<p>Thanks dude(tte)</p>
<p>No problem, Brown.</p>
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See, I never read those “smart people” books. I go after the “braincell are optional” books. Maybe one day.</p>
<p>@ Plattsburgh: I would have to agree with you, I have to cycle between my books. </p>
<p>I’m currently juggling Moby Dick, Persuasion, Sonnets by Shakespeare, Utopia by Thomas More and Water for Elephants.</p>
<p>I need some new books to read. I don’t like look on Amazon though. It’s not the same as picking up every single book in the bookstore, flipping through the pages and then spilling coffee on it and deciding “No, I don’t want this book.”</p>
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<p>The Awakening is “smart people” esque. After being forced to read every classic during the school year, I like to give my brain off during the summer.</p>
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<p>Haha, my friends say that have reader’s-ADD. I can’t stay on one book too long. I always finish them but I need to rotate with about four other books. My bag is heavy everyday. </p>
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<p>Tell me about it. I’ve only found one Barnes and Nobles over here so far and it’s way too crowded. I hate a crowded bookstore so then I have to go Amazon or eBay and look for a book. It cost less but it’s not the same.</p>
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<p>I thought it was a pretty light read.
Macbeth always makes me laugh my ass off. Have you ever seen that movie Scotland, PA?</p>
<p>I guess I have perfect timing. Once the conversations rolls around to mindless reading, of course I post… </p>
<p>I do quite a bit of mindless reading as well, however I usually get through those quite fast and don’t talk to people in between reading those books (4-5 hours).</p>
<p>Reader’s ADD? That’s a good term… I may have to borrow that. </p>
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<p>I’m really hoping to go to Columbia, it’s kind of disheartening to hear that they don’t have a Barnes & Noble nearby. Is there at the very least a Borders?</p>
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<p>Really? There should be hoards of bookstores in NYC I would imagine.</p>
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<p>No, what’s it about?</p>
<p>Well the one I go to is where I have to switch trains to get home from my internship on 65th and Amsterdam (or somewhere around, a few blocks north from Lincoln Center) it’s packed. I haven’t actively looked for any others though. </p>
<p>There are a bunch on the east side, but I hate going to the east side of Manhattan. </p>
<p>There is one by Columbia a few blocks south on w. 86th and broadway, but I haven’t been there</p>
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<p>It’s a tongue-in-cheek remake of Macbeth where Macbeth kills his boss (Duncan) by frying him in the fryer at a drive-thru burger place. It’s pretty wild. You should see it</p>
<p>^I second Scotland PA. It’s awesome.</p>
<p>Two recommendations = I’ll see if I can find it. I haven’t been to Blockbuster in ages, I’ll see if I can find it there. I need something to watch this weekend.</p>
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<p>I liked those books too. Has there been a new one recently, or is the series finished?</p>
<p>I’m reading Brisingr right now.</p>
<p>This is the most recent Artemis Fowl: [Amazon.com:</a> The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, Book 6): Eoin Colfer: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Time-Paradox-Artemis-Fowl-Book/dp/B001IWO87A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248574638&sr=8-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Time-Paradox-Artemis-Fowl-Book/dp/B001IWO87A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248574638&sr=8-1)</p>
<p>Ooh, I’ve only read the first 5.</p>
<p>I read The Awakening like a week and a half ago. Great book. I read it and Fathers and Sons and I found them both really “life change-y” but it’s too early to say so…</p>
<p>The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. Whenever I can’t get through something, I think about transitory things in there, and about “no eternity.” It’s awesome. Of course, Werther didn’t get through things, but I can, right? Of course, there are like a million other books I can think of that are as life change-y, but that’s the one I’ve settled on. And yeah, I have been thinking about it a lot for college admissions.</p>
<p>I never read HP, so can’t account for the life change-iness of that.</p>
<p>The Catcher in the Rye, hands down </p>
<p>I love the bit in the end that Mr. Antolini shares w/ Holden:</p>
<p>"All right-the Mr. Vinsons. Once you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, you’re going to start getting closer and closer-that is, if you want to, and if you look for it and wait for it-to the kind of information that will be very, very dear to your heart. Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them-if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.</p>
<p>“I’m not trying to tell you,” he said, “that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It’s not so. But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with–which, unfortunately, is rarely the case–tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end. And–most important–nine times out of ten they have more humility than the unscholarly thinker. Do you follow me at all?”</p>
<p>“Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it’ll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What it’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your particular size mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that don’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.”</p>
<p>I hope I don’t get in trouble for it :/</p>
<p>Other Voices, Other Rooms by Capote</p>
<p>1776 - David McCullough. Made me want to major in history sooooooo bad. That and my awesome history teacher who inspired me to read it
the Bible - for obvious reasons, since i am a Christian.
Hardy Boys - first books i read, AMAZING! made me want to be a detective. And i still want to be, kinda</p>
<p>Franklin Goes to School (yes this is the book about the talking turtle)</p>
<p>In the Lake of the Woods (this is a really creepy book) by O’ Brien</p>
<p>I love quoting both of these books.</p>