Im having a day of being me - which ultimately means Im then then :mad: then vicious cycle really.

How are you hun ?

Well Sue, at least you're sometimes . I think what we need to work on is to get you from to .

MM, reading "the great gatsby", then "animal dreams", then "the grapes of wrath". for advanced english 11.

sue, well i hope that you're in the stage right now and it lasts

Oh the :D's come when I get hyper !!!! then its .

did ya choose them books yerself Inf ???

no, they were chosen by my teacher. if i could choose my own i would've chosen 3 i have already read in the past hehe

Read Great Gatsby last year. A lot of people really like it, but I couldn't pay ANY attention while I was reading it. My eyes would read the words and my brain wouldn't be absorbing any of it. Still, it wasn't that bad a story. I just couldn't pay much attention.

I also had to read The Scarlet Letter last year. That, beyond a doubt, was THE WORST book I've ever read.

I'm a slow reader. I've been reading Steven King's It for almost a year now! It's 1,100 pages and I only read a bit on weekends. I've got like 140 pages left lol.

But anyway, that's the type of book I actually like to read. Not the boring stuff that's always assigned in school.

lol, you see i read in a bit of a different way than most others i have noticed.

i read the book incredibly slowly, reading it and visualizing it simultaneously, as if there is a movie being created in my mind out of the book. it seems to be a weird way of doing it, but its the only way i can process it. im a very visual person so words mean nothing unless there is a mental picture to accompany them.

no, they were chosen by my teacher. if i could choose my own i would've chosen 3 i have already read in the past hehe

Love your style - thats the sort of thing I woulda done too

lol' date=' you see i read in a bit of a different way than most others i have noticed.

i read the book incredibly slowly, reading it and visualizing it simultaneously, as if there is a movie being created in my mind out of the book. it seems to be a weird way of doing it, but its the only way i can process it. im a very visual person so words mean nothing unless there is a mental picture to accompany them. [/quote']

That's how I read books. Isn't that the normal way? Have I been doing it wrong all along?!

Ah hell with it. If it works, it works.

Love your style - thats the sort of thing I woulda done too

And that's the type of thing I'd have claimed I was going to do over and over to my friends, and then actually have read three new books out of fear of being caught

lol mm, thats not how everybody else that i know does it. they seem to actually take the words as they are. when i tried to explain to others how i processed books, they looked at me in a very weird way. they read books like instruction text messages i guess, just extracting key words or something like that i dont know

That's so strange! I wonder how many people do it like us? I can't even imagine another way of doing it...

me either, but everyone has their own way i guess

I just asked my mother about the reading techniques. She says that unless she's reading a really detailed scene, she doesn't envision it. I really wonder how many people are like us?

see told you that others aren't like us i envision it all, even when it tells of a character walking away, i picture them with their heads down slowly wakling off of the scene.

we're special kinda hehe

I was just telling my mother the exact same thing. That even if it's something really minor, I still play the scene in my head.

And we're pretty special anyway. I think for other obvious reasons, we're a fairly rare breed.

haha i guess you could say that. the last book i read was Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

I had some friends who read that last year. How was it?

I can't remember the last time I actually read a book for school that I enjoyed. It was probably Flowers for Algernon back in 7th grade. I liked it because of the whole psychological aspect. I think I was the only one in the grade who liked it

lol it was awesome, it may seem like a story on the surface, but once you get into it, it is discussing teh slow decay of a societal culture and about key political problems that are plaguing our nation to this day. it speaks about how people tend to follow the norms of society without thinking about what or why they are doing what they do. It concentrates on firemen, which in the book start fires to "save teh world" from the horrors of books, which were outlawed long ago, because they inspire free thought and uprisings. its a really good read

Yeah, forming political parties was really one of the worst things that ever happened to this country. Everyone's always convinced that they're right and the other side is wrong. They'll do whatever they can to ensure that their side wins, whether it will honestly benefit the country or not. I'm so damn sick of politics. Perhaps this is pure ignorance, but I'm going to try and distance myself from politics as best as I can in the future.

You know that in George Washington's farewell speech, he warned the country to NOT form political parties? You know that as soon as he did that, it pretty much happened?

lol yeah, i had to read "the founding brothers" as well and that was one of hte main chapters in tehre he warned against political parties and preached a policy of isolationism from other countries and their affairs and then tried to hint at establishing a university to get the different colonies congregating together for once lol sorry about all the extra info, but since i read it i might as well use it XD

I knew about that part about staying out of others' affairs. I believe that the first time we went against that advice was WWII, right?

See? History can be fun!

i think the first time we went against that advice was around around 1913 or so, when we started supplying the allied powers with weapons during WWI. we were pretty much guaranteed to be drawn in once we just started giving out weapons all willy knilly

Yeah, I was going to say that

I've told you before about my history teacher in my last school. He was amazing because he's so lazy and funny, but at the same point, you come out of the class knowing a lot. I don't know how it's possible, but it just somehow works out.