01-18-2007, 12:56 AM | #781 |
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Finished Boethius; he was really cool. He operates in the grand Socratic tradition of making numerous logical fallacies and saying great things with them. I didn't like some of what he said, but most of it was v. good, and his personification of Philosophy as a great lady using rhetoric, poetry, and music, was great fun. I'm currently reading the Four Loves by C. S. Lewis, Veritatis Splendor, an encyclical by HH Pope John Paul II of blessed memory, and The Collar, a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the inside of a seminary. I'm also going to start reading the Divine Comedy soon.
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01-19-2007, 03:22 AM | #782 |
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Just got the Complete Sherlock Holmes and am quite enjoying it.
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01-20-2007, 07:12 PM | #783 |
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Just finished The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - read it in one sitting, couldn't put it down! The first time the "change" happens is reeeeely creepy!!
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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! |
01-20-2007, 07:27 PM | #784 |
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Heh, funny coincidence! I'm about halfway through that myself! It's a sad, very haunting story...and I agree, the "change" is pretty creepy.
EDIT: Finished it...needless to say, the ending was really good. Intense. And it left me thinking.
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01-21-2007, 11:34 PM | #785 |
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yes, it's very thought-provoking!
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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! |
01-22-2007, 01:22 AM | #786 | ||
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01-22-2007, 05:39 AM | #787 |
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I read two of the three Ring World novels by Larry Nivel over the weekend. They were enjoyable enough.
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01-22-2007, 12:34 PM | #788 |
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Two books in two or three days? Yes, they must have been "enjoyable enough" . That's a large block of hours.
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01-22-2007, 01:00 PM | #789 |
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They were okay. I have no problem sitting holed up with a book for several hours and I had the whole Sunday to do so. We also lit the fireplace in the library and it's very comfy in there then, so not at all difficult to stay put for a few hours.
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01-22-2007, 01:03 PM | #790 |
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I'm glad you had fun. I enjoy reading for many hours on end too, but I usually don't do it unless I am greatly enjoying the book.
Except for a couple times where I read the book all the way through just because I'd already gotten a long way into it, even though I wasn't enjoying it much.
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If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." Last edited by Lief Erikson : 01-22-2007 at 01:04 PM. |
01-23-2007, 01:13 AM | #791 | |
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01-27-2007, 04:27 PM | #792 |
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The Willing Flesh by Willi Heinrich
Its a good read into the life of German soldiers on the Russian front as they retreated from Stalingrad in 1943.
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02-26-2007, 10:11 PM | #793 |
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Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky. A very interesting read, and a good psychological novel! The epilogue was great!
I feel extraordinary today.
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02-27-2007, 01:08 PM | #795 |
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I'm re-reading Kipling's Just So Stories to the kiddos - really charming little collection of pieces, meant to read out loud, too. We just read "The Beginning of Armadillos" last night.
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02-27-2007, 10:27 PM | #796 |
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I'll have to say my favorite book/trilogy is the Obsidian Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. Closely following is the Inheritance trilogy by Christoper Paolini (Eragon and Eldest). Currently I am reading A Seperate Peace for school, and it is getting really depressing. Every book assigned this year is depressing.
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03-01-2007, 05:03 AM | #798 |
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At the moment Im reading The Battle For Scania which is about the Swedish conquest of the Eastern province of Denmark.
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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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