04-30-2005, 03:49 PM | #261 |
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Currently reading the Deverry quadrology by Katharine Kerr. Not bad so far.
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05-01-2005, 02:03 AM | #262 |
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Have just begun Winston Churchill's A History of English Speaking Peoples III: the Age of Revolution. So far mostly about the colonies and george III.
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05-04-2005, 09:00 PM | #263 |
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Just started reading "Roughing It" by Mark Twain. I've got to get myself laughing again and kill off this depression demon, and Mark Twain does it for me every time. I'm reading it online - check it out!
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new
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05-05-2005, 10:23 AM | #264 | |
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05-05-2005, 04:54 PM | #265 |
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Am almost done with Homer's Iliad - I must admit that I'm getting tired of all the killing and description of various gory deaths, but the writing is great - he puts together some lovely combinations of words. I like the "bronze sleep" for death in battle.
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05-14-2005, 09:24 AM | #266 |
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Currently reading La Vita Nuova (the new life), which are love poems that Dante composed for Beatrice accompanied by a commentary from Dante himself explaining why he wrote them and dividing each into parts so as to make their meaning clearer. It's a very interesting read, I highly recommend it.
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05-14-2005, 10:59 AM | #267 |
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Re-reading "The Mysts of Avalon".
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05-26-2005, 06:30 PM | #268 |
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Currently reading The Old Curiosity Shop and re-reading Beowulf.
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05-26-2005, 06:38 PM | #269 |
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re-reading Wild Swans by Jung Chang, in anticipation of her biography of Mao out on june 2nd
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05-27-2005, 01:59 AM | #270 | |
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05-27-2005, 03:50 PM | #271 |
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Anthem, by Ayn Rand
Has anyone else read this? I just started. I found it on the internet where I can read it for free, which is great seeing as I'm broke lately...
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05-27-2005, 04:22 PM | #272 |
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Hmmm... I just finished the Icewind Dale trilogy by R.A. Salvatore, and just before that I'd finished the Cleric Quintet by the same author.
I'm about to start reading the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, since Rian reminded me that I haven't read it in so long . |
05-27-2005, 04:25 PM | #273 |
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The Twelve Caesars, by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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05-27-2005, 04:38 PM | #274 |
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and Tales of the Brothers Grimm, edited by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.
It's terrific reading 4 a writer like myself when struggling with finding theme, etc. for script projects. Has anyone read I, Claudius? Can't immediately recall author's name...
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05-27-2005, 05:53 PM | #275 |
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I haven't read I Clavdivs, but it was made into a decent multi-part series in the 70's.
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05-28-2005, 09:02 AM | #277 |
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While "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" are my favorite A.R. books. Anthem reminds me of two other books which were later made into movies; 1984 and another which I forget. Good reading.
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05-31-2005, 04:00 PM | #278 |
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Tess of the D'Urbevilles (for English class...we have three days to finish the entire book).
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Trivia question: what is the title "Things Fall Apart" taken from?
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05-31-2005, 05:22 PM | #279 |
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..and what class has you reading this stuff?
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05-31-2005, 05:36 PM | #280 |
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Curious; what class are you reading this for?
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