Books & Authors - September 2006

...or the last book you read.
What was it about? Any good?
thanks
Marissa x

2006-09-10 10:33:32 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous

i mean i never get it.. it's always pointing to something that u gotta read out of a book to understand, not to mention analyze the poet. I dont think i's enjoyable at all. if someone disagrees plz plz plz suggest something for me to read instead

2006-09-10 10:20:03 · 23 answers · asked by la_fille_en_blue 2

Did you ever read these wacky books? They had such strange stories but they were just so funny. I think the authors name was Louis Sachar.

2006-09-10 10:10:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

other positive people characteristics like helpful, caring....

2006-09-10 09:28:34 · 7 answers · asked by kp000000 1

A criticism about my writing in my last question got me to thinking: Do you believe in simple writing?

Below is the criticism I refer to.

"Less is always more. Your writing is choppy sometimes and you overuse "that". Remember "that" is a pronoun, it should refer to something you previously mentioned.

Drop the "only" in "but please don't only tell me that...". While we're at it, drop the "that" in that sentence too. Too many syllables.

Always read out your writing. The best writing rolls off the tongue easily. It doesn't matter if it's verbose, it just has to have rhythm. It should sound like you're rolling and swaying. "

-guy_us_1900

With all due respect, the idea of simplifying writing and giving it rhythm troubles me. I'd rather be long winded, if that's what it is, and feel I am being complete in expressing my thoughts, than artistic. But I'm not a poet. I don't dispute the merits of his analysis, but I following it would leave me dissatisfied.

2006-09-10 09:28:14 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have several hard back books and im down sizing my library tho i want to make sure i keep any 1st editions any help please

2006-09-10 09:20:51 · 13 answers · asked by zoomer2001uk 2

I dont have my book "A Great and Terrible Beauty' or "Rebel Angels' and I need to know what color Gemma's eyes are, yet I cant remember.

2006-09-10 09:19:57 · 3 answers · asked by blackhorse_81 2

I'm open to suggestions...

2006-09-10 09:06:13 · 31 answers · asked by JK Rowling 1

People keep saying that if I like reading, I should read this book. To people who have read it, is it any good?

2006-09-10 08:58:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

It is about school and I have to do a book report but I don't know what book to do it on. Do you have any ideas? Any books between the ages of 12-14. Please Help

2006-09-10 08:56:24 · 18 answers · asked by bootsy 1

I spent a few months in Hong Kong and now I am reading Chinese literature that has been translated into English. I've read writers like Mo Yan, Lao She, and several others, I've even subsscribe to a magazine that prints translated stories. Any recommendations?

2006-09-10 08:49:25 · 1 answers · asked by o41655 4

If I have one that appears fairly regularly.

The following needs to be said: Yes, that would mean you'd need to look through my questions and answers, or recall what you have already seen of them, to have a decent basis for your answer. If you don't want to, then don't, but please don't only tell me that you don't want to, I consider that points gaming. You can make up a style if you want, whether it exists or not. But I'm not interested in how "you don't want to." I'm not making you.

2006-09-10 08:47:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was assigned a reading assignment and i'm not sure which book to read. Either a book by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne or Mark Twain. I only have about a month to complete.

2006-09-10 08:39:59 · 16 answers · asked by SlamC 2

since I do not know a lot about slang, I do not understand this phrase of Chorus 13 (Mexico City Blus - Jack Kerouac). What means this phrase?

I caught a cold
From the sun
When they tore my heart out
At the top of the pyramid

o the ruttle tooty blooty
window poopies
of Fellah Ack Ack
Town that russet noon
when priest dared
to lick their lips
over my thumping meat
heart

2006-09-10 08:39:14 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

They showed a list of some books banned from some libraries and schools, which, after seeing some of them, begs the question, who banned thinking when selecting the books to remove? Their home page is not working at this time, but if you get the chance, look up the list. It includes Garfield collects and a dictionary, and some books that are controversial but also widely considered literary classics, or of important historical significance and value.

2006-09-10 08:35:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

The novel was futuristic when it was written. Are there any elements that Orwell was warning his readers about what you see present in our society today?

2006-09-10 08:29:00 · 10 answers · asked by Lola A 2

Does anybody like poetry? I love it!
I do it when i feel sad, mad, angry, and sick.
One day i would love to become one.
Now this is one of my poems : The crystals in your eyes shine through the heavens, and above the seas, through out the valleys, and on the mountains. Your eyes are as blue to me and as blue as the unique sea your eyes mean everything to me.

2006-09-10 08:27:59 · 7 answers · asked by hello 3

2006-09-10 08:00:10 · 5 answers · asked by aintthatapip 2

2006-09-10 07:45:47 · 6 answers · asked by adi 2

I want to find out the name of the poem about the man who has everything he could ever want but in the end of the poem he kills himself because he isn't happy. Does anyone have any idea what this poem is or who wrote it?? I will love you forever if you do!!

2006-09-10 07:45:01 · 4 answers · asked by audra_brooke 1

I believe this picture was illustrated by E. H. Shepard as it strongly resembles artwork of winnie the pooh. It is black and white, cartoon in format, and includes one sister on the ground surrounded by numerous different style goblins.

2006-09-10 07:11:43 · 1 answers · asked by cajun b 1

Does anyone know the metaphors and similes in this poem?

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay
Lulled by the coil of the crystalline streams
Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave's intenser day

2006-09-10 06:55:20 · 2 answers · asked by glance 3

I am just wondering if there will ever be a clique movie. I am a fan of the Lisi Harrison books!

2006-09-10 06:52:34 · 5 answers · asked by Ashleileigh 1

Please read my story and tell me what you think. (Here. I won't read the email for a while and when I do I'll be like "Huh?")

http://www.freewebs.com/iluvcole711/index.htm

2006-09-10 06:38:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

What Shame
By Savannah

All she ate today was a little bit of Jell-o
Just to look right for that one special fellow
You can see she’s happy, you know it for sure
She likes that her outfit is so couture
Yet she doesn’t realize just one thing:
She experiences jealousy, just a slight ping
She says to herself
“God…I’m so fat”
“I really hate my hair…I must wear this hat”
She’s beautiful on the inside, it really is true
She’s extremely pretty, she should have her own style crew
Yet she starves herself in this unholy way
Just so she can tell herself “You look pretty today”
She’s so slim…it really is a shame
And pressure to be thin—it takes the blame
She sees all the movie stars on the T.V.
And she just plain glows with envy
“Why is she like that? Why can’t I be like that?”
“Why am I just so God-damn fat?”
She doesn’t believe she has an eating disorder
When she sees the pretty actors on Law and Order
She thinks “Oh…God…change the channel”
But then it flips to an all-girl panel
“I hate myself…no dinner for me”
But why….why can’t she just see?
She’s not fat…she’s underweight, to say the truth
You’ll never see a morsel of food pass that tooth

2006-09-10 06:26:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

the next one is number 15. i know akito is due on the cover. i just don't know when it will come out? does anybody know?

2006-09-10 06:26:21 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm talking about the hardcover first edition, first printings of all three. The Drawing of the Three And The Wastelands were only about $75, but Wizard and Glass was about $250.

2006-09-10 06:09:15 · 3 answers · asked by markbetsypaul 2

2006-09-10 05:59:15 · 1 answers · asked by Tifa 1

Any suggestions?

2006-09-10 05:50:20 · 5 answers · asked by longnosedquoll 3

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

2006-09-10 05:22:10 · 2 answers · asked by alienslag@sbcglobal.net 2