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I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Just started on the James Bond novels. Quite a mental readjustment required as I have mostly been reading contemporary (and therefore relatively PC stuff) recently. Live and Let Die was a jolt. Not an overly bad one, but a jolt. I never make white/black/whatever assumptions, but I live near Detroit and I previously lived in Birmingham, England. Both noted for their "ethnic minorities". (I am pinkish with hazel eyes). And I have never lived in the 1950s. Apparently, if none of these apply, it may be necessary to specify that your non-white characters are non-white/pinkish. Every time you mention them. Describing some physical characteristic helps -especially for negroes- like the nose or lips. Just in case the reader is unable to pictue a non-white. Which might have been a real concern when the book was written, but is now so uniumaginable (to me at least) that is makes the book "interesting".
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lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
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Just wait til you come upon the Chigroes in Dr. No.
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lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
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I'm reading Ghost Stories from the American South - W.K. Neil
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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Glad for the recommendation though.
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The future is unwritten
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Gamehenge
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Halifax, NS
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Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001
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#742 |
lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
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Reiki: The Ultimate Guide, Volume One - Steve Murray
I haven't found the part that explains how if this guide is so ultimate, there are two additional volumes.
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#743 |
erika
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: "the high up north"
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Tales - H.P. Lovecraft
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Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Stiff - Mary Roach (After I go belly up, I'm donating my body to Wright State Medical school and want to know what might happen to it. The cool thing is after they are done with it, they cremate it and it's all free!)
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
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#745 |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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My mother-in-law just arranged to have that done. That reminds me of a John Prine tune.
The Accidental Buddist - Dinty Moore Irish American ex-catholic writes about his exploration... good stuff right in the wheel house.
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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The Cellar has a unique connection to Mr. Dinty Moore, as he attended our 1994 BBQ and wrote a chapter about us in his book about the fledgling Internet.
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Neat, I didn't realize that was the guy!
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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Definitely him, as I folled his career a little and noticed that he had picked up the Buddhism.
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in a mood, not cupcake
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Philadelphia
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Bone Dry, A Blanco County, Texas, Novel, by Ben Rehder. The book jacket claims it's like, "Carl Hiaasen with a Texas accent." But I never did read the one Hiaasen book I picked up (I don't remember the name...it had a dog head on the cover). So, I just imagine Joe Bob Briggs narrating it.
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lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
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The Carl Hiassen book you (everyone) need(s) to read is "Skin Tight".
It's the best of all of them.
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