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11-12-2004, 08:02 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 Twelfth Night - what a witty play!
What's next for me, Shakespeare fans?
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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, 08:10 PM
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Finished 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'. Very stirring. Anyone read it yet?
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11-13-2004, 12:36 PM
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Started it several times; even made it half way through once. I know I'll eventually try it again and one of these days I'll read it all the way through. |
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11-13-2004, 03:00 PM
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I'm reading Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds.
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11-13-2004, 08:32 PM
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Elf Lord
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Hey, I'm not one of those Americans who would have missed the meaning of the philosopher's stone, BoP. But the original publisher was a kids publisher Scholastic and they figured that their target audience wouldn't get it (of course the banality of American newspapers is that they are written for our 6th grade average reading level - not many words to choose from by that age
 in the current public school system!). Besides, as you can tell from the liberal left response to the recent election, sputtering with inconsolable rage doesn't leave much time to fill vacuity with large (> 2 syllable ) words.But I will open a thread in HP to discuss this very entertaining philosophy book along with other ideas. I think JK Rowling is very much in the Inkling school of writing ( as I have mentioned on another site and was much castigated for - yes, I KNOW she wasn't an INKLING - she writes like one!  )
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11-14-2004, 11:38 AM
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Mootis per forum
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11-14-2004, 12:59 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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I already started Much Ado, but I'll do Merchant next - thanks for the tip!
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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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11-14-2004, 06:00 PM
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I started Dune again... Got to the second book. Strangely, it's the opposite of most books: you're confused the first time and each time you read it you understand more... I read Dune about a year ago (That long ago!?!?
 )and understood it a lot better than I do now. Well, maybe not that bad. Let's say my confusion is the same as before... The same points that I don't understand. Maybe you get it right the third time... 
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11-14-2004, 09:47 PM
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I just finished "Sleeping Murder" by Agatha Christie. Now I believe I've read enough of her. I'll move onto the refernce books and essays on Christie's and Sayers's works.
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11-15-2004, 05:34 AM
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Yesterday i started reading Unfinished Tales, but I haven't come through the intro yet.
But at least i have it in English! Yay!
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11-15-2004, 03:08 PM
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The Lovely Hobbit-Lass
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Finshed A Walk to Remember two days after starting it. There is no way the movie is as good as that.
Started There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale by Sean Astin. Engrossing, cool!
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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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11-17-2004, 03:42 PM
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I've started Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (a translation into Spanish). It seems very funny, but I hope it has something more than one gag after another.
Also, it seems that I'm loosing a good part of the fun with the translation... 
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11-18-2004, 04:50 AM
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Elentári
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11-25-2004, 04:30 PM
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Just bought The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson and I'm starting it as soon as I finish The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. sun-star, maybe we can later start a Tennyson fan club
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11-25-2004, 07:00 PM
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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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11-26-2004, 12:04 AM
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Elf Lord
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Tennyson! Excellent!
I memorized the opening to "In Memoriam" in highschool 35 yrs ago and still can recite it! Strong Son of God, Immortal Love, Whom we that have not seen Thy face, By faith and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. Thine are these orbs of light and shade. Thou madest life in man and brute. Thou madest death. And, lo Thy foot Is on the skull which Thou hast made. (not sure I have the punctuation correctly, tho'). I am currently reading CHRISTIANITY AFTER FREUD by Benjamin Gilbert Sanders (Bles, 1949) an occasional Inkling participant per his grandson. Quite enjoyable and certainly flavoured as one learns to detect in Inklings but very much his own style. Fascinatingly it discusses the subjects of taboo, the origin of monotheism, and the presuppositional atheism of Freud and its effects (very naturally contrasting the consequences of a Christian set of presuppositions to that and exploring the effects).
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11-26-2004, 10:17 AM
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Elf Lord
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Ive begun reading Unfinished Tales.
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11-26-2004, 01:29 PM
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I'm trying to get people to give me Tom Holt books right now, or buying them from charity shops, when I'm not reading the textbooks for my scottish history exam next week.
They make me giggle, and i don't mean the textbooks.
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11-30-2004, 01:23 AM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
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I just finished George MacDonald's The Curate of Glaston for the second time. Really excellent book. Sun-star, have you read it? IIRC, you have a MacDonald quote in your siggy.
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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! Last edited by RÃan : 11-30-2004 at 12:50 PM. Reason: Fix title of book! Glaston, not Glouster! |
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