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Post by Destro on Aug 9, 2007 13:46:00 GMT -5
Yeesh, kinda forgot about this thread..I recently finished Candide by Voltaire and am now reading billy's Julius Caesar.
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Post by chromia on Aug 9, 2007 23:02:41 GMT -5
Reading A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
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Post by Destro on Aug 12, 2007 1:53:58 GMT -5
Reading A Night to Remember by Walter Lord I've heard that's good! I have his book Day of Infamy that deals w/ Pearl Harbor; I haven't had a chance to read it yet. Finished JC the other day: starting A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
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Post by chromia on Aug 12, 2007 16:11:56 GMT -5
I've heard that's good! I have his book Day of Infamy that deals w/ Pearl Harbor; I haven't had a chance to read it yet. Finished JC the other day: starting A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. It is a good book. Minut-by-minute detail. I recommend it. It's from a survivors point of view as well.
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Post by Destro on Oct 5, 2007 23:23:49 GMT -5
Rereading The Grapes of Wrath; one of my favorites.
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Post by Destro on Oct 15, 2007 0:11:32 GMT -5
Finished Grapes a few days ago; now reading Magic in the Middle Ages.
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Post by Destro on Nov 7, 2007 15:27:51 GMT -5
Finished Magic a few days ago; it's good if you have a good amount of interest in the subject; if not, pass.
Now reading an anthology of female english writers..this could take awhile.
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Post by Alter_Ego on Nov 13, 2007 15:35:50 GMT -5
I finally got around to reading "Pride and Prejudice". I really enjoyed it. I've been on something of a classics kick the last few weeks. Classic movies, books, music, etc.
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Post by Bear on Nov 13, 2007 22:58:59 GMT -5
I should be finishing the first Rift War book in the next couple of days and then it is off to The Orc King
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Post by Destro on Mar 23, 2008 16:39:12 GMT -5
I've been slacking a bit on my reading; still reading the same female writer's anthology; it's really long. I just finished Kate Chopin's Awakening, and before that Sarah Orne Jewett's A White Heron; both are really good short stories.
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Post by Devastator_2000 on Mar 23, 2008 22:42:43 GMT -5
Wow! i have not seen this thread in a while. In fact i had forgot about it. I am not reading anything now, but I just finished Star Trek: Q&A. it was a good book that told the story of why Q was always messing with Picard and the Enterprise crew.
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Post by Destro on May 6, 2008 0:13:17 GMT -5
I got about half-way through that Women's Lit book (around 1200 pages) and I needed a break. I recently finished Will in the World; How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. If you have any interest in the Bard as a person, this would be a good one to read. There is a fair amount of conjecture here bc little of will's personal life survives, but overall it's a solid read w/ some interesting facts and ideas about his life.
Now rereading Frankenstein.
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Post by Bear on Jun 24, 2008 22:00:48 GMT -5
Picked up Mastering the Universe, the Rise and Fall of He-man. It is written by one of the original developers of the toy line from Mattel.
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Post by Destro on Aug 8, 2008 1:15:27 GMT -5
Finally finished American Pastoral; let me say, if you haven't read anything by Philip Roth, start. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) The main character is Seymour "The Swede" Levov, a man who seems to have the perfect life; legendary athlete in high school, marries a Miss America contestant, has a million-dollar business, but then..his daughter grows from an intelligent, loving girl into a fanatical terrorist who brings the Vietnam War home by blowing up the local post office. Of course, the Swede's life is never the same as his "American Pastoral" has been destroyed, and it is interesting to see how he attempts to deal with it and tries to return his life to some level of normalcy. The Swede isn't the most intelligent man; he isn't very deep and doesn't understand the motives and true character of others, but he is, everything considered, a good man who does everything he can to help his family and daughter even though she becomes a political fanatic in spite of (because of?) his role in raising her. I would go on, but I don't want to give too much away. This is a great book, right up there w/ Roth's other works, and will definitely make you think about many things in a new light, including the role of the family, basic human interaction, and the role, or lack thereof, of morality in modern American society. Just finished rereading this book..and wow, what a heart-breaking, wonderful, screwed-up work of art. Not to repeat what I've already said, but I would like to add that this book won the pulitzer prize, and it truly deserved it. You've got a "good guy at heart" protaganist who can't see past the surface of anyone, who ends up not only losing his daughter bc of her terrorism, but his wife is cheating on him w/ their neighbor, while she is also designing a house for her and her husband..but her plan is to divorce him and live there w/ her lover! All this bc she's moving on from her daughter's destruction of her "old life", but the Swede can not do the same. He must make sense of everything, until he finally realizes that life doesn't make sense. There is no logic, there is no formula. You can do everything "right", and your daughter still grows up to be a political terrorist who kills four people, destroying not only those lives, but her father's life as well. Heart-wrenching yet undeniably human, it pains me to read not only for the story, but bc it's characters are so beautifully realized, and you can feel their pain. And their pain is life.
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