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Post by Elektra on Nov 21, 2009 13:47:21 GMT -8
I started early on the abridged versions, which caught my interest and drove me to move on to the complete versions. Mebbe it'd work the same way for you?
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Post by Damiana Jones on Nov 21, 2009 14:03:33 GMT -8
Lol. I remember when I was a junior, I had to read The Great Gatsby and my English teacher was like," This is usually a hard read for kids your age." And I had only heard horrible things about The Great Gatsby. So I went into the reading thinking I was going to have to force myself to read it. But The Great Gatsby ended up being -so- amazing to me. I don't think age really has much to do with being able to just connect. It's something I think is taught by example. If you are brought up by someone that makes an effort to connect with you, it's a world of difference. There are people older than me who just don't know how to connect.
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Post by Elektra on Nov 21, 2009 17:21:38 GMT -8
Hahaha! It's funny that you liked it. I hated it. Then again, some people hate Shakespeare and I love it. >.>
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Post by Damari on Nov 21, 2009 19:36:01 GMT -8
I loves Shakespeare....
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Post by Vex on Nov 21, 2009 22:46:53 GMT -8
Shakespeare is amazing; I loved Titus Andronicus...
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Post by Volt on Nov 21, 2009 23:03:34 GMT -8
I -detested- The Great Gatsby... And Grendel, anything my teachers ever forced me to read, I fucking hated, and I rarely finished it by the deadlines. Altough, I did re-red MacBeth, and enjoyed it. A week or so ago I was thinking bout going and buying the Anglo-Saxon version of Beowulf and giving it a shot. Gotta love books in foregin languages you're interested in.
I enjoy the classics, I know it may be viewed as 'lame' or whatever, but often I'm found reading Edgar Allen Poe.. The Raven, Fall Of The House Of Usher, things like that....
Most of these... Modern books, I don't rightly care for them, it takes a -lot- for me to get interested in reading a book anymmore, thus my promoting of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and anything by James Byron Huggins or Frank E. Peretti...
Looked into the Halo books, eh..
Perhaps I'll read more classics, that I've not yet touched.. Or continue my research on foreign languages, and different types of mythology, which is going surprisingly well... Still utterly fasinated with Norse Mythology.
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Post by Elektra on Nov 21, 2009 23:59:11 GMT -8
Poe isn't lame! I like his writing. And yus, authors these days don't write like they used to. Classical literature is awesome.
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Post by Volt on Nov 22, 2009 0:03:18 GMT -8
Not all of them, but most
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Post by Damari on Nov 22, 2009 0:03:18 GMT -8
Mythology is awesome. Took two years of classics - I absolutely adore Ovid, Homer, Aristotle, Virgil, Plato.... they are the originals in wit and candor and these long epic adventures with Gods and Goddesses and demi-gods and their stories of moral intrigue and deception, lies and sodomy. Comedy, Satire, the ridiculous and sublime. My sister took Classics before I did so I had this head start with all of her school text books.
Anyway - I've loved the written word for as long as I can remember it being a part of my life. I learned to read freakishly early and remember being asked by librarians if I really wanted to check out the books I was. I can't remember what they were. I used to inhale them. I used to steal my mother's books and read them by torch light at night.
But my parents were awesome. Dad left school when he was 14 to be an apprentice mechanic and he always swore his kids would have a better chance at an education he missed out on. So we always had the classics in the house, encyclopedia's and world books, anthologies and maps, books on geography, science, biology. When computers released he bought them and always kept up to date on information and educational materials.
We never lacked for school, enthusiasm for learning and it was an added bonus that my mother was a trained teacher who decided to stay at home to teach us as we grew up.
I find reading is a passion. I don't get overly judgmental about books, I don't think there are many beneath my reading ability because I find there are nuggets of genius in everything I've read. Even internet blog and newsgroups. I just like information. I like the different ways it can be delivered and the forms it takes and how one opinion can be expressed so different across ages and geographical locations.
I'm just a gorm, in the truest, most nerdiest sense of the word. People, places and things interest me.
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Elektra
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Post by Elektra on Nov 22, 2009 2:06:37 GMT -8
Puawai = win
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Post by Nyatta Leigh Kigarra-Morte on Nov 22, 2009 11:56:54 GMT -8
I started early on the abridged versions, which caught my interest and drove me to move on to the complete versions. Mebbe it'd work the same way for you? That might work. ^^ Lol. I remember when I was a junior, I had to read The Great Gatsby and my English teacher was like," This is usually a hard read for kids your age." And I had only heard horrible things about The Great Gatsby. So I went into the reading thinking I was going to have to force myself to read it. But The Great Gatsby ended up being -so- amazing to me. I don't think age really has much to do with being able to just connect. It's something I think is taught by example. If you are brought up by someone that makes an effort to connect with you, it's a world of difference. There are people older than me who just don't know how to connect. This reminds me of when my friends had to read The Good Earth and all but one of them liked it. I never had to read it, so I have no clue how I would've handled that book, but I thought the (somewhat) mixed reactions were pretty funny. Age doesn't matter. It's all an ability of both connecting and understanding and a matter of opinion, and of course what stuff you like.
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Post by Damari on Nov 23, 2009 15:56:14 GMT -8
Bwaaa … I’m going to go see New Moon tonight. Regular movie night with my friend and I got out-voted.
My number 1 choice was too late. My number 2 choice was Danish sub-title (and she was like Hell No).
So she took it out of my hands. Wish me luck. I’m going to take in lots of wine and hopefully get drunk.
Anyway, Eddie & Bee-Bee here I come.
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Post by Vex on Nov 23, 2009 15:57:23 GMT -8
Good luck, Puawai! I wish I'd thought of bringing in some alcohol...
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Post by Kunna Drakonis on Nov 23, 2009 16:00:43 GMT -8
Christ no doubt. Just saw it tonight..........
*sigh*.......
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I got nothin.
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Post by Damari on Nov 23, 2009 16:23:21 GMT -8
Good luck, Puawai! I wish I'd thought of bringing in some alcohol... Bwaaa... they sell it at the theatre. It's why we go... well, not ONLY why we go. That makes me sound like a lush.
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