August 2006 Weddings
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Drama spreading through the Nest like a disease
Even the Nest Book Club has drama! Sheesh, I'm all for a board war every once in awhile but seriously when does it end?
Slainte!
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Re: Drama spreading through the Nest like a disease
its friday - thats what we DO on the nest!
Didn't you know? All the cool kids have read the entire Twilight series six times! I've only read the series once - it wasn't bad. Very brain candy worthy. I will probably go see the movie as well.
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I can't get into the idea of it.?
Now I'm ashamed to admit that I have read all the HP books and am now listening to all of them for like the 3rd time on my iPod at work. ?It's comforting for some reason.?
Don't be ashamed. I think there are probably 10 people in the entire world who didn't read HP.
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Ha. I used to frequent the book board until it became all Twilight all the time. I really only could find a few ladies over there who were interested in the same type of books I am (non-fiction primarily) and so it was sort of useless for me anyway.
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yes. DH, like everything else, is a picky reader. He decided to try to read HP. Didn't like it but he really likes the movies.
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The HP movies aren't great. I resisted reading the books for awhile because it seemed like such a DaVinci Code-esque trend. I finally read them, though, and they are actually good.
Seems like Nest drama is cyclical. Our drama shall pass and will be only a distant memory--one that people bring up in unrelated arguments to prove a point.
1) Charlie Wilson's war is a great story. Rent the DVD just to see the interviews in the extras.
2) HP movies don't count. They've had to leave so much of the depth out to make them fit the time limits. The first was the most accurate, and they got edit-happy after that. That's why they're splitting the 7th book into 2 movies.
Ever since Yah Yah Sisterhood, I have stopped comparing books to movies, because the movies always loose and I get so frustrated. The HP movies are very creative and IMHO, the special effects are pretty cool. However, if you compare them to the books, they are very, very bad.
So you guys are convincing me to try Charlie Wilson's War.
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Ugh. Such terrible books. My H checked them out because they were recommended to him (by an uber manly friend who also likes HP). I read 40 pages of the first one and gave up. I know the story is told from the perspective of a teenage girl, but it feels like it was actually written by a teenage girl. The story seemed like it might be mildly interesting, but I couldn't get past the terrible writing. I wanted to punch the author more with every paragraph.
I haven't read Harry Potter or Twillight series. I fear reading those books will damage my IQ (more than it already is.)
Actually I was an English Major in college and I like to read a lot of the classics or non-fiction as well.
I like Harry Potter. The story is very interesting. Her prose is certainly not Pulitzer worthy, but it keeps the story moving and doesn't get in the way. IMO, the writing in the Twilight series was bad enough to get in the way of the story.
FWIW, a friend of mine who edits books for a living hates the HP series. But my mom, who taught English for many years, loves it. I think it depends what you're expecting out of it.
That sounds really good! I will have to check it out. I've been working my way through some of the Iraq war books. Imperial Life in the Emerald City was really good. Fiasco and The Assassins' Gate are next on my list.
I actually have a crazy love hate relationship with HP. The first three books are awesome, the fourth drags on and on, the fifth is great, the sixth is good, and the 7th...well it kinda falls apart. The Deathly Hallows thing was a cheap random thing, as is the ending in many ways.
But I feel so emotionally tied to them and comforted by them, and I love the guy who reads them in the audio book, so when I need to actually get through work, I put on either an HP book or Jon Stewart's America the Book. HI-Larious.
Talk about terrible writing - the Chronicles of Narnia. I tried to reread them as adult (before first movie) and was horrified. I really loved them when I was a kid too.
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Anything you can achieve through hard work, you could also just buy.
Omigod the YaYa Sisterhood movie was terrible. I felt like I spent 2 hours flipping through the book and landing on random passages. HP 5 felt a lot like that too.
I tried LOTR and failed miserably. I don't think I ever made it through the first one. Put me to sleep over and over again.
Yes but they've become an obsession with adults - women more than men in my opinion.
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::hangs head in shame:: I am one of those 10. Don't think less of me, please.
I tried Narnia--it sucked. As a child/young adult, I hated fantasy type things. Harry Potter was the only series I liked, and I didn't discover it until I was about 16. I read all historical fiction. I also stopped ready LOTR. I only liked the first movie, too.
I will say I loved all things Madeleine L'Engle. Otherwise, it was all historical stuff for me.
Yo tambien. I haven't even seen the movies.
You didn't *discover* HP until you were 16??? Holy heck, kiddo - you must be YOUNG!
Anything you can achieve through hard work, you could also just buy.
Sorry, MrsAxilla I didn't mean it like I was behind the trend and am thus very young, I meant it like I can't really classify it as a childhood favorite.
I think that was the year it really hit the US. 1999 or 2000. I may have been 17 then.