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Old 11-07-2007, 02:06 AM   #76
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I've been looking for To Kill a Mockingbird for months but I can't find it anywhere. I finally requested it from Connect but still nothing.

It's a strange book. Harper Lee never published another book. There was a nasty rumor that Truman Capote ghosted it with her. It is a great book that I'd like to re-read.
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Old 11-09-2007, 10:43 AM   #77
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There was a nasty rumor that Truman Capote ghosted it with her.
Oh, please. Say it isn't so.
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Old 11-09-2007, 02:17 PM   #78
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Oh, please. Say it isn't so.
I seriously doubt Capote had anything to do with it, given the overwhelmingly negative attitude he displayed toward it afterward.
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Old 11-11-2007, 10:27 AM   #79
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You can purchase Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy at 4 dollars each book from ereader.com, it's a little cheaper than the paperback price.
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Old 11-20-2007, 09:17 AM   #80
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This being "World Book Day", the BBC commissioned a survey of the UK's favourite books. The "top 10" were:

1. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.
2. "Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
3. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte.
4. Harry Potter books, by J.K. Rowling.
5. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
6. The Bible.
7. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.
8. "Nineteen Eighty Four" by George Orwell.
9. "His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman.
10. "Great Expectation" by Charles Dickens.

I've read 9 out of these 10 - the only one I'm missing is "To Kill a Mockingbird". Just wondered how many of these other forum members have read?
Same as yourself - 9/10 - 'to kill a mockingbird' is on my wishlist but haven't got around to it yet. Can't claim to know the bible by heart but I have read parts, even remember some of it...
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Old 11-20-2007, 03:48 PM   #81
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Interesting that 5 are by women, and 5 are by men.

(Good job God is male, otherwise we'd have been outnumbered! )

I've read all except 'Mocking Bird' and the Bible.
I thought Pullman's 'Dark Materials' was ok, but he rather sledgehammered his message into the books; a bit more subtlety would have helped.
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Old 11-21-2007, 10:30 PM   #82
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Interesting that 5 are by women, and 5 are by men.

(Good job God is male, otherwise we'd have been outnumbered! )
Uh, 5 women, 4 men and one supernatural committee?

"The Gods Must Be Literate"

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Old 11-23-2007, 06:35 AM   #83
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The Harry Potter books are much much better than the movies. I rec you read them, they're worth much more than their spot on that list imo!
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Old 12-01-2007, 03:01 PM   #84
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Can I UNrec someone for reading Parry Hotter?

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The Harry Potter books are much much better than the movies. I rec you read them, they're worth much more than their spot on that list imo!
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Old 12-07-2007, 08:55 AM   #85
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Can I UNrec someone for reading Parry Hotter?

Just a joke. Read as you wish. ......
I suppose if you've read all the Harry Potter books and found them to all be detestible peices of fiction you could unrec me. If you haven't read them though, at least give them a chance is all I'm saying.

Don't judge a book by its cover! HP is not a children's series! Its a fantasy series and has much death and serious themes and hidden meanings!
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Old 12-07-2007, 09:06 AM   #86
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I suppose if you've read all the Harry Potter books and found them to all be detestible peices of fiction you could unrec me. If you haven't read them though, at least give them a chance is all I'm saying.

Don't judge a book by its cover! HP is not a children's series! Its a fantasy series and has much death and serious themes and hidden meanings!

Superb series
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Old 12-07-2007, 11:58 AM   #87
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Except for the second book, which was a bit weak, and all the teen angst in Goblet of Fire.

I particularly like Harry becoming a subversive teacher in book 5.
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Old 12-07-2007, 12:31 PM   #88
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I didn't like book 6
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Old 12-07-2007, 12:41 PM   #89
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At fifty, dare I say, I still like HP and I'll recommend him to anyone who likes the beauty of imagination and the marvelous.
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Old 12-07-2007, 01:39 PM   #90
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