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[Syrin of Neopia]

I tend to call it a thread myself.

 

Question for the HOP: I'm thinking about getting an iPad 2 or some other tablet, but just use the Wi-Fi, not 3G & all that. Suggestions or comments?

[Piticent]

I think thats a great idea! I personally want a wifi ipad 1....im waiting for a price drop (aka ipad 3 comes out)

[Wembly]

Personally, having an iPhone and a regular laptop, I don't desire an iPad or other tablet but I suppose if you have neither a smart phone or a laptop, a tablet might be nice. And wifi should be more than sufficient with the 3G nonsense. Almost anywhere you would go, assuming you already have internet in your house, will have some sort of wifi available more than likely.

[Tedhaun]

They'll join soon. :yes: We're far too much fun for them to resist joining for long.

 

I've been seeing a lot of good new members join TDN, some of them just go here for Faerie Quest Help to be honest. :P

[KtPeapod]

you guys are making me very grateful that i'm too old for all that education milarky - September is just another month now!

[Spritzie]

I've been seeing a lot of good new members join TDN, some of them just go here for Faerie Quest Help to be honest. :P

 

It's varied what catches a new members eye and makes them decide to sign up. For some it's the Faerie Quest help, others the ALP, some it's when a new plot or event come out, or a specific topic. Personally, I joined when the whole Moltara worms thing was going on for some help. I fell in love with the community and I've been here ever since.

 

you guys are making me very grateful that i'm too old for all that education milarky - September is just another month now!

 

Me too! Every day/week/month is always the same, though I do wish I got summer vacations at work.

[Noog]

I finished a book for school today called And Then There Were None. I more or less read the whole thing front to back (300 pages) today and it completely blew my mind. o_O Tomorrow's goal, read at least MOST of Gulliver's Travels.

 

and here's some answers:

I call it a thread usually, but topic works too. :P

 

I don't know anyone that uses a tablet so I couldn't help you in that department. :( Although I believe that it all depends on what you want it for.

[rachiee]

I still need to finish four summer assignments. I have to read three books (one just to read, another I have to take notes on and another I have to do questions for) and collect 12 articles about a certain area of the world, and they all have to be centered around one theme (AND you gotta write summaries on all of the articles.) School starts back in, oh, I don't know, three or four weeks and I've made little to no progress last time I talked about my assignments. :|

Seriously, if I have to read another paragraph of To Kill a Mockingbird I will probably go insane. (The chances of that are certain, because I'm only 50something pages in...and it's like 300 pages long). I honestly cannot get myself to like that book if most or all of it consists of pretentious drivel. :whistle:

 

I need to find a way for me to stop procrastinating on longterm assignments. I have no problem with doing an assignment if I'm given less than a week to do it, but if I'm given any more time then I'll go into full-on slacker mode. <_<

[tafeltennisden]

i have signed in here mainly for the avatars, but when i have a look at the rest of the site it was great and very big.

today i use the daillies-site to do my dailies and you can see which games you easily can score a lot of NP.

now i am hanging a bit around waiting till the neopets site is online again at my computer.

 

in the meanwhile i have to study a bit in the books, not for myself because i already work, but for my wife she has her last exam in a few weeks (third try) and i have te help her with things she doesn't understand

[Wembly]

And then there were none was a really quick read, fast passed, enjoyable and still can't believe it was a summer reading choice. I enjoyed it too.

 

pretentious drivel. :whistle:

 

I need to find a way for me to stop procrastinating on longterm assignments. I have no problem with doing an assignment if I'm given less than a week to do it, but if I'm given any more time then I'll go into full-on slacker mode. <_<

Hehe, pretentious drivel, I think that might be going a tad far but I would agree, I didn't really enjoy to kill a mocking bird all that much but it was definitely no where near one of the worst books I've read. Great Expectations, now that book was filled with pretentious drivel :sick01:

 

But the trick to possibly help stop the long term procrastination is to set due dates for yourself say, write on your calendar or something that you must have one of the assignments done in say a week from now, even though you know its not, maybe if you have people keep reminding you or you start leaving notes for yourself, you'll get it done. Who knows, easier said than done, I know :rolleyes_anim:

[IrishLiz]

Oh I love Agatha Christie! Her books always go by really quickly for me. I actually kinda liked To Kill a Mockingbird, but Great Expectations was tough, along with Huck Finn. I just could not finish that book.

 

You could make your own due dates for parts of the project ahead of time. I do that sometimes (though I don't always keep to them very well :guiltysmiley: ).

[Spritzie]

Maybe I'm just weird, but I loved To Kill A Mocking Bird. It was the other books for my honors English class I didn't like, like Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, Summer of my German Soldier, etc.

[IrishLiz]

Oh I liked Of Mice and Men, well until the end. It made me cry.

[Spritzie]

The ending was horrible. That added to why I didn't like it.

[IrishLiz]

I figured that might be why you didn't like it. I do like Steinbeck's style of writing.

 

My favorite assigned readings were The Princess Bride, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Eight (some of those we had a long list that we could choose from). Of and The Call of the Wild. I'm trying to remember if there were others...

[rachiee]

For grade 8 English (which was not an accelerated course, as the only accelerated courses in grade 8 are math and science) we had to choose between four books to read over the course of the school year and write a paragraph about conflicts in the story for each book. One of the books I chose to read was The Pearl, and I was probably the only person who actually liked it. All my friends who had read it absolutely hated the book and found it to be boring and pretentious. (Three of my friends who didn't have the same English teacher as me were forced to read it and analyze it much closer than I had to. Like, they had to do questions and do a project, essay or something like that.)

 

I also read The Outsiders and The Call of the Wild. The former was probably one of the best books I've ever read, but I hated the latter with a passion. It's basically a 102-page description on how some dog gets sent north to become a sled dog and has to kill to survive, blah blah blah. TBH, I really only skimmed most of the book and slapped together a paragraph at the very last minute and somehow passed the class for that quarter. :laughingsmiley:

 

Oh yeah, the other book you could choose to read was The House on Mango Street. I already read that book over the summer so that's why I didn't choose it. (Also, it's kind of a hard read for having less than 125 pages...it doesn't have much of a plot so it would be kinda hard to summarize conflicts and whatnot :/)

[Spritzie]

My favorite reading assignments had to have been the John Grisham books for my Law & Order class. I generally tend to not like the required reading books.

[khaos]

From my previous post, I actually liked the book I had to do a report on. It was Flush. xD I spent over 2 and a half hours reading it overnight. :P It was over 250 pages or so.

[Syrin of Neopia]

Maybe I'm just weird, but I loved To Kill A Mocking Bird. It was the other books for my honors English class I didn't like, like Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, Summer of my German Soldier, etc.

 

Sounds like you took the same honors class as me, just in a different state. Summer of my German Soldier was probably one of my least favorites & I had to do an extended project/report on it. Same with Grapes of Wrath & Of Mice and Men . . . I really did love To Kill A Mocking Bird, though, so I don't think you're weird at all

[Spritzie]

We had a nice long list for my class. It included Genesis and Exodus, West Side Story, and a few others I can't think of. It's been a long time since I was a freshman.

[Wembly]

Sometimes I think about re-reading all those classics we read in school but then I remember that I don't think I ever really liked any of them enough to want to re read them again, maybe someday :rolleyes_anim:

[Spritzie]

I think To Kill A Mocking Bird is the only one I ever re-read. But I think it was before I went over to a friend's house to watch the movie.

[rachiee]

I've never re-read any classics (let alone read for the first time...) and I usually don't re-read books, unless I own them and they're good enough to read more than once. (I did re-read all the Wimpy Kid books [that I own] several times before)

There are some books that I've been meaning to read again (that I'd have to check out of the library), usually because it had a good plot and/or it's been a while since I finished it so I forget what all went on in the book.

[Spritzie]

I generally re-read books if they were good and it's been awhile, or if they're around the house and I'm bored and have nothing else to read.

 

I finally got to read the newest James Rollins book, so now I'm going to go back and read all his previous ones again.

[Wembly]

I love re reading books. Almost all the books that I own I reread at some point. There are some that I'm sure I've read over say 20 times :graduated: