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CrazyWR Offline
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« Reply #20 on: November 08, 2009, 02:02:29 pm »

Of Mice, And Men. Fucking amazing book about 2 guys in the deep south of America. made into a movie too, its easy to read so should be easy for you.

+1 should be recognised aswell as it's a book used in english G.C.S.E exams, well sometimes- However Lord of the Fly is the more advanced book, completely different.

my brother had to read Lord of the Fly and said it was incredibly boring.
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« Reply #21 on: November 08, 2009, 02:04:47 pm »

Milton's "Paradise Lost", and a set of cliffs notes = A+ book report.

Trust me, im an English Major.  Roll Eyes





Paradise Lost is a great great truly great book. It succeeds in humanizing Satan and making him into a sympathetic character even if he is the lord of all evil Tongue








J/k, no highschool student reads Paradise lost, you would be caught plagerising immediately.

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« Reply #22 on: November 08, 2009, 04:43:54 pm »

Milton's "Paradise Lost", and a set of cliffs notes = A+ book report.

Trust me, im an English Major.  Roll Eyes





Paradise Lost is a great great truly great book. It succeeds in humanizing Satan and making him into a sympathetic character even if he is the lord of all evil Tongue








J/k, no highschool student reads Paradise lost, you would be caught plagerising immediately.


That's what makes him so evil now isnt it?  Grin
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« Reply #23 on: November 08, 2009, 04:57:28 pm »

If you're a freshman or sophomore in high school then just read "The Kite Runner".  It's a pretty easy to read book with a good message.  My English class uses the sequel "A Thousand Splendid Suns" as one of the required readings for the Wisdom Unit.  Plus, there's a movie of "The Kite Runner" so if you get lazy you could just watch the movie.

"The Hungry Caterpillar" is a good book to start out on if you're new to the language Tongue
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« Reply #24 on: November 08, 2009, 08:11:25 pm »

Catch 22 - Best book you'll ever read.
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« Reply #25 on: November 08, 2009, 09:37:48 pm »

Well... if your English is good you can read "Catch 22" but I could see how that would be really really confusing for someone without good english.

One of the best books I've ever read.
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fallensoldier7 Offline
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« Reply #26 on: November 08, 2009, 09:39:32 pm »

Yea, I had been speaking English my whole life, but when I tried to read Catch 22 in my freshman year of high school, I was thoroughly confused.
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« Reply #27 on: November 09, 2009, 12:41:15 am »

Yea, I had been speaking English my whole life, but when I tried to read Catch 22 in my freshman year of high school, I was thoroughly confused.
I really think its the kind of book you don't understand your first read and you wont,at least not fully you gotta read it a couple more times....i love that about books like catch22 and slaughterhouse5 the more you read the more you find out...but i could just be a dumb ass and not notice things the first time.
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« Reply #28 on: November 09, 2009, 01:55:35 am »

If your looking for books to trip you out,like wtf?
read
Slaughter House 5
Catch 22

And then other books i liked
Catcher In the rye
Guns Of the south
All Quite on the western front<---

If you're going to bold it, underline it, and make it huge font at least spell Quiet right...
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« Reply #29 on: November 09, 2009, 02:05:53 am »

If your looking for books to trip you out,like wtf?
read
Slaughter House 5
Catch 22

And then other books i liked
Catcher In the rye
Guns Of the south
All Quite on the western front<---

If you're going to bold it, underline it, and make it huge font at least spell Quiet right...
maybe i did it like that on perpous.
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« Reply #30 on: November 09, 2009, 07:09:27 am »

maybe i did it like that on perpous.

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« Reply #31 on: November 09, 2009, 03:23:58 pm »

maybe i did it like that on perpous.

Firefox suggests (perpous):
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spell check is for egocentric noobs Smiley
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« Reply #32 on: November 09, 2009, 04:56:52 pm »

 Starship Troopers
1959, Robert A. Heinlein.
Fairly short straight forward english novel. Pretty much my political bible. Probably my favorit book ever right now. I've read it like 8 times
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fallensoldier7 Offline
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« Reply #33 on: November 09, 2009, 06:50:33 pm »

Is the movie trilogy "Starship Troopers" based on that?
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« Reply #34 on: November 10, 2009, 02:48:50 am »

Is the movie trilogy "Starship Troopers" based on that?

Loosely.

In Starship Troopers book they fight against armed Aliens, not against bugs. It has better military command as well not like in Starship Troopers that 100k infantry is sent into battle with no recons nor heavy support Cheesy
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« Reply #35 on: November 10, 2009, 05:04:52 am »

Starship troopers the movie is a lame attempt to plagierize starcraft.
Don't believe me?

Arachnid = zergling. The flying thing = mutalisk. The Tank bug = Ultralisk with a flamethrower. The marine guns are carbon copies of the marine gauss rifles in SC. Look at the space-ships, even. Fucking exact replicas of the BattleCruisers in SC.

They didn't get siege tanks because there wasn't enough vespene gas.
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« Reply #36 on: November 10, 2009, 05:32:17 am »

Starship Troopers - 1997
Starcraft - 1998

Warhammer 40k - 1987
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« Reply #37 on: November 10, 2009, 05:42:24 am »

David wins Mysthalin
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« Reply #38 on: November 10, 2009, 08:54:59 am »

Developement on SC started before the developement on ST.

And that's just the OFFICIAL version.
Everyone knows that in reality cavemen played StarCraft in their rock PCs way before even Christ was born.
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« Reply #39 on: November 10, 2009, 09:04:10 am »

Omg it's like with ak 47 and stg 44, most of the people think that ak47 was improved copy of the stg44, they were just developed in separate places but in similiar time, if something is similiar it doesn't mean that it's copy of that, for fucks sake if your name is Martin you are copying my fcking name?
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