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Oh my gosh I wanted to see that. I totally forgot about it! Thanks for reminding me it exists :D
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no problem :lol: it was a pretty good interpretation of the book.

on a somewhat related note:
right now i'm dying to see the english patient because i've been on an ondaatje kick...i keep on being told he's going to do a reading at our school this year, since he's a faculty member. but knowing my luck, nothing will come of it.
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So with my birthday money I bought:

An Oxford Dictionary of Current English
An Oxford Rhyming Dictionary
A Japanese Phrasebook
A Spanish Phrasebook

It's exciting! I swear!

Right now I am reading: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene.

Just thought I'd share :P
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Trudging my way through:

Bouvard and Pecuchet - Gustave Flaubert
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (I love Austen but this book is slow going for me for some reason)

Stuff by Robert Frost, Mary Oliver, and parts of Walden - I'm not a nature person so this class is just about killing me.
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beautiful liar wrote:So with my birthday money I bought:

An Oxford Dictionary of Current English
An Oxford Rhyming Dictionary
A Japanese Phrasebook
A Spanish Phrasebook

It's exciting! I swear!

Right now I am reading: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene.

Just thought I'd share :P
I buy dictionaries, anthologies and other reference books with my free money too. No worries! :love:
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With Christmas monies I bought a dictionary of English Etymology. It's so wonderful!

Oh, and I just finished Lady Chatterley's Lover for my novels class. I didn't know what to expect, really, but it was really compelling.
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dictionaries are shiny

i've finished the summer tree, the first book of the fionavar series by guy gavriel kay, for the second time, and am now reading the second book, the wandering fire, again. such good books.
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oh I read the fionavar trilogy recently!! i liked!!
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they're better the second time around, cuz you actually know what's going on :lol:
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Guy Gavriel Kay did a reading nearby recently, but I had class so I couldn't go :( I bought Ysabel, though, and hopefully will have time to read it soon (well, only a month left in the semester, so I guess I'll have lots of time in April...)
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i keep seeing that at bookstores and wondering if it's any good. let me know what you think when you get a chance to read it, will you?
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I just got finished reading the dictionary.
Pretty good book, I never saw the ending comming though.

Who would've thought the Zebra would've done it.
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Zebra is not the last word in the dictionary, asshole :P
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You of all people should know that different people interpret books differently.
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It's not a matter of interpretation, it's a matter of fact. Saying "zebra" is the last word in the dictionary is like saying "monkey" is the last word in The Iliad.
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is it?
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Monkey is not the last word of The Iliad :P
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Its actually "Brad Pitt"
-Sarah

Goodbye you liar,
Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything
Then you think you will inspire
Take apart your head
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Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
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:lol: :love:
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myownsatellite wrote:Monkey is not the last word of The Iliad :P
I own the book, but for the life of me couldn't tell you the last word!
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