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It's one book per season. The show is good and you should find a way to illegally view it.
Trying to escape the vicious King Kobra gang and troubled life at home, eighth graders Barnie and Teresa flee the city. With only four dollars between them, they hop a bus, hoping to find a new life at the end of the line. Destination: Paradise Park. But Paradise Park turns out to be a cement-covered suburban shopping mall--not quite the paradise they had hoped for.
With no money and no home to return to, they are forced to stay. And paradise park takes them in--in more ways than one. Barnie and Teresa spend their days and nights in the climate-controlled consumer paradise of a large department store. And just when they think they can live there unnoticed forever, Teresa and Barnie find that even Paradise Park has its secrets.
Okay I finished it and it wasn't bad, but I still don't get what all the fuss is about.Cerceaux wrote:"American Gods" extended 10 year anniversary edition, by Neil Gaiman.
Here are my nerdy suggestions!faith wrote:This is actually a request for suggestions.
My French teacher says I should get a French book by a French author to get better at French...
Are there any French writers anyone can suggest? I don't like romance or roman policier, or non-fiction (for the moment).
A nice fantasy or horror might be good.
Le Jardin des Tortures seemed maybe ok assuming it gets out of the political blah of the first part but for a class...well...
CoooooolIt is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals (and ex-lovers) who use sex as a weapon to humiliate and degrade others, all the while enjoying their cruel games. It has been claimed to depict the decadence of the French aristocracy shortly before the French Revolution, thereby exposing the perversions of the so-called Ancien Régime. However, it has also been described as a vague, amoral story.
PureElegance wrote:Here are my nerdy suggestions!
You should definitely try to read Victor Hugo since he's such a big influence and a literary giant, and the stuff that I've read of his can be interesting, funny, depressing all at once. Jules Verne would be fun to read if you're into adventure/science fiction. Gaston Leroux for The Phantom of the Opera.
My friend has been getting me into Albert Camus and what little I've read of his I've liked (The Stranger, Reflections on the Guillotine), so I'd suggest him too. Samuel Beckett, Charles Baudelaire...
Man, I wanted to suggest this book, The Heptameron by Margueritte de Navarre, which is all about courtly love and has these really great (sometimes ridiculous) love stories told by noblemen and women trapped in a house in the Alps. XD It was pretty entertaining, especially since most of the men were pigs!
I had to read it last year and I really enjoyed it but I'm sad that it was never finished. The author was a queen and seemed like a cool lady IRL.
ALSO: Les Liaisons Dangereuses sounds so interesting, I never read it though.
CoooooolIt is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals (and ex-lovers) who use sex as a weapon to humiliate and degrade others, all the while enjoying their cruel games. It has been claimed to depict the decadence of the French aristocracy shortly before the French Revolution, thereby exposing the perversions of the so-called Ancien Régime. However, it has also been described as a vague, amoral story.
Unfortunately I think I can recommend French artists more than authors XD;
Of course not, but he wrote much in French and that is enough for me What's good about him is that you can read the English translations alongside the original French. You can do that for other authors too I guess, but I think for Waiting for Godot he made his own English translation so it'll be cool to see him writing in both English and French.faith wrote:But dude, Beckett's not French...?
You're a nerd too! My friend *loves* him to pieces and has everything he ever wrote and is pushing his stuff on me in the meantime XDIskanderia wrote:I just wanted to pipe up and say that Camus' The Stranger is in my top ten of all time list though I've only read it in English.
The nerdiness... IT BURRRNSSSBerserk wrote:I've been slowly but steadily working my way through LotR (much the way that our favorite protagonists are currently working their way through the Mines of Moria ::kisaki:
PureElegance wrote:I don't know what it is about Chinese literature that I love.
Oh no, I've only finished the Elementary Chinese level and I'll be starting Intermediate when I study abroad (I don't know how I'm EVER going to start studying that again, ahhhh XD)Mikal wrote:PureElegance wrote:I don't know what it is about Chinese literature that I love.
Do you read in Chinese? If so I'm jealous, I love the extra dimension hanzi/kanji adds to Chinese/Japanese writing... I have no desire to learn how to speak Chinese, but one day I would like to be able to read Chinese literature via kanbun (classical Chinese read with Japanese pronunciation). But that day's a long way off X'D
PureElegance wrote:I think the most I can do right now is understand bits of movies/shows in Mandarin Chinese and hold not-too-complicated conversations.
faith wrote:This is actually a request for suggestions.
My French teacher says I should get a French book by a French author to get better at French...
Are there any French writers anyone can suggest? I don't like romance or roman policier, or non-fiction (for the moment).
A nice fantasy or horror might be good.
Le Jardin des Tortures seemed maybe ok assuming it gets out of the political blah of the first part but for a class...well...