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Post subject:  Posted: September 30th, 2007, 9:11 pm |
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Romeo and Juliet. Truly pathetic. I want to gut both of them. It's not a bad play, but it has nothing to do with true love. More accurately, the failings of human nature. Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth were much more enjoyable.
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Post subject: Posted: October 1st, 2007, 2:58 pm |
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I started The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes today and so far I LOVE it. Read Scandal in Bohemia and the Red-Headed League. Conan Doyle is BRILLIANT.
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Post subject: Posted: October 1st, 2007, 4:39 pm |
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Ahahah! If it's any consolation, LDM--I hated Romeo and Juliet as well.
However, I also didn't think Macbeth was that interesting--it was merely tolerable. I much liked The Taming of the Shrew, though.  That was fun.
Melda, I've read The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, but I'm not sure about The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes--I very well might have, once upon a time when I still read those sorts of books, but I forget. Anyway, the best Sherlock Holmes book is The Hound of the Baskervilles. I much loved that one. _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: October 1st, 2007, 9:19 pm |
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I liked the two I read so much that I started on my mom's Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes. As in, like, every Sherlock Holmes story ever written. It's about three inches thick and huge and heavy but I'm hyped
As for Shakespeare...I liked A Midsummer Night's Dream, and silly as I found it I didn't actually mind Romeo and Juliet. This is Melda the hopeless romantic talking, however. _________________
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Post subject: Posted: October 1st, 2007, 10:17 pm |
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Isn't Dante's Divine Comedy...well...violent? I mean, I haven't read it even though it was on my reading list because I just wasn't sure...my mom said I didn't have to. Maybe I should...but if it goes into what details I saw in the article about it, I really would rather not. I get really bothered by details about torture. 
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Post subject: Posted: October 3rd, 2007, 8:58 am |
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Hmm...sounds strange. I would not think that that is what it is really like, or that Dante decides that or who is there. 
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Post subject: Posted: October 3rd, 2007, 6:18 pm |
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just started "To Kill A Mockingbird"
quite boring to be honest
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Post subject: Posted: October 4th, 2007, 10:46 am |
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Aerlinniel ó Eressëa wrote: ^ Yeah, the Inferno is definitely very violent. I never even imagined so many ways to hurt/kill people. In fact, I think it's kinda sick someone imagines thyings like that at all. In other words, it was completely ridiculous. It's....one of those things that really makes me not-believe in Hell at all.  It's just so...human. So...childish. And so boring.  I didn't really like the writing style either. And the way Dante's portrayed like some kind of saint is really starting to get on my nerves ( the fact that Dante is the writer himself...kinda makes him the worst Marty Stu I've ever read about  ) ....as is the fact the Julius Ceasar WASN'T in Hell, but close to heaven - come on, he was a power-hungry freak.  But the writer, being Italian, of course liked him. Also, I thought that many people he said to be in Hell, REALLY didn't deserve it. Like Dido, who had killed herself because her lover was gone - that's a very sad story. I don't think Dido was evil, so what was she doing in Hell?!Ehhh...sorry for the rant. But that book....Grrrrr...I want to throw it out of my window again oh well.
I love dante's inferno, it's one of the greatest epic poems ever written, at least for me. I find it pretty solemn, and definitely not childish, but this is my own idea, and maybe it' because I read it in the original language (italian volgare). and I don't think dante is portraied as a saint, even because, at the beginning, he finds himself in the "wood" that symbolizes the sin, and he says he was going to lost the right way (he was lost in the sin). and about the fact that dido was in hell, well, dante didn't choose to put her in hell because he was emotionless, but simply to show the justice..I mean, she wronged, even if she had "right" reasons to do that, but it's "right" for her to be in hell. at least this is what I think. I'm reading the Purgatorio, always by dante, and I'm really in love with it. sorry if I not agree with you, aerlinn, but gosh, dante is such a great writer, and I respect him with all myself... _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: October 4th, 2007, 10:16 pm |
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hmm.. what book are you guys talking about?
it sounds interesting! 
I really like symbolisms and stuff in books.. (like Pilgrim's Progress.. or Lord of the Rings.. or Narnia..) _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: October 5th, 2007, 6:40 am |
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..love_like_winter.. wrote: hmm.. what book are you guys talking about? it sounds interesting! I really like symbolisms and stuff in books.. (like Pilgrim's Progress.. or Lord of the Rings.. or Narnia..) we are talking about Dante's Inferno. and if you like symbolisms, you will love it 
it's an allegorical poem... _________________
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Post subject: Posted: October 5th, 2007, 10:18 pm |
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Currently, my English class is studying Macbeth and Frankenstein.
Macbeth is pretty interesting to read, but I think to enjoy studying it, you have to want to, and you have to have fun with it and that's what we're doing, so it's very fun.
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Post subject: Posted: October 6th, 2007, 9:49 am |
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I wanted to study "About a Boy" but well, we're watching the movie now.
The last English book we studied was "The Giver", at the moment we're studying "Der Vorleser" by Bernhard Schlink in our German lessons.
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Post subject: Posted: October 6th, 2007, 2:56 pm |
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Aerlinniel ó Eressëa wrote: Oops.  I'm so, so sorry. I really respect other people's opinions...I shouldn't have ranted like that. Sorry. I did really like the book in the beginning.....until I had to read it for the 10th time, and began noticing certain things more and more....(like the graphic descriptions of torture) I still love some quotes from it to bits, but...I guess I'm just really, really against the idea of so much torture and violence. The story itself isn't bad at all: It's good. But the descriptions...well, you know my opinion on it now And Dido. Arg I'm a hopeless romantic, so of course I still think putting her in Hell was far too strict. It's not that the story isn't good, it's just so....even if Hell'd exist, I don't think it'd be that way... But that's just my personal opinion. I love the end though.... "and we saw, once again, the Stars.." you don't have to be sorry, aerlinn. as you said, everyone has his opinion, and we have to respect them. I wasn't offendend or something like that from what you wrote, I just felt like I had to write what I think, but it's ok
I respect your opinion, and I can understand your different point of view. and about dido, I was really sorry about her too, actually, but we studied a lot dante's idea of "right" things, and in his mentality, she has to be in hell...
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Post subject: Posted: October 9th, 2007, 3:13 pm |
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mmm we're studying "Il Principe" by Niccolò Machiavelli...it isn't too bad, I just don't like the subject...
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Post subject: Posted: October 13th, 2007, 2:45 pm |
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We're currently discussing Herodotus' histories...I like it a lot, except for when he goes into all the people's...intimate customs...then I jsut end up being disturbed...
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Post subject: Posted: October 13th, 2007, 2:49 pm |
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We're studying Sallust at the moment. Coniuratione Catilinae.
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