The Cellar  

Go Back   The Cellar > Main > Arts & Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment Give meaning to your life or distract you from it for a while

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 09-08-2005, 02:58 PM   #241
Urbane Guerrilla
Person who doesn't update the user title
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Southern California
Posts: 6,674
Grant, if you feel like taking a short break from that, try Ezra Pound's sestina Altaforte. Sometimes both words appear in the title, parted by a colon. It'll put the hair up on the back of your neck; Bertrans de Born was a man who was right over the edge -- and no mean poet, in medieval French, himself. Then lateral over to Joe Haldeman's Saul's Death for another spooky exercise in the sestina verse form.
__________________
Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.
Urbane Guerrilla is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-21-2005, 12:42 AM   #242
wolf
lobber of scimitars
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
Posts: 20,774
Just finished The Runaway Jury by John Grisham.

I'm not much into Grisham, but it was an entertaining story.

And it worked SOOOOO much better with the tobacco companies as the bad guys.
__________________
wolf eht htiw og

"Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island

High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis
wolf is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-21-2005, 12:55 PM   #243
melidasaur
Traded your soul for pogs.
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Champaign, IL
Posts: 646
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sun_Sparkz
i am reading "Desert Flower" by Waris (who is apparently a big model)

it is so inteesting to think that she is now a famous millionaire, but grew up in the desert, being genitally mutillated and chased by lions and now Elton John owns the rights to her autobiography!!

It is a bit of a stomach turner though, everytime she gets raped in the desert, or gets her naughty bits chopped off.. i get all woozy and have to put the book down and curl up under a blanket and rock myself to sleep :*

but all aside, it a great book, inspires you to get off the couch and do something useful.. like feed the cats or something.

meh, goodnight.
Thank you for the book recommendation... I just finished it and I really enjoyed it. I really respect her - and I never would have thought that I would have said that about a model.
__________________
I love England, what can I say?
melidasaur is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2005, 03:28 AM   #244
Bruce 9012
Living in the blast crater
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Dayton, Oh
Posts: 123
DEEPSIX.
Jack Mcdevitt
sorry,ya'll It's good sci fi in my faster
than light universe.
Bruce 9012 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2005, 10:21 AM   #245
Trilby
Slattern of the Swail
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 15,654
Reading: The Women's Room--Marilyn French
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead--Stoppard (play)
__________________
In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.

"Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her.
—James Barrie


Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum
Trilby is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2005, 10:50 AM   #246
Happy Monkey
I think this line's mostly filler.
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DC
Posts: 13,575
Now: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Next: Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
__________________
_________________
|...............| We live in the nick of times.
| Len 17, Wid 3 |
|_______________| [pics]
Happy Monkey is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2005, 11:51 AM   #247
melidasaur
Traded your soul for pogs.
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Champaign, IL
Posts: 646
I'm in a book slump... I keep getting these books that have the dumbest endings.

I just finished this book called "Babes in Captivity" - a sort of Desparate Housewives type of book... and it was lame.
__________________
I love England, what can I say?
melidasaur is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2005, 07:04 PM   #248
busterb
NSABFD
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: MS. usa
Posts: 3,908
One World, Ready or Not. By W. Greider. Don't think I'll make the finish.
__________________
I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.
busterb is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2005, 08:41 PM   #249
wolf
lobber of scimitars
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
Posts: 20,774
Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and The Crusades)

Everybody needs to read this.

Seriously.
__________________
wolf eht htiw og

"Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island

High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis
wolf is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2005, 08:59 PM   #250
kelliekd
Internet window-shopper
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Ga
Posts: 37
Sorry, I admit that i haven't read the whole thread yet, but is anyone still reading or finished the Dark Tower series? I am in the midst of Song Of Susannah, but it is an audiobook, therefore VERY slow going. I am just hoping that the end is not a bust, i read the poem the series is based on by Robert Browning (I think), and the ending doesn't leave much to anticipate. Besides that I am reading The Jungle and Slaughterhouse Five.
kelliekd is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2005, 10:23 PM   #251
Clodfobble
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
Quote:
Originally Posted by kelliekd
...is anyone still reading or finished the Dark Tower series?
I'm waiting for the last one to come out in trade paperback. I enjoyed the new additions to the series but had several eye-rolling moments in Song of Susannah. The ending is worth it, but there's a little section about 3/4ths of the way through that I just couldn't take seriously. You'll know it when you get there.

I'm reading Zodiac, the least-known work by Neal Stephenson, and I'm enjoying it very much. I think it was marketed poorly--the cover calls it an "eco-thriller," but it's totally not. Environmentalism (which is totally not my thing) is not what this book is about.
Clodfobble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-15-2005, 03:56 PM   #252
crossfire
The White Rapper
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 233
harry potter 2 is the best
crossfire is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2005, 04:28 AM   #253
Urbane Guerrilla
Person who doesn't update the user title
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Southern California
Posts: 6,674
I didn't like HP 2 or 3 as much as HP 1 and 4. Books 5 and 6 are at least as strong as Book 4.
__________________
Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.
Urbane Guerrilla is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2005, 10:34 AM   #254
wolf
lobber of scimitars
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
Posts: 20,774
Entebbe by Iddo Netanyahu (youngest brother of Yoni and Bibi)
__________________
wolf eht htiw og

"Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island

High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis
wolf is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2005, 08:38 PM   #255
kelliekd
Internet window-shopper
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Ga
Posts: 37
I think one of the coolest things about Harry Potter is that the books grow with the kids they were written for. It gets more intense and in-depth as the kids that started reading the series grow old enough to understand.

I am half-way through Song Of Susannah, and they just now jumped to Jake and Callahan, frustrating because they are my favorite characters.
kelliekd is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Tags
books


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:18 AM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.