What do you like to read?

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:47 pm

I was curious to see what kinds of books and what not people around here read. So . . .what kind do you like the best?

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:10 pm

This one was really hard for me because i read all of those and not really one more than any other. I decided that since most of my books contain some sort of adventure i would go with adventure.

shenandoah04 · Post by **shenandoah04** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:33 pm

Informational!!!! I like learning new stuff. I'm such a nerd. But that's OK

Carrie · Post by **Carrie** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:35 pm

I read everything from Star Wars/Star Trek books to Harry Potter to medical thrillers to mysteries, if it's my own choice...plus I'll usually read whatever books are being passed around work. I used to read a lot of Tom Clancy type books, but haven't kept up on those as much lately.

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:46 pm

I was trying to read Rainbow Six but for some reason the way he writes that book drives me up the wall. I know he's trying to keep the book moving by switching around a lot but it kills me... Eh, I guess i'll get over it.

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:19 pm

most of my reading is school reading because we get so much of it assigned. right now in fact Im 200 pages behind on The grapes of wrath.

meg · Post by **meg** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:31 am

good book. drags a little at times. but the description is amazing!

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:56 am

its a little depressing for my tastes.

meg · Post by **meg** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:13 pm

lol...well...maybe i liked it because we didnt have to read the entire book. we skipped over a few chapters.

cheshire · Post by **cheshire** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 2:41 pm

At the moment I am reading Founding Brothers for AP govt. and Great Gatsby and Mansfield Park for English. I am getting all of the books confused!! I have yet to read a book for fun this year; I have no time!

spacy chick · Post by **spacy chick** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 2:58 pm

I just finished The Great Gatsby...now my class has gone on to Their Eyes Were Watching God....My teacher over-analyzed Great Gatsby and now i can't stand the book...all we talked about was colors....

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 3:33 pm

i hated gatsby.my accel. eng. class has read like 30 books this year and im starting to confuse all the characters. blah.

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 5:32 pm

I didn't think the Great Gatsby was that bad. I've most definitely read better . . .and worse (I hated the Red Badge of Courage). I wasn't too thrilled with the books we had to read this year for my language arts class. I'd rather be reading books on my own and of my own choosing. Books currently in my stack to be read . . .Angles and Demons, Deception Point, Digital Fortress, Phantom of the Opera, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon, The Food of The Gods, The War of the Worlds, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Hmm, lots of Dan Brown, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. How on earth am I going to find time to read all these?! *looks at stack* Ahh, pretty books.

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 5:35 pm

I loved the red badge of courage. that was such a good book! your not talking about invisble man by ralph ellison are you?

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 5:46 pm

Nope, The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells.

meg · Post by **meg** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:40 pm

omg, i heart great gatsby!!!

yay for minnesota writers!

spacy chick · Post by **spacy chick** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:58 pm

no, didn't like great gatsby...in 10th grade i had to read the once and future king....that was so painful to get through

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:05 pm

I dont have to read anything for school

so i'm rereading the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy for the 3rd or 4th time.

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:23 pm

Lol, I would have liked to see Gatsby win Daisy instead of her just falling back on her money. There are far more important things in life, Gatsby loved her, and her money mattered more to her, that really turned me off the book.

I'm a romantic, and when someone loves another, they should be together. I hate seeing people torn apart. Loving someone is a wonderful feeling, and not being with them because they love another (or in this case as Daisy loves the money) is the worst feeling in the world. It destroys a person. Gatsby died without care because the one person he loved didn't return his love. Daisy was frivolous and incapable of returning real love, yet she had Gatsby's heart. I felt horrible for Gatsby because all Gatsby wanted was her love, something he once had yet it slipped through his fingers. He did everything he could to get it, and nothing mattered because Daisy was the person she was. She just went back to the security of her money. Love is the most precious thing in the world, not to be given lightly, and when someone goes for money over love it disgusts me.

No doubt this is a good book, but it's just so darn depressing in the end. The final we took on it asked our opinion on why it has stood the test of time. My final answer (aside from the rant, which you've read a version of above) was that people could learn from it. I said in my essay that I had learned from the book. I have loved, a love which wasn't returned and every time I'm reminded of it, it feels like a knife through my heart. I could relate to Gatsby, how all he wanted was his love returned and the despair when he realized he'd lost it forever. Nothing seemed to matter anymore. Gatsby lost the will to live and didn't care when he was shot. The thing I learned: you can't waste your life missing what you're never going to receive. You have to move on and forget. True, someone that is so much a part of you will never be forgotten, but if you can get away from them and the pain they put you through, you can move on. A person will always look back and wish things had turned out differently, but remembering the good times you shared with that person in the past is better than being hurt by that person over and over again in the present. I'd rather love that person forever than end up hating them for what they've done to me.

Wow, that was a long rant.

Sorry, I have strong feelings on the subject of that book. I'm done.

meg · Post by **meg** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:16 am

wow. i think you learned what you were supposed to from the book.

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