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Hubby heard that interview.......came home with lots of nice things to say about Alan Alda. I had started Blue Mars but have not had any time to keep reading so it's going with me on the plane next week. Four hours nonstop ought to get me a long way into it. |
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09-21-2005, 10:32 PM | #482 |
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Well, definitely. I just started part ?: Falling into History, in Red MArs.
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09-21-2005, 10:40 PM | #483 |
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Sounds like you're about half way through it, TB. Do you like it so far?
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09-21-2005, 11:40 PM | #484 |
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Excellent, "lee."
My grandma doesn't exactly like it. She says I've been reading too much about Mars. I'm so SICK of people saying what I should and should not read. How DARE they dictate what I like? Nobody understands WHY I like to read that stuff (even I have trouble), but we are talking about a former psychologist who's brother long lost brother was a brilliant neurosurgeon. Well, I'm going to ignore her and go on to Green and Blue Mars anyway. If I have to, I'll do what I did in my own dark ages, when I took my LotR and Sil books, as well as a few others, and hid them from the Bradbury "Firemen" that my mom and stepdad (especially my stepdad, who happens to be named EDDIE) are. They think they suceeded in what I like to call "Thought Suggestion." Everyone else uses more conventional forms of suggestion. Well, there's a lot more to me than they think!!!! Yep, my dad just came in, in fact, and had to go over the English syllabus, which I have already gone over twice. People think I am SO stupid. Well, that's OT.
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09-27-2005, 06:00 PM | #485 | |
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Hamlet. Actually I finished it yesterday. Not bad, 'cept for the ending. I don't mind
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09-28-2005, 06:12 AM | #486 |
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I`m reading stories from a volume of the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. I started with Stephen Crane`s "The Open Boat". It was pretty funny, I thought. And at the same time, it made me think, made some good points, had some nice imagery and mood, reawakening my desire for the sea. It had sort of the same themes as RBC really, like the indifference of Nature. I liked it.
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09-28-2005, 10:20 AM | #487 |
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Would that be Andre Norton, Katya? I love her works.
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09-30-2005, 06:49 AM | #488 |
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I don`t think so, Spock. I think it`s just a collection of short stories by whoever, and that this Andre Norton of which you speak is mostly uninvolved. Who is she? What kind of stories does/did she write?
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09-30-2005, 09:05 AM | #489 |
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Science Fiction, she's a legend.
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10-02-2005, 04:43 PM | #490 |
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I'm currently reading Soul Harvest the fourth book in the Left Behind seris. They're great!
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10-06-2005, 06:32 PM | #491 |
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Last book of The Aeneid. Thirty odd pages to go. The first books were pretty interesting, but mostly I'm going to end up finishing it out of stubborness.
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10-07-2005, 10:50 AM | #492 |
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Am at the moment reading John Keegan's The First World War. Fairly difficult since he has a particular style of writing. Sometimes I have to reread whole sentences a couple of times to get his point. But it is very interesting on the whole.
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10-07-2005, 12:05 PM | #493 |
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I just finished The Bourne Legacy. Much too much violence and in light of the characters age, most unbelievable. At least I've managed to finish that series now.
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10-12-2005, 05:51 PM | #494 |
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I finished The Aeneid, and Lord of the Flies.
I'm reading the second to latest Redwall book (Rakkety Tam), and The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz (I'll take my time, it's so enjoyable.) next on list: Ivanhoe The Pickwick Papers Idylls of the King Notes from the Underground
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10-12-2005, 07:39 PM | #495 |
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I recently read almost everything by Orson Scott Card. I just have about 5 books to go (which means I've read a lot of books!)
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10-12-2005, 08:11 PM | #496 |
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Wait, you said Rakkety Tam was the second to last Redwall book? What's the last one?
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10-20-2005, 10:52 AM | #499 |
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I just finished "The Home Team-Hostile Borders" a most up to date and terrifying book if I do say so myself. It's about drug runners linking up with Al Queda to do major hurt to the US.
The author is a Command Master Chief, USN (Ret.) and he writes with detail that will chill you.
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