Anthropomorphoriffic things
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Bookmarking and adding to friends list like right the hell now. Dude, I write DRD slash. I made a brief venture into printer porn. Of course I'm gonna be all over this. BWAH! Mars/Earth and Hurt/Comfort (no, really--hurt and comfort) romance fic! English/Latin breakup fic! Amongst other geekily-ficced things! Wheeeee!!! (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tarzanic? I think you would really get a kick out of this.)
Got an e-mail from "The Norgolian Imperial Peace Federation" this morning. Realized it was from my Bio in Science Fiction professor and had a horrifying moment where I wondered if there was summer reading that had been delayed in getting to my e-mail account and I now had two days to do it. However, soon discovered that it was a link to the syllabus and book list. Whcih is excellent because I still have three days in which to trawl used bookstores here in Nashville and buy this stuff from a buck or two, instead of paying bookstore prices when I get to school, which tend to run about seven to twelve dollars for paperbacks, depending on which book it is. (Last year I paid $40 for one of those slightly larger paperbacks that have laminate on their covers. And we read all of four chapters out of it, which was even worse.)
Here's what we're reading this semester:
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut
Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
A Door into Ocean, by Joan Slonczewski
Dawn, by Octavia Butler
Brain Plague, by Joan Slonczewski
Read Time Machine several years ago, but most of the others are on my "need to read some day," so woo-hoo!
This, by the way, is the class where the final project is webpage-related. Hee. *bounces*
Oh, and have I squeed about how I'm gonna have Pez people in this class (Whitney and Ellen) and in the Irish Lit class (Ellen and Chandra)? 'Cause if not, *squeeee*!
All I've had this morning was orange juice, BTW. I'm just insanely hyper at the moment, especially for it being before noon. Hee.
anthropomor_ficBookmarking and adding to friends list like right the hell now. Dude, I write DRD slash. I made a brief venture into printer porn. Of course I'm gonna be all over this. BWAH! Mars/Earth and Hurt/Comfort (no, really--hurt and comfort) romance fic! English/Latin breakup fic! Amongst other geekily-ficced things! Wheeeee!!! (
tarzanic? I think you would really get a kick out of this.)Got an e-mail from "The Norgolian Imperial Peace Federation" this morning. Realized it was from my Bio in Science Fiction professor and had a horrifying moment where I wondered if there was summer reading that had been delayed in getting to my e-mail account and I now had two days to do it. However, soon discovered that it was a link to the syllabus and book list. Whcih is excellent because I still have three days in which to trawl used bookstores here in Nashville and buy this stuff from a buck or two, instead of paying bookstore prices when I get to school, which tend to run about seven to twelve dollars for paperbacks, depending on which book it is. (Last year I paid $40 for one of those slightly larger paperbacks that have laminate on their covers. And we read all of four chapters out of it, which was even worse.)
Here's what we're reading this semester:
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut
Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
A Door into Ocean, by Joan Slonczewski
Dawn, by Octavia Butler
Brain Plague, by Joan Slonczewski
Read Time Machine several years ago, but most of the others are on my "need to read some day," so woo-hoo!
This, by the way, is the class where the final project is webpage-related. Hee. *bounces*
Oh, and have I squeed about how I'm gonna have Pez people in this class (Whitney and Ellen) and in the Irish Lit class (Ellen and Chandra)? 'Cause if not, *squeeee*!
All I've had this morning was orange juice, BTW. I'm just insanely hyper at the moment, especially for it being before noon. Hee.
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Date: 2003-08-21 08:23 am (UTC)The Dune books rock - all of them. The first three were the best though.
Jurassic Park was much better than the movie.
Red Mars wasn't bad, but I found it pretty slow.
I haven't read the others. Seems like a decent reading list though. Definitely think you're better off picking them up second hand than new though.
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Date: 2003-08-21 02:22 pm (UTC)I read it in fifth grade, so eight or nine years ago for me. I remember it being heavy on scientific concept but rather light on characters and plot, kind of like Brave New World. Which, since this course counts for Bio credit rather than English, is not necessarily a bad thing.
The Dune books rock - all of them. The first three were the best though.
We're only reading the first one, but I may pick up the others if I like it.
Jurassic Park was much better than the movie.
Good to know.
Red Mars wasn't bad, but I found it pretty slow.
I think I started it, but never finished it. I've heard that it's slow from several people.
Definitely think you're better off picking them up second hand than new though.
Oh, yeah. $3.50 a book versus $12 is much better. I got half of them today, and hopefully will be able to pick up the rest on Saturday.