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What BOOK are you reading right now?

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Gargamel
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 10:43 pm
ossobuco wrote:
Started Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses.

So far so good. His writing takes a little getting used to. I think he's a master of language and he has no interest in clear as a bell sentences.


That one's supposed to be a departure from Blood Meridian. After he kicked the bottle. Blood Meridian's my only reference point for McCarthy, but every sentence seemed precise. He's as impressionistic as any great modern author--Conrad comes to mind--but definitely a full fledged contortionist when it comes to sentence structure.
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 11 Sep, 2006 12:16 am
"Haunted House" - by Hugo First.
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Corkey
 
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Reply Mon 11 Sep, 2006 08:11 pm
The Terrorist by Udike
Merry Andrew and Dlowan,

I'm reading The Terrorist, too. Currently on pg 224. The book is a good read, but I keep wondering if it's really telling me how an American born Arab boy becomes a terrorist.

I suppose the answer is that this is how it might have happened to this boy.

I am also reading Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. I suppose I should say that I'm now reading it for the 4th time in the last two months. It's one thing to read it, but another thing to get the drift of it.
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Heeven
 
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Reply Tue 12 Sep, 2006 11:13 am
"Their Eyes were Watching God", Zora Neale Hurston.
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 13 Sep, 2006 06:39 am
Temptation - Douglas Kennedy.
A real page turner.
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2durngooooood
 
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Reply Mon 18 Sep, 2006 11:45 pm
Books I'm reading now



At this time, I'm reading 3 books:

a) The David Suzuki Reader, A Liftime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and Thinker~David Suzuki;
*instead of requiring bombastic bibles and assorted junk "books," in an increasing number of secondary and post HS curricula, this book should be the one Exclamation

b) Armed Madhouse~Greg Palast; [rereading it in light of BushCo. amoral insanities]

c) The Art of War~Sun Tzu [this is my 4th rereading in 35 yrs.]
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Three P
 
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Reply Tue 19 Sep, 2006 12:27 am
Beyond Nab End - - William Woodruff.
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msolga
 
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Reply Tue 19 Sep, 2006 06:06 am
Just started The Way The Crow Flies, by Anne-Marie MacDonald. Looks promising!
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material girl
 
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Reply Tue 19 Sep, 2006 06:09 am
Lord Ellpus wrote:
"Haunted House" - by Hugo First.


A classic in so many ways.


Im hoping to get The Historian from a friend as a belated birthday prezzie and Ive ordered the journals of Scott of the Antarctic.
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 19 Sep, 2006 06:41 pm
Notable Selections in Multicultural Edcation - to some it may sound boooooring, but it's really quite fascinating!
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2006 12:31 pm
I put aside All the Pretty Horses for a while...

Finally picked up ISTANBUL Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk -

I'm loving it from the start.
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2006 12:33 pm
Plutarch's Moral Essays

By Mr Plutarch
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2006 12:36 pm
OOH! LA - DI -DAH!
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2006 12:40 pm
It's got pictures...

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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2006 12:41 pm
I'll let you off then.


Is it in English, or Mancunian?
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2006 12:43 pm
In Greek (to me)

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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2006 12:53 pm
Is that the one that's a treasury of information concerning Greco-Roman society, traditions, ideals, ethics, and religion?
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2006 01:01 pm
So you can google...

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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2006 01:09 pm
Well, I did this morning.

Wasn't Plutarch the baddie in Popeye?
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 25 Sep, 2006 01:15 pm
Yes, Ellpus...

It was...

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