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Old 04-19-2014, 08:57 PM   #2641
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Right now I'm reading "Buddhism: it's essence and development" by Edward Conze.

Before that I read "The Tibetan book of the Dead" by W. Y. Evans-Wentz.

Both were and are slow reads, as I read a few pages when I go to bed. When I can no longer focus on the page, I put it down and go to sleep.
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Old 04-21-2014, 08:43 AM   #2642
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I do that with car repair manuals. That shit puts you right to sleep.
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Old 04-21-2014, 08:47 AM   #2643
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I sometimes used AM talk radio. I'd find a program discussing a topic I could not have cared less about, and listen to it just loud enough to hear, but, not catch every word.

It worked.
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Old 04-21-2014, 09:42 AM   #2644
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Just finished listening to "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime." The voiceacting was very good; he got the main character's cadence just right.

I found it especially amusing that while the book is generally highly-acclaimed, there is a solid core of 1-star reviews on Amazon, and the majority of those run along the lines of, "I have autism myself and this character is not exactly like me therefore it is false and the author is a fraud." Which is, of course, to be expected.
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Old 04-22-2014, 02:16 AM   #2645
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Going through a Bernard Cornwell phase for a bit -- enough to note the Sharpe novels hew to a pattern. Like how poor Richard gets ever so many opportunities to be a lover; at least once per book, regardless of anything. If only he had the money, he might have been a gigolo -- Sgt Harper's assessment of him notwithstanding.

Don't seem to remember the TV series being quite so stuffed with stray petticoats. Though in that era, women did seem to be ninety percent linen -- and pin-curls.
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Old 04-22-2014, 06:46 PM   #2646
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I'm listening to the audiobook of The Passage by Justin Cronin. What a wonderful book! And beautifully read too.

I'm so pleased to be into something again. Had a spell of not being able to get into anything. tried a dozen books on kindle and several on audio that just didn't click with me. Probably because I'd previously had a run of superb books that spoiled me for a while. Y'know when a book or a series gets right under your skin and you just want that same hit, but nothing quite compares?
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Old 04-22-2014, 07:36 PM   #2647
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Don't seem to remember the TV series being quite so stuffed with stray petticoats. Though in that era, women did seem to be ninety percent linen -- and pin-curls.
Perhaps not quantity, but quality. Elizabeth Hurley shows up without the linen.
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Old 05-04-2014, 08:00 PM   #2648
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Just read The Deepest Secret by Carla Buckley Started Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline.
Both are about a hit and run. WTF! does someone pitch an idea out to all writers, then they all jump on it?? But but they'er all new york times best sellers. Right?
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Old 05-04-2014, 10:24 PM   #2649
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slumming it with takedown twenty by janet Evanovich. Old, Done, Series way way way past it's prime, may serve to help me get to sleep every night for the rest of the year at this boring rate!
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Old 05-05-2014, 10:45 PM   #2650
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Lisa Scottoline. I owe you an apology. Got better later sorry.
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Old 05-05-2014, 10:57 PM   #2651
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Drlackofaffect lent me Knight by Gene Wolfe. I've never read anything by him, but he hangs words together in some really awesome ways.

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She laughed, and the wind and the sea were in it; she was the spray, and the waves that broke outside her cave. When I talked to her, I was talking to them.
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Old 05-18-2014, 02:50 AM   #2652
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A Dirty Job is brilliant. Any book that hangs together the words "Artificial boob spooge" is worth a look, or in my case, a listen.There is something terribly, terribly wrong with Christopher Moore. And I am good with that.
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Old 05-24-2014, 01:50 PM   #2653
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The Rule of Nobody by Philip K. Howard.

A story about the paralyzing effects of overly detailed laws and regulations. He makes a case for governing by principle, and not by rules. He suggests that individual human judgement, even by government officials is better than mindless compliance with inflexible rules.

I like it so far.
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Old 05-24-2014, 03:11 PM   #2654
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The Hobbit, again.
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Old 05-24-2014, 05:04 PM   #2655
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Drlackofaffect lent me Knight by Gene Wolfe. I've never read anything by him, but he hangs words together in some really awesome ways.
Remember the section of Reader's Digest called 'Torwards More Picturesque Speech' (or something like that)? I've often thought of starting a thread in the same vein.
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