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Old 10-26-2006, 01:57 PM   #541
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I will only recognize the Old Testament and Grimm .


I am APPALLED , Wolf . Truly APPALLED .
And I should care that you don't get out much, why, exactly?

If I read Bill O'Reilly's newest book, will your head explode?
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Old 10-26-2006, 02:20 PM   #542
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The Robin Wood Tarot - Robin Wood
I love this tarot deck, and recently learned that the artist had written a book about it's creation, and gives details regarding the symbolism she chose for each card. So far I think it's a much better guide to the deck than Tarot Made Simple, which uses her cards also.
I have the Robin Wood tarot and Tarot Made Simple. Didn't even realise Robin was a she

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Gods and Myths of Northern Europe - H.R. Ellis Davidson
Any good? I love Norse mythology

I have just started Stephen King's Wolves of the Calla.
Am in the unheard of situation of having books to spare, rather than rereading the ones I have.

To read-
The Island - Victoria Hislop
The Python Years - (diaries) Michael Palin
I Can't Stay Long - Laurie Lee
Desert Royals - Jean P Sasson (trashy, but was part of a 3 book deal)

and a couple more I picked up by habit in the charity shop but can't even remember.

Feel like a bulimic at an all you can eat buffet - happy, but slightly overwhelmed
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Old 10-26-2006, 04:12 PM   #543
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i'm actually reading Atlas Shrugged.....
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Old 10-26-2006, 04:15 PM   #544
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ha ha ha

"actually" - as if this is a crazy idea
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Old 10-26-2006, 04:45 PM   #545
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no, more like, i always hear people talking about it on here, so i figured i'd read it. seems like most of you have read it.
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Old 10-26-2006, 04:51 PM   #546
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What a bunch of egg-heads! Just kidding.

The Fountainhead adaptation (screenplay by Ayn Rand) is pretty cool. Starring Gary Cooper.
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Old 10-26-2006, 04:57 PM   #547
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The Fountainhead adaptation (screenplay by Ayn Rand) is pretty cool. Starring Gary Cooper.
If by "cool" you mean "extremely boring," then I'm right there with you.
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Old 10-26-2006, 05:02 PM   #548
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If by "cool" you mean "extremely boring," then I'm right there with you.
I'll be the first to admit: there are no car chase scenes, and only one explosion.
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Old 10-26-2006, 05:27 PM   #549
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LJ, why...why are you reading Ayn Rand?
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Old 10-26-2006, 05:31 PM   #550
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why ask why?

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Old 10-26-2006, 05:39 PM   #551
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LJ, why...why are you reading Ayn Rand?
curiosity? plus, i like to choose longer books ( audible dot com ) to listen to on my commute. more bang for your buck, what? i'm halfway through the first half of the first volume. i guess i like it so far. it's not putting me to sleep like moby dick did.
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Old 10-27-2006, 02:04 AM   #552
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(re: Gods and Myths of Northen Europe) Any good? I love Norse mythology
In a word, no.

It's not that it's a terribly bad book, but it's a rather dry and scholarly account of the myths, doesn't relate them in full, but does give an interesting perspective on how the myths are and were expressed in some other cultural practices of the region.

I liked this edition, but any version of the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda should do for a start.
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Old 10-28-2006, 01:43 PM   #553
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i'm actually reading Atlas Shrugged.....

Not a bad book. I was talking about Rand in another thread- I'm no great fan, but she does have some interesting points. I read a lot of work by people that I find severely offensive- she's one of them. But she does have her good moments. And for the people who found it boring? How? There were (if I remember correctly) three different ways to read that one narrative. That's genius. She's just not a genius I like. So Lj be aware.......there's more than the obvious within those pages.
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Old 10-29-2006, 12:01 AM   #554
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I'll agree it's interesting... but there's one chapter about 3/4ths of the way through that you can just skip. You don't need it. You'll know it when you get there. It's nothing but one long speech and there's nothing new said in it, so just save yourself the time and flip ahead to the next chapter where stuff starts happening again.
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Old 10-29-2006, 12:36 AM   #555
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i'm listening to it on mp3, so i can kind of fade out when it gets redundant. I'm finding it a bit over acted, and unnaturally repetetive in dialogue. her repeated use of the phrases "no one can blame us" and "I can't be responsible for unexpected events" by the 'bad guy socialists' is a bit... unbelievable?
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