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05-15-2007, 01:09 PM
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Actually, there's more than 4. 6 or 7 so far, I think.
Have you read any of his other books? I read At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances. It was very weird, but I hadn't read the ones that come before it so that's probably why. 
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05-16-2007, 12:22 AM
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05-19-2007, 06:31 PM
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Yesterday finished Memoirs of Hadrian. Very, very good book. It is written in the form of a very long letter from Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius, the successor of Hadrian's own successor Antoninus. It is very introspective and thoughtful; it tells what Hadrian does, true, but always in the context of how this fits into or falls away from who he is, what his ideals are, what is his goal for the Roman Empire. It is a very philosophical work. I highly recommend it to all comers.
Well, actually, a major theme is the love he has for Antinous, the Greek youth, which no treatment of Hadrian could be complete without. I didn't mind it, but some people might, so be forewarned. I also started reading Silence, by Endo Shusaku. This is simply a work of genius. The translation by Johnston is a bit lacking, though.
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05-23-2007, 05:34 PM
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I've always wanted to read that wild book (sorry for the terrible pun!). I just finished reading North and South (by Elizabeth Gaskell) again. And I am partway through All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes by Ken Myers (on Christianity and popular culture). It's quite an amazing book.
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05-24-2007, 02:29 AM
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Mercutio, I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear that after my exams finish tomorrow I'm planning to go on a Sayers binge
 Nice to see you around again.
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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05-24-2007, 10:29 AM
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Hehe
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05-24-2007, 05:47 PM
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Elf Lord
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I have regular Sayers binges myself but right now I'm getting ready to start my Rowling binge in anticipation of the Deathly Hallows. |
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05-25-2007, 02:18 PM
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That's exciting, too!
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05-27-2007, 09:34 PM
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Finished Silence; an absolutely magnificent book about the questioning and loss of faith.
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05-27-2007, 09:37 PM
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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Finished Silence; an absolutely magnificent book about the questioning and loss of faith, and the silence of God in tribulation. Highly recommend it to anyone; it's appeal would be by no means limited to the religiously inclined.
Now reading Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe; looks promising.
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05-28-2007, 07:25 PM
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I'm almost done with Generat
 n Me by Jean Twenge. I also highly reccommend this to anyone in Genertaion Me ("Generation Y"). It's quite revealing.
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06-02-2007, 03:01 PM
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Picked up How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
I'm also currently reading a selection of poems by Thomas Dylan. Anyone here a fan? His stuff is good, but really hard to get into! |
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06-13-2007, 02:29 PM
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06-14-2007, 12:35 PM
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Girl With a Pearl Earring. I'm a little past the middle of the book (it has no chapter divisions), and like it very much, 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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06-15-2007, 06:15 PM
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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Currently reading Claw of the Conciliator, second book of the four book cycle to which the aforementioned Shadow of the Torturer belongs.
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06-15-2007, 11:05 PM
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I need a good fantasy or scifi book I haven't read yet.
Lately I've been on a real world (as in ours ) book run and I'm sick of it. I live real world everyday and need a good escape.
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06-16-2007, 02:52 AM
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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08-17-2007, 10:12 PM
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On my TO FINISH list:
Cheney, Stephen F Hayes God and the World, Pope Benedict Manalive, Chesterton
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08-17-2007, 10:28 PM
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Strong Poison Have His Carcass Gaudy Night Busman's Honeymoon I read these almost every year. I've also discovered 2 books by Jill Paton Walsh who completed 2 of Sayers unfinished novels wtih the same lead characters: Thrones, Dominations and A Presumption of Death. |
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