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    The Origin of Species.

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    Journey To The West. It is so much better than the television adaptation that I saw a few episodes of (The Monkey King-Qust For The Sutra).

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    im readin "to kill a mocking bird"....n i dont wanna read it anymore!!!! god help me plzzzz.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dagger Lee
    Journey To The West. It is so much better than the television adaptation that I saw a few episodes of (The Monkey King-Qust For The Sutra).
    The Monkey King - Quest for the Sutra isn't a good adaption since I think they changed a lot of things. You should watch the Dicky Cheung version or Benny Chan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TommyH
    The Monkey King - Quest for the Sutra isn't a good adaption since I think they changed a lot of things. You should watch the Dicky Cheung version or Benny Chan.
    dickys one is better than bennys!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mini_mouse
    im readin "to kill a mocking bird"....n i dont wanna read it anymore!!!! god help me plzzzz.....
    Ha! The English class below us is reading that, and apparently it's very boring... I can never understand it. Whatever book I think is good, everyone else reckons is bad. Like when I read Lord of the Flies - and loved it - and everyone else was like IT WAS SO BORING. I just don't get it.
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    I HAD to read too, luckily I managed to cheat myself out of reading it by getting sparknotes.

    So far I currently reading the Dragonlance chronciles by Maragret Weis and Tracy Hiecksman it is actually pretty good but just too many books to read all together.
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    Quote Originally Posted by moonlight-sonata
    Ha! The English class below us is reading that, and apparently it's very boring... I can never understand it. Whatever book I think is good, everyone else reckons is bad. Like when I read Lord of the Flies - and loved it - and everyone else was like IT WAS SO BORING. I just don't get it.
    im readin it for english too n whenever i read it, i fall asleep but da teacher keeps on sayin dat its sooo good...n everyones on like chapter 4 but im still on p. 12

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    I'm halfway through Daniel Dennett's 'Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chuy605
    The Origin of Species.
    Nice book. Any thoughts?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mini_mouse
    im readin it for english too n whenever i read it, i fall asleep but da teacher keeps on sayin dat its sooo good...n everyones on like chapter 4 but im still on p. 12
    i actually startin to like this book now it was sooooooo borin in da 1st chapter but its gettin better now

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    Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. I find it rather boring, no offense to those who like it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mini_mouse
    im readin it for english too n whenever i read it, i fall asleep but da teacher keeps on sayin dat its sooo good...n everyones on like chapter 4 but im still on p. 12
    it gets better though. We watched the film too, and it was in black and white. I was talking to my friend about how it was black and white, which was really weird, and she said, "it was in blak and white? Really?" She thought it was just dodgy lighting

    Anyway, curently reading the Taming of the shrew... sigh... such sad portrayal of women

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    Any one read "the Scholars" by Wu Ching-Tzu??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dagger Lee
    Journey To The West. It is so much better than the television adaptation that I saw a few episodes of (The Monkey King-Qust For The Sutra).
    Read the original Journey To The West, by Wu Cheng'En. You will find that there are soooo much other events that was not in the TV series. There are 4 book in a set. I'm now on the 3rd book. There are soo much interesting stuff that I never knew, until i read them.


    I also love the 1980's TV series, it was the shit, and it's so funny too. Even though, the graphic was weak, the stories was really good.
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    The Alchemist by Paulo Cohelio
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    After four years of required readings in university, I'm taking a break from 'scholarly literature' ... and I'm reading 'The Undomestic Goddess' by Sophie Kinsella. Chick lit at its best.
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    the prophet by Kahlil Gibran

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    Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
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    trying to read don quixote but reading vogue instead.
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