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Old 04-07-2009, 03:46 PM   #1396
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Sort of off-topic here, but does anyone own a Kindle? I am thinking of treating myself to one for my birthday, but they are expensive, and I would like some feedback first.
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Old 04-08-2009, 09:39 AM   #1397
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Old 04-09-2009, 06:05 AM   #1398
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsey.

Wow. Just wow.
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Old 04-09-2009, 09:21 AM   #1399
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Sort of off-topic here, but does anyone own a Kindle? I am thinking of treating myself to one for my birthday, but they are expensive, and I would like some feedback first.
I love my Kindle, but I have a Kindle 1, can't speak to the new version.

Currently reading: Android Dreams - John Scalzi
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Old 04-09-2009, 05:49 PM   #1400
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Thanks Wolf, I really think I want one.
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Old 04-12-2009, 11:27 AM   #1401
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Chronicles of Riddick - Alan Dean Foster

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Old 04-12-2009, 03:55 PM   #1402
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Steamrolled through To Kill a Mockingbird yesterday because I have to start teaching it tomorrow. (Yuck.)

Reading The Graveyard Book for pleasure, during that imaginary thing they call "free time."
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Old 04-17-2009, 04:20 PM   #1403
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Double Star - Robert Heinlein
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Old 04-17-2009, 04:46 PM   #1404
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heh heh heh heh...instead of reading Shakespeare, I'm just getting the DVD's!

tonight: Henry V.

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Old 04-18-2009, 12:30 AM   #1405
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Admittedly, Will plays better than he reads, but there is a longstanding academic tradition of sweating your way through that incomprehensible Elizabethan dialog.

Make sure that you're following along with your printed copy, a lot of the film versions have a tendency to leave out big chunks just to move the action along.
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Old 04-18-2009, 05:09 AM   #1406
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Also, movies tend to drop the stuff that's less readily accessible to a modern audience. Quite often that involves dropping bits of humour. A classic example is in Othello. The scene where Iago makes a joke about an enema, the terminology is so archaic it tends to get dropped. I've only seen that bit included in old BBC stage productions.



My current reading is mainly around my dissertation... a particularly good one is Equivocal Beings, by Claudia Johnson. Fascinating stuff. Looking at women writers of the 1790s-1830s and how they placed themselves in the national debate. It's quite a difficult text for me to get my head around in places. I am used to reading historians and this is from the lit crit section. I find the lexicon difficult to get to grips with. I hadn't realised how comfortable I'd become in my own field.

For leisure, I am on an audio book. I mainly prefer to read novels myself, but every so often I go through an audio book phase. Right now that's driven by the fact I really like the reader on this series of books. It's the second in the Dexter series: Dearly Devoted Dexter. Makes excellent night time listening. I love Jeff Lindsay's writing style. It is so lyrical and playful. The guy who reads them has really caught that I think.

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Old 04-18-2009, 05:13 AM   #1407
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both you right and noble ladies are correct in your happy and learned reports.

what grand company mine own corset keeps! (I would have preferred to use 'codpiece keeps' but I don't wear a codpiece except for very special occasions)

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Old 04-18-2009, 05:33 AM   #1408
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(which you've presumably filmed for our later edification?)
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Old 04-18-2009, 05:34 AM   #1409
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(which you've presumably filmed for our later edification?)


naturally!
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Old 04-18-2009, 11:59 AM   #1410
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