false 25 171 153 true 5641205 read 0 true 3471463 currently-reading 18 true 3471462 to-read 14 false 3966819 favorite-books 1 false 4777408 i-realllllllllllly-need-to-finish-t http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79982618 Jennifer's review of Push: A Novel
by Sapphire

i hesitated rating it a 4, and had considered a 5. for me, it is more like a 4.5 (not quite a 5), and that is just because i wasn't too big on the ending. i also want to see the movie and probably will during winter break. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79982618 to: Push: A Novel (Paperback) by Sapphire
Easily one of the most graphic books I have ever read, and still trying to absorb it all. Will write a review later. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79982941 The Shadow of the Wind (Paperback) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78382410 Luke's review of Cambridge Latin Course, Unit 3
by North American Cambridge Classics Project Staff

you're seriously rating a textbook? ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77544039 Stefan's review of The Aeneid
by Publius Vergilius Maro

I've read a few translations of the Aeneid (for obvious reasons) and BY FAR my fav is Stanley Lombardo. It's a fairly new translation (just a few years old), and I think captures the essence of the Aeneid a bit better than Fitzgerald and the others. Now...to your comment that it's just a rip-off of the Iliad. To a certain extent, it is a rip-off (in the modern sense), but it really isn't because it really is simply alluding to and playing off of the Iliad as opposed to just "ripping it off." The Aeneid is a much different piece of literature than the Iliad (and the Odyssey, for that matter), and the more I read it, the more I think it is actually better (especially in the original language). The Iliad, to me, doesn't have all of the aspects of human drama that we see in the Aeneid, and that's the sort of stuff I like. As for the propaganda charge, it is true, but finding all of the hidden propaganda is part of what makes reading the Aeneid interesting--it's almost like Vergil double-dog-dared you to be smart enough to catch all of his political and historical allusions. Read the Lombardo translation or revisit the Latin and I bet you like it more. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77133946 Duma Key (Paperback) by Stephen King
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76480830 Jennifer's review of Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs

Well, I didn't see all of the movie, but I did some some of it and I will say it was the movie that made me go out and get the book. It is pretty much as weird as the movie, some scenes from the movie are essentially lifted from the book. I like Burroughs. He's funny. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76480830 to: Running with Scissors: A Memoir (Paperback) by Augusten Burroughs
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74024006 to: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story (Hardcover) by Sue Monk Kidd
really excited about this book--love Sue Monk Kidd and the Demeter/Persephone myth. ]]>