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09-21-2007, 02:24 PM | #946 |
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Theodore Dreiser-An American Tragedy
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09-21-2007, 02:26 PM | #947 |
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Just got an order from Doubleday book club (like Christmas at Shawnee's house.) Last night I started "Halfway House." I'll let you know if I like it.
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09-21-2007, 02:49 PM | #948 |
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"Brain Child" by George Turner. It's the first sci-fi book I've ever read that is set in Australia and is full of decidedly Australian language. Interesting so far, but a little heavy on the foreshadowing. Practically every paragraph has a reference like, "Of course later we would all come to regret this meeting very much," and "The horrible events that would unfold would show me just what a lie this really was," etc. But hopefully that will tone down the farther in I get.
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09-21-2007, 03:08 PM | #949 |
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The wheels were beginning to turn in Clodfobble's mind; but she had yet to realize how soon she would find herself looking back on her realization of coming to regret her decision to plow forward into this increasingly patronizing series of sophomoric semaphores. The day would come, soon enough, that she would find herself curled up in the corner of a padded room, in a puddle of her own drool...
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09-21-2007, 03:23 PM | #950 |
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I just stood up after sitting on my foot for a while and it gave me pins & needles /ralphwiggum
Sorry, reading Jodi Picault killed off too mant of my brain cells... Just finished a Peter Robinson book - can't remember the title & too lazy to go upstairs to check. I like him because he has the same name as my Dad. Now reading a Rebus book (Ian Rankin) ditto re fiding out the title, but it's the one set during the G8 summit. Prior to that I read The Memory Keeper's Daughter. I was very wary of it. The characters were oddly motivated to my mind, and a little wooden. I also questioned that a newborn baby would sleep for 12 hours after birth, but perhaps the author had experience of that - I don't. I hate it when I start questioning the plot, in theatre terms it shatters my willing disbelief. All reasonable, but nothing stunning. I want a book I can fall in love with again.
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09-21-2007, 04:17 PM | #951 | |
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09-21-2007, 04:36 PM | #952 |
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Reminds me of our first.
We were such neurotic and clueless first time parents. The doctor had scared us with tales of babies that lose weight after they are born. Our daughter would sleep a lot (bless her) and we were doing stuff like putting wet washcloths on her to wake her up to eat. We were so neurotic. It took a while for us to clue in that since she was growing really well and was in the 95th percentile for weight, we could relax a little bit. |
09-21-2007, 08:59 PM | #953 | |
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09-21-2007, 10:59 PM | #954 |
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--Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts by JK Rowling. -- very fun little books she did for charity.
--Just Finished Born in Fury by David Weber. Military SF, and as usual with David Weber, very detailed accounts of military hardware and enemy strategy (which I skim, looking for the stuff about the characters! ). Really good. The odd thing is, it's apparently an expanded version of an earlier book (Paths of Fury), and I didn't think I had read that book. But the day after I finished it I happened to come upon the original book in my bookcase. I don't even think I finished that one. Now I'm gonna go back and re-read all my Honor Harrington books. At least until the last ones, which got too overblown.
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09-22-2007, 06:54 PM | #955 |
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"Harbinger Hall", a short story by Bill Roorbach--
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09-23-2007, 12:21 AM | #956 |
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Umm, whutsa booook?
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09-23-2007, 07:35 AM | #957 |
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I just started "Early Trade Unions: Fraternity, Skill and Politics in the Workplace, by Malcolm Chase. It's for a module i'm doing, but I am thoroughly enjoying it. Very accessible writing style and sound analysis. Made even more exciting by the fact the author is also the lead Professor on the module
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09-23-2007, 01:31 PM | #958 |
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Isn't it amazing how some of the best writers have such completely fucked up lives. Dreiser was a bit of a fraud in that his characters were much more tragic than he was. Compared to Poe and Lovecraft, his life was a cakewalk. I'm assuming that the title refers to his works and not his personal biography?
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09-23-2007, 07:29 PM | #959 |
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Autobiography of a Face - Lucy Grealy
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09-25-2007, 10:40 AM | #960 |
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