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i really don’t have alot to say lately.

i finished reading the His Dark Materials series. and i will ask the same thing i asked when finished harry potter…seriously, these are children’s books?? the 3 books are much darker and deeper than harry potter, and just because they star children, they’re for children? it discusses killing god! they go into “hell” and let out all the dead people! among all the other somewhat disturbing and violent parts of the book. i liked it! haha no really, i enjoyed it, and it kept me in suspense so that i kept staying up too late reading.

next up is the 2nd Ender Wiggins book, came in the mail today. i just can’t finish Atlas Shrugged again, there is just too much and it’s too dense. i’m about halfway through and i keep remembering things that still haven’t happened yet haha.

so i’m reading the twilight series. stef bought and read them last week, offered them to me so i figured maybe i won’t be 10 years behind on this one haha. i am really enjoying it, and probably not for normal reasons. i find it really amusing, because i could have written it. in fact, the characters…i more or less have written. when i was writing in college as a way to procrastinate doing anything useful. especially “edward”…i pretty much already wrote him as “raine” in the last thing i ever wrote, except not a vampire…tho he was going to have mystical mind reading sort of skills and be related to voodoo queens of old, had i ever gotten that far. and bella is the classic clumsy normal girl everyone writes into their fan fictions online who grabs attention of the famous rock star who finds her fascinating. so i find it kind of funny. i’ll admit tho, i’m totally absorbed and i’m 300 pages in, in under 2 days. that’s saying alot, because i pretty much read for a half hour a night before bed.

i’m also reading one flew over the cuckoos next, which when i started, i realized i had no idea what it was about. and thinking about it, i never had any inkling of what it was about, i just knew it was a “classic” so i figured i should read it. it’s pretty great. crazy ppl in a mental hospital.

today was court for my cell phone use at a stop light ticket. i found out at work from another nt resident, their ticket was only $25. turns out, yes, improper cell phone use is a non moving violation, so with reduction to a city parking ticket, it’s only $25. i didn’t bother to argue my case for that little amount of money, i just wanted to go home and back to bed. moral of the story: if you’re going to get caught on the phone, get caught in NT, it’s cheap. cheaper than buying a bluetooth headset 🙂

BCT ON GHOSTHUNTERS TONIGHT 9 and 11!

and i have sabres tickets for sale if anyone is interested. they’re going fast tho.

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they’ve printed below.

01. Look at the list and bold those you have read.
02. Italicize those you’ve started but not finished for whatever reason.
03. Underline the books you LOVE.

001 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
002 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
003 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
004 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
005 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
006 The Bible
007 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
008 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
009 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman – in progress
010 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens – can i strikethrough the ones i hated?
011 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
012 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
013 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
014 Complete Works of Shakespeare
015 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
016 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
017 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
018 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
019 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
020 Middlemarch – George Eliot
021 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
022 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
023 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
024 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
025 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
026 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
027 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
028 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
029 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
030 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
031 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
032 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
033 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
034 Emma – Jane Austen
035 Persuasion – Jane Austen
036 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
037 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
038 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
039 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
040 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne – not sure, might have read them all as a kid…
041 Animal Farm – George Orwell
042 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
043 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
044 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
045 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
046 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
047 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
048 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
049 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
050 Atonement – Ian McEwan
051 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
052 Dune – Frank Herbert
053 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
054 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
055 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
056 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
057 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
058 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
059 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
060 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
061 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
062 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
063 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
064 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
065 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
066 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
067 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
068 Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
069 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
070 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
071 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
072 Dracula – Bram Stoker
073 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
074 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
075 Ulysses – James Joyce
076 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
077 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
078 Germinal – Emile Zola
079 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
080 Possession – AS Byatt
081 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
082 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
083 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
084 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
085 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
086 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
087 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
088 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
089 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
090 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
091 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
092 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
093 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
094 Watership Down – Richard Adams
095 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
096 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
097 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
098 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
099 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

more than 6, i guess i’m above average and only 10 of them were because i had to read them in school hahaha

i neglected to mention i finished all of harry potter. i finished book 6 and couldn’t wait to borrow 7 from someone so i went out and bought it. i think 6 was my fav, i liked finding out about voldemort’s past, and the setup for the end book was great. 7 had alot in it, some parts were sorta boring, but you really couldn’t take anything out of it. i was happy with the ending, tho i really expected harry to die. there was a nice twist with the wands, and yeah…i enjoyed it.

i’ve also finished reading “On The Road”…as far as generation defining, hippie inspiring books go i think i preferred “electric kool aid acid test”. on the road was mostly boring, dean was irritating, and eh…i guess i just don’t see what makes it so great.

still reading “collapse” and i finally got the follow up books to the Golden Compass. after that i’ve run out, so send ideas haha

ok i admit…i love harry potter. finished reading the last 200 pages of book 4 last night. just couldn’t stop. i feel bad for making fun of people who went and lined up when the new books came out. i prob would have too, but still no dressing up.

stef forgot to bring me more harry potter yesterday, so i gave in and bought the new chucky p book “snuff” (the real title ha). i read a random middle chapter at the store, and i still don’t expect to be blown away by it. it really does seem like more of the same, and that it almost has a “haunted” like feel – short stories wrapped in an over arching framework. we shall see. i need to finish “the bell jar” first.

so…i started reading harry potter. a few years too late but i’m really out of things to read, and i figured a big series will get me through summer. so i finished the first one a few weeks ago. i’m borrowing them from a coworker, and now that we can’t have books on the gaming floor it’s been harder to swap and get the next ones.

so in the meantime i read “i am legend”, which was only half of the book. the 2nd half of the book was all short stories that seem to have nothing to do with i am legend. i read the first 3, all creepy and supernatural but i wasn’t that interested. when ian was up last week and said he wanted to read it i gave it to him.

i also just finished the golden compass which i really enjoyed. more than narnia. and i have more of an interest in seeing the movie adaptation than i am of seeing the narnia movies. the 2 follow ups are on my bookmooch list but no one is giving so it’ll be a while before i read the others.

chucky p’s new book comes out this week (or maybe last week) but i’m not too interested in it. it’s called “smut” or something, and is about some porn star trying to break the world record of number of partners in a day. so you know, the usual chucky p book. and i’ve just grown tired of every book having the same theme. so i’ll wait to mooch it, or paperback, or whatever.