I be reading The Three Musketeers, because Dumas is a beast.

i halfway through romeo and juliet and i LOVE it!! shakespeare's lanugage is realy stunning.

how is a christmas carol??

I'm currently reading a Christmas Carol. Is it good? I've watched the movie though

i used to have a major crush on the artful dodger (harry eden is HOT)

yes, the kid was cute! I watched the movie, but not seriously :)

I'm going to see the musical in April. :)

I saw OLIVER! in drama class.. at least the little kid was cute!

yea i watched one of the OT plays it was really good!!

ayundabhuwana wrote: "I never survived reading Oliver Twist XD
"

the newest OT movie was really good. haha, it certainly beats having to stumble through dickens' writing.

i love the classics!! i read a lot of them. would anybody recomend reading shakespeare? is it long and boring and diff to understand? if it is, im not reading it~!! :}

I never survived reading Oliver Twist XD

Amelia*annabeth&percy*sittin in a tree* wrote: "if you liked nabokov, you might consider reading solzhenitsyn (the gulag archipelago and a day in the life of ivan denisovich) because 20th century russian authors sound/write similarly, and i thin..."

I'll give it a shot. Though I haven't read any of Nabokov's Russian stuff, I think I'll enjoy anything stylistically similar to him.

if you liked nabokov, you might consider reading solzhenitsyn (the gulag archipelago and one day in the life of ivan denisovich) because 20th century russian authors sound/write similarly, and i think you might enjoy those. IVAN is particularly good

In light of my discovery of Vladimir Nabokov, I've started to read PALE FIRE, which apparently is even better than Lolita.

A 999 line poem. Awesome.

Well, once I read those Dickens books, I'll say what I think about them. :D

yeah and its kinda creepy, too!

hahahaha. it's like the hairy book in PRISONER OF AZKABAN--you know, it's got scary teeth and claws and it chases you around!

No, its saying "I HAVE TINY FONT SIZE AND I HAVE REALLY BIG WORDS!"

lol. its saying "READ ME! READ ME!"

I haven't read any of those, but I think Great Expectations is floating around in my house somewhere..

david copperfield i thought was incredibly boring
and i just really couldnt get in to great expectations...i didnt really care about the characters like in dickens' other books. i thought pip was a loser and estella was a shrew. miss havisham was pretty cool, though. i think it may have to do with the fact that we had to read Great Expectations in school, and all the others i read on my own time. i usually dont like books if i have to read them for class, because the teachers usually butcher them :P

You don't like Great Expectations and David Copperfield, Amelia? Why? I love them! I didn't really like Oliver Twist, though. I really want to read a Tale of Two Cities and the others, except for maybe the The Old Curiosity Shop.

Cool, thanks for the movie and series recommendations, too!

there's a new Oliver Twist movie that came out too, and it's amazingly good. it's one of my favorites (2005, directed by roman polanski) and then Bleak House has an awesome BBC miniseries that came out a few years ago too. I think i like the miniseries better than the book, because dickens wrote everything serialized, so sometimes he kind of goes on and on! and moves/miniseries are better because they help you with characterization better. so i would recommend watching those movies first!

Oooh, thank you. :)

I'll bump your smiley-faced ones up my list. :D

i've read
david copperfield - :(
bleak house - :DDDD
oliver twist - :DD
a tale of two cities - :DDDD
great expectations - :(
a christmas carol - :DDDDDD (gotta reread that!)
the old curiosity shop - :(

Not yet. I plan on it, though. Any recommendations?

has anyone read/liked anything by dickens?

yeah! kinda...

hhahaha. but seriously, doesnt the guy book cover look EXACTLY how hayden christensen looked in Revenge of the Sith?

Oh my gosh thats partly the reason I noticed it in the bookstore! It was SO SHINY. Shiny things are my favorite.
And the buffed hott guy.
But I'm not gonna mention that.
Except I already did.
Oh well!

Wow he does resemble Anakin.... Great now that's how im going to imagine Jace from now on. With a dark hood and a lightsaber.

yeah! i think their cover designs are exceptionally pretty

LOL!!!! because for years ive been passing city of bones in the bookstore and it always makes me stare, because i think, "is that ANAKIN?!?!?!"

Yes of course! I'm trying to get them either from the library, or just the bookstore...

im glad!!! that series seems to be growing in popularity, this year especially!
are you going to read City of Ashes and City of Glass?

Hey Amelia
I read Mortal Instruments: City of Bones!
(i didn't know where to tell you that so i picked this one...randomlyyy)
IT WAS SO GOOD

I mean my heritage. There are lots of Irish people in MA. XD

lol, i thought you were from massaxjkhndfkdjfhg however you spell that state!!! haha

I'm Irish!

aww, poor irish! they seem cool to me.

It kept saying things about Dracula's name being partly derived from Gaelic, about how the street names were connected to Irish streets, superstitious people being connected to the Irish...

A lot of it seemed really random.

the IRISH?!?!?! isnt bram stoker irish? what's up with that commentary? do explain!

In my Dracula book, the footnotes made me look at blood transfusions in an entirely new way. *twitch* And apparently, a good 99% of the book is just a huge symbol of the Irish being evil.

why with the footnotes?
because without the footnotes like at the bottom of each page, it can be really challenging to read. he throws out names, dates and locations that were current-events in the 14th century, so it's nice to have a handy explanation at the bottom of the page of precisely what he's talking about :D

Amelia*annabeth&percy*sittin in a tree* wrote: "it is an epic. it is wisdom. it is truth. it is AWESOME! ((but you must get the one with the footnotes!!))"

why?

it is an epic. it is wisdom. it is truth. it is AWESOME! ((but you must get the one with the footnotes!!))

Amelia*annabeth&percy*sittin in a tree* wrote: "ahhh my little brother has to read dante's Inferno over the christmas break... lucky kid!! i love that "book" so much! i would submit the Divine Comedy as the greatest (or certainly in..."

I REALLY want to read the Divine Comedy. Picked it up once but only got a page in before I had to go do something else. I mean, everything about it screams EPIC.

Cool, I'll check it out as soon as I can. So many books!

ahhh my little brother has to read dante's Inferno over the christmas break... lucky kid!! i love that "book" so much! i would submit the Divine Comedy as the greatest (or certainly in the top 5) book of all time.

Cool! I just finished that a few weeks ago. It was good. There were some parts that dragged, but the parts that were good were very good. :D

Let me know what you think.

I'm about to read bram stoker's dracula.