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04-14-2008, 06:06 PM | #1 |
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Sense And Sensibility
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04-17-2008, 10:55 PM | #2 |
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I'm just reading "Crivens!" I think the Third Wee Free Men book, I didn't realise it was part of a series and got about a third of the way through before looking it up because of the constant back references. I then found out it's some sort of kids book, hadn't really noticed. "Waily, Waily, Waily is my new catch phrase
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12-05-2003, 01:24 PM | #4 | |
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Lead to a more grammatically correct book thread and I'll follow. I haven't read any...any...of the Dune books. I've always meant to, but they keep getting pushed down the stack by quicker reads. I've seen the movie and both Sci-Fi TV series, so I'm sure I have the Dune universe thoroughly covered. |
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12-05-2003, 02:55 PM | #5 |
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I'm reading this book called Mapping Human History by Steve Olson. It is the most interesting book I've read in a while. It's actually influencing what I might change my major to. It describes how humans came to be through studying genes. It really is an awsome book.
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12-05-2003, 05:13 PM | #6 |
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"The Family" by Mario Puzo. It's a historical bio-drama of sorts about the Borgia family when they held power in the Vatican. Puzo considered them the first crime family in history, and wrote it with them in the same positive light he had cast the Corleones and the Clericuzio.
Gotta love Puzo. The world's a darker place without him.
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12-05-2003, 05:44 PM | #7 |
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Puzo wrote some good stuff...try Fools Die. Its also very eloquent, as most of his books are.
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02-08-2004, 09:26 AM | #8 |
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Just finished Pattern Recognition by William Gibson.
It's different from his usual, since it's actually set closer to now ... which was a little strange to figure out, because time references are few and far between. We eventually know it's after 9/11/01, but not how far. There's a couple of different subplots that more or less lurch through the book. I thought the pacing was extremely uneven on this one, which was a bit distracting, and the main character has a better backstory than her current existence, but it does pick up a bit. Unfortunately, after plodding along in minutae for the first three-quarters of the book, he seems to come to the realization that he's reaching the page limit for a salable novel and rushes to the finish line in an unsatisfying (for me) way. Oh, and somebody has to tell him to lay off on the word "crepuscular" though. Once is too often. I know for-sure it's used twice, possibly three times. Oh yeah, and "liminal". Nice vocabulary. Now go back to writing. Oh, and what was Voytek doing with the ZX81s? Not the physical construction, but what was he going to run on the array? Or is that the next book? Could be, you know, since that was more interesting to speculate on rather than the truth behind the Footage.
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02-08-2004, 09:45 AM | #9 |
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International Law and the Use of Force - Christine Gray
Einführung in das Völkerrecht - Kimminich, Hobe Have to do some homeworks! Moby Dick - Melville Her Privates We - Manning |
02-08-2004, 11:15 AM | #10 |
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I just finished Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn. The story is set in an imaginary land much like Japan during their feudal conflicts. It's a good read.
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02-08-2004, 11:25 AM | #11 |
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The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire - Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence. Deepak Chopra.
I've never read Chopra before, but happened by this and thought it looked interesting. It's probably a bunch of crap though.
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02-08-2004, 11:34 AM | #12 |
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a bunch of $25 crap.....!
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02-08-2004, 11:36 AM | #13 |
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Golden Buddha, Trojan Odyssey and White Death, all by Clive Cussler. I'm a bit behind in my reading.
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02-08-2004, 06:59 PM | #14 |
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Black Metal meets the Neo-Cons.... now thats a book review.
Lately read East of Eden... read it, you know everyone in the book. I'm back at Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Evil shit.
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02-09-2004, 06:45 AM | #15 |
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Oh forgot, I'm also reading Jesse James : Last Rebel of the Civil War. So far its putting his career in the context of pre and wartime Missouri. Pretty ferocious times.
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