08-03-2003, 12:23 AM | #881 |
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This month's Harper's magazine, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick, and Who Owns History? by Eric Foner
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08-03-2003, 06:19 AM | #882 |
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I'm starting on The Complete Works of Shakespeare. Me thinks this will take me a while.
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08-03-2003, 01:01 PM | #883 |
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I'm reading "The Secret Life of Bees".
Varda, is Sabriel good? A friend of mine wants me to read it.
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08-04-2003, 03:37 AM | #884 |
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I'm reading both "Don Quijote" and the seemingly neverending Collection of short stories by Philip K. Dick. DQ is a perfect read for one like me who have just a little time now and then to sit down and read: It is divided into many small chapters. And it's a very humorous book. Unlike the book that I've just finished reading, "Medea" by Euripides, which was pure tragedy.
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08-04-2003, 04:22 AM | #885 | |
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08-04-2003, 07:44 AM | #886 | |
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08-04-2003, 08:12 AM | #887 |
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Thanks Lin. wow...dark fantasy. I haven't read any of that for about three years. It'l be a nice change from the norm, I suppose.
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08-04-2003, 08:19 AM | #888 | |
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08-04-2003, 10:07 PM | #889 |
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I'm currently somewhere in the middle of Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift is one funny guy.
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08-07-2003, 02:16 PM | #890 |
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I'm in now in the middle of The Road to Middle-Earth by T.A. Shippey. It discusses Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon/Norse mythological influences. It's really good.
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08-07-2003, 03:11 PM | #891 |
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I have recently completed Ringworld engineers, perfect
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08-07-2003, 09:57 PM | #892 |
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I have just finnisged FOTR, and am now starting TTT
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08-08-2003, 04:58 PM | #893 |
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Um....let's see. The fifth harry potter book (this would be my third time reading it), the Second Summer of the Sisterhood or whatever it's called, and Legends Walking. All very good books, in my opinion.
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08-08-2003, 07:30 PM | #894 | |
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08-09-2003, 10:01 AM | #895 |
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Well, I just got an 'limited' edition Book Club FOTR and The Hobbit to go along with my TTT and ROTK.
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08-09-2003, 04:45 PM | #896 |
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Cool!
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08-09-2003, 08:03 PM | #897 |
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Yeah! (I hate that 90 second rule!)
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08-13-2003, 01:27 AM | #898 |
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yesterday evening I finally broke down and bought Order of the Phoenix. I finished it today.
Currently reading: No Man is an Island by Thomas J. Merton (after taking a crash course in Merton's writings this spring, I have the irresistable urge to buy any of Merton's books that I come across. NMI was on sale at Barnes and Noble.) also, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. I'm only a few chapters into it, but excellent, excellent, so far. |
08-13-2003, 03:31 PM | #899 | |
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I am currently working through Hamlet and Macbeth in my quest to read more Shakespeare. Aside from that have just finished a book called The Science of Star Wars by Jeanne..someone - will look it up - which discusses the possibilities of technology, species and places existing. Was very good. And am working on Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell. Tried once before and never finished so am giving it another go.
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