I like getting a good marked up book for English classes, preferrably with writing from multiple owners. It sometimes brings interesting perspective to the reading.
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I like getting a good marked up book for English classes, preferrably with writing from multiple owners. It sometimes brings interesting perspective to the reading.
OMG I found that soooo distracting. :lol:
Daggers I'm with you on the "no writing in books" thing. I didn't goto Catholic school (:orely:...that would have been...interesting!) it was just my Dad, (who's a big book freak too) instilled in me that you don't write in books, don't bend the pages to mark your place, don't bend the cover over when reading, don't break the spine...etc, etc :lol: So I could never bring myself to do it either.
When I'm researching for the Tower connections I use post it notes, or lots of place markers and a notebook.
there are books intended to be marked (like guidebooks, scientific/scholarly treatises etc), and there are books where the flow of text should not be interrupted in any way not meant by the author (fiction). If I have to mark something in the latter, I do it with a soft pensil, and on the margins (tick or vertical line). It's easy to find, easy to remove, and does not interfere with the text.
I am guilty of writing in books. I suspect if I look now at my copy of "Hero With a Thousand Faces" I could probably recreate most of the papers I wrote in college. I got a second copy to lend out to people so they can just read Campbell's thoughts and not mine.:orely:
There's nothing I love more than a book that looks like it has been thoroughly used. I love when a book is all roughed up, written in, etc, because it means the book has, in most cases, been read a lot and went back to over and over.
Just finished a re-read of Brave New World, now I'm starting up His Dark Materials again.
Just finished The Colorado Kid and am starting a reread of Carrie.
Just started for the first time on book 4, and I am amazed. I actually took the buss from work till the end, I didn't get off at my stop, because I wanted to read the book. So I ended up riding the buss for another hour before I came home....
Damn you King Sai!!
the beginning of volume 4 (the Blaine part) is one of my very favorites in the whole world's literature.
Touch the Dark by Karen Chance
I'm going to reread Deathly Hallows. I wanted to leave it a good long while before I did, but I've got some quite heavy and disturbing stuff in my "to read" pile - so I'd like to reread it now as something more easy going and palatable before the serious stuff :)
:lol: I was completely thinking that!!
I have moved on to Demons and Angles by the DiVinci code guy. It's another Robert Langdon story. I'm enjoying it.
Re-reading The Gunslinger's Guidebook :cool:
Started a re-read of Song of Susannah this weekend. Definitely one of my fav in the series, mostly because of The :rose:
:lol:
Pot-stirrer.
I'm rereading SoS, I can't remember much from that book
:lol: I have a copy of Helter Skelter I got from a giveaway bin from a public library. Inside it are crazy scrawlings where some freak is ranting about how Charlie was his idol and how he wanted to be just like him...just crazy shit throughout the whole book.
Ok, you win :lol: A Charles Manson wannabe is much freakier!
I need a good book on dragons :( anyone know of any?