[Slane walks in after just ranting at another topic and begins to calm down. He then looks at the book names.]<P>Well, let's see if I've read any of these books...<P><B>Animal Farm</B>
DEAR GOD, NO!!! I didn't like the book that much. I understood the message and the events the book was based on, but it really brought me down. I won't spoil the story or anything, but it just felt like it was saying that a government by the people never works. We all know it can, but this book and its ending were just too pesimistic for me. But, life isn't always made out of good things, and the book did have a clear, necessary moral. Unfortunately, my seventh grade English teacher had to beat this book to submission. Every week, even after we finished reading it, this is all we would talk about. Heck, after we read Rikki Tikki Tavi, we kept on analyzing the plots in that...FOR THE WHOLE FREAKING SCHOOL YEAR!!! AND EVEN IN THE YEARBOOK/COMPUTER CLASS HE ALSO TAUGHT!!! You don't know how annoying it was trying to figure out if the ferret was the bad guy or the snakes were...don't ask.<P><B>Who Framed Roger Rabbit?</B>
That was a book? Was it like the movie?<P><B>The Phantom Tollbooth</B>
I LOVED THAT BOOK! <IMG SRC="
http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif"> It was just so cool! I wish I had seen the Chuck Jones movie, too, though.<P>
Books I Really Liked:<P><B>Dr. Suess books</B>
Call me juvenile; I don't care. His works were great to read...with plenty of fun drawings! <IMG SRC="
http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif"><P><B>Go, Dog, Go!</B>
See above.<P><B>Brain Droppings</B> and <B>Napalm and Silly Putty</B>
Some of George Carlon's stuff is quite frankly offensive and insensitive, but the majority of it is some of the most gifted and funny writing I have ever read.<P><B>Jurassic Park</B>
I saw the movies first, but these books really captured the imagery very well. Even though some of it wasn't scientifically possible, it never went too far out into left field so that it drew attention from the story.<P><B>Sherlock Holmes</B>
I love the progression of finding clues and figuring out the perp, the motive, and the process of the crime. We read a lot of it in my sophomore English class.<P><B>Fahrenheit 451</B>
The concepts of the future and ideas of censorhip were just so amazing and yet believeable. Quite frankly, I understand the needed for censorship, but this book does show how things can get too out of hand. Bradbury's descriptions were excellent; too bad the live-action version of it looked like something out of MST3K. I wish they would make an animated movie out of it.<P><B>The Count of Monte Cristo</B>
Read it in my freshman English class and loved it, just like the other students in the class. Again, great descriptions and just logical plots and actions. Too bad it was the abridged version. A friend of mine actually read the whole unabridge version of it after she was finished with the abridged; wish I had done that.<p>[This message has been edited by Slane (edited 12-21-2001).]
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