremain. Im also obligated to say Winesburg, Ohio is up there"
Norberta772 replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"over the summer, we had to read the alchemist. i hated how he referred to him as 'the boy' and he never seemed to feel emotion. well, most people who read it didn't like it, so i thought there might be some substance...…"
Demi Lynn replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"I hated pretty much all of the assigned books I've had through the years. I think the big problem (especially when they put young kids in an advanced reading class) is that they make you read books you aren't mature enough to appreciate…"
MCP replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"In 11th grade my teacher made us read a book called Their Eyes are Watching God,and it was HORRIBLE. It was a boring book about a boring woman who did nothing in a very boring fashion. "But what about the hurricane and rabies chapters" you…"
Vylot Hart replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"I have another one- 1984. The beginning is good, as is the end, but the middle sucks. Doesn't help that I had to speed-read in in twelve hours. It's one of those books that is good because of what it inspired- Like how we wouldn't…"
Franckel Seijemai replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"Catcher in the rye...so much whining so much self manufactured angst...godamn did i loath this book.Ugh.."
Leah replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"Oh my yes! I was going to mention this book. It's probably the only book I've ever read that I fell sleep while reading not because I was really tired, but just because I was so bored. It's just soooo dull!"
Kat Dianne Lundgren replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"For me, it was The Grapes of Wrath. I found it dry and over-detailed. I understod that there was indeed significance in the symbolism of a turtle along the side of the road, but I couldn't wrap my brain around the need to write an entire…"
Scotto replied to David Zebarah's discussion Least favorite assigned book"This one's easy: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. To paraphrase Louis C.K., "... and I am so not a little, old, Chinese lady". I really did not connect with that book."
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- About Me:
- I love nerdy things like reading and The Lord of the Rings and Doctor Who. I also love camping and hiking. I love hockey, especially the Detroit Red Wings. I love music. I play guitar (somewhat well) and sing when I play (I recommend plugging your ears) and am learning piano and violin (I don't even pretend that I'm good yet).
- Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and more
- Books: The Power of One, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Discworld, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dostoevsky, Vonnegut
Movies: Doctor Horrible, Princess Bride, Boondock Saints, Taken, Pixar, Law-Abiding Citizen, Monty Python, Eternal Sunshine, Shawshank Redemption, V For Vendetta, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Music: The Beatles, Barenaked Ladies, Chameleon Circuit, Ben Folds, ELO, Bob Dylan, Streetlight Manifesto, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Weird Al
TV Shows: Firefly, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Big Bang Theory, Psych, How I Met Your Mother, The Tick, Rocko's Modern Life
Video Games: Mostly just Zelda. Some Final Fantasy and Diablo, too. But mostly Zelda.
Other stuff: A Very Potter Musical, camping, hockey, frisbee
- What's your favorite thing to put on your head?
- Chinchillas
- If you could do your happy dance with anyone who would it be with?
- Tolkien or The Doctor
- When did you start watching the Vlogbrothers?
- July, 2011
- Make up your own DFTBA initialism!
- Don't fight the bacon addiction
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- At 8:29pm on September 7, 2012,
Katy of Katydom said… Well I actually didn't save England, just a London landmark. In mine I was on the London Eye and the axle of the Eye broke, so climbed out and fixed to be as good as new with chewing gum. My friend's story was a bit more awesome, he was a super hero called "The Ginger" (as his hair is very much ginger) and he fought his arch nemesis who was Queen Elizabeth II's evil twin sister (I can't remember what her name was, but it was something clever like Elizabeth 1/2).
- At 8:31pm on September 1, 2012, Katy of Katydom said…
Tea with the Queen would be pretty awesome. On the first day in my college writing class our teacher made us write a standard "What Did You Do This Summer" paper, but he told us it could be made up. So my friend and I (we both went to England this summer for a school trip), without knowing what the other was writing, both made up a whole story about saving England and having tea with the Queen. Sorry for the random story, but yeah... tea with the Queen... that would be cool :)
- At 5:46pm on August 23, 2012, Katy of Katydom said…
Thanks! Your DFTBA initialism is pretty cool too. And I totally agree on who you would do your happy dance with. The other day I was talking to my family and we were talking about if we could meet anyone who would it be, and I said that if it was a fictional person it would be the Doctor, if it was a real but dead person it would be J.R.R.Tolkien, and I was unsure on a real and alive person (I think I finally decided that I would like to meet J.K. Rowling).
- At 10:21pm on August 16, 2012,
Caitlyn said… Ohthanks.
I'm not too familiar with Dostoevsky, BUT I've been meaning to read things by him for awhile.
I also can't even pronounce his name in my head, it's just this weird jumble of sounds that begin with a D.We could just cheer them both up. And while we're at it - Van Gogh. But like - stay there. And then Amy would be happy, and Van Gogh would live and askngjrngu4 this is the perfect way to hypothetically decrease worldsuck. Is that supposed to be two words?
- At 4:52pm on July 16, 2012,
Amy Colleen Smith said… I tried to read "The Princess Bride", but, I was a bit too young to understand it or find it interesting. I'll probably pick it up again. I love the movie, though. The swordfighting, the characters, the plot. It's just brilliant.
- At 2:25pm on July 16, 2012, Amy Colleen Smith said…
ERMAGERD YOU LIKE PRINCESS BRIDE!! I LOVE THAT MOVIE!! That movie's my childhood right there! 8D
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