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Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1 · 10-20-2003, 12:31 PM

I really hope so...I just voted.
I saw that on TV too, was a tad annoying, although I suppose I can see it from their totally unobssessed point of view. Man, they're weird.
And really, they oughtn't to have dissed the Harry Potter series, because, hyped up as they are, it is amazing, that young kids will read a book over 700 pages long without any pictures. Not that I am an HP fan in particular, it just annoyed me.
And I loved Birdsong, I just read it for the second time.
I love Wuthering Heights too, it is unlike any of the other books from the period which I have read (which would be very few...but oh well), because the characters are so strong and full of passion.
I've read Tess of the D'Urbevilles (such a sad ending!!!!) and Far from the Madding Crowd...they were ok, only extraordinarily subtle...and the sheep falling off the cliff had me in stitches!
Hmm, that was slightly off-topic.
Anyway...go vote!!!
Oh and I was going to say to Lyra, if an American were to submit an entry, then they had better do it with English spellings!

10-20-2003, 12:31 PM	#9
Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1 Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Up a tree somewhere in Caras Galadhon...or England Posts: 364	I really hope so...I just voted. I saw that on TV too, was a tad annoying, although I suppose I can see it from their totally unobssessed point of view. Man, they're weird. And really, they oughtn't to have dissed the Harry Potter series, because, hyped up as they are, it is amazing, that young kids will read a book over 700 pages long without any pictures. Not that I am an HP fan in particular, it just annoyed me. And I loved Birdsong, I just read it for the second time. I love Wuthering Heights too, it is unlike any of the other books from the period which I have read (which would be very few...but oh well), because the characters are so strong and full of passion. I've read Tess of the D'Urbevilles (such a sad ending!!!!) and Far from the Madding Crowd...they were ok, only extraordinarily subtle...and the sheep falling off the cliff had me in stitches! Hmm, that was slightly off-topic. Anyway...go vote!!! Oh and I was going to say to Lyra, if an American were to submit an entry, then they had better do it with English spellings! __________________ '"Forweg can lead you no longer; for he is dead...I slew him...I will govern this fellowship now, or leave it." "As it was when he joined us, so it is again. He kills to make room."'