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Post by pennyroyal on Sept 3, 2003 22:46:55 GMT -5
i liked jekyll and hyde
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Post by MambaduMal on Sept 4, 2003 13:26:50 GMT -5
I saw Phantom of them Opera at the theater where I work as a volunteer... Unfortunately, it was a kid's version... So it had a corny happy ending and all that Should I bother to read the book? I saw a Jekyll and Hyde performance at the theater too... It was pretty cool, I liked it... But since Viper read the book, I asked her if it was the same as the play... She said it was totally different... Apparently there are no cliché prostitude sob stories in the book...
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Post by songbird11989 on Sept 4, 2003 15:02:43 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]mamba, you should definately read the book. not only is it ten times better than the show, it allows you to get the image of the very scariness, the creepiness that IS the very soul of the phantom. lol. sorry i had to do that. it is an awesome book read it![/glow]
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Post by MoonyGirl21 on Sept 4, 2003 19:58:45 GMT -5
I must definately agree here, although I did rather enjoy the show. There's an emotional level between Raoul and Christene that I don't think comes acroww as strongly in the book, but then again, I read it a LONG time ago. The music certainly has a haunting effect. I'd say read the book, but if you ever get a chance to see it on stage, DON't HESITATE! It's fantastic!
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Post by songbird11989 on Sept 4, 2003 20:03:21 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]i thought that the relationship between raoul and christine was more developed in the book...at the end (w/o ruining it ) u feel all emotional inside. its so wonderful that a book can make u do that (and now i feel all weird cuz i said that out loud...*shifts eyes*)[/glow]
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Post by BSam on Sept 5, 2003 3:39:36 GMT -5
isn't one of pratchetts discworld books satirising phantom of the opera..? maskerade i think...
oh well...just a thought...
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Post by LeeCurtis on Oct 26, 2003 8:01:55 GMT -5
/me I think David Copperfield is a classic, or anthing else by Charles Dickens.
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Post by Colton on Oct 31, 2003 2:31:27 GMT -5
I HATED Huck Finn! The stupid southern dialect slowed me down too! I had to finish it though, it was required reading for Freshman at the high school I go to. (BTW, I am from Alabama, and we have accents but believe me, almost no one speaks like they do in Huck Finn!) Of course, over 100 years, dialect can change, but still...... But anyway, I picked Other. I am actually not a huge fan of classic literature, I mostly read recent stuff. However, I read Animal Farm by George Orwell and loved it! *cough cough* excuse me? Huck Finn is placed in Missourri, so thats northern accents int he olden days. southerner's ialect you would have never finished if it were in a book ;D
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Post by Dismay on May 30, 2004 19:53:02 GMT -5
i loved Little Women, and have read almost all of the sequels. She also wrote Jack and Jill, based on the rhyme. it was so good!
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Post by BSam on May 31, 2004 21:18:49 GMT -5
i'm about to post but some bastard beat me to it... dante's divine comedy... i still havn't quite read it all but i'm still working on it
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Post by timartwonis on Jun 4, 2004 19:28:39 GMT -5
my faves are:
-Little Women, I've read it 5 times! Great book. -Adventures of Tom Sawyer or Huck Fin or w/e its called. My dad read it to me and my sisters class did a musical on it in 5th grade. -*Romeo and Juliet* ah, I love that book, I had so much fun reading it...and making fun of Kate, about how it made her horny. The romance that I most enjoyed in that wasn't between Romeo and Juliet, it was between Benvolio and Mercutio
I LOVE the Divine Comedy. It's mossome
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Post by Antenora on Jun 5, 2004 10:18:06 GMT -5
"Julius Caesar" is another great Shakespeare play; my literature class read it. We've also read some excerpts from the Iliad, and that was cool.
I love the [iDivine Comedy[/i], too, as evidenced by my fake last name and many of my posts. My literature class read some excerpts from the Inferno, and it's my favorite thing we ever read.
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Post by timartwonis on Jun 5, 2004 18:51:22 GMT -5
next year we're gonna read a midsummer nights dream and the year after we're goign to read the odyssey, the iliad, the hounds of baskerville, antigone, oedipus the king, the hounds of baskerville, the tempest, the old man and the sea
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Post by negativenine on Jun 6, 2004 12:34:53 GMT -5
Wow... I haven't actually read most of these cool classics tm. Maybe bad graphic novels and Star Trek: OS-like movies turned me off of them. I guess I'll have to say Little Women, although I remember very little of it. Wasn't there a bit with limes? Where they had a school fad that was eating limes, then the girl got beaten for holding limes under her desk? "I'm going to buy ever so many limes!" "I'm going to beat you ever so senseless!"
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Post by Alchemist on Jun 8, 2004 2:32:09 GMT -5
I loved The Hound of the Baskervilles. Stapleton was a genius. Much Ado About Nothing and The Importance of Being Ernest were both hilarious. I'm still trying to finish Macbeth. Has anyone read it?
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