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07-14-2007, 05:27 PM | #886 |
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07-15-2007, 10:40 AM | #887 |
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why It Will Rise Again).
So far it's fun to read, but not as good as most of the other P.I.G.'s that I've read. I think it's more of a stretch to fill out a whole book with "the South is really great because" while skipping over a lot of factual stuff. I thought there'd be more Civil War history.
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07-18-2007, 03:16 AM | #888 |
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John Irving? The Water Method Man?
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07-18-2007, 06:26 AM | #889 |
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I assume that's the Irving we are talking about. Water Method Man, Prayer For Owen Meany, Hotel New Hampshire etc.
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07-18-2007, 03:21 PM | #890 |
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Just finished Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and just finished My Friend Leonard by James Frey.
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07-18-2007, 07:00 PM | #891 |
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What was My Friend Leonard like? I almost bought that a few months ago.
I ended up going back down to Leicester again Yesterday to see Sundae, have a few beers and help her with a few other bits and bats (trips to the city dump, and old clothes to the charity shop etc) .....mainly it was for a few beers and a laugh though:P Anyway....what am I writing about?....oh yeah, whilst there she loaned me a few books that I haven't read. So, on the train back, I started Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. What a superb book. It's basically a detective/mystery type story, but that doesn't do it justice. The mystery is the backdrop, what's important is the characters and the intertwining stories of human relationships, love, loss and growing up/old. It's a really bitter sweet book. I found myself chuckling a few times on the train....but at times I also had to put the book down and get ahold of myself, cause I felt like I was about to start sobbing. Tears pricking the backs of my eyes, the whole works. Two and a half hour train journey and the book was halfway finished. |
07-18-2007, 07:29 PM | #892 |
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Annotated Alice Definitive Edition. I've read earlier versions, but I've gotta have the latest and greatest in annotated Alices.
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07-19-2007, 06:15 AM | #893 |
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You may well enjoy "Automated Alice" by Jeff Noon. It's a third book in the Alice in Wonderland sequence, set in Manchester.
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07-19-2007, 12:18 PM | #894 |
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I like the annotated books. Have an Annotated Grimm and borrowed Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin from the library. UTC was very interesting as it explained some of the ideas of the time and the opinions of Stowe and social activists.
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I loved it. Very interesting ending. I would definitly recommend it. Have you read A Million Little Pieces?
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07-20-2007, 06:02 AM | #896 |
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond
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07-20-2007, 02:00 PM | #897 |
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Bernstein-Joan Peyser
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07-22-2007, 06:07 PM | #898 |
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Finished the (awful) potter book in like, four hours...
So it's back to Plato's Republic, followed by Count of Monte Cristo.
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07-23-2007, 04:56 AM | #899 |
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I liked Deathly Hallows enough -- though I've only finished it an hour ago and I'm watching now to see how my initial impression settles out... looks like the HP 'shippers are vindicated, eh?
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Dean Koontz 'Out Of The Corner Of His Eye'
The character Jr. Cain thinks just like my ex...b..f It's freakin me out! ...oh and when I read about this guy watching the 'goofy movies too' I said, ah ha! see Quote:
What is Deathly Hallows about? I might like to read it. |
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