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Post by embonpoint on Jun 24, 2011 12:23:19 GMT -5
Y'know, ok, it'll be nice for there to be some kind of website, and to find out some more information about the characters, but for me (as someone who is, I guess, a 'casual fan'), it seems a bit like milking it, trying to get more and more and more attention and stuff. Maybe I'm just super-cynical today.
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 22, 2011 6:39:01 GMT -5
Well, there are lots I'd quite like, but if I had to choose one, it would probably be breathing underwater/being a mermaid.
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 19, 2011 10:25:08 GMT -5
It's not non-fiction if most of it is... fiction. This is pretty much how I feel. If I'm going to read a non-fiction book, it's because I want to learn something, I want to know things about the topic. I don't want a story that is mostly true but with bits added in; if that were real non-fiction, I guess Disney films are almost documentaries. If a book is a fiction book, but based on a true story, that's fine, because I know that I'm not getting factual information out of it, just a good story. But don't pretend that you're writing non-fiction if you've made some of it up.
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 17, 2011 18:32:01 GMT -5
One of my favorite books that no one seems to have heard of is The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. I love it. I have this on the bookshelf in my room! I've been meaning to read it - I think I actually may have started it once; I will get to it this summer, then.
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 17, 2011 18:29:49 GMT -5
Truckers by Terry Pratchett. Or it could be Diggers; which is the first one?
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Pets
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 17, 2011 11:00:37 GMT -5
I have two guinea-pigs: Dougal and Tiki. Tiki is a short-haired albino with a little mohican-type 'do; Dougal is a mushroom-y coloured rosette-haired pig. We've had Dougal for almost a year but he's only just started talking; he's three and until we got him, he lived with rabbits so didn't know how to speak guinea-pig (well, that, and the fact that Tiki is definitely in charge, so he was probably quite scared of her)!
As soon as I can, though, I'm planning on getting an Irish wolfhound and naming it Merlin.
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 16, 2011 19:10:18 GMT -5
However, when a kid wants to read Harry Potter or Artemis Fowl, please ... Rather than not letting me, my mother practically forced me to read both those series! Not that I regretted it as I enjoyed them both very much, but I was reluctant to start.
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 16, 2011 17:13:06 GMT -5
Best defense ever! Except for frying pans. Who knew? Tangled?! <333333333333333
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 16, 2011 13:03:05 GMT -5
As for
There are a few more definitions for both words, but I think the gist is clear. I can get what people are saying in that envy does seem less intense in feeling than jealous, but I don't consider them to define the same feeling (similar, yes, but I don't think you could use them interchangeably).
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 15, 2011 18:19:19 GMT -5
Mood: Happy, mostly. Doing: Nothing, about to watch WGM. Thinking: Never going to get up tomorrow. Listening: By the time it gets dark, Yo La Tengo.
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 15, 2011 16:33:56 GMT -5
I see your point. The only Rachel/Lea songs from the show that I like are the ones she sings from "Funny Girl". She's meant for Broadway, not ridiculously auto-tuned pop. This is not really the topic at hand, but it really bugs me that they use auto-tune on Glee. FFS, it's a show about really talented kids who join a school choir; they can all sing! They don't need auto-tune! It sounds worse when you use it than when you don't! WHAT ARE THEY DOING?!
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 15, 2011 13:53:41 GMT -5
I'm totally for dogearring, annotating, etc if it's the reader's own book. I just got a copy of As I Lay Dying from my school that was so badly annotated that it ruined the plot of the book. As long as people don't annotate books someone else will read I'm fine with book love. My college are asking for 'book donations' this year (just giving back our textbooks and stuff that we won't need after finishing) and they say "any condition" but boy, there is no way anyone could use some of mine; there is writing everywhere. College books, I will write in; I don't really like it, but it's easier/more convenient etc, so I do it. Personal books on the other hand, I treat like glass. I would never, ever even dream of folding over the page or annotating them. Just no. I can't even imagine.
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 15, 2011 12:41:23 GMT -5
Um, I really wouldn't recommend Sylvia Plath for that subject; I've studied her this year for A2 English lit and lang, and yeeeaahh, I've got absolutely no 'individual against the government' from her. She deals a lot with individual identity, but I don't know where the government would come in (but maybe someone who knows her work better would disagree).
As for another suggestion, I'm afraid I don't have one. :/
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 15, 2011 12:38:49 GMT -5
Censorship baffles me. My parents pretty much let me do what I want (except swear, but that died pretty quickly). Dad tried to turn me into a lady, but that...that didn't really take. So when people say that their parents wouldn't "let them" read a book, it just...I'm flabbergasted. Books are banned for a reason. Usually stupid ones. I hate censorship and refuse to do it unless I want to present a certain state of personality. Major +1 on the first point. I mean, I find it weird/hard to understand that some parents 'ban' their children from getting piercings and the like, so to not let kids read certain books? What even is that?!
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 14, 2011 16:32:38 GMT -5
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was so obsessed with the supernatural and the occult that when his good friend Harry Houdini told him that all of his magic tricks were just illusions and not real magic Doyle refused to believe him and ended their friendship forever. He also believed the Cottingley fairies were real and that the photographs were clear evidence of psychic phenomena.
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