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seribulan

The meme infecting the entire world of blogs is the following:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

appropos

-Books that mean a lot to me.
all books have a certain value to me
-Books turned into film that I love.
lord of the rings
-Books turned into film that I loath.
battlefield earth
-Poetry that generates my soul.
hmmm dont read poetry its lost on me
-Do you define yourself as a genre reader?
yes
-How much of your reading was set by others?
not much
-Which modern novels you read more than once.
quite a lot to name here
-List up to five qualities that you look for in books you read.
fun , informative , action , humour and enlightening..

appropos

1. How many books have you read this month?
  3 books
2. Where is the most unusual place you read or have read?
  cant say exactly maybe the toilet .
3. Are there any new or forthcoming books you're eager to read?
  oh yes..
4. Do you have seasonal reading habits, ie: read different types of books at certain time than the rest of the year?
    yes but not exactly according to the time of year , it depends on what picks my interest at that time..
5. Do you read one book at a time or do you have two or more books going at once?
two or more books at a time that is until i find a book that really grabs my attention..
6. Do you read anytime you can or do you have a set reading time?
when ever i have the time..

gorgonz

Keeping Your Place

1. Do you use bookmarks? (If no, continue to question 2.)
What do you use?
clothing tags

What is the most unusual bookmark you've ever used?
Do you collect them?
sort of


3. Where do you like to stop reading?
if only i must ... ie: doter panggil...iklan dah abis - time tengok tv

seribulan

Series this time.

Name 3 of your favorite series.

Name 3 series you think went on too long.

Name 3 books you wish had been series.

seribulan

FOR POTTER LOVERS

tr3e

i like this thread a lot bulan!!!
i've read these..mostly 4 my lit classes.


Achebe, Chinua

marquez

FOR POTTER LOVERS

seribulan

[quote]Originally posted by marquez at 5-10-2005 03:58 PM
FOR POTTER LOVERS

seribulan

BOOKWORM
1. We've all heard the phrase, "Don't judge a book by its cover." Have you ever picked up a book based solely on the title or the picture on the cover?

2. Along the same lines, do you ever look at whichever book someone else is reading in public or whatnot, and based on that make a snap judgment about their character or literary taste? (I realize this might not seem all that clear, so let me give an example- for instance, whenever I see someone reading War and Peace, the first word that pops into my mind is "pretentious." Most of the people I've known who carry that book around just do it to get attention and demonstrate how "smart" they are, when they actually never get past page 10).

3. Do you buy books online? If so, where is your favorite place to find them?

4. From someone who's had more than a fair share of library fines... what is the largest late fee you've ever incurred at a library for returning a book past the due date? Have you ever borrowed a book from a library and never returned it?

5. How many books do you own (and if you're not a nerd like me and don't know the exact number, guess-timate)?

6. Do you keep books to add to your personal library, or do you trade them/give them away?

7. If you keep books, what makes you keep them? What kind of books do you keep?

8. Do you have a guilty pleasure book- something you would never want to admit to reading?

9. Have you ever gone without something you needed to buy a book instead?

10. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

[ Last edited by seribulan at 7-10-2005 04:49 PM ]

seribulan

Fiction or Non-Fiction?

Largest Impact

Favorite Scholarly Book

Most Read Book

Sexiest Book

Biggest Disappointments

Five Books that Mean Something to You

Consider Yourself Tagged...

gorgonz

FOR POTTER LOVERS

seribulan

Alchera Project   

The idea is to create several lists on different categories of beautiful things. For example, you can make lists of beautiful places, beautiful people, beautiful words/sayings, beautiful paintings and beautiful expressions; this is merely an example, as you can create as many lists with as many categories as you抎 like. You should have at least 5 items under each list.

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BOOKWORM
1. We've all heard the phrase, "Don't judge a book by its cover." Have you ever picked up a book based solely on the title or the picture on the cover?

i probably did , some covers are just a turn off..

2. Along the same lines, do you ever look at whichever book someone else is reading in public or whatnot, and based on that make a snap judgment about their character or literary taste? (I realize this might not seem all that clear, so let me give an example- for instance, whenever I see someone reading War and Peace, the first word that pops into my mind is "pretentious." Most of the people I've known who carry that book around just do it to get attention and demonstrate how "smart" they are, when they actually never get past page 10).

dont really see that many people reading in public , i guess i would though .

3. Do you buy books online? If so, where is your favorite place to find them?

no.

4. From someone who's had more than a fair share of library fines... what is the largest late fee you've ever incurred at a library for returning a book past the due date? Have you ever borrowed a book from a library and never returned it?

yes  i have done that, though it was a loooong time ago..

5. How many books do you own (and if you're not a nerd like me and don't know the exact number, guess-timate)?

a guesstimate then 300 - 400 books

6. Do you keep books to add to your personal library, or do you trade them/give them away?

i keep em all cant bring myself to give em away.

7. If you keep books, what makes you keep them? What kind of books do you keep?

i keep almost all of the books that i have bought..

8. Do you have a guilty pleasure book- something you would never want to admit to reading?

yes i do but its not something i would tell about here

9. Have you ever gone without something you needed to buy a book instead?

not really ..

10. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

hmm thats a tough one do cartoon characters count .

seribulan

1. We've all heard the phrase, "Don't judge a book by its cover." Have you ever picked up a book based solely on the title or the picture on the cover?
...usually, no...

2. Along the same lines, do you ever look at whichever book someone else is reading in public or whatnot, and based on that make a snap judgment about their character or literary taste? (I realize this might not seem all that clear, so let me give an example- for instance, whenever I see someone reading War and Peace, the first word that pops into my mind is "pretentious." Most of the people I've known who carry that book around just do it to get attention and demonstrate how "smart" they are, when they actually never get past page 10).
...none that I can recall...

3. Do you buy books online? If so, where is your favorite place to find them?
...Nope....

4. From someone who's had more than a fair share of library fines... what is the largest late fee you've ever incurred at a library for returning a book past the due date? Have you ever borrowed a book from a library and never returned it?
...so far ... not...I .... thinkkkk...

5. How many books do you own (and if you're not a nerd like me and don't know the exact number, guess-timate)?
...too lazy to count...too stupid to guess-timate...

6. Do you keep books to add to your personal library, or do you trade them/give them away?
...all of the above...

7. If you keep books, what makes you keep them? What kind of books do you keep?
...Literary stuffs...citer-citer penyiasatan...

8. Do you have a guilty pleasure book- something you would never want to admit to reading?
...hmm...nope...

9. Have you ever gone without something you needed to buy a book instead?
...also nope...

10. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
...MB heroes, I think...can't recall them already...

seribulan

Hardback or Paperback?


Highlight or Underline?


Lewis or Tolkien?


E.B. White or A.A. Milne?


T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings?


Stephen King or Dean Koontz?

Barnes & Noble or Borders?


Waldenbooks or B. Dalton?


Fantasy or Science Fiction?


Horror or Suspense?


Bookmark or Dogear?


Hemingway or Faulkner?


Fitzgerald or Steinbeck?


John Irving or John Updike?


Homer or Plato?


Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser?


Pen or Pencil?


Looseleaf or Notebook?


Alphabetize: By Author or By Title?


Novella or Epic


Fiction or Non-fiction?

Historical Biography or Historical Romance?


A Few Pages per Sitting or Finish at Least a Chapter?


Short Story or Creative Non-fiction Essay?

Buy or borrow?


Book Reviews or Word of Mouth?

* some might be redundant...

miss_sherlock

Poem

IF - Rudyard kipling

THE ROAD  NOT TAKEN - Robert Frost

some of shakespeare's sonnets are quite good because theres parody on beauty and love too!

ffn another note grrr.. i remember a short sonnet  i read which i loved but my mind is fuzzy on the details
only have the gist in my head..dont u just hate it when it happens?


Play
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Woman In Black ..its a  Ghost story
one of the very few i saw.. BRilliANte !!Just  2 actors and the woman in black on stage the whole time
kept me glued on my seat for the two hours and so

hmm.. do musicals count??!! heheheehehe


Short story or novel

SHORT STORY
The elephant vanishes -short stories by Murakami ( brilliant!)
The tell tale heart - edgar allan poe (read this short story when i was young and thought great of it..now oklah)

" If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
whats more you'll be a man my son!" IF

actually i love the whole freaking poem, okay!!

miss_sherlock

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

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sorry it's ff: but i'm a bit of a narcissist and i believe everyone should read this ..:lol

gorgonz

- Books that mean a lot to me.
  to love again -- danielle steel
-             Books turned into film that I love.
.             harry potter
                 Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
                                -                           Books turned into film that I loath.
.                           Message from Nam - danieele steel
                                                A Painted House - grisham
                                     -Poetry that generates my soul.
.                                    Children by Kahlil Gibran
-                                            Do you define yourself as a genre reader?
.                                            sometimes
-                         How much of your reading was set by others?
.                         depends on who/what are others
-         Which modern novels you read more than once.
           more than once? hmmm - i seldom reread
-List up to five qualities that you look for in books you read.
.suspense, familial touch, humour, informative, bestseller :cak:

[ Last edited by gorgonz at 3-11-2005 08:18 PM ]

seribulan

How many [entomology] books do I own?

Last [entomology] book purchased.

Last [entomology] book I read.

The five [entomology] books that influenced you the most.

Five others [who at least sometimes write about insects or invertebrates] to tag with this meme:

* you can respond to the meme in it's original form -- all books -- rather than entomology books or any types you like.