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It's always cool tho reread something aftr a while - if there is not something else to read first, and then another one, and another, and another... I've been wanting to reread the Silm for a while now, but I keep finding something else to read first. In a way it sucks.
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11-08-2004, 05:10 PM
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A Walk to Remember ~ Nicholas Sparks. Just started it a half-hour ago. Good so far. I'll probably have it finished in a day or two.
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11-08-2004, 05:44 PM
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS AND PHILOSOPHY:ONE BOOK TO RULE THEM ALL edited by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson, a great read of 16 essays by various authors and philosophical approaches, with supplemental material. This is one of the Popular Culture and Philosophy series edited by William Irwin. I read 7 essays at one sitting for the sheer delight of it! I will haver to go back of course and read those again - after I finish the other 9 ! The series also includes books on Seinfeld, Simpsons, Matrix, Buffy, and Harry Potter. I have read none of those. If they are as good as this one, I'll have a new series on my bookshelves! Oh, the publisher is Open Court, Chicago and LaSalle, Illinois for those who need that information. I found my copy at a Barnes and Noble bookstore. Happy reading, y'all!
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11-08-2004, 06:01 PM
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11-08-2004, 06:33 PM
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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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11-08-2004, 10:46 PM
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
and Murder on the Orient Express and Witness for the Prosecution and Other Short Stories. All by Agatha Christie. All intriguing. All for my English paper. P.S. Anyone familiar with Christie's works? Could you direct me to any of her books that have more a a plot/theme/drama than just the whodunit mystery?
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11-09-2004, 04:22 PM
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Elentári
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My guess would be that all of her books are whodunit mysteries.
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11-09-2004, 09:53 PM
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Just finished The Grim Grotto, the eleventh book in the Series of Unfortunate Events. Am in the middle of Sharpe's Honor and have started The Book of Lost Tales. This is my first time to read the Lost Tales, having never strayed beyond the Hobbit and LOTR.
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11-09-2004, 10:07 PM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
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Just finished the first Lemony Snicket book - fun!
Merc - all of Agatha's books are whodunits. Light, fun reading, IMO.
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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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11-09-2004, 10:30 PM
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yippee! That's one way Christie's writing is different than Sayers then. In Sayers's mysteries there is often an underlying plot and/or themes. *hurries off to work on her paper* whoops what am I currently reading? The Grand Inquisitor. BTW, I really liked the chapter "Betrothal"--it kind of gives you Dostoyevsky's views of marriage, and other light cheerful stuff. A nice break from the rest of the book so far!
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11-09-2004, 11:28 PM
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Mercutio,
You might pop over to the Marriage thread or GLB thread and give us the Russian point of view on what constitutes marriage. Ought to be interesting as he would have no current ax to grind and is a valid, acknowledged author in human subjects  ! But, it's not like you have to or anything
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11-10-2004, 01:42 AM
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I love Agatha Christie books!
She is my second favorite author. Some of my favorites are: Crooked House, Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and The Murder of Rodger Ackroyd. I think Hercule Poirot is really cool. |
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11-11-2004, 03:03 PM
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Just finished the Emily Dickinson book! However, I'm in the mood for poetry right now, so I started The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
P.S. inked, I ordered the William Irwin books from Barnes and Noble. They're supposed to arrive in about 10 days. Can't wait! |
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11-11-2004, 06:21 PM
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I'm reading Beowulf - it rocks
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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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11-11-2004, 07:45 PM
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Am still reading Twelfth Night by Mr. S - witty!
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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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Hey, I just found out Lemony Snicket will be at the Torrance Borders bookstore Nov. 19th!
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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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11-12-2004, 12:18 PM
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And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
and Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
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11-12-2004, 12:22 PM
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HARRY POTTER AND PHILOSOPHY:If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts in the series I mentioned earlier in this thread. Quite entertaining and (dare I say it?)
educational! 
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11-12-2004, 02:06 PM
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Would you care to post about that book in the Harry Potter forum, inked? It would be nice to have some philosophical discussion there
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