I like getting a good marked up book for English classes, preferrably with writing from multiple owners. It sometimes brings interesting perspective to the reading.
I like getting a good marked up book for English classes, preferrably with writing from multiple owners. It sometimes brings interesting perspective to the reading.
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
OMG I found that soooo distracting.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
Daggers I'm with you on the "no writing in books" thing. I didn't goto Catholic school (...that would have been...interesting!) it was just my Dad, (who's a big book freak too) instilled in me that you don't write in books, don't bend the pages to mark your place, don't bend the cover over when reading, don't break the spine...etc, etc
When I'm researching for the Tower connections I use post it notes, or lots of place markers and a notebook.
there are books intended to be marked (like guidebooks, scientific/scholarly treatises etc), and there are books where the flow of text should not be interrupted in any way not meant by the author (fiction). If I have to mark something in the latter, I do it with a soft pensil, and on the margins (tick or vertical line). It's easy to find, easy to remove, and does not interfere with the text.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am guilty of writing in books. I suspect if I look now at my copy of "Hero With a Thousand Faces" I could probably recreate most of the papers I wrote in college. I got a second copy to lend out to people so they can just read Campbell's thoughts and not mine.
OH, dog-earing pages drives me batty.Originally Posted by Darkthoughts
Daggers I'm with you on the "no writing in books" thing. I didn't goto Catholic school (
When I'm researching for the Tower connections I use post it notes, or lots of place markers and a notebook.
I'm a big post-it note person myself.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
There's nothing I love more than a book that looks like it has been thoroughly used. I love when a book is all roughed up, written in, etc, because it means the book has, in most cases, been read a lot and went back to over and over.
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
Just finished a re-read of Brave New World, now I'm starting up His Dark Materials again.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? - Franz Kafka
Just finished The Colorado Kid and am starting a reread of Carrie.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
Just started for the first time on book 4, and I am amazed. I actually took the buss from work till the end, I didn't get off at my stop, because I wanted to read the book. So I ended up riding the buss for another hour before I came home....
Damn you King Sai!!
/You Suck!
the beginning of volume 4 (the Blaine part) is one of my very favorites in the whole world's literature.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is such a great book. I need to collect all those amazing books that I read back in High School - Brave New World, Lord of The Flies, Of Mice and Men etc.
Touch the Dark by Karen Chance
So, earthlings..basically urm...end of the world...Here Come The Drums!
I'm going to reread Deathly Hallows. I wanted to leave it a good long while before I did, but I've got some quite heavy and disturbing stuff in my "to read" pile - so I'd like to reread it now as something more easy going and palatable before the serious stuff
Now you can re-read it looking for clues to Dumbledore being gay.I'm going to reread Deathly Hallows. I wanted to leave it a good long while before I did, but I've got some quite heavy and disturbing stuff in my "to read" pile - so I'd like to reread it now as something more easy going and palatable before the serious stuff
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
I have moved on to Demons and Angles by the DiVinci code guy. It's another Robert Langdon story. I'm enjoying it.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
Re-reading The Gunslinger's Guidebook
"It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.
"When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah
Started a re-read of Song of Susannah this weekend. Definitely one of my fav in the series, mostly because of The
you should be ashamed. i'm embarrassed for you. now shut up and stop talking about it. don't tell anyone and hide under your pillow.seriously, don't. it's all teenage love/lust with vampires.
i'm so ashamed.
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sugarpop <3
Pot-stirrer.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I'm rereading SoS, I can't remember much from that book
I borrowed Dreamcatcher from the library a while back, and some total fruitloop had written the weirdest stuff into the margins, and underlined random words and phrases that made me feel they were quite disturbed. I'm sure I posted something he/she had written in this thread some where...certainly added to the tension in the story
Ok, you win
I need a good book on dragonsanyone know of any?
So, earthlings..basically urm...end of the world...Here Come The Drums!
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