Greetings,

Good to see Sonnet 130 getting an airing. If you're reading it for the first time, make sure you read right through to the last two lines - they're important.

Here's what some of the unusual words mean:

dun (l. 3)- brown
damask'd (l. 5) - coloured
reeks (l. 8) - stinks
go (l. 11) - (in this case) walk
she (l. 14) - (in this case) woman
belied (l. 14) - lied about

Peace, and enjoy.

Happy you guys agree....

Great thing of us forgot!- You must be reffering to a great quote from...king lear when he forgets about Lear and Cordelia...I might be old but I only forget what i read an hour ago, not what I read in Youth days.

Ah and yes you are right Dave, let us not forget the sonnets.

Gibson, its a beautiful one. My fav is sonnet 75 though...though I cannot express exactly why, maybe for the simple reason that I got it right from the first time, and i didn't have to read it 10 other times to get glipses of the million senses.

Some people manage to memorise holy books, others poetry...strange world we live in... I wonder if there are some here who know by heart a poet's work as religiously as their faith scripture- whether islamic, christian, hindus etc.

I hope I am not offending anyone but sometimes poetry becomes so beautiful- also if it incoporates an epic segment- that it becomes religion- e.g. Ramayana &Mahabharata.

lol to kill a mockingbird. by the title. hell no. by the way my brothers described it , hell hell hell no. by the fact u read it at school... not gonna comment on that one (it would be safer for the forum )

Ima try that book yall talked bout...forget the title already, something bout a dog and night...

one question before i waste time... Issit anything like those loser doggy books where a kid saves up to buy a dog, the dog goes thru alot, the kid goes thru a lot, tear tear, doggy dies, kid grows up, the end?? coz if so, ew.

you kno, every single book i have ever read in my life, i had to skim thru it, all of it. so a total i read like 10/200 pages and if its for school, just google a summary * note: dont always rely on it, the teachers have eyes on ur computer!!

why do ppl read anyway? this is why people got movies now

Nope.

I'll give you a quick summary:

It's basically a boy's investigation to find out who killed a dog near where he lived, but not just any boy, this boy has Aspergers Syndrome, and the way the book is written raises awareness of the syndrome and allows you to understand how people with Aspergers think, and how they'd act around strangers, etc. etc., it's really interesting once you get into it, and that doesn't mean skimming the whole book!

I sutdied that at school. Pfft I prefer Benjamin Zephaniah

Ahh Good Ol' King Lear....studied him last year

Lol sis its a raddd book

I only read 4 from that list

kwl. ok ima try nd read it. if the first 4 chapters are boring...

sounds interesting tho

now what was it called?

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

thats the title or the summary????? Ooh wow. umm....thank u

^ It's the name of the book, yeah.

There is a really interesting Islamic book I am reading right now. Its name is Bukhari and it is by Ghassan Abdul-Jabbar. He talks about the life of Imam Bukhari as well as his methods of collection, aims and the political atmosphere of the time. He discusses the differences between Faqeehs and Muhadditheens, as well as the different methodologies of Imams Abu Hanifa and Malik. Everybody should read it.

I have to read The Scarlet Letter and Of Mice and Men by Monday for school I haven't even started lol i'm gonna go straight for that sparknotes. I only read the Quran.

I remember I really enjoyed reading The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick a few years back; had me hooked on it every night.

lemme see quran i like
jk rolling
dude who wrote lotr

yep then i hate every book out there

This one book is mindly blowingly amazing, it stirs my emotions everytime I read it and there is no other book like this in the world, it's called Al-Qur'an.

Other then that, the books of Shaikhul Islam Ibn Qayyim are absolutely superb mash'Allah.