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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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Meh - my copy is from the library. I'd hate for someone to PAY for this and encourage the author.
The only reason I am still reading it - yup, plugging away - is because I have no more books to read. I'm off to the library on Saturday to get a new batch for my trip to the 'Dam.
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lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
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Hostage - Don Brown (2nd book in the Navy Justice Series)
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#1698 |
Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Dracula. last fookin' book by a 19th C brit I shall ever, Ever, EVER read.
I hate 19th C. British literature - all of it. ALL OF IT! DO YOU HEAR? IT ALL SUCKS!!! I hate it from Coleridge to Austen, from Wordsworth (the candy ass) to Disraeli, from Darwin to Collins, Bronte (Charlotte) to Bronte (Emily) to Bronte (Anne) To Byron To Shelley!!! I've hated them all - except Keats. I liked Keats.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 15,654
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k.
My tolerance for pretentious, arrogant, fuck-tards with delusions of somebody-gives-a-fuck schmuck's has gone down in the past year. Keats is ok, though. ![]() srsly, though. I'm really hatin' on these types. All this "I'm Not REALLY a genius I just Play One on TV *wink wink* but have I shown you my Pultizer? It gets me laid quite a bit..." is getting ON MY NERVES. Fake Gee-Whizery. Gah.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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#1701 |
I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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Just finished The Hunger Games as I was recovering. What a load of unoriginality. Now recovered, i started to try and read the sequel. 5 pages was too much -I realized how ill I must have been to make it all the way through the first book. I guess all the teens who are raving about it haven't come across Running Man, 1984, Handmaid's tale, Brave new world....
Does anyone ever write a book these days that isn't part of a series? Jeeze.
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The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
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Dean Koontz' "The Face". Fairly entertaining.
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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The only two 19th C authors I can truly say I love ( beyond historical interest which is something else entirely) are Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I've read pretty much everything those authors ever wrote.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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#1705 |
Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 15,654
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I have a week and a half.
What should I read? (NO FUCKING SCI_FI!)
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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My wife recently read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. She thought it was really good, and she reads a lot and isn't easily impressed by a book.
It's the trendy book to read these days. I can only recommend SF, so that's why you get this second hand recommendation. |
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#1707 |
Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 15,654
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thanks, glatt - but no slave narratives, either. I've read so many damn slave narratives that I wonder that there was any slaving going on for all the writing those guys were doing....
ha ha. j/k all you PC types! thanks for the recommed, though. all you guys are big, fat SCi-Fi nerds, aren't you? Yes. Yes, you are.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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#1708 |
lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
Posts: 20,774
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The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson.
You'll need more than a week, though.
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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The First Casualty, by Ben Elton: a murder mystery set in the trenches of ww1. Very good book.
The Horse Boy (author, i can't recall) written by (and in audio narrated by) the father of an autistic boy and telling their story. It's beautiful. Nation, by Terry Pratchett. It's written for a young adult audience, but is really rather good. It's a departure from his discworld stuff and is set in the real (more or less) world. It's a lovely story. A girl from England in something like the Edwardian or Victorian era, is shipwrecked on Island. Also alone on this island is 'Nation' an adolescent boy who is the sole survivor of his people (hence taking on the name Nation), his whole tribe having been wiped out by a freak tsunami whilst he was alone on a different island undergoing a solitary coming of age ritual. They have no language to link them. But they grow a close friendship. It's really wonderfully written. Funny and poignant by turns. I highly recommend it to anyone.
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Your Invisible Rabbit Friend
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Betwixt and Between
Posts: 528
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Texas Hold 'Em: How I Was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, and Came Back As a Horney Toad, By Kinky Friedman, John Callahan
It is an unconventional autobiography. Very Funny... I lol too much for Flint while lying in bed reading it. |
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