01-19-2005, 11:22 AM | #121 |
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I've just finished J.M. Barrie's The Little Minister. Very funny, cute, touching; a good read. I intend to go home and read A Window in Thrums when I am done here. For me, who has only previously had the pleasure of reading Barrie's Peter Pan, a thoroughly delightful book, I find these other works of his a pleasant surprise. Ripping good stuff. I've also read his (albeit short) play A Woman Shows Her Medals- wonderful and touching.
Also, on the subject of Barrie, I am reading J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin- informative and interesting- and Barries semi-autobiographical work The Greenwood Hat- lovely so far.
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01-21-2005, 11:43 AM | #122 |
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I'm currently reading Winter's Heart, book 9 of The Wheel of Time.
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01-21-2005, 12:01 PM | #123 |
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currently reading I Don't Believe It!, by Richard Wilson
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01-21-2005, 08:18 PM | #124 |
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14 pages away from finishing the Diary of Anne Frank.
And I'm also reading the Rathlas RPG . (I printed it out so I could read the 2-3 months I missed.)
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01-21-2005, 11:02 PM | #125 |
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"Trent's Last Case" by E.C. Bentley. I can't wait to get into the meat of the book!
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01-23-2005, 01:00 PM | #127 |
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I am still reading book 6 of WoT. It is the best one this far, though I haven't got longer to...SPOILER
where Nynaeve heals Logain, Siuan and Leane. it is absolutley magnificent!
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01-23-2005, 02:09 PM | #129 |
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Ceartainly will I am about to take a break from the moot, make a cup of tea, and read. See you later.
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You should read Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley. It's considered the first of the English Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and what partially inspired Dorothy Sayers to try her hand at it (Lord Peter is slightly based on Phillip Trent). It was a break from the Sherlock Holmes type of detection; the detective also begins to become fallible (in detection and romance, in this case). There are also some marvelous plot twists. ~ Reading (started) The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. It's considered one of the first English detective novels ever (written around 1860-70 I believe [?]), not part of the Golden Age. In the intro., it was said to have beautiful descriptions, and other things...?...anyway... that compared to nothing, "unless it be Dorothy Sayers The Nine Tailors"!
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01-24-2005, 11:12 AM | #132 |
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DEATH'S ACRE by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Subtitled: "Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab The Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales". A rather interesting forensics study in a popular format. A quick and dirty read I suspect, rather unlike the actual researches.
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01-25-2005, 05:07 AM | #133 |
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Just finished 84th Charing Cross Road, by Helen Hanff.
What a nice little book It's a collection of letters between an american writer (Helen H.) and an English secondhand bookstore. Through the letters you can see the characters behind and the evolution of this pen-pal relation for about twenty years.
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01-27-2005, 12:20 PM | #134 |
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Great Expectations and The Woman in White (which is by Wilkie Collins too, Mercutio )
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01-27-2005, 01:55 PM | #135 |
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I just finished book 6 in WoT. really great, as you said Beren but you mentioned the following is a little dull, until the ninth?(maybe take it in the WoT thread
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01-27-2005, 02:13 PM | #136 |
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01-27-2005, 09:27 PM | #138 |
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i recently read a book called 'JRR Tolkien - Master of Middle-Earth', by someone who i cant remember , which was quite interesting
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01-27-2005, 09:37 PM | #139 |
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I'll have to check that one out, its a mis-title, the master of Middle-Earth is Eru
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01-27-2005, 09:46 PM | #140 |
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its a really good book, about how tolkien developed the landscapes, people and races and such like of ME and so on - i will find out the author, and post that up here aswell
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