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07-12-2006, 04:07 PM

Well , thank you for being so kind , dar512 . I am packing up my books at the moment because I am moving from France to the Caribbean . I have given many books away , and I am now packing what I really want . It is an interesting thing to do , but very slow too , because I keep stopping .

I am flicking through Thoreau ( Walden) , also The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane . I am trying to remember certain lines so that I can attack you all when you try to justify guns .

Hoof Hearted · 07-12-2006, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Buddug

Ah , Catcher in the rye .... Tight prose and thought . Love it . Love the scene with the little sister on the roundabout .

I'm within 30 pages of finishing Catcher in the Rye. I've got Scarlet Letter lined up (just visited Hawthorne's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetary), Return of the Native (T.Hardy) and A Farewell to Arms(Hemingway). Went to the library today to p/u The Sun Also Rises (didn't have it!) and got DaVinci Code and How the Horse Shaped Civilization instead.
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dar512 · 07-12-2006, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Buddug

I am flicking through Thoreau ( Walden) , also The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane . I am trying to remember certain lines so that I can attack you all when you try to justify guns .

How ironic. You're gather ammunition for your argument.

07-12-2006, 04:13 PM

No , I just like fine American ideas .

07-12-2006, 04:54 PM

....and oh , hoof-hearted , do not think that I have not seen you . The Scarlet letter , well how can you understand Miller without Hawthorne ?

As for Hemingway , he is part of my life because I love him and because he NEVER really understood Pamplona .

Hardy is a bucolic old fart .

Voilà , I cannot be expected to talk about everyone all of the time .

JayMcGee · 07-12-2006, 07:36 PM

Salinger was de rigour at my old school: however, my old english lit. teacher was a contempary of and actually know George Orwell, so all of his books were naturally on the menu. These days I tend to read only sci-fi (the hard stuff, not yer pansey pratchet whimsy) and at tne moment am re-reading Haldeman's The Forever War

07-13-2006, 07:35 AM

I love George Orwell , and unlike you I have never had the privilege of being taught by a teacher who knew him .

I did however live in Barbastro in Spain at one time , where Orwell was in hospital during the Spanish Civil War . I tried to contact the old boy one night via a home-made ouidja board . Olive oil on a pane of glass . He did not reply , alas .

wolf · 07-13-2006, 10:32 AM

That explains a lot about you. You're possessed by a greasy Spanish demon.

07-13-2006, 11:01 AM

If it's Lope de Vega , I don't mind .

Ibby · 10-10-2006, 09:26 AM

Hm, I'm itching for something to read. Anyone have any suggestions? Since Amazon takes weeks, then I'm lookin' for something well-known enough to Torrent.

Clodfobble · 10-10-2006, 11:09 AM

I think you'd really dig Neal Stephenson, Ibram. You should definitely start with "Snow Crash," and then do either "Diamond Age" or "Cryptonomicon."

Happy Monkey · 10-10-2006, 11:16 AM

I'm currently reading "A Feast for Crows", the latest book in "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin. This volume is OK, but it doesn't follow some of my favorite plots in the series at all. Not a whole lot has happened so far, and I'm almost done with the book. Hopefully this series doesn't go where people tell me the Wheel of Time series ended up going.

Double hopefully the next book doesn't take as long to come out as this one did.

Clodfobble · 10-10-2006, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Double hopefully the next book doesn't take as long to come out as this one did.

It shouldn't--the only reason there's a "next book" yet at all is the draft for book four became ridiculously long, and the publisher insisted he cut it into two books. That's why "A Feast for Crows" ignores some characters entirely; their story arcs all got shifted to the second book (by which I mean the fifth book, don't know if it has a title yet or not.)

Spexxvet · 10-10-2006, 12:16 PM

I admit it - I'm reading Dance, Dance, Dance

Happy Monkey · 10-10-2006, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

It shouldn't--the only reason there's a "next book" yet at all is the draft for book four became ridiculously long, and the publisher insisted he cut it into two books. That's why "A Feast for Crows" ignores some characters entirely; their story arcs all got shifted to the second book (by which I mean the fifth book, don't know if it has a title yet or not.)

Cool. I knew it felt incomplete in some way.

07-12-2006, 07:36 PM	#486
JayMcGee Cardigan-wearing man Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Much Binding In The Marsh Posts: 1,082	Salinger was de rigour at my old school: however, my old english lit. teacher was a contempary of and actually know George Orwell, so all of his books were naturally on the menu. These days I tend to read only sci-fi (the hard stuff, not yer pansey pratchet whimsy) and at tne moment am re-reading Haldeman's The Forever War __________________ I like wearing cardigans...... my current favourite is an orange cable-knit with real leatherette buttons.

07-13-2006, 10:32 AM	#488
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	That explains a lot about you. You're possessed by a greasy Spanish demon. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

10-10-2006, 09:26 AM	#490
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Hm, I'm itching for something to read. Anyone have any suggestions? Since Amazon takes weeks, then I'm lookin' for something well-known enough to Torrent. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

10-10-2006, 11:16 AM	#492
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	I'm currently reading "A Feast for Crows", the latest book in "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin. This volume is OK, but it doesn't follow some of my favorite plots in the series at all. Not a whole lot has happened so far, and I'm almost done with the book. Hopefully this series doesn't go where people tell me the Wheel of Time series ended up going. Double hopefully the next book doesn't take as long to come out as this one did. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

10-10-2006, 12:16 PM	#494
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	I admit it - I'm reading Dance, Dance, Dance __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

07-12-2006, 04:07 PM	#481
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	Well , thank you for being so kind , dar512 . I am packing up my books at the moment because I am moving from France to the Caribbean . I have given many books away , and I am now packing what I really want . It is an interesting thing to do , but very slow too , because I keep stopping . I am flicking through Thoreau ( Walden) , also The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane . I am trying to remember certain lines so that I can attack you all when you try to justify guns .

07-12-2006, 04:13 PM	#484
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	No , I just like fine American ideas .

07-12-2006, 04:54 PM	#485
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	....and oh , hoof-hearted , do not think that I have not seen you . The Scarlet letter , well how can you understand Miller without Hawthorne ? As for Hemingway , he is part of my life because I love him and because he NEVER really understood Pamplona . Hardy is a bucolic old fart . Voilà , I cannot be expected to talk about everyone all of the time .

07-13-2006, 07:35 AM	#487
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	I love George Orwell , and unlike you I have never had the privilege of being taught by a teacher who knew him . I did however live in Barbastro in Spain at one time , where Orwell was in hospital during the Spanish Civil War . I tried to contact the old boy one night via a home-made ouidja board . Olive oil on a pane of glass . He did not reply , alas .

07-13-2006, 11:01 AM	#489
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	If it's Lope de Vega , I don't mind .

10-10-2006, 11:09 AM	#491
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	I think you'd really dig Neal Stephenson, Ibram. You should definitely start with "Snow Crash," and then do either "Diamond Age" or "Cryptonomicon."

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