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DAKOTA Posted Sun 17 Feb, 2008 6:27 AM |
I was in girl scouts too. It was pretty boring (and the girls made me learn a dance routine to "Hangin' Tough" by the New Kids on the Block on a sleepover. Uuuuuugh)
But like every other group I belonged to they all decided that they weren't interested after a while, so the troop disbanded...thank god. We never even earned hardly any badges. Our troop leaders were slackers! |
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Sun 17 Feb, 2008 9:00 AM |
On a side note...
How the feck can anyone enjoy watching Cricket
a "game" that lasts three days and ends in a draw!!!
Dubz
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Esteban Posted Sun 17 Feb, 2008 4:30 PM |
| 5 days, in test cricket, I love Cricket, and could happily watch all 5 days. |
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Turtleneck Posted Sun 17 Feb, 2008 7:24 PM |
I loved A Separate Peace! It tore my heart out. Lord of the Flies made me cry, too. Once was enough.
College killed me from reading for pleasure for a long time. I majored in English. Those 19th C. books were soooo looooong and overloaded with excruciating detail. I just got bogged down after a few years. I forgot that reading was supposed to be enjoyable.
P.S. Husband came home with a box of GS cookies yesterday. The chocolate mint ones. They are half gone. |
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ElspethOllie Posted Sun 17 Feb, 2008 7:43 PM |
Turtleneck wrote: I loved A Separate Peace!
Ewwww. Kayte! |
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Turtleneck Posted Sun 17 Feb, 2008 7:55 PM |
ElspethOllie wrote: Turtleneck wrote: I loved A Separate Peace!
Ewwww. Kayte!
What?! It was so tragic. |
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ElspethOllie Posted Mon 18 Feb, 2008 2:01 AM |
| Any boardies around? |
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weirdmom Posted Mon 18 Feb, 2008 2:13 AM |
| I'm around for a bit. Going to bed early since I got crap for sleep last night. |
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weirdmom Posted Mon 18 Feb, 2008 2:16 AM |
| This is going further back in time than high school but I remember being traumatized by having to read "Johnny Tremain" in 5th grade. I hated that little squirt. |
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DAKOTA Posted Mon 18 Feb, 2008 2:43 AM |
| Me. I like Tragic stories, and bittersweet endings. I'm sadistic like that. :P Maybe that's why I can't find anything to read. Can somebody recommend something that will make me weep where everyone dies in the end? |
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ElspethOllie Posted Mon 18 Feb, 2008 2:49 AM |
| Nope. I suggest picking up a copy of Candy Girl though. It's really funny. |
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goosey_84 Posted Mon 18 Feb, 2008 3:16 AM |
| what's goin' on peeps? :D |
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weirdmom Posted Mon 18 Feb, 2008 3:20 AM |
I felt pretty tortured by Atonement. I first hated the book (almost didn't finish it) then liked it, then as I mulled over it I felt devastated by it.
OK I am off to bed. I hope I sleep better tonight. I really can't sleep much worse though. |
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ElspethOllie Posted Mon 18 Feb, 2008 3:22 AM |
| Watching Ghostbusters. |
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I Came in Through the Bathroom Window Posted Mon 18 Feb, 2008 3:28 AM |
DAKOTA wrote: Me. I like Tragic stories, and bittersweet endings. I'm sadistic like that. :P Maybe that's why I can't find anything to read. Can somebody recommend something that will make me weep where everyone dies in the end?
My favourite book is The Party Of The Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa. Here's a small description:
Quote: Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.
It's quite bloody, but very very interesting.
I don't know if it's the kind of things you like though. |
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