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Hana~Flower · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:59 pm Post subject: Books!

Here is a list of books that I want to buy. The books with stars in them are the ones I have not read. If you guys have, can you guys give me like some reviews of them? Opinions about them? Criticism?

I'd appreciate it! :D

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Kitchen God’s wife by Amy Tan*

The Bone Setter’s Daughter by Amy Tan*

The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan*

The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan*

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini*

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte*

Twilight's Child · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:26 pm Post subject:

A Thousnd Splendid Suns is really good! ^_^ I always did love Hosseini's work~ (I think he wrote Kite Runner too, which is one of my favorites)

I even met him during a book signing! >w< He's really nice!!!

Pirate Babe · Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 1081 Location: In YOUR bed. ;3

Twilight's Child wrote: A Thousnd Splendid Suns is really good! ^_^ I always did love Hosseini's work~ (I think he wrote Kite Runner too, which is one of my favorites)

I even met him during a book signing! >w< He's really nice!!!
Oi, where is this Khaled Hosseini from? It's an Arab name. (Huhu, I should know.)

Sean · Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 319 Location: Long Island

I've read 3 of those (The Adventures of Huckleberry The Great Gastby and To Kill a Mockingbird)

My fav is the Great Gastby. I just liked the story and plot overall.

Twilight's Child · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:11 am Post subject:

Pirate Babe wrote: Twilight's Child wrote: A Thousnd Splendid Suns is really good! ^_^ I always did love Hosseini's work~ (I think he wrote Kite Runner too, which is one of my favorites)

I even met him during a book signing! >w< He's really nice!!!
Oi, where is this Khaled Hosseini from? It's an Arab name. (Huhu, I should know.)

X3 He ish Arab, and I thiiink he's from Kabul but then in his mid teens he came to the US, but I ish not entirely sure~

And of course you would know Miss Egyptian girl! *poke* <33

Hana~Flower · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:00 am Post subject:

^Yes, he is from Afghanistan. And you met him?! Lucky! I fell in love with his first bestseller, The Kite Runner. OMG, I cried! I hate the movie though, they really ruined it, and omitted alot of important parts from the novel.

What would be a real treat for me would be meeting Amy Tan, her writing is awesome! ^_^

metalruff6 wrote: I've read 3 of those (The Adventures of Huckleberry The Great Gastby and To Kill a Mockingbird)

My fav is the Great Gastby. I just liked the story and plot overall.

I love the Great Gatsby! That's why I want it! I love how there was no happy ending! lol, non of that unrealistic happy bull crap for this book. I felt sorry for Gatsby though.

Pirate Babe · Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 1081 Location: In YOUR bed. ;3

^Happy endings remind me of...

Twilight. *twitch*

Pyro · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1408 Location: The Bear's Den

I've read The Great Gatsby and To Kill A Mockingbird, both for school but both phenomenal books

Twilight's Child · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:15 pm Post subject:

Pirate Babe wrote: ^Happy endings remind me of...

Twilight. *twitch*

ZOMG I'M AN AVERAGE HIGHSCHOOLER THAT EVERYONE LOVES AS SOON AS I STEP INTO THE SCHOOL. I DON'T THINK I'M PRETTY BUT I'M REALLY HAWT.

I am a vampire with no sense of the word emotion. I also become very abusive to my girlfriends and are overall an ass.

8D ZOMG I <3333 U ONLY BECAUSE YOU'RE HOT. LET'S GO HAVE SPECIAL BABIES.

Okay.

>_> I nutshelled the story to whoever didn't read it.

Aaaand I LOVE THE KITE RUNNER! DX That book made me wanna jump in there and BEAT two of the characters....then I wanted to adopt Hassan.

TMBpower · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:19 pm Post subject:

To Kill A Mockingbird was an amazing book, I should read it again soon. Weird that The Great Gatsby wasn't on my reading list...

Oh yeah, and for anyone who wants a REAL love story ( :P ): I recommend Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, and Anna Karenina <---really, really loooong reading but awesome character studies.

Or if you want your mind bend out of shape, read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. I read it when I was 12 and I STILL don't get a lot of it. XD

Gopher · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:34 pm Post subject:

Yes! I too have read "To kill a Mockingbird." It was a powerful and dramatic experience. I especially loved the scene where the protagonist finally does kill the mockingbird. For mocking him. It so had it coming. And "The Kite Runner" was a heartwarming experience as well. It takes true courage for someone to run around all day. With a kite. Or two kites. For whatever reason.

>.>

STFU I READ THEM!

Hana~Flower · Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:05 am Post subject:

TMBpower wrote:
Oh yeah, and for anyone who wants a REAL love story ( :P ): I recommend Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, and Anna Karenina <---really, really loooong reading but awesome character studies.

Ah, Jane Eyre! I have that book, and I love it! But I love Wuthering Heights even more! I own both. that's why I want Agnes Grey so I can have the Bronte sisters collection!

Also, I USED to own Huck Finn, but thanks to some idiot that I let borrow, I never got it back. :( And every time I approach him about it, he denies that I ever lend it to him! You do NOT steal my literature! I get pissed! :evil: