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I'm still in High School and still have to do book reports. I have to read a book for school plus an out side reading book but I just bought Prophecy (the sequel to Rhapsody by Elizabeth Haydon) and have had an urge to read it. The problem is its hard for me to read so many books at once. Have you guys ever had that kind of problem?
err... not specifically the school part. But the problem of needing/wanting to read too many books at once that it has hurt your head?
Posted By:  redshift Dec 11, 2004 - 11:12 pm |       | I don't have any problem reading two novels at once. I guess I could handle three, but I've never wanted to try.
I can definitely understand the urge to immediately start reading the sequel to a book you've enjoyed. I've been there! But, just because you can juggle three books at once doesn't necessarily mean you should.
If I were you, I'd put Prophecy aside for now, until you can give it more attention and fully enjoy it. You'll get more out of it if you don't have two other stories in your head, plus you'll have more time to focus on the books you have to read for school.
i agree with redshift 
| Posted By: Magus Dec 12, 2004 - 12:35 pm | | Yes, I've had the same problem. At one point during the summer I think I had three or four books going on simultaneously.
I usually have a school book, currently The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and a pleasure book, currently The Tommyknockers, going at the same time. I occasionally, but rarely, have another.
I have a friend who's reading The Pelican Brief, In the Eyes of the Dragon, Night Shift and some other school book going on at the same time. When I asked him how they were all going he told me that he kept getting confused who's in what and what happened where.
Yeah I'm currently reading Huckleberry Finn, too, for school. My outside reading had to be classical so I chose For Whom The Bell Tolls
| Posted By: Magus Dec 13, 2004 - 03:52 am | | It tolls for thee. My brother's college professor wants him and another person to join here at the next Hemmingway convention. She said, "I'll buy the tickets if you buy the beers."
| Posted By: redshift Dec 13, 2004 - 06:30 am | | Hee hee hee...
So she wants to take your brother on a trip and get drunk? I can imagine this ad in literary magazines everywhere:
"What happens at the Hemmingway convention stays at the Hemmingway convention."
snicker... That is quite interesting. My english teather said she had to read it for colage... does that mean I am reading higher then my level?
| Posted By: Magus Dec 13, 2004 - 05:00 pm | | I know a kid who has my English teacher the hour before I do. She thinks that he's some sort of prodegie (spelling?) because he's read Paradise Lost and Dante's Inferno. He's a cool guy and all, but she just assumes too much about people. Like she think's that I'm some sort of Stephen King scholar, who reads nothing but, just because we have to fill out these reading sheets and three of my five or so books were Stephen King books. Just for the record, I'm reading The Dark Tower series, and they were from that. But she did say that my SSR sheets, basically our review/critique/thoughts on the books, were the best she's ever had in her thirty-something years of teaching. That meens I beat out my sister.
TAKE THAT VALIDICTORIAN!!!
***Just kidding, you know I love you Karen.***
poor little me is assumeing ur all talking about the american school system  not fair i cant tlak along all i know was that i only started reading (after 3 years of forced reading cuz my teacher actually hated me) was when i had to do a book report on a book of my own choosing so i chose Dragonlance n been reading dragonlance since havnt gotten many new books to read though it seems like i find em read em and then im on a booklust for more alike.
oh ya, For Whom The Bell Tolls didn't Metallica do a song by that name?
anyways happy reading y'all
| Posted By: Magus Dec 13, 2004 - 05:57 pm | | I wouldn't know if Metallica did a son about For Whom the Bell Tolls. But I do know that they wrote a song about Frank Herbert's Dune.
And, yes, I'm at least talking about American, more specifically Illinois, school system.
| Posted By: redshift Dec 13, 2004 - 07:18 pm | | Metallica wrote a song about Dune? Which one is it?
You also reminded me of something else, which you probably know already if you know about that Dune song. It's the story behind their song "The Shortest Straw". I don't know why I know this, because I don't even have any Metallica CDs, but anyway -
They were on tour in the US, driving around in their bus. Each bunk was seperate, and one of them had a broken heater. I think it was Kirk, the guitar player, who was sleeping there. It was winter, and Kirk already had a cold, so the guys decided to draw straws to see who'd have to sleep with no heater.
Their bass player (I don't recall his name) got the short straw. That night, the bus crashed. The way the bus landed, the cold bunk was crushed, and the bass player was killed. They wrote "The Shortest Straw" for him.
| Posted By: Magus Dec 13, 2004 - 07:48 pm | | WOW. That's sad, and bitterly ironic.
I only know of the song about Dune because I read it last year for this HUGE quarter-long project. My sister had done the same book, but different topic, three years earlier and pointed the song out to me.
But I can't think of the name or find it at the moment. I'll get back to you all tomarrow and find it out then.
| Posted By: redshift Dec 14, 2004 - 07:11 am | | Oh, man. First that Big Bird thing, and now this. In the future, I'll double check before repeating something a friend told me five years ago.
I wanted to know more about "The Shortest Straw", so I Googled around for a while. I found what would appear to be a pretty authoritative website, the Encyclopedia Metallica. (Two points for the clever site name, and many more for actually having enough content to back it up).
Here's what they had to say about "The Shortest Straw", and Cliff Burton, the bass player who was killed in the bus accident. (edited slightly)
The Shortest Straw (Hetfield/Ulrich)
Album:
... And Justice For All
The subject matter:
It deals with the blacklisting as a whole.
The black list:
The blacklisting took place in the 1950's where everyone whose view was a little out of the ordinary was immediately labeled for beeing a threat to the society - a communist. In Hollywood were a lot of people whose views didn't fit in with the mainstream, so they all were shoved out of the entertainment industry just because of their convictions.
A tribute to Cliff?
If the song would be a kind of tribute to Cliff it would refer to the irony of Cliff's death. Every band member had his own seat in the tour bus - except in the tragic night in which Cliff did swap his seat with Kirk because they made a kind of game about it and Kirk pulled the right card (spade ace). So in that way Cliff picked "The Shortest Straw" before the terrible accident in 1986.
- but wouldn't be that sort of tribute a bit too sarcastic?
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A few other sources go with "blacklisting" as the song's subject.
On the same album, though, they've got a song called "To Live Is To Die". This is the song that's a tribute to Burton. It's mostly instrumental, with Hetfield speaking (not singing) some lines that Burton had written. Burton had also written most of the song's music. The band pieced it together, and put it on "And Justice For All", the first album released after Burton's death.
This concludes today's lesson in Heavy Metal History. And remember - if it's too loud, you're too old.
| Posted By: Magus Dec 14, 2004 - 04:05 pm | | Hmmm... I didn't find it on that one site. Maybe it was a different band. But I know that it was a heavy metal band along the lines of Metallica, I was pretty sure it was them too...
wow skipping topics. The american school system is... interesting. My math class is called integrated 7-8 and supousidly its equal to math analysist(sp) but its easier and we got in by being smarter. It is confuzing
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