thats what we did with the Crucible. Interesting topic but a pretty boring play. We also watched some clips of the movie, I felt a bit more sorry for Abbey in the movie then in the book. She looked too good to be a selfish brat, I hate it when it works out like that.

Hmm, not sure if this counts but we have been watching a movie of Macbeth during english class. Oh, the irony! The battle at the end was so silly. We were all (Well, me and some other guys) whispering to each other how we would have done it. The list:

1: Wreck the castle with those catapults that had been brought along. You want everyone death anyway and plundering was never considered. So wreck the place, don't storm for the gate expecting to be slaughtered. (The slaughter turned out to be impossible because only Macbeth was left in the castle.)
2: Charge with a bigger force if you're going for the gate, not a handful but enough to actually keep the damn gate for more than two minutes.
3: When confronting Macbeth, do not wear a helmet that makes you blind and fight at least two against one. None of that silly forming up in lines and let the bad king strike you down.
4: During the final duel, forget about freaking honour and swords. Get a decent Crossbow or Longbow. Just point and shoot. Also, who the heck thought that rolling over the ground punching and kicking like a bunch of fools is going to do any good with all that armour?

Anyway, Macbeth is quite a good play though I think that nowadays most people would laugh at the way they speak. I especially love the switching of sides and how everything is connected.

This post has been edited by jack cloudy: Sep 20 2006, 07:45 PM

thats what I hate about people in our general age group.... half the time they are complaining that they can't understand whats going on in the play or what-not becasue the way they speak is so different. Its quiet annoying.

I havn't read/watched/listened to Macbeth but i've read other Shakespear(sp?) like The Taming of the Shrew

just started reading the simirillion...well kinda rereading. I got thru part of it before, but never finished.

I felt like this thread deserves a ressurection, namely because I've done some reading!

Well I finished book 1 of Don Quixote (finally). Seeing as it's an old book, it was sometimes hard to get through all the wordiness in it, plus the plot seems kinda thrown together. Just like "some new people arrived! Suprize! They have something to do with the people all ready tagging along with Don Quixote!"

I guess that is supposed to add to the humourous factor about the book, but meh. I heard the second part is better than the first, but at the moment, I simply can't read through 500 pages of that kind of stuff.

On the other hand, I recently finished "Dark Moon" by David Gemmel. While for the most part, the story was written really well, I'm pretty sure I found a HUGE plot hole in the book that kinda bugs me. Kinda puts a damper on a fast read, but ohwell.

Now, I just started Feist's Serpentwar series, and it looks promising so far. It's annoying that I have to go to Chapters instead of Coles to find Serpentwar books though, I go to Coles much more often.

Considering how popular his work is, it's almost amazing how hard it's to find his books around here (or maybe I'm just horrible at finding stuff). I got the last part of the Conclaves of Shadows series, Exile's Return, for Christmas and it sparked my interest enough to dig up his latest book, Flight of the Nighthawks. So basically this puts me in a situation where I have all the previous *War series left to read before the Darkwar continues and I have Alexander to blame for all of this. Bah.

hehe, always glad to be of assistance Rane

Desperately trying to read Hard To Be a God once again, but my internet addiction and NWN1 are obstructing me. :\

This post has been edited by milanius: Jan 26 2007, 10:36 PM

I´m currently reading "Mother, missing" by Joyce Carol Oates......hmmm sad but very touching story about the ghastly murder of a mother and her daughter´s life afterwards....Oh and I read the english version!

I'm working on Issac Asimov at the moment, but I have about the same problem as Mil, Internet, schol, PS2, and now a chick... yeah, sucks up most of my time

im not really much of a reader but i am into the vampire books. idk why i just like them. i finished all of Atwater-Rhodes books.

I'm working through Tom Clancy's "Without Remorse" for the second time. I think it's probably my favorite Clancy book.

I'm currently reading Mary Clearman Blew's All But the Waltz as part of my "Literature of Nature Writing" graduate course, as well as some other place-based nature writing. It's pretty good, considering that it's more a memoir in style than my typical reading diet.

Edit: Actually, at this very moment (as in, tonight) I'm reading excerpts from some older work like the Englishman Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.

2nd edit: Yay, 200th post! Gotta love this forum!

This post has been edited by canis216: Jan 31 2007, 04:41 AM

I´m reading Rennie Airth, a criminal novel at the moment but I´ll soon turn to some .....work-papers that I brought home

Oh and canis....we love you too!

I'm currently reading Into A Dark Realm, the latest installment in Feist's Darkwar.... trilogy? saga? not sure which it is lol
Either way, great book

I'm reading "A Stranger" by some foreign novelist.

This wasn't my choice, it was assigned for AP English!

I haven't had time to read a novel of my choice since last summer...

Wintersmith- Terry Pratchett
Jack Knife- Virginia Baker

Several Scudder mysteries by Lawrence Block

The Eisenhorn Trilogy by Dan Abnett, more specifically Xenos

I'm starting David James Duncan's My Story As Told By Water this weekend.

I´m currently reading a book written by Catherine Marshall, a book about life in The Smokies in the beginning of the century. It´s called "Christy" and it´s just awesome! Since I´ve actually been there it´s just so incredibly fascinating reading about those particular spots...oh my!

I found this book in a bookstore in Tallinn, Estonia, and I was really delighted to find something to read in a language I can understand...you see my estonian is not so good....in fact it´s nearly non-existent! (If I´d known finnish it would have been different though!)