09-09-2004, 06:21 PM | #41 |
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Sorry, minor twisting around of the name there.
I've just aquired Lawrenc James's The Rise And Fall of the British Empire and Warrior Race: A History of the British At War. |
11-26-2004, 10:19 AM | #42 |
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Just aquired parts 1,2 and 7 of HOME.
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12-06-2004, 01:22 PM | #43 |
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Just aquired Churchill's Second World War Parts 2, 5 and 6. The sixtology is finally complete!!
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12-07-2004, 04:00 AM | #44 |
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Churchill... |squeals| I loved reading about Churchill. Did you ever read his autobiography... herm... My Early Years, meethinks. Very informative, but humourous, too.
As of now I am reading |ahem|: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk, All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare, Big Fish, The Canterbury Tales, and some criticisms of James Baldwin's works, as well as criticisms of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and some assorted Douglas Adams. I've been a reading fiend lately, went to B&N for the first time a long while... you know how it is....
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12-07-2004, 08:00 AM | #45 |
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The Philosophy and popular culture books just got in (thanks to inked for recommending them!)
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12-07-2004, 10:18 AM | #46 | |
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12-08-2004, 03:15 PM | #47 |
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Today I began to read The Da Vinci code.
Anyone here read it?
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12-08-2004, 04:34 PM | #48 |
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Nothing,
The Da Vinci Code is a great read for a detective thriller if you like speculative historical fiction intermixed and it happens to be about purported family trees of Jesus! I enjoyed it.
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12-08-2004, 04:57 PM | #49 |
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I just aquired American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. So far, it's really interesting.
About Tad Williams. I love *almost* all of his books. I REALLY liked Otherland, until I got to the last book. I read it three-qurters through, and just couldn't bring myself to finish. I really must do that. |
12-08-2004, 05:32 PM | #50 |
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Ugh, not the Da Vinci code. Now there's a badly written POS. I much prefer "The name of the Rose", by Umberto Eco. Beautifully written, imaginative, and it even has fully developed characters as opposed to the cardboard cut-out cliche ones from DVC.
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12-17-2004, 12:44 PM | #51 | ||
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I got "The Cantebury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Hopefully I can at least read the General Prologue and The Knight's Tale on the plane and train.
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12-20-2004, 02:51 PM | #52 |
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I just got Lawrence James' The Savage Wars: British Campaigns In Africa 1870 - 1920, Raj: The Making of British India, The golden Warrior: The Life And Legend of Lawrence of Arabia.
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02-11-2005, 09:01 AM | #53 |
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I got The Daisy Chain (Charlotte Yonge). I've read the sequel so I know what happens to them all, but it's cute to see the characters as little kids
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02-11-2005, 12:57 PM | #54 |
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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Bits of writings by Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume (what can I say? Philosophy class. ) Was given the Odyssey. The Letters, UT, PoMe (sort of ) Does indefinitely taken out of the library (it's called continuously renewing) count? Morgoth's Ring, The War of the Jewels, and Nietzsche's The Will To Power.
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I received Miniatures and Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen by Peter Leithart for my birthday. It's quite excellent. There's a link in the Jane Austen thread I believe for an excerpt.
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02-15-2005, 02:29 PM | #56 |
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have just aquired Conn Iggulden's Emperor I: The Gates of Rome and Emperor II: The Death of Kings.
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02-23-2005, 05:36 PM | #57 |
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Just went crazy and started picking up interesting books at the local bookstore that were $5 or less... Ended up with 8 of them...
1. Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea 2. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson 3. Dante's Inferno 4. Dante's Divine Comedy 5. Thomas More's Utopia 6. Marcus Aurelius's Meditations 7. Othello 8. Hamlet
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05-12-2005, 05:28 PM | #58 |
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I recently bought two very intersting books. St. Augustine's The City of God (can't wait to start that!) and Dante's La Vita Nuova (poems he wrote in his youth, inspired by Beatrice)
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08-16-2005, 08:42 AM | #59 |
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I have just aquired Conn Iggulden's Emperor III: The Field of Swords and the first eight parts of W Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's The people-series
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