Books & Authors - April 2007

--what's your favorite by Charles Dickens? Why?

2007-04-08 18:14:40 · 5 answers · asked by Palmerpath 7

Please help me identify some rhetorical devices found in "The Red Badge Of Courage". If you could cite your pages or provide me with anything on the author's style that would be great.

2007-04-08 17:13:28 · 2 answers · asked by Dan 3

I have read The Grapes of Wrath twice, All Quiet on the Western Front about 3 times, and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch twice. What good books have you read more than once?

2007-04-08 17:02:24 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Take Hemingway - he's had a life full of adventure, was a journalist, drove an ambulance in WWII. Things of the like. And now take Jack London, who spent most of his time in libraries. And yet, I'd pick Jack London over Hemingway any day - simply because his novels are so full of the before mentioned sense of adventure. Do you really have to experience a lot of things first-hand to be a good writer? What do you think?

2007-04-08 16:37:56 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

i enjoy reading, i enjoy longer books roughly 500+pages as they take me a weekend-week to read, could you please help me in choosing books by naming a few authors/books maybe? thanks for your help.

2007-04-08 16:34:26 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am almost finished witht the 3rd book and I'm looking for something else to read.

2007-04-08 16:02:44 · 2 answers · asked by dlwise92 2

I am suppose to write a two page essay titled "did homer write the odyssey?". what discussions can I make out of it because I am really stuck.

2007-04-08 15:23:43 · 5 answers · asked by wormhole 2

2007-04-08 14:33:27 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-08 14:17:36 · 11 answers · asked by inquisitive 1

It was hope or home, something like that. Its real people giving thier life story

2007-04-08 14:09:08 · 2 answers · asked by ? 1

I want the title of my novel to reflect the emotional pain of being separated from birth parents and how that emptiness is always there and constantly being tried to overcome; which title is most interesting?:

- The Inside Out
- Missing Piece
- Heart Ache
- The Need to be Filled

2007-04-08 13:18:07 · 20 answers · asked by mels211 1

What's the best novel you've read lately?

I'd recommend Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry and Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman

2007-04-08 12:56:19 · 8 answers · asked by Alice K 7

2007-04-08 11:52:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

ok, i read the other 2 books in the series and i have started a man named dave .for those of you who have read it, should i keep reading it?ut it is really boring.(on page 30).

2007-04-08 11:04:27 · 5 answers · asked by Booky524 2

2007-04-08 10:55:28 · 6 answers · asked by jamesgordon22 1

2007-04-08 10:45:17 · 4 answers · asked by question_poser 2

Here is the poem by Edgar Lee Masters, and I need an explanation. I actually have to act this out.

Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,
Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel--
Faint iambics the the full breeze wakens--
But the pine tree makes a symphony thereof.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus,
Ballades by the score with the same old thought:
The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanised;
And what is love but a rose that fades?
Life all around me here in the village:
Tragedy, comedy, valor and truth,
Courage, constancy, heroism, failure--
All in the loom, and oh what patterns!
Woodlands, meadows, streams, and rivers-
Blind to all of it all my life long.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus,
Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,
Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics,
While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?

2007-04-08 10:24:32 · 3 answers · asked by Gabby C 1

i have to write a short book for class. it can be strictly pictures, or illustrated with pictures. it has to have a minimum of 10 pgs. the topic can really be almost anything, i could just use some ideas to get my brain jumpstarted. thanks!

2007-04-08 09:48:45 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-08 09:26:09 · 5 answers · asked by Lt! 2

im reading a book about Angela Davis and the requirements is to also choose an excerpt and im having a hard time trying to understand what that is

2007-04-08 08:34:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

what is the chronology of the events for "To kill a mockingbird" starting from the Ewell house to the end of Tom Robinsons life?

2007-04-08 08:24:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-08 08:19:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Any historical parallels?

2007-04-08 08:00:16 · 2 answers · asked by lissome 3

where can i download the book Animal Farm? a link would b helpful but any idea would b useful =]

2007-04-08 07:54:04 · 2 answers · asked by Bao Pham 3

I've not read too many of his recent books, so maybe orcs pop up there... but it struck me recently that orcs don't really feature in the discworld setting at all. Trolls, yes... Werewolves, yes... Witches, dragons, zombies, vampires, dwarves and elves, yes yes yes... and wizards, of course... about every fantasy staple there is, but no orcs- why is that?

2007-04-08 07:53:10 · 16 answers · asked by Buzzard 7

Stuck

Here I am stuck in this small town
Where there is very little work to be found
I’ll probably be here for the rest of my time
Because of a past horrendous crime
It started with a social drink or two
But then it took off and just grew and grew
I thought I could handle it by myself
Till I took the life of someone else
I was arrested and charged by the local fuzz
And groups like MADD & SADD were all a buzz
They wanted to see me pay dearly for my crime
So the courts gave me the maximum time
So while in prison I sought some aid
And thanks to therapy I’m still sober today

Written by me an 18yr recovering alcoholic

2007-04-08 07:49:18 · 7 answers · asked by SirCs2UUC 2

and what are his/her best stories? I need to read 3 short stories from 1 author.

2007-04-08 06:53:25 · 10 answers · asked by avirothfeld 3

2007-04-08 04:56:51 · 3 answers · asked by Caitybell 1

"Classics" have you actually read? Do you even enjoy them? Do you consider yourself to be well read? Just wondering as some people just assume everone has read them and know the story and very little people actually has, quite a boring question i know but...

2007-04-08 04:46:51 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm looking for books of a drama/morbid genre. The best way i can describe the kind of books i'm after is to use movie examples. American Beauty, The Safety in Objects, The Quiet and even Ghost World. Basically, the secrecy of 'normal' suburbian life, with the angst and introspective vibe. Not so much to do with teenage angst, something a bit more towards adult reading.
I'll appreciate any suggestions you can give me though sooooo go for it!

2007-04-08 04:29:45 · 11 answers · asked by Mia KC 1