What was the misreading? I don't remember anything about GWTW in book, and it is making me laugh!
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Sophia Brooks - Apr 26, 2010 11:07:48 am PDT #11289 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
DebetEsse - Apr 26, 2010 11:57:12 am PDT #11290 of 28344
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Johnny and Ponyboy read GWTW repeatedly, and Ponyboy picks up the book and looks at a note Johnny left in it (about the poem from which "Stay gold" is taken), and decides to write about the recent events in his life (including Johnny), and the book flippin' ends with the first couple sentences repeated from the beginning of the book.
Somehow student read this and came up with him writing about "stay gold[en]" in Gone With the Wind.
Kat - Apr 26, 2010 12:02:47 pm PDT #11291 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
HA! Debetesse, at least that's an understandable misreading. Hand to god, I had a student write about how the poem Hollow Men is about scarecrows!
I finished Julie Powell's book Cleaving. What an unpleasant book that is. It's not the infidelity, or the smugness of her HAWT ROUGH SEX LIFE, it's the smarminess that kills. And the boringness of the whole thing.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 26, 2010 12:04:10 pm PDT #11292 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh- I remembered that they were reading a book repeatedly, but I forgot all about the GWTW. Granted, it has been about 20 years since I read the book.
meara - Apr 26, 2010 12:16:28 pm PDT #11293 of 28344
Is it possible the student only read the first and last chapters or something?
DebetEsse - Apr 26, 2010 12:30:44 pm PDT #11294 of 28344
Woe to the fucking wicked.
He got the middle right, apart from not using Johnny's name, but it's such an odd mistake to make, that I think it must be organic, rather than from Cliff's Notes or whatever.
Toddson - Apr 27, 2010 10:36:12 am PDT #11295 of 28344
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
So nice to see a student making his own mistakes! originality counts!
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 27, 2010 10:50:03 am PDT #11296 of 28344
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
As God is my witness, I'll never get in a knife fight with the Socs again!
Polter-Cow - Apr 27, 2010 11:39:51 am PDT #11297 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm three chapters into Changeless, and I think I'm liking it more than Soulless. Since it's the second book, we can get right into the actual plot without spending time explaining all the worldbuilding, so there's much more of a sense of purpose than in Soulless, which meandered about for hundreds of pages before really getting interesting.
Toddson - Apr 27, 2010 11:48:31 am PDT #11298 of 28344
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
For those who've enjoyed Boneshaker, I picked up one of Cherie Priest's earlier books, Nor Flesh nor Feathers; it's pretty good, although it's the third in the series and relies on some information from earlier books. However, it had a line that's stuck with me, "You're going to fight zombies with fireworks"