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Oh, Bleak House is great! I can't read the description of poor Jo (?) dying without tears.
Am currently reading "The Last of the Dragons and Other Stories", by E. Nesbit, to the kiddos. SO funny! I love Nesbit!
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! ![]() "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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Life, Interrupted, by Spalding Grey (or Grey Spalding, one or the other, I don't know). 60-some-odd pages into it. Good so far, but sad.
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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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Just read Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray. Ye gods...what a book. What a very good book.
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The portrayal of decay, decadence, and downward spiral is simply beautiful. Definitely a new fave of mine. And I loved the way Dorian was so very, very like Wilde. All he was missing was openly keeping the company of male prostitutes.
![]() I got a very handsome volume of Wilde's stories off eBay, and I've read alll except the Canterville Ghost and the Fisherman and His Soul, and I read the latter a while back. Once I get those out of the way, I just have plays, poetry, etc. left! ![]()
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You then, Gwai, will be immensly interested in this book. Make sure you read the blurb about it.
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Didn't know there was a movie. I'll say what I always say in such situations: Read the book!
![]() ![]() Have you read any of his short stories, Ri?
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Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis. Fascinating. Very good, so far.
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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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China Mieville's "The Scar", dang is that man a serious babe, as well as bein' a talented writer.
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Re-reading an old favorite: Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.
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Currently I'm reading Piers Anthony's, "Incarnations of Immortality" (suggested by Grey_Wolf).
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I finished "The Scarlet Pimpernel" a while back...quite an interesting story. I loved the surprise ending! I wasn't expecting it at all.
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I just finished Howards End by E.M. Forster and am starting North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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I noticed on this reading how much the story really involves the peripheral characters - more than the supposed "main" characters - Ivanhoe and the object of his affection. And - those latter two are very simply characters (or - as I just implied, get very little exposure) - the others in the story are much more complex.
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I think the author was being realistic about the treatment of (and attitudes toward) Jews in those days.
Maybe in some ways - he even displays the emptiness of the main characters' values... Or, if 'emptiness' is too harsh - at least that they fall more than a bit short of perfection. But - it was 1194 or 1195 or something. Ivanhoe in some ways was the "ideal" of that culture - and is on display as such to our own culture, isn't he? ![]()
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