Well, I read books about film production, if that counts for anything. I think my favorite book of all time is The Art of Walt Disney.
I’m reading Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. I’m trying to memorize a monologue for my university next year.
I just started Cyrano de Bergerac.
I found this book at a store in Disney: Fairest of All.
When I saw it, I immediately had to buy it- not only do I love fairy tale twists but what’s interesting is Disney Press was willing to let it be based off Walt Disney’s version of Snow White & the Seven Dwarves! 
It’s supposed to tell what made the Queen so obsessed with being Fairest in the Land.
That and I’m excited about Ridley Pearson’s Kingdom Keepers IV: Power Play coming out! I was afraid of it stopping at the 3rd, but I got ecstatic upon finding out he’s written a 4th already! 
Thanks to woody for a long time ago recommending this series!
Sounds interesting, I like backstories!
Oh wow, I’ve never heard of that, but it looks fantastic!
I saw that at Target but hadn’t read the third one. Then I went home for Easter Break, and the third one is hard to get through because there is fluff there that DOES NOT BELONG in books. What does Ridley Pearson think books are? Movies in printed form? I liked the first two, but this is despicable…to describe the main character licking cheese off his lips, and not just once, but TWICE. That is revolting.
I still kinda want the fourth one because my favorite Disney villian, Frollo, is on the cover, but ugh, if I can’t get through the third, I don’t know if I can bother with the fourth.
I’m reading the play/script “The Shape of Things”. It’s by my favorite playwright, Neil LaBute. It’s about the story about a outgiong woman and a shy man. These two meet and the man begins to change in confidence and lifestyle. It grows to a point where it becomes provocative (for a lack of a better word) The man changes his entire life for this one woman only to realize her true intentions in the end.
I’ve gotta do a monologue from this play for one of my finals.
I just got done reading The Giver by Lois Lowry. Is there anybody on here who’s read this book? If so, what do you think about the ending? I’m about to start Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes soon.
I’ve had Brazil on my mind for the longest time, so I checked out “The Brazilians” from the college library. It’s about the history and culture of the Brazilian people.
Haha, EJE, I’ve checked quite a few Brazilian books (mostly travel guides) to help write my long-gestating Rio spec fic. But I ended up reading more than writing! 
Since you’re watching Fast Five, I should let you know there’s a very good scene where the villain explains the colonization of Rio and why the Portugese won instead of the Spaniards.
I’m aiming to finish Ruy Castro’s ‘Rio de Janeiro: Carnival under Fire’ before the end of the holidays, but right now I’m reading Lonely Planet’s guide to ‘Rio de Janeiro’ and Eyewitness Travel’s guide to ‘Brazil’. I love the tagline of the former:
Those all sound like great books! I knew you’d appriciate the book I checked out! I love History, peticularly American. Not just USA, but both American continents. So learning about Portugal and Spain’s involvement in Brazil would be facinating. (And don’t forget, the French had their pick there too, they started Rio!) But the Portuguese, Africans, and Amerindians made it.
Those are all things I’d like to try! And what better place than Rio to try them?
I’m reading a lay by David hwang about typecasting and a little racism.
The Giver has an awesome ending…there is hope for Jonas in the new community. If you want to know what happened to Jonas, read The Messenger.
Flowers For Algernon is aa good enough book, but there is a disgusting part to it as well.
flowers for algernon is really, really good. i found it kind of depressing, but it was great nonetheless.
i’m not really reading anything atm. the other day i just decided to read that book matched by…uh, i don’t remember her name, but supposedly it already got snapped up by a studio and it’s going to be like, the next twilight or something. i have to say, it really wasn’t that bad. kinda cool even though it has a /lot/ of similarities to the giver.
it was still a million times better than twilight.
also been reading a lot of stephen king lately. the monkey was freaking creepy. i can’t even. seriously, nightmare fuel much.
I remember reading The Giver in high school. It was interesting, I might give it a re-read.
I actually read this in 6th grade. I was interested until the ending. I thought the ending was interesting as well, but it was good. THe book stirred up a lot of emotion in me.
There are quite a few books I’ve read over the past year that were really good and I found out are usually read in middle school. I was a big reader when I was in middle school, so I don’t know how I missed so many great books. Anyway, I thought that the book was very depressing, but very good. I had mental pictures in my head about babies being sent Elsewhere, and it was so depressing. Especially since I see cute babies all day at work, and I always wonder how anybody could harm something so precious. And when Jonas found out about what really goes on, I was shocked. But I wondered what you guys opinions were on the ending and whether you guys thought they lived or died. But after finding out that there are two sequals since I posted my original post about the book, I’m assuming they lived.
Oh my goodness, The Giver!!! My creys forever. ;n;
Every single time I read that book, it moves me. The part theoutsider mentioned with the smaller baby twin being killed never fails to get me all teared up and sniffly. I mean, like he also said, I can’t even wrap my mind around how [spoiler]someone could do that to a perfect, innocent baby; or the fact that since the other twin was bigger and healthier, the smaller one got euthanized to maintain ‘balance’ in society.
In some ways, it made me think of abortion, and reminded me of why I hate it. Not all abortions are done for the same reasons as in the book, but that we as human beings could be so heartless to do such a thing, to take an innocent life simply because we have the ‘choice’ to do it… I can’t even fathom it all.
I don’t say this to start a war or anything about pro-life or pro-choice or whatever, but that’s what it made me think of and I figured I’d explain why. 
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But dang, that is still one of my most favorite books ever, mainly because it’s so deep and has such an intriguing story. I’ve read it several times and could still read it over again, even knowing how it all ends and why things are the way they are.
little chef
I didn’t read The Giver until my first year in college. In high school I was reading Charles Dickens, Thomas Wolfe, Theodore Drieser, Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, and the Bronte sisters. IN college I started reading young adult books again.