06-26-2003, 11:00 PM | #821 |
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Thanks! Now to the subject. May I join in the conversation?
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06-27-2003, 11:14 AM | #822 | |
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06-27-2003, 04:07 PM | #823 |
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Well, my Mom wants me to read Island of the Blue Dolphins, when I get the chance I read The Fellowship of the Ring.
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07-11-2003, 12:07 AM | #824 |
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I just finished Alice in Wonderland and am about to start Through the Looking-Glass.
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07-11-2003, 12:37 AM | #825 |
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Ooh, I love those books. Especially in Through the Looking Glass when Alice is trying to catch up with the Red Queen's (or was it white queen?) long strides.
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07-11-2003, 01:28 AM | #826 |
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It's probably the Red Queen since she was in the first one. On the other hand, the White Queen could be a new character that I don't know about. I'll let you know when I get there.
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07-11-2003, 03:14 AM | #827 |
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I'm re-reading Solomon's Song (Bryce Courtenay) as a result of a convo with Linaewen. Also reading one of the old Prathett faves (Truckers). Can't seem to find any new books that really interest me - can any of you oke suggest a few?
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07-11-2003, 03:23 AM | #828 |
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Read Smoky Joe's Cafe... its Bryce Courtenay's best book.
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07-11-2003, 09:06 PM | #829 |
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Just finished "Fellowship of the Ring" and am now on "The Two Towers" (both for the second time). Oh, and I'm also reading "The Hobbit" to my little sister (her first time, my third I think).
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07-12-2003, 01:30 AM | #830 |
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Guide to the Lakes by William Wordsworth
Matthew Arnold (yeah, the guy who wrote Dover Beach) tells a story about Wordsworth meeting some naive ecclesiastic who congratulated him on the success of this book and asked him if he'd written anything else. True story, honest.
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07-12-2003, 02:46 AM | #831 |
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My girlfriend convinced me to read Harry Potter so I started the first book.
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07-12-2003, 02:12 PM | #832 |
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I am reading Island of the Blue Dolphins and The Rosetta Stone.
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07-12-2003, 06:24 PM | #833 |
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the second (or first) in Discworld, by Terry Pratchett.
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07-13-2003, 01:56 AM | #834 |
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To above:
I loved Alice and Looking-Glass. Absolutely spectacular books. Caroll Lewis was a genius. Though of course, how much of the genius was his, and how much was the opium's is up to debate... I've recently read Rome Sweet Home and Hail, Holy Queen, both by Scott Hahn. I loved them; he's a great author. Also read Catholic for a Reason, editted by him (and someone else I don't know ). I started and liked Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, but got kind of swept away by Hahn. Also read (most of) The Teachings of the Essenes from Enoch to the Dead Sea Scrolls, and have been reading from the Book of Enoch recently, as well; the source is from Fallen Angels and the Origin of Evil: Why Church Fathers Suppressed the Book of Enoch and its Startling Revelations. Although I flipped through the book, I didn't see anything that told why. I've also read excerpts from Morgoth's Ring (most notably the Athrabeth Finrod Ah Andreth; loved that ) and Peoples of Middle-earth (mainly the Shibboleth of Feanor).
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07-13-2003, 04:39 AM | #835 | |
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07-13-2003, 10:41 PM | #836 |
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Yes, that was most peculiar....
Sheer genius.
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07-14-2003, 12:16 AM | #837 |
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Bummed Harry Potter Five off of my brother *Yeah, oddly he has read them all, and enjoys them emensely but doesn't have much of a love for JRRT *
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im occupying myself with a heap of Plato extracts and Socratic Dialogues, but im planning on reading The Long Hard Road out of Hell, Marilyn Manson's autobiography again... then onto The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey, which should be cheery
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