Book Readers here??

[Jared530 10+ year member]

I dont read books so I come to ask the literate people on here.

I have to read a 2-3 minutes passage in my communications class

Anyone know of a scenic passage i can read or something intresting or inspiring, the point is is too practice your speach skills

Thanks

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[galacticmonkey 5,000+ posts]

Here is a nice passage from this very forum.

as I was riding home on the bus today, listening to music and not paying attention to anything. We stopped at one of the bus stops, a girl in the back started screaming. I looked back and saw her pointing out the window, and I followed her stare. Out in an unfenced cul-de-sac were 3 guys. Two of them standing, one of them was on the ground bloody. The taller one had a baseball bat and was about ready to smash it into his head again, when they realized a whole busload of people were looking at them. As the bus driver radioed in the 911 call the other man, who hadnt been doing anything, took a pistol out of his pocket and shot the guy in the head. At this point the whole bus was in shock and glued to the scene. The two men got into a car and sped off. When I came home I was visibly shaken. I told her what I had just seen. Then my mom got scared, she said "You're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air." I whistled for a cab and when it came near, the license plate said "Fresh" and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought "Nah, forget it, Yo homes, to Bel-Air!" I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby, "Yo homes, smell ya later!" I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air..

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Scenic passage?

 

[Jared530 10+ year member]

Yea, like something like, the grass was green and the birds were chirping, i dont know. Something descriptive and gracefull.

From a book, because i have to name the book and author and page #

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

I say you go in the opposite direction and try to make everyone really uncomfortable and depressed.

Maybe something relating to the Holocaust.

Wear one of the funny hats while you do it.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

I say you go in the opposite direction and try to make everyone really uncomfortable and depressed.
Maybe something relating to the Holocaust.

Wear one of the funny hats while you do it.

Night would be a good one.

but in all seriousness I say you look into the first chapter of Into thin air, it talks about a climbers experience on top of everest

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."

What a great book that is. That would be an excellent choice. Espicially when he describes the train journey.

It's so horrible and eerie.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

Into Thin Air

Straddling the top of the world, one foot in Tibet and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently at the vast sweep of earth below. I understood on some dim, detached level that it was a spectacular sight. I'd been fantasizing about this moment, and the release of emotion that would accompany it, for many months. But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care

Example from Into THin Air

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

What a great book that is. That would be an excellent choice. Espicially when he describes the train journey.
It's so horrible and eerie.

"The doors were nailed up; the way back was finally cut off. The world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed."

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

Read something from I Am America (And so can you).

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

"The doors were nailed up; the way back was finally cut off. The world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed."

I had to read that book as a sophomore. Great book.

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

Read something from I Am America (And so can you).

lol. talk about the part where he says to stone the gays.

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[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

I'm a big fan of The Pilliars of the Earth by Ken Follet, although I am currently to lazy to go find you a paragraph and type it out.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

There is, for instance, one such poem (of course, from the Greek), The Wanderings of Our Lady through Hell, with descriptions as bold as Dante's. Our Lady visits hell, and the Archangel Michael leads her through the torments. She sees the sinners and their punishment. There she sees among others one noteworthy set of sinners in a burning lake; some of them sink to the bottom of the lake so that they can't swim out, and 'these God forgets'- an expression of extraordinary depth and force. And so Our Lady, shocked and weeping, falls before the throne of God and begs for mercy for all in hell- for all she has seen there, indiscriminately. Her conversation with God is immensely interesting. She beseeches Him, she will not desist, and when God points to the hands and feet of her Son, nailed to the Cross, and asks, 'How can I forgive His tormentors?' she bids all the saints, all the martyrs, all the angels and archangels to fall down with her and pray for mercy on all without distinction. It ends by her winning from God a respite of suffering every year from Good Friday till Trinity Day, and the sinners at once raise a cry of thankfulness from hell, chanting, 'Thou art just, O Lord, in this judgment.'

try that.