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What are some of the books you're reading/studying?

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This was an excellent idea. I'm surprised I hadn't thought of it. I'll probably stick it in my sig if I ever get around to updating/changing it. A couple of suggestions. The viewing mode question should be at the top. It definitely gets asked a lot more then some of those other ones. You should also add to the "Can I delete my topic?" question that the staff will typically not delete a topic you've made. You should also add one about the proto bar, spinneys, rank images and such being missing, since that also seems to get asked pretty frequently.

Twenty six days and one thousand one hundred and ninety four pages later I've finally finished Les Misérables. This is the second largest work of fiction I've ever read (if you count all three LOTR books together). It was well worth all of the time I've spent on it. I liked the ending, it wasn't too sad, but it wasn't overly happy either. A couple of my reactions in the spoilers. » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «I wasn't too happy with Javert's end. Good always triumphs over evil, but Javert wasn't necessarily evil. He was doing his duty, which was to him the right thing. I guess he had been just set on his duty too long that he couldn't handle anything that conflicted with his duty. The very end was good though, with Marius and Cosette arriving just in time to be there for Valjean's death. The book I read was a new translation by Julie Rose. I thought it was pretty good, readable and there weren't any awkward places. My only complaint was that Rose used the phrase "blow a gasket" which I'm pretty sure would have been used way back when Victor Hugo wrote it.

I got the same thing. I'm not even sure if it was actually from Paypal. The e-mail looked kind of fake, or at least not as polished as I would think a real e-mail from Paypal would be.

There is 16 inches of snow in the forecast for the rest of this weekend where I live, which is really too bad since I want winter to be over with. I guess the forties we've had for the last week or so were too good to be true.

This is a list of all the albums I currently own. I own a compact disc for almost all of the albums, which means I have a pretty big stack. The singles and remaining albums I've purchased off of Amazon. (I hate the iTunes store.) I should also note, I define a single on this list as a single track, regardless of whether it's from an album or an actual single release. Album or single - Album Name - Single Name (If it's a single) 3 Doors Down Single - Another 700 Miles - Kryptonite AC/DC Album - Back in Black Aerosmith Single - Gold - Dream On Anberlin Album - Blueprints for the Black Market Album - Cities Album - Never Take Friendship Personal Arcade Fire Album - The Suburbs Bachman-Turner Overdrive Album - BTO's Greatest Hits Backstreet Boys Album - Millennium The Beach Boys Album - The Very Best of the Beach Boys: Sounds of Summer Album - Pet Sounds 40th Anniversary The Beat Tornados Single - Kremlin Karamel Big Daddy Weave Album - One and Only Album - What Life Would Be Like Billy Joel Album - Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2 Album - The Stranger Bon Jovi Album - Crush Album - Bon Jovi Boston Album - Boston Brandon Heath Album - What If We Bruce Springsteen Album - Greatest Hits Bryan Adams Single - The Best of Me - Summer of 69' Casting Crowns Album - Casting Crowns Chicago Album - The Best of Chicago Cloud Cult Single - Feel Good Ghosts - Journey of the Featherless Album - Running With the Wolves EP Coldplay Single - Christmas Lights Single - Clocks - Crest of Waves Album - LeftRightLeftRightLeft Single - The Scientist - I Ran Away The Doobie Brothers Album - The Best of the Doobies The Doors Album - The Doors The Eagles Single - Hotel California - Hotel California Album - Their Greatest Hits Album - Eagles Greatest Hits Volume 2 Elton John Album - Greatest Hits Album - Greatest Hits 1970 - 2002 FM Static Album - What Are You Waiting For? Frank Sinatra Single - Come Fly With Me - Come Fly With Me The Fray Album - How to Save a Life Album - The Fray [Deluxe Edition] Grand Funk Railroad Album - Greatest Hits: Grand Funk Railroad Green Day Single - 21st Century Breakdown - 21 Guns Album - Nimrod Hall & Oates Album - The Very Best Of Hawk Nelson Album - Hawk Nelson is My Friend Album - Smile, It's the End of the World Album - Letters to the President Single - Crazy Love Album - Crazy Love w/The Light Sides Huey Lewis & the News Album - Time Flies... The Best of Huey Lewis & the News John Denver Single - The John Denver Collection - Take Me Home, Country Roads Joshua Rifkin Album - Scott Joplin Piano Rags Kansas Single - The Best of Kansas - Dust In The Wind Lifehouse Album - No Name Face Album - Smoke & Mirrors Louis Armstrong Single - Golden Voices - What a Wonderful World Mark Schultz Album - Song Cinema Matthew West Album - History Album - Something to Say Michael W. Smith Album - The First Decade: 1983-1993 [Reunion] The Monkees Album - The Monkee's Greatest Hits Newsboys Album - Adoration: The Worship Album Owl City Album - Ocean Eyes Single - Peppermint Winter Single - Legends Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga'hoole - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - To the Sky Ozzy Osbourne Album - Ozzman Cometh: Greatest Hits Pink Floyd Album - Dark Side of the Moon Plain White T's Album - Big Bad World Popple Album - Plaid Relient K Album - Five Score and Seven Years Ago R.E.M. Album - Eponymous Revive Single - Blink - Blink Ricky Martin Album - Ricky Martin (1999) Rush Album - Moving Pictures Seventh Day Slumber Album - Picking Up the Pieces Sister Hazel Album - 20 in 10: Digital Collection Steppenwolf Album - 16 Greatest Hits Tobymac Album - Momentum Album - Portable Sounds Album - Tonight Single - Diverse City - Diverse City Single - Christmas This Year Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Album - Greatest Hits Album - Into the Great Wide Open Wilson Picket Album - In the Midnight Hour and Other Hits Yanni Album - Live at the Acropolis Album - In My Time Other Album - Wow 1998 Album - Wow Hits 2010 Discs 1 & 2 Album - Wow Hits 2011 Discs 1 & 2 Album - Wow Worship: Yellow Disc 2 Album - Wow Worship Box Set - The Doo Wop Box Box Set - The Doo Wop Box Volume 2

Your books were amazing and the literary world will not be the same without you. Brian Jacques June 15, 1939 - February 5, 2011

Is the front going to stay open like that or are you going to close it off somehow?

I'm still working my way through The List. I started on Les Miserables on January 1st and in the three weeks I was able to check it out from the library for, I read about three fourths of it. When I get it again in two to three weeks, I'll have about 300 pages left to read. It really is a bad book if you can get through the less exciting side tracks. I did find the 50 page break to discuss the battle of Waterloo rather interesting. I'm starting on 1984 now, which I should be able to finish pretty quick, if I don't leave it sit around a lot. After that I'm either going to get started on some more Charles Dickens or some of the books that seem to keep popping up in Knowledge Bowl questions. I also read The Ambitious Guest by Nathaniel Hawthorne (short story). The ending was really rather anti-climatic.

At one point, there was this list of books that had gone viral and was spreading around various social networks. There were 100 books listed and you were suppose to mark those that you've read. A lot of them are books that could be assigned for English class, but there are some modern ones. At some point I would like to read through a lot of them, but there will be a few I'll probably have to skip. The list along with it's formatting information is after the jump. Bold means I've read the book. Strike-through means I will probably not read it, at least in the foreseeable future. Colored Words are my comments. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (It got better towards the end.) 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (Done, even though it took me almost three years.) 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Spent most of summer 2011 reading all seven of these.) 5 To Kill a Mocking Bird-Harper Lee (Really Good Book) 6 The Bible - the whole thing. (1 Year and 8.5 Months, It took a while) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (Very Unlikely) 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (It really wasn't that great of a book, I've read better) 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (My family owns a copy of this, but I don't think I would be able to read all of it.) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (I didn't really enjoy this one and I'm not sure why it's a classic) 19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (This one was okay, the story got better near the end) 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald (I started this but never finished it.) 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (Competent work, but I wouldn't reread it. ) 25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (So good, I almost want to go buy it.) 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (Really good book, if you can get past the beginning.) 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Fun and enjoyable) 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (I think I read this a long time ago, but I think it was good, so rereading wouldn't hurt.) 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White (Who hasn't read this one?) 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (This was a fairly decent book.) 89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (Yes!) 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (Wouldn't this be covered by Shakespeare's complete works?) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Misérables - Victor Hugo (Originally Posted on 11/4/10 with 11 books read) (Bumped on 1/30/11 with 17 books read) (2/6/2021 - 38 Books Read)

Thanks to Gatanui, I've been I been informed that I've now been on BZPower for three years. I can't believe it's really been that long. It certainly doesn't seem like it's been three years. I don't know if that qualifies me as an old timer yet, but I'm certainly no longer a newb.

^This I survived 10 days in the hot humid weather of a Virginia summer back in August and I didn't even have access to any air conditioning the whole time.

I don't see it ever happening. It seems like it would be more of a leap backward then forward, since you can scan through a typed page to find what you're looking for faster then you can listen to an audio stream. Some stuff may change but it won't be the next "technological leap."

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I get to go back to school on Monday. Winter break is never long enough. On my plate for this semester are three classes, although I'm currently registered for four. Math 221 Calculus and Analytical Geometry I PHIL 194 Critical Reasoning GER 101 German 101 MUSM 126 History of Rock & Roll The last two are questionable. The German class has an unlisted lab which may force to drop it. My mom wants me to take it, but if the lab conflicts with my schedule, which really can't be changed, it just won't work. Ironically, it's the German class that is making my schedule so inflexible. If it was scheduled early morning instead of 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM it would be a lot better.

Does my post font seem too big? I thought I had it set to a good a size, but I've been using my laptop and it seems like it got a lot bigger even though I have changed anything. I'm wondering which other people see it.

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Thanks to xccj, my staff bio is now up on the BZPower staff page. Go check it out.

Shadow of the Wind is an amazing book. Zafon's other book, The Angel's Game, is also pretty good, although the way it ends does not match up with the end of Shadow of the Wind, even though there are a lot of the same characters. Don't let the fact that some of those are extremely long stop you from reading them. The Count of Monte Cristo is worth reading, even if it takes you a while.

It sounds like you had a fun Christmas. The hotel sounds like the kind of place I want stay at when I travel.

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