David's comments
(member since Feb 22, 2009)
David's comments from the College Students! group.
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1776 is great. John Adams, though, is better. It's probably the best biography I've read.
Try working in a library full time. I swear, it seems everyday that I forget one of my many books I'm reading at home and check out a new one to read at lunch. :P That one subsequently ends up a home (insert by bed, on desk, on piano, on couch comment here), requiring a new book be checked out.
Great job. I'm thinking I'll do this same challenge for my New Years resolution, which means I'd better buy the last 3 Artemis Fowl books and the 3rd Mistborn book before then.
I tried. I never did choose a group read or finish the Ives of March. Ah well. I'll take 3rd.
I'm in. I like the idea of doing a wishlist in this or another thread. I have about 50 books op more in my to-read, but that definitely doesn't mean I want to own them all. Used is fine, as long as it's in good condition (no rips, writing, highlighting, etc, -Remaindered marks are fine though.)
The world is a mess and I just... need to rule it.
I work fulltime at my university library and get six month checkouts with 3 renewal periods. That's two years of literature goodness. Even with the plethora of reading options (BYU has one of the biggest academic libraries in the U.S.), I find my personal collection ever growing and is probably nearing 400 volumes or more.
I have Pinkerton, Green, and Blue and love them all. My biggest regret in college was not going to see Weezer when they opened for U2 in Salt Lake City my freshman year in 2001. They sold out in 22 minutes and I couldn't get a ticket.
8 minute film, George Lucas in Love. If you haven't seen it, watch it. Love it. It's hilarious.
I've loved this since I joined the bandwagon (about a week after it was released) and have been singing along ever since. My brother bought the DVD and I bought the soundtrack. "I wanna do great things, you know? I wanna be an achiever, like Bad Horse."
I love Portuguese poetry! Os Lusiadas is one of the best epic poems ever and then there's Castro Alves, Dom Dinis, Gil Vicente, Fernando Pessoa (and all his identities), etc. Coisa gostoso.
Just kidding. I'll look for my favorite one when I'm back at home.
Roses are red. Violets are blue.
Most poems rhyme,
But this one doesn't.
I especially love reading Burns with a Scottish accent. Aside from thinking I'm a total doofus, my girlfriend loves it. I also have collections of Browning, Dickenson, Whitman, Longfellow, Tennyson, and a collection of American classics (it's like 700 pages long).
Agreed! No, it was 1 plus 2 plus 1 plus 1.
One thing about poetry, is it has to be read out loud. It is so much better that way, even on your own or for class.
That's my favorite type of movie, funny and stupid:Better Off Dead, Hocus Pocus, Muppet Christmas Carol/Treasure Island, Oscar, HoodWinked!, Napoleon Dynamite, Man Who Knew Too Little, Clue, Sky High, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Without a Clue, Dudley Do-Right, Canadian Bacon, Strange Brew, Hot Shots (and Part Deux), Robin Hood Men In Tights, Real Genius, The Wrong Guy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, etc., etc., etc.
Studying for the LSAT, test on Dec. 6.
I've seen a couple of lame costumes that I love. My friend dressed in black pants and long-sleeved shirt with a white tank top on top and a white tuque and a big paper dot pinned to her shirt. When people would ask her what she was, she would open her arms in hug position and say, "I'm a fermata, hold me!" It was amusing. Another friend came dressed normally except she had real dollar bills on/as her earrings. She was a "buck-an-ear"! Get it? A buccaneer. Hahaha. Ok, I'm leaving now.
Loved all my Ballroom Dance and Folkdance classes (they kept me sane and had a lot of cute girls), loved all my chemistry courses (I'm a dork), really enjoyed my Accounting class (why did I wait until my final semester to take that?)....and thought Business Portuguese was a blast! Senior Seminar in Latin American Studies was really cool too (and I took it same semester as Intro to Latin American Studies). And Hockey!That's a lot.
