07-12-2006, 04:07 PM | #481 |
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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, 04:10 PM | #482 | |
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dar512 is now Pete Zicato
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07-12-2006, 04:13 PM | #484 |
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No , I just like fine American ideas .
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07-12-2006, 04:54 PM | #485 |
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....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 . Voilą , I cannot be expected to talk about everyone all of the time . |
07-12-2006, 07:36 PM | #486 |
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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
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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, 10:32 AM | #488 |
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That explains a lot about you. You're possessed by a greasy Spanish demon.
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If it's Lope de Vega , I don't mind .
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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.
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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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I think this line's mostly filler.
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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.
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I admit it - I'm reading Dance, Dance, Dance
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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