What are you reading?

[michelanCello]

News:

I've talked to my teacher, who says I can do my TP essay, if I really want to... BUT: it should only be 1800 caracters!!!! Well, I've tried it out (by typing my name like a thousand times), and that's not even a whole page!!! I can't do a TP essay in less than a page! I'd need at least 4 or 5... Plus: it's supposed to be A (1) book, and I wouldn't be able to chose one to write about... *sigh*
Oh, and what's more: I'm not supposed to chose a "school book", which means a book that must be read for school - so Orwell, and Master and Margarita are not possible anyway....

What I thought about: The Soloist is based on a book... so if I'd read the book, that could be a possibility. Problem: it isn't published in Hungarian...

Oh, and the date-limit is 20th June... and that's not so far anymore...

As to compare: a friend of mine writes about an Antal Szerb book: Journey by Moonlight... Just for you to know...

Concerning Aldous Huxley: no hungarian translation. But I found an e-Book version, so maybe I'll read it like this. Thaks, Chris!

 

[Tonyblack]

Can I ask if you can only use 1800 characters for any book you write about - or just TP?

It sounds to me like your teacher wants a book review such as critics write - short and to the point, but with as much detail as possible.

Why not look at such websites as Publisher's Weekly, the New York Times Book Review or Kirkus Reviews to see how the professional critics do it?

 

[michelanCello]

Thanks, Tony... I'll never be able to write like this...

Just read this on one of the sites. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/books/review/Max-t.html Reminds you of something?

Oh, and by the way: no matter what book, it's 1800 caracters...

 

[Ponder Stibbons]

Since its 10pm here, ill have to hurry this and ignore everyone else's posts for a bit. Sorry.

I've since leaving read Nation. Not my fave; in fact its the one i dislike the most. Partly cos of the religion: That is not a childrens book, i repeat NOT A CHIILDREN"S BOOK!! ANd partly cos the characters dont build up quite as well as normal and the anticlimax ending which i dont mind on the whole, but this was too wacko for me, and im not referring to the no happily ever aftrer bit.

I've also read Sourcery. Love it. And halfway through Wicked. It is the grossest book ive ever read. Apart from when my friends read the science text book out loud. But apart from that it is really good and interesting. As far as ive fathomed, it seems really odd that the good and bad withces used to be friends in school, and also that she became wicked because of Animal Rights

EDi5t: i aways hear teh grandfather's voices in a similar tne to daleks We5ird, but 8) and ity maes it a whole lt more interstn.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Ponder.

Terry Pratchett - Brilliant.

End of essay!




I'm currently reading The Brightonomicon (for about the fourth time!) and Knees Up Mother Earth, both by Sir Robert of Rankin.

 

[Dotsie]

It is the grossest book ive ever read. Apart from when my friends read the science text book out loud.

Ponder that's hilarious

 

[michelanCello]

I liked Sourcery too, Ponder! Have you already read Goethe's Faust? Well Sourcery is much-much better.

 

[Ponder Stibbons]

It is the grossest book ive ever read. Apart from when my friends read the science text book out loud.

Ponder that's hilarious

It is!? Hey everybody I said something......mmmmmmmmm!*gets gagged by Rob Anybody* Thanks.

No, aint read it, michel. Who's it by>?

 

[joemcf]

Sorry to just jump in, but what the hey, i might as well. I'm reading loads of books at the same time, as i always do, as it makes me take longer to read them, usually a problems for me as i read too fast. The last (so far) in the Noughts & Crosses series, Double Cross, is the one i read most recently, i.e. 5 mins ago. Then The Road, by Cormac MCCarthy. I've spent ages on it, as i'm finding it quite hard to read, but i'll keep at it. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, and re-reading 1984. I love that book. The last line is possible the best last line ever!

 

[Dotsie]

I'm reading Spanish for Dummies, for my trip to Mexico. First chapter didn't have a lot of Spanish in it!

 

[Doughnut Jimmy]

Hunting Party by Elizabeth Moon

 

[michelanCello]

No, aint read it, michel. Who's it by>?

It's Goethe... but it hasn't actually anything to do with Sourcery, I just had a black-out at the moment and I thought Sourcery was Eric... But I liked Sourcery... what I meant was, that Eric is "based" on Faust, just like Weird Sisters is based on Macbeth...

 

[Ponder Stibbons]

No, aint read it, michel. Who's it by>?

It's Goethe... but it hasn't actually anything to do with Sourcery, I just had a black-out at the moment and I thought Sourcery was Eric... But I liked Sourcery... what I meant was, that Eric is "based" on Faust, just like Weird Sisters is based on Macbeth...

Oh, ok.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Just now reading: Niel Gaiman's Odd and the Frost Giants it's Ok.

 

[chris.ph]

dragon kin by anne and todd mcaffery

 

[meerkat]

Just finished the Watch Trilogy and the following sequel.
I am trying to get re-started on Wolf Hall - Hillary Mantel. Hard work but I'll keep going!

 

[Dotsie]

Have to read that for reading group. Can't. Be. Bothered.

 

[michelanCello]

This will be the very last post I'll be posting about my essay (promise), but I just wanted you to know that I've decided to write about a Pratchett book, and after having given it much thought - it was a tough decision - I chose Small Gods. So I'm reading a lot of reviews and opinions, and we'll see how mine turns out...
Anyhow, thanks for all the tips and help you've given me!!!

 

[Tonyblack]

This will be the very last post I'll be posting about my essay (promise), but I just wanted you to know that I've decided to write about a Pratchett book, and after having given it much thought - it was a tough decision - I chose Small Gods. So I'm reading a lot of reviews and opinions, and we'll see how mine turns out...
Anyhow, thanks for all the tips and help you've given me!!!

Small Gods is an excellent choice!

Please let us know how you get on.

 

[poohcarrot]

Good luck with it mC