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02-03-2005, 11:32 AM | #162 | |
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Currently borrowing Good Omens from a friend. Now there's a hilarious book.
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02-03-2005, 06:21 PM | #163 |
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Last night, I read "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" from cover to cover .
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02-03-2005, 07:40 PM | #164 |
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I'm reading Gaiman & Pratchett's Good Omens. Bloody hilarious...
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02-03-2005, 07:46 PM | #165 |
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Next, I am planning on finishing Leonard Bernstein's book, The Joy of Music, then read either Alice in Wonderland, or part two (part one wasn't part of the set) of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" for no reason at all. (amusement ?)
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02-03-2005, 08:41 PM | #166 | |
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02-03-2005, 08:49 PM | #167 | |
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Well, if it's the latter you're talking about, it would be nicer if both parts were included.
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02-10-2005, 08:45 PM | #168 |
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I am very disgusted with myself. I just cannot, for the life of me, keep my nose in one book at a time!! Books I am reading:
The Iliad The Everlasting Man by G.K.Chesterton The Taming of the Shrew Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R.Tolkien The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket The Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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02-10-2005, 10:41 PM | #169 |
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I finished The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins and greatly enjoyed it.
Now I'm working on Silas Marner by George Eliot/Mary Evans (for English class) Bro. K for novel class (book 10) And Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is still around.
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02-10-2005, 11:49 PM | #170 |
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THE PLACE OF THE LION by Charles Williams.
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02-12-2005, 07:51 AM | #171 |
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The Iliad
Metamorphoses (Ovid) Great Expectations The Wanderer (Old English poem) The Daisy Chain (Charlotte Yonge) I can't settle to read just one thing at the moment, which is unfortunate, because I have to write an essay on the Iliad by Thursday and I haven't finished reading it yet
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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. |
02-12-2005, 08:08 AM | #172 | |
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02-12-2005, 04:37 PM | #173 |
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I haven't read very much of it yet. So far it seems OK - there are some interesting stories (like one about an apocalyptic flood) but there's not much connection between them and there's lots of repetition. At the moment it's: Greek god chases girl. Gets her pregnant. She's turned into something by his jealous wife. Greek god does it again. And again. And again
I'm hoping it will move beyond this repetition later, because otherwise it's going to be pretty boring.
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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. |
02-12-2005, 09:52 PM | #174 |
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Just started Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
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02-13-2005, 08:27 AM | #175 |
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Started The Last Legion by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. It's a fictional story set in Roman times.
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02-15-2005, 12:49 PM | #176 |
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I finlly finished Roughing It by Mark Twain, and now I'm reading Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenston. I'm already pretty far into it. It's a great book!
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02-16-2005, 11:32 AM | #177 |
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Read A Perfect Day by.... oh, crap- I forgot. Going to read Savannah From Savannah by Denise Hildreth.
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02-17-2005, 12:08 PM | #178 |
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For a study at church, we've been reading The Call - by Os Guiness (SP?).
Recently flew threw a couple books I'd read ages ago - a sci-fi by Heinlein and a Hornblower book by CS Forester. A few days ago started Mutiny on the Bounty
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02-18-2005, 02:15 PM | #179 |
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Since I've been home with a headache the last days, I have read through A Crown Of Swords, and a book by a Norwegian author, Erlend Loe. Today my mother gave me Roverandom and the Tolkien-biography by Humphrey Carpenter. I'm also thinking about gettin Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
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02-18-2005, 06:45 PM | #180 |
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I finally got around to reading Unfinished Tales.... the problem is I own it and have to finish my library books by a certain time. But I am reading it now.
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