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02-18-2005, 10:59 PM
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I'm reading Unfinished Tales, too. I have a small paperback edition that's in 2 volumes. Also started Eats, Shoots and Leaves. It's very enjoyable.
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02-22-2005, 12:28 PM
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Monday I went to the town and bought three books: Ultimate Hitchhiker Guide to Galaxy- which I have read on Norwegian before, but a lot of people say it is much better in english, so why not- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, and The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchet. I've heard so much about the Discworld, so I decided to see if it was true.
I began on Hitchhikers.
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02-23-2005, 10:37 AM
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The Lovely Hobbit-Lass
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So I gather that 'Don't Panic' thing in your sig is from the Hitchhiker movie trailer?
I've finished all my recently obtained books. I have nothing to read. *pouts*
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It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year! |
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02-23-2005, 12:00 PM
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Nō plays of Japan, translated by some dude
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02-24-2005, 05:30 PM
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02-25-2005, 06:15 PM
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The Intermittent One
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currently, Wild Swans by Jung Chang
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02-26-2005, 01:30 PM
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The Lovely Hobbit-Lass
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Lord of the Rings!
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It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year! |
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02-26-2005, 06:42 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Just finished The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963 and also recently finished The Diary of Anne Frank.
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03-05-2005, 09:21 AM
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Pride and Prejudice and also Chesterton's Autobiography.
Both very good so far!
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03-07-2005, 07:41 PM
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Just finished the first Wodehouse book - "Carry on, Jeeves!" Fun!
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç Ã¥ â„¢ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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03-07-2005, 08:11 PM
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03-07-2005, 08:25 PM
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I just finished two of the most famous Science Fiction novels, and they are:
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and am now reading (or rather, picking up where I left off a few months ago): The Invisible Man also by H.G. Wells Awseome books, particulary the first one. Oh, and I just found out that The War of the Worlds is by H.G. Wells and not Orson Wells. And one more thing: when you watch the movie, The War of the Worlds, which is currently in production [of course it's going to be all high-tech unlike the old one (which was high-tech in it's time)], think of my stepdad, who had some problems with the production company paying him for postetics and meal penalties.
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03-08-2005, 04:40 PM
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It's been a long time since I've posted and I'm not going to cover all the books I've read since, but recently I've started doing a bit of series reading again. Specifically:
- A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords (George R.R. Martin) - The first nine Lemony Snickets - A whole bunch of academic readings, including a first edition of Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious - Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco) Currently, my bookmark resides in A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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03-08-2005, 04:42 PM
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03-08-2005, 04:48 PM
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I'm reading Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People - really quite interesting.
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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03-09-2005, 09:41 AM
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I'm sloooowly advancing through Ulysses - started reading on Bloomsday last year and hope to finish it by Bloomsday this year!
 This is really a good book, hard to get into but lovely when the first chapters are finished and you get to know the main characters. I have become very fond of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, they are anti-heroes, but there is a greatness in them in spite of all their faults.
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03-09-2005, 10:36 AM
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The Lovely Hobbit-Lass
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I got half-way through The Ambassador's Son (Homer Hickam, Jr.). It's a doozy of a sequel (the first book was The Keeper's Son; not very entertaining, not extremely well-written either. Its one draw, for me, was the inclusion of a younger Jack Kennedy (the story takes place just after the PT-109 episode) in the storyline. About half-way through the book I did something I normally don't do and skipped to the end just to see what finally happened.
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It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year! |
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03-09-2005, 08:46 PM
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç Ã¥ â„¢ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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03-09-2005, 11:26 PM
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The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1937 - 1943 edited by Barbara Reynolds.
Fascinating! A virtual diary of novelist turned playwright!
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