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Re: Books you just read discussion #119475
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How's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone coming along xxx?
So far I haven't read anymore of it, because I was at work all day. I'll read another 3 or 4 chapters before I go to sleep tonight, so I'll tell you what I think.

As for whether or not it starts like the film...well...would you believe I'm one of the three people in the world who haven't seen the films?


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Re: Books you just read discussion #119476
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Well you better hurry up and see it so there'll only be 2 people left who haven't seen it But seriously, I think you should see it after reading the book. I wanna watch the movie before I read the book so I can visualize the book better

Re: Books you just read discussion #119477
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The Hobbit

Well I finally finished it. I started it back in April and read 7 chapters in probably a weeks time and haven't picked it up again. I read 2 chapters Wednesday, 4 Thursday, 4 Friday and 2 today. I did enjoy this and I'm glad I read it after I read The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. SPOILERS! I was diappointed with the way Smaug died. I was expecting and hoping for sometype of fight between Bilbo and the dwarves against Smaug because it had seemed to have been built up for the entire book and was somewhat saddened when Bard killed him with an arrow to his left breast.END OF SPOILERS! Again I did enjoy this and although it's not nearly as well written as The Lord of the Rings, it's still a very fun and interesting book to pick up. I can't wait now until I begin reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when I get it next week in the mail

Re: Books you just read discussion #119478
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Im working on Harry Potter and "The Half Blood Prince." Its hard for me to read, but I Do enjoy the harry Potter books and Iam enjoying this one so far. But I doubt it will surpass The Goblet of Fire as my favorite in the series.

1. Goblet of Fire
2. The Sorcerers Stone
3. The Prisoner of Azkaban
4. (Projected) The Half Blood Prince
5. The Order of the Phoenix
6. The Chamber of Secrets


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Re: Books you just read discussion #119479
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What's so hard about reading it? Also, what's so great about Goblet of Fire (without giving away too much). So far The Sorcerer's Stone is my favorite movie so that's why I'm excited about reading it the most

Re: Books you just read discussion #119480
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The Goblet of Fire is so much more exciting then the first three. It also rounds the characters out as the story darkens a little. The sorcerers stone is very good, but it is mostly happy go lucky 10 year old Harry making friends and learning to be a wizard. The Goblet of Fire is the pivotal point in the story.


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Re: Books you just read discussion #119481
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Just got this today. Can't wait to start reading it!



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Re: Books you just read discussion #119482
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Just finished reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone today. I started it on Wednesday and am very proud that I finshed it in just 4 days. A very fun and exciting book that was hard to put down. The movie was pretty much dead on when you compare it with the book, except for a few minor changes here and there which is to be expected. I plan on starting Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets tomorrow


Re: Books you just read discussion #119483
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Just finished reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets today. I started it on Sunday and am very proud that I finshed it in just 4 days. A very fun and exciting book that wasn't as hard to put down as was The Sorcerer's Stone. The movie was a little bit different from the movie moreso than the first book/movie. In this movie, a lot of lines said by a particular person is said by a different person in the book. I at least somewhat understand the ending a little bit better. I plan on starting Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban tomorrow


Re: Books you just read discussion #119484
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These Harry Potter fans are insane! How do you guys wisk through five-hundred plus pages in less than a week!?


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Re: Books you just read discussion #119485
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Quote:
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These Harry Potter fans are insane! How do you guys wisk through five-hundred plus pages in less than a week!?
Well book 1 is only 309 pages and book 2 is only 341 pages. Trust me, they get longer with books 4 & 5

Re: Books you just read discussion #119486
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I just finished Sting's biography broken music.


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Re: Books you just read discussion #119487
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Joseph Ellis's "Founding Brothers". Perhaps one of the greatest historial accounts of American History ever written. Entertaining, informitave, witty.


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Re: Books you just read discussion #119488
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Just finished reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban today. I started it last Thursday and am very proud that I finshed it in just 7 days. This was probably my favorite Harry Potter book so far that I've read. The movie is the one out of the trilogy that's probably furthest away from the book. I plan on starting Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire sometime this weekend (I've been reading for 2 weeks straight and would like a couple of days off). I'm not going to try to read Goblet as fast and the first 3. I just want to read it before the movie comes out in November, which I should be able to do


Re: Books you just read discussion #119489
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Picked this up today:



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Re: Books you just read discussion #119490
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I have to admit, Ive been lazy lately regarding reading books. I have so many unread books here...4 Mario Puzo books are still here waiting to be read. But the book I mostly look forward to is T.E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"


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Re: Books you just read discussion #119491
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Finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night. Quickest 870 pages I've ever read.



I purchased the Potter books about a week after the latest one (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince) came out. So I started reading them on July 23. It is now September 19 and I've read the first 5 books. That's how good they are. I'll be starting Half Blood Prince today.



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Re: Books you just read discussion #119492
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Well, we're reading The Scarlet Letter in school, now.

Anyone read it?

I'm trying my best to understand it completely, and I think I'll really enjoy it if I do.

Re: Books you just read discussion #119493
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Also picked this up:



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Re: Books you just read discussion #119494
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Actually found this lying around at the Doctor's office.



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Re: Books you just read discussion #119495
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Been getting alot of books lately... :p



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Re: Books you just read discussion #119496
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Some anonymous motel room.
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Just ordered this.


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Re: Books you just read discussion #119497
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After seeing Don Jasani's thread on his John Lennon book, I wanted to share that I'm reading Belushi, the biography of John Belushi. My parents gave it to me - I've just read a couple of chapters in my free time, so far, but I love it. He was such an interesting person - perhaps it'd be more fitting to say, an interesting character - and I'm really enjoying learning more about his life. All I ever knew him as, growing up, was Jake Blues, but I'm finally exposing myself to the complete John Belushi.

Re: Books you just read discussion #119498
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Quote:
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After seeing Don Jasani's thread on his John Lennon book, I wanted to share that I'm reading Belushi, the biography of John Belushi. My parents gave it to me - I've just read a couple of chapters in my free time, so far, but I love it. He was such an interesting person - perhaps it'd be more fitting to say, an interesting character - and I'm really enjoying learning more about his life. All I ever knew him as, growing up, was Jake Blues, but I'm finally exposing myself to the complete John Belushi.
It's an excellent book.

Speaking of Belushi biographies, I read the anti-"Belushi", Wired.

A complete character assasination and total abdomation of a book. Complete garbage portrayl. Bob Woodward never met Belushi, yet had his complete thoughts down in many situations that were never told to anyone.

Al Franken said it best when describing the book;

"Tom Davis said the best thing about Wired. He said it’s as if someone wrote a book about your college years and called it Puked. And all it was about was who puked, when they puked, what they ate before they puked and what they puked up. No one read Dostoevsky, no one studied math, no one fell in love and nothing happened but people puking."


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Re: Books you just read discussion #119500
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Reading this for school:



"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so"-Gore Vidal
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Re: Books you just read discussion #119501
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I figured you'd either read, or were planning on reading it, DA.

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A complete character assasination and total abdomation of a book. Complete garbage portrayl. Bob Woodward never met Belushi, yet had his complete thoughts down in many situations that were never told to anyone.
Judy Belushi mentioned something in Belushi about how some of the information on John got in the hands of the wrong person and that she was writing this book to make it right - I assume what you've described is what she was referring to?

Tony Love, I read Of Mice and Men in school, as well. I enjoyed it, and I hope you do, too.

Re: Books you just read discussion #119502
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This thread is a good idea, I think. Well, I recently finished Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson, Of Mice And Men by Steinbeck and Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. I loved all three.

Right now, I am halfway through Night by Elie Wiesel, and about a quarter of the way through Fear and Loathing on the Campaigne Trail: 72 by Hunter Thompson. And while I am at it, I will mention I am planning to re-read Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and my absolute favorite book, Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I believe this will be my hundreth time reading Fear and Loathing, right on the mark (I am dead serious, too).

Once all this is done, I want to finish reading the remaining Hunter Thompson books, starting with Curse of Lono.


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Re: Books you just read discussion #119503
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I'm reading The Family by Mario Puzo. He did some work!
And now I know from where all these Borgias and incests made their way to GF3.


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Re: Books you just read discussion #119504
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Actually about to wrap up Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I'm early on in Song of Susannah (Book VI). Not a huge King fan, but this series has been quite intriguing.


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Re: Books you just read discussion #119505
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Just finished A Million Little Pieces. Now I want to read the sequel, My Friend Leonard. Has anyone else read them?


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