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Kari · 05-06-2005, 07:39 AM

I haven't heard of either of them...

But I'll try to get an insight in Australian Literature...

Katherine · 05-06-2005, 07:41 AM

Don't worry I'm not going to hold you against it. Rarely do Australian authors make it big overseas...

Kari · 05-06-2005, 07:44 AM

Oh, I'm lucky

Thanks god...

Katherine · 05-06-2005, 07:47 AM

Hahahahahaha....believe me with your extensive literary knowledge, I will never condemn you.

Kari · 05-06-2005, 08:00 AM

Good to know...

But seriously what is a better subject than literature...it's fun to get knowledge about that one...isn't it..
Much more than chemistry...

Katherine · 05-06-2005, 08:03 AM

Well I do like both but literature is my passion and it pains me to find a book that i can't read....I feel incompetant.

Kari · 05-06-2005, 08:07 AM

Oh my god...you like chemistry...you always surprise me again.
I suck so bad at chemistry, I think my teacher will sit in front of my test and not know whether to laugh or to cry.

my big passions are literature and music...I wish I could write some literature as I wirte songs...but you can't have it all, I guess.

I always hate to hate a book

Katherine · 05-06-2005, 08:11 AM

I like Chemisty yes...but I never said I was good at it...

I enjoy it, especially the experiments but with the theory I can't get my head around it...too many elements on the periodic table.

Omigosh Kari we are the same. Literature and Music are my passion. Music has always been my passion since I started learning the piano when I was 5 years old and my love for books began when I was in year 2 and I read a book called "When pigs fly". I wish I could get my hands on it, but I don't even remember who wrote it.

But I alos hate hating a book. especially when those books are literature masterpieces.

Kari · 05-07-2005, 06:38 AM

I started to read as soon as I was able to...

I remember my first day at school, when we did all this "Get-to-know-each-other-stuff" which was good, no doubt, but I went to my teacher and asked.
"Why don't we learn anything"
She answered "We learn about each other"...Okay, she was right
But I was so eager to read and after reading nothing but the letters on every sign on every package I'd get in my fingers, I got my first book...but even before that I was book-obsessed because my parents always read to me we an incredible patience.
Astrid Lindgren and Michael Ende were my first favourite authors...
Well, it never stopped.

My music passion came through in the last three years...but it got just as big as the one for literature.

Katherine · 05-08-2005, 07:28 AM

Awww that's a cute story...I started to read as soon as I can. I migrated to Australia when I was 3 or 4 so I didn't know any English when I started Kindergarten when I was five. I went to one school where I learnt the alphabet but I didn't really need to learn how to speak English because there were so many filos around and my teacher was filo...

But then I changed school mid year and I went to live in a multicultural school but they all spoke English...and I remember my teacher Mr Miller, giving me books to take home to practice my English...ever since then I've loved to read...I made my mum take me to the local library to get a library card [which i still have]...and I was top in Reading by the end of the year...

And that story was so

Hmmmm....Oh I know something...I don't really like random books...I'm not saying I read best sellers all the time...but not those books you can find in the $2 bin...do you know what I'm talking about?

Kari · 05-08-2005, 08:35 AM

That was a really cute story, too.
Though off-topic, it still has to do with books.

Yeah, I know what you mean. It's cool to read books that are not so well known, but when they have sales, most of what they sell is rubbish, like this hot love stories, where you have a half naked woman on the cover. I prefer reading something that has gotten good reviews or that sounds interesting.

Well, in this super cheap sales, you always hae to watch out, often there's something good in between.
For example a local school had a Christmas market for the Red Cross and they sold secon hand books and the prizes referred to the weight.
So I got the "Sylvia Plath" biography by Anne Stevenson and "Pride and Prejudice" for, like, 1, 20 €...
That was off-topic again.

Katherine · 05-09-2005, 05:11 AM

Second hand books are the best! They're the way to go...

But in bookstore and they're selling books off just to get rid of them...
I have succumbed to the temptation because a cheap book is really hard to find...

And I have to admit that I have read a few of those romances...Mills and Boons romances...I'm sorry alot of them are really romantic...despite they're smuttyness...

everwoodisfab · 05-09-2005, 11:25 AM

^ there is a great second hand book shop on the high street near my house, I have bought so many great boks there, they're really cheap too

Kari · 05-09-2005, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Katherine Behr

And I have to admit that I have read a few of those romances...Mills and Boons romances...I'm sorry alot of them are really romantic...despite they're smuttyness...

...I didn't know that's what they are called.
I would maybe read them if I didn't find anything else, but actually I think there are also excellent and very romantic books, that don't belong to this kind of books.

"Oh Rhett, is that you?"

Katherine · 05-09-2005, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by everwoodisfab

^ there is a great second hand book shop on the high street near my house, I have bought so many great boks there, they're really cheap too

Oh wow...the only 2nd hand book I know that is on my district IS on High Street too. They have cheap books...$4 ish...but the library sells their old stock for 20c. Which I love.

Now I just buy my books from ebay...

Kari try at least ONE smuttybook...aka Mill's and Boons or Harlequinn romances...they're ok...and cleverly written by what I can only assume as desperate housewives...

05-06-2005, 07:39 AM	#106 (permalink)
Kari RPG Assistant Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Near Frankfurt/Main Posts: 14,416	I haven't heard of either of them... But I'll try to get an insight in Australian Literature... __________________ The Literabbits I discovered that my castles stand upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

05-06-2005, 07:41 AM	#107 (permalink)
Katherine Hollywood Elite Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Exile On Mainstream Posts: 34,756	Don't worry I'm not going to hold you against it. Rarely do Australian authors make it big overseas... __________________ Strange, where were you, when we started this gig, I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me

05-06-2005, 07:44 AM	#108 (permalink)
Kari RPG Assistant Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Near Frankfurt/Main Posts: 14,416	Oh, I'm lucky Thanks god... __________________ The Literabbits I discovered that my castles stand upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

05-06-2005, 07:47 AM	#109 (permalink)
Katherine Hollywood Elite Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Exile On Mainstream Posts: 34,756	Hahahahahaha....believe me with your extensive literary knowledge, I will never condemn you. __________________ Strange, where were you, when we started this gig, I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me

05-06-2005, 08:00 AM	#110 (permalink)
Kari RPG Assistant Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Near Frankfurt/Main Posts: 14,416	Good to know... But seriously what is a better subject than literature...it's fun to get knowledge about that one...isn't it.. Much more than chemistry... __________________ The Literabbits I discovered that my castles stand upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

05-06-2005, 08:03 AM	#111 (permalink)
Katherine Hollywood Elite Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Exile On Mainstream Posts: 34,756	Well I do like both but literature is my passion and it pains me to find a book that i can't read....I feel incompetant. __________________ Strange, where were you, when we started this gig, I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me

05-06-2005, 08:07 AM	#112 (permalink)
Kari RPG Assistant Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Near Frankfurt/Main Posts: 14,416	Oh my god...you like chemistry...you always surprise me again. I suck so bad at chemistry, I think my teacher will sit in front of my test and not know whether to laugh or to cry. my big passions are literature and music...I wish I could write some literature as I wirte songs...but you can't have it all, I guess. I always hate to hate a book __________________ The Literabbits I discovered that my castles stand upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

05-06-2005, 08:11 AM	#113 (permalink)
Katherine Hollywood Elite Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Exile On Mainstream Posts: 34,756	I like Chemisty yes...but I never said I was good at it... I enjoy it, especially the experiments but with the theory I can't get my head around it...too many elements on the periodic table. Omigosh Kari we are the same. Literature and Music are my passion. Music has always been my passion since I started learning the piano when I was 5 years old and my love for books began when I was in year 2 and I read a book called "When pigs fly". I wish I could get my hands on it, but I don't even remember who wrote it. But I alos hate hating a book. especially when those books are literature masterpieces. __________________ Strange, where were you, when we started this gig, I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me

05-07-2005, 06:38 AM	#114 (permalink)
Kari RPG Assistant Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Near Frankfurt/Main Posts: 14,416	I started to read as soon as I was able to... I remember my first day at school, when we did all this "Get-to-know-each-other-stuff" which was good, no doubt, but I went to my teacher and asked. "Why don't we learn anything" She answered "We learn about each other"...Okay, she was right But I was so eager to read and after reading nothing but the letters on every sign on every package I'd get in my fingers, I got my first book...but even before that I was book-obsessed because my parents always read to me we an incredible patience. Astrid Lindgren and Michael Ende were my first favourite authors... Well, it never stopped. My music passion came through in the last three years...but it got just as big as the one for literature. __________________ The Literabbits I discovered that my castles stand upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

05-08-2005, 07:28 AM	#115 (permalink)
Katherine Hollywood Elite Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Exile On Mainstream Posts: 34,756	Awww that's a cute story...I started to read as soon as I can. I migrated to Australia when I was 3 or 4 so I didn't know any English when I started Kindergarten when I was five. I went to one school where I learnt the alphabet but I didn't really need to learn how to speak English because there were so many filos around and my teacher was filo... But then I changed school mid year and I went to live in a multicultural school but they all spoke English...and I remember my teacher Mr Miller, giving me books to take home to practice my English...ever since then I've loved to read...I made my mum take me to the local library to get a library card [which i still have]...and I was top in Reading by the end of the year... And that story was so Hmmmm....Oh I know something...I don't really like random books...I'm not saying I read best sellers all the time...but not those books you can find in the $2 bin...do you know what I'm talking about? __________________ Strange, where were you, when we started this gig, I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me

05-08-2005, 08:35 AM	#116 (permalink)
Kari RPG Assistant Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Near Frankfurt/Main Posts: 14,416	That was a really cute story, too. Though off-topic, it still has to do with books. Yeah, I know what you mean. It's cool to read books that are not so well known, but when they have sales, most of what they sell is rubbish, like this hot love stories, where you have a half naked woman on the cover. I prefer reading something that has gotten good reviews or that sounds interesting. Well, in this super cheap sales, you always hae to watch out, often there's something good in between. For example a local school had a Christmas market for the Red Cross and they sold secon hand books and the prizes referred to the weight. So I got the "Sylvia Plath" biography by Anne Stevenson and "Pride and Prejudice" for, like, 1, 20 €... That was off-topic again. __________________ The Literabbits I discovered that my castles stand upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

05-09-2005, 05:11 AM	#117 (permalink)
Katherine Hollywood Elite Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Exile On Mainstream Posts: 34,756	Second hand books are the best! They're the way to go... But in bookstore and they're selling books off just to get rid of them... I have succumbed to the temptation because a cheap book is really hard to find... And I have to admit that I have read a few of those romances...Mills and Boons romances...I'm sorry alot of them are really romantic...despite they're smuttyness... __________________ Strange, where were you, when we started this gig, I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me

05-09-2005, 11:25 AM	#118 (permalink)
everwoodisfab Prime-Time Actor Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 3,818	^ there is a great second hand book shop on the high street near my house, I have bought so many great boks there, they're really cheap too