Becky's comments
(member since Dec 25, 2008)
Becky's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.
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Cait, I have to agree with most of both of your lists. Ephemeral and apocalypse especially. :)
Alisha wrote: "And now I have on less credit on paperbackswap, lol. "Oops. :D
Oooh "disorientated"! Good call. That one bugs the crap out of me. That one was used a LOT in Labyrinth by Kate Mosse and it drove me batty!Another word I hate when people use is "alot". It's two words.
"Irregardless" is another good call. Not a word!
"Nonce" is a word I like. I don't know why. I just like it.
"Fluent" is another word I like. I like seeing and hearing it used, and I like the idea of being fluent and the impression I get of someone described as fluent... It has a kind of "sexy" feel to me. The same way I feel when I see a good looking guy drive a stick shift. :)
Why are you guys all looking at me like that? LOL :P
No problem. Anything to do with King gets me super excited! :)THere have been a ton of comparisons to The Simpsons Movie because of the dome theme, but in reality, King has been "working" on this book for years. He first started working on it under the title of The Cannibals, I think. It's just one of life's little coincidences. Although, if a baby is able to teleport in and out through the sandbox, I'll begin to wonder... :P
Katie, Under The Dome is out, it came out last week. It's enormous. :)And aside from the dome itself, I doubt there's very much similarity between The Simpsons Movie and King's novel, LOL. Maybe a riot or two.
The word precious doesn't bother me, although the NAME Precious does. THAT is pretentious. =\I used to work with a girl named Passion, and she had no personality at all, no sense of humor and just always sullen and moody.
That's a part of your accent though, not just pure laziness. Leaving off your H's and T's isn't bad, because you can still understand what the word is supposed to be.
Kaliki, I can do you one better with "supposed to"... "poda". Really, that word is like Puff Daddy/Puffy/P-Diddy/Puh. Eventually that's what people will start saying. Instead of "I'm supposed to meet Susan after work." it will sound like "Ah poda mee Suhn affa wk."
Seppuku sounds better every day. LOL
YES!
I just hate when people misuse or mispronounce words. EXpecially is one that I cannot stand. It is ESpecially. No X.
Weary instead of wary is another that gets on my nerves.
My boyfriend uses weary that way all the time. And another he used to drive me crazy with was "Parley", which he apparently thought was a cool way of saying "party". I made him look it up because it made me so crazy, and then finally FINALLY he stopped using it that way.
Yay!! Congrats! I have 5 books to go and then I will meet my goal. I think I can do it, even though I just started the whopping 1210 page Shogun.
But that's already so good I don't want to put it down to sleep!! *push* ;)
Hi 5peas, The challenge grew and grew, so Cynthia thought it would be best to move it to it's own group. You can find it here: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2175...
Have fun! :)
I can generally read between 3-4 books a week, sometimes more, depending on the type of book and how much time I spend on GR. LOL
That makes a lot more sense.
53 books in a week? What kind of books are we talking about? That's an average of 7 1/2 books a day.
Good to see you finally decided!
I've just received a *signed and personalized* copy of The Prophecy's Child: The Unseen by W.E.D. Wilson as a FirstReads GR giveaway, so I will be starting that this evening. I really look forward to it. And the author seems very nice - he sent a personalized note and a bookmark along with the signed book. I was so excited!
I'm really looking forward to this one. :D
You have to read the unabridged COMC though. It's well worth the effort.
Fiona wrote: "I second All Quiet on the Western Front, Jane Eyre and anything by Stienbeck. I loved East of Eden especially.
May I also add North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell to..."
Errr... O_o
I definitely second Count of Monte Cristo.
I'd also recommend Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion by Jane Austen. Both are very, very good. :)
