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Hello everyone! After many discussions with my husband (Godric/Godric 2.0), I got tired of hearing "Hey! That's what one of my friends on Hatrack said." I started to become suspicious or even in disbelief that there would be an internet forum that would actually have intelligent conversations about topics.
And although I am young, I pride myself in my precociousness, and I never have been able to discuss any serious/interesting topics to full extent with anyone my age.
So, along with trying to be social and finding new friends, I'm really interested in being a part of this forum so I can say, "Yeah, I posted something like that too."
In case you are wondering, I am a full time student, beginning the end of this month, as a history/secondary education major. I am a full time mother, part-time employee and an on-call wife ( ).
I have only read Pastwatch, but my husband says I MUST read Ender's Game. Personally, I prefer Anne Rice... But I'm a book lover, so I read anything (including the Twilight series - out of pure curiosity). I love to read anything that challenges my mind (excluding the Twilight series, but I'm finishing it anyway out of boredom).
Nice to meet you all.
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I haven't downloaded Ender's Game to my ipod touch yet... lol... And my husband's copy is still in PA.... But I definitely will soon.... Thanks...
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quote:Why are you finishing the Twilight series out of boredom when you could be reading Ender's game instead? [Razz]
In Liseth's defense, I don't think I'd be able to stop a series when I was already in the middle of it either. Case in point...The Dark Tower series. I have this irresistible urge to have to know what happens. I've been known to watch terrible movies through to the end for the sake of completion.
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quote:Originally posted by LisethMA: I haven't downloaded Ender's Game to my ipod touch yet... lol... And my husband's copy is still in PA.... But I definitely will soon.... Thanks...
Ok, look, we put up with a lot of stuff around here. Even I haven't been banned yet. But using ellipses where punctuation ought to go, and then compounding the offense with 'lol', is Not Done. Very Non-U. Tone doesn't carry very well across the Internet, but everybody who welcomed you after this post was doing so with a very strained smile and leaning backwards in the hug, because they are polite and hope that later on you can be taught not to piddle on the carpet. (I'm not polite, as you may have noticed.)
quote:Originally posted by LisethMA: I haven't downloaded Ender's Game to my ipod touch yet... lol... And my husband's copy is still in PA.... But I definitely will soon.... Thanks...
Ok, look, we put up with a lot of stuff around here. Even I haven't been banned yet. But using ellipses where punctuation ought to go, and then compounding the offense with 'lol', is Not Done. Very Non-U. Tone doesn't carry very well across the Internet, but everybody who welcomed you after this post was doing so with a very strained smile and leaning backwards in the hug, because they are polite and hope that later on you can be taught not to piddle on the carpet. (I'm not polite, as you may have noticed.)
*Rolls up newspaper*
I hope your intention with that newspaper is for reading purposes. I'm sure it is. I'm positive I have no need for my dueling saber. Posts: 382 | Registered: Jan 2008
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You keep your dueling saber in your hat? Is it a telescoping saber?
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quote:Originally posted by LisethMA: And my husband's copy is still in PA....
As are most of them. I miss my library.
The best thing about moving into my own house was being able to have my library on shelves in the same place I was living.
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We did buy our house earlier this year. But we don't currently have money to pay for the shipping fees to send my books from PA to NV. But every time my mom flies out to visit I tell her to stuff a few in her luggage.
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I was fortunate, in that my parents decided to drive to visit me after I'd gotten my place. I was even more fortunate, in that I was able to convince them to drive their van.
That trip, combined with several car trips back to Kansas over the next few years, managed to get most of my library moved to Ohio. I probably still have a carload or two in storage at my former wife's parents' house, but I suspect that by now it's been mixed in with my former brother in law's collection so thoroughly that there's probably no retrieving it.
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Welcome, Liseth. Sounds like you got a pretty full schedule with the History/Education major, wife, mother thing all going on at once.
I'm a History major right now and trying not to get too worried about not really knowing what the heck I'll do with that.
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Liseth, if Godric ever decides to become a stage magician, and you act as his assistant, you can post the youtube clip of him sawing you in two in a thread entitled "Godric's Better, Halved".
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quote:Originally posted by daventor: Welcome, Liseth. Sounds like you got a pretty full schedule with the History/Education major, wife, mother thing all going on at once.
I'm a History major right now and trying not to get too worried about not really knowing what the heck I'll do with that.
Amen to that. I graduate in May and I'm fretting over that very quandary. I have it narrowed down to a couple things, but the whole thing has my blood pressure through the roof. The idea that I have to pick the career that I'll have for the next couple decades, and in my case, the school I have to go to so I can do that job, and the money I'll have to spend at that school, dear God, it's mind boggling.
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I'm originally going for a BA in Secondary Education with a history emphasis. I plan on teaching at a high school more toward a low-income neighborhood since I believe thats where passionate teachers are most needed. History is an amazing subject and I can't see how that could possibly be made boring yet I've seen that happen so many times with teachers who for some reason have a teaching certificate. I've seen my fair share of high school teachers to know what makes them amazing and unforgettable and also what made most of my classmates sleep.
About the Twilight series, they have yet to impress me but I do want to read it all the way so I can at least discuss, more likely refute when Stephenie Meyer is compared to Anne Rice on equal vampire genius. Laughing Out Loud. (Happy King of Men? I have a feeling I'm going to like you.) Most Twilight fans are quick to defend Stephenie Meyer yet never had read an Anne Rice novel, I at least want to be fair.
Thanks for my replies. It really is nice meeting you all!
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quote:Originally posted by LisethMA: I'm originally going for a BA in Secondary Education with a history emphasis. I plan on teaching at a high school more toward a low-income neighborhood since I believe thats where passionate teachers are most needed. History is an amazing subject and I can't see how that could possibly be made boring yet I've seen that happen so many times with teachers who for some reason have a teaching certificate. I've seen my fair share of high school teachers to know what makes them amazing and unforgettable and also what made most of my classmates sleep.
About the Twilight series, they have yet to impress me but I do want to read it all the way so I can at least discuss, more likely refute when Stephenie Meyer is compared to Anne Rice on equal vampire genius. Laughing Out Loud. (Happy King of Men? I have a feeling I'm going to like you.) Most Twilight fans are quick to defend Stephenie Meyer yet never had read an Anne Rice novel, I at least want to be fair.
Thanks for my replies. It really is nice meeting you all!
History majors ftw! I'm a grad student in history now, with my goal (perhaps obviously) being that I want to teach. Specifically, I want to be a professor. I don't know that I could handle high school. Community college yes, high school not so much. Passionate, capable history teachers are definitely needed in high school, but not me. Of course, watch me be a high school teacher for 30 years or something. Do you have a specific area of emphasis?
Oh, and my advice is not to even bother with Twilight. I'm like you and forced myself to read the entire series and let me tell you, it was two days of hell. I'm not the biggest Anne Rice fan, but anything over Twilight.
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I find it kind of amazing that you could force yourself to read a whole series you hated in a marathon two-day read. If I really don't like something, I usually just don't read it.
I actually realy enjoyed the Twilight series and wish Stephanie Meyer the best in her future endeavors. I think Twilight is both over-rated by some or over-bashed by others. That, said though, I do find the Twilight parodies I've seen very funny and lot of the criticism (particularly of that fact that Edward Cullen really is a stalker and that the relationship between him and Bella, when applied to the real word, is not a healthy one) legitimate.
Anyhoot, I'm not sure if I have the drive and discipline to go through all the years of school to teach at college-level. I could see myself doing highschool, but definitely not Junior High.
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quote: Most Twilight fans are quick to defend Stephenie Meyer yet never had read an Anne Rice novel, I at least want to be fair.
The funny thing is, you don't even need to go as far as Anne Rice to find vampire books better than Twilight. That series isn't even on par with the bulk of the YA vampire stuff that came out in the nineties. (Christopher Pike, L.J. Smith, etc.)
But, by all means, finish it so you can laugh at the end. I did.
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This is JenniK - Kwea's wife (being too lazy to log in on her own.) Try Charlaine Harris the Sookie Stackhouse novels (now on HBO as the True Blood series). They are really fun to read and have left me waiting for the next installment. Welcome to Hatrack. I have only read one of OSC's books. (To be honest; sci-fi and fantasy just aren't my genres. Welcome again.
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Welcome. It is my personal belief that everyone who bothers to read Twilight should read it as quickly as possible, since the plot-to-page count ratio is so low, you can skim through them and still get the entire story. I understand why people don't bother reading them all, but I'm glad I did. The first book was just severely mediocre. It's later on where it gets so bad you can pee your pants laughing.
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quote:Originally posted by daventor: I find it kind of amazing that you could force yourself to read a whole series you hated in a marathon two-day read. If I really don't like something, I usually just don't read it.
I wish I could defend myself, but I can't. I honestly have no idea why I kept reading. Maybe some hope that the fourth one would make it all better? I don't know. I will say that coming out of that experience I have become more than willing to walk away from books that I don't like rather than force myself to finish them.
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Hello Everyone! I’m sorry that I haven’t been able to respond, I've been busy with college.
About Twilight, you are so right Hank, you really can skim through the whole thing and still understand everything. It is such a light read that it bores me at times. Still I’m not going to stop until I’m done because it’d feel like giving up. I’m at Breaking Dawn and it’s getting on my nerves. I can’t believe Stephenie Meyer “claims” she “never” read Anne Rice, yeah right! Burn the body and scatter the ashes, yeah I think Magnus told that to Lestat in novel The Vampire Lestat. That’s not all I think she read Taltos too, because there is a lot of similarities between Renesmee and Morrigan Mayfair a Taltos down to the incredible speed of birth that almost killed Mona (I mean Bella) and the babies fast growth development. But maybe that’s just me who thinks that. Anyhoo…I’m at Breaking Dawn and it’s tolerable. I'm about done. I like Jacob Black, at least she can make a character humorous, but man is he abused and reused. I liked cheering him on but I keep feeling more and more sorry for him. Poor Jake.
To answer Dr. Strangelove, I love everything about History, more Ancient History. I think I love it more because there’s so much mythology and romanticism, American History is very interesting as well, but I’d prefer reading about the Renaissance. Still I find that my personality is more matched for High School students from ages 15-18. I don’t have the incredible energy for Pre K or Elementary and I’m not sure I could do well as a college Professor, but getting my Masters in History (maybe Art History, I still fantasize about working at a prestigious Museum) is on my to-do list.
As for Charlaine Harris’ the Sookie Stackhouse novels I’m really looking forward to reading them, I haven’t gotten a chance to see the HBO series. I was reading an article where they asked Anne Rice who her “favorite vampire that wasn’t her own” was and she responded “Bill Compton” so that caught my attention. When I worked at Barnes & Noble I used to pass her novels and I still regret that I didn’t buy them. (I had an ok discount). I always thought the covers were cute. Haha. Thank you JenniK for recommending them, I will definitely read them.
Thanks for the replies. Its nice meeting all of you.
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quote: I can’t believe Stephenie Meyer “claims” she “never” read Anne Rice, yeah right! Burn the body and scatter the ashes, yeah I think Magnus told that to Lestat in novel The Vampire Lestat. That’s not all I think she read Taltos too, because there is a lot of similarities between Renesmee and Morrigan Mayfair a Taltos down to the incredible speed of birth that almost killed Mona (I mean Bella) and the babies fast growth development.
I don't know; there are a lot of similarities in various vampire lores. I mean, if you build up a character to be so powerful that they're almost impossible to kill, you then also have to think of a way to kill said character. There aren't a lot of ways to off someone that can heal themselves right before your eyes.
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Welcome, LisethMA. Surely they have Ender's Game at the library? Even our libraries in Maryland had a wide selection of Card books.
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