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- Okaaay
I just bought four new books! :: Wicked:: by Gregory Maguire
:: Pride & Prejudice:: by Jane Austen
:: If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?:: by Melissa Kantor
:: Vampire Academy:: by Richelle Mead I want your PERSONAL opinions on these if you have read them! Please do not come and bash my choices! I am not a particularly picky reader, so I usually just pick-up anything to fit my mood! :) I LOVE this community and all the help it has given me!!!! Now, help me pick which one to read first!! Thanks ---Jessica  United States, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City  artistic |
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Endless Blue by Wen Spencer In a space-faring future, where humanity is under attack from mysterious aliens called nefrim, where genetic modified Reds and Blues are slaves of human society -- Captain Mikhail Volkov (who is also the crown prince of Novaya Rus) is summoned for a mission. A ship that had been lost years earlier had reappeared in space -- at least its engine had -- and it was encrusted with coral. Turk -- Mikhail's foster-brother and Red Commander, a Red himself and so an oddity -- replaces their lost Reds, they prepare the ship for sea (insofar as anything can be done), and they replicate the passage of the ship that was lost. It lands them in a strange world. Where chunks of rock soar through the sky over ocean. Where multitudinous alien races survive -- minotaurs, hauk, and seraphim, among others -- and time does not flow as it does in their universe. Where Turk wrestles with his heritage and his resentment, and Mikhail with his depressive tendencies and his past. Where significant secrets are discovered, which will affect the human race.
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 Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. (from the publisher)020 bb $a 9780440180296
100 bb $a Vonnegut, Kurt.
245 b0 $a Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade: $b a duty dance with death / $c by Kurt Vonnegut.
246 bb $a Slaughterhouse 5
246 b0 $a Children's crusade
260 3b $a New York: $b Dell Publishing, $c December 1991, c1969.
300 bb $a 215p.: $b ill.; $c 17cm.I feel kind of like a jerk for not loving this book. There was nothing wrong it, and I see why it's endured despite losing some relevance, but I don't think it's going to stand out in my mind in the long run. The tone was very... American. And I don't quite know what I mean by that. Or maybe it's just that period of writing. When I was reading it, it didn't have the same voice as the 19th century novel or Can Lit. It's a nice change and it kind of made the reading go faster. I loved the thoughts on predestination and the aliens of Tralfamadore. The aptly named main character, Billy Pilgrim, lives his life according to the premise that there is no free will, sedately moving from one situation to another, passively accepting everything that happens to him. The repeated "So it goes" at every death further emphasizes the feel of helplessness that Pilgrim represents. He finds comfort in knowing that he can't change anything and as he skips through time he has the luxury (curse?) of knowing how things will unfold. On a larger scale, the Tralfamadorians say that Earth is the only place where people speak of free will. That war will always happen because it has always happened and will always happen and it's just better not to look at it. Pilgrim's fate is tied up with that of the universe. Like how the aliens know how the end of the universe will come about, Pilgrim, too, knows how he will die. Both calmly accept these endings without a thought of trying to change them, thus perpetuating cruelty and war on both their planets. This was my first Vonnegut novel and would have to say that it was just all right. It didn't blow my mind, but I did enjoy it. I would classify it much more part of the WWII genre - if there is such a thing - than science fiction, however. The scifi allowed for a novel way of exploring the themes, but the focus is primarily on the influence and impact of war. Of the great American classics, I think I have read only The Great Gatsby and Fahrenheit 451 and I feel like there's a large gap in my reading background because of it. It must just come from familiarity, but I have a harder time getting into the classics when they're American instead of English or even Canadian. I think, perhaps, I should start to remedy that.
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Here's the deal: as an exercize for Creative Writing class, we had to write a reverse madlib, and I was so amused by mine because I wasn't entirely sure what it was, that I decided to post it. I hope you get a kick out of it. Listed below are the prompts, and below that, the actual story (which is about five pages long). 2 names: Fred, Beatrice 2 objects: power generator, goldfish crackers 2 places: Seattle, amusement park 2 action verbs: bombard, run 2 things you'd say if you were caught in a lie: “Sorry?” “I didn't do it.” 2 colors: fuchsia, baby blue ( 100 Ways to Drive Yourself Crazy )
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The book is about a women, Kalyss, who keeps reincarnating to free her true love, Dreux, from his curse of being a statue. Despite a ton of chances and help, Kalyss keeps getting killed RIGHT before she gets the job done.
In this recent reincarnation, her FINAL chance, she has been a victim of an abusive relationship and because of that, it prepared her to finally come through and save the man she was just informed she is supposed to be in love with.
Here is my beef:
These two people meet and spend one night--No, not even a whole night...It was like 4 hours together and for the next THOUSAND years the chick sacrifices life after life, getting brutally murdered in each, to return to him.
I know I am cynical so I'll let the 'love at first sight/fornication' thing pass, but after about the 9th time don't you think you would at least check out eharmony?
And if I were the dude, after spending 1,000 years trapped in stone and coming back to life to your 'soul mate' having too many commitment issues to stop bitching at you for an hour, I would be exasperated to say the least. I get it, he was being supportive and the polar opposite of her abusive ex, but at some point you think he would say fuck it,
and check out eharmony.
Let me end by saying that I enjoyed the concept and the side characters a lot. So much, I wish it had only been about them, but I can't even look forward to future books that feature them because I know I'll be setting myself up for a let down.
Despite that, It wasn't so bad I wont read the next book.
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