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renegade142
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Jul '07
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3/4 10:00pm
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I decided I'm going to read Robinson Crusoe or The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Any suggestions? Which should I pick?
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king_alvarez
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renegade142 posted:
I decided I'm going to read Robinson Crusoe or The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Any suggestions? Which should I pick?
Whichever you choose, afterwards don't forget your desire to read A Tale of Two Cities. That's not my favorite Dickens book, but Dickens is another one of my faves that I feel everyone should have the opportunity to become acquainted with.
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Jango10
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king_alvarez posted:
renegade142 posted:
I decided I'm going to read Robinson Crusoe or The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Any suggestions? Which should I pick?
Whichever you choose, afterwards don't forget your desire to read A Tale of Two Cities. That's not my favorite Dickens book, but Dickens is another one of my faves that I feel everyone should have the opportunity to become acquainted with.
I tried to read A Chirstmas Carol once, but I discovered that any book with senteces that last a whole page are not for me.
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Well I picked Disney's Nine Old Men by John Canemaker.
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Fel_Freak228
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Emma by Jane Austen
NJO Force Heretic 1: Remnant by Sean Williams+Shane Dix
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King_of_Red_Lions
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I stay far away from any Dickens book. I tried reading 'Our Mutual Friend' once and didn't make it far. I may try him again when I've run out of all alternatives.
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The script : the 100% absolutely predictable things men do when they cheat by Elizabeth Landers and Vicky Mainzer. Some of the points they make are good, but the writing is confusing. Part play, part case studies. And they say that a woman should act stronger, but shows the woman not acting stronger. (for example, he says "I'm going to take care of you", and the author says the woman should get a lawyer but when they get back to the story, the woman acts like a doormat). Luckily it's short, but the style is confusing.
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PadmeA_Panties
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Just finished Aldous Huxley's "Island" and now beginning Karen Traviss's "Revelation".
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Chancellor_Ewok
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Just finished The Adventures of Indiana Jones. It was a pretty fun read. If you're an Indy fan, its not bad way to spend $18 or $20. Highly recommended.
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Bio of Hitchcock.
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Chancellor_Ewok
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Murder at the Opera by Margaret Truman. Pretty good book so far. I may have to read the rest of the series.
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3/10 3:40pm
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Bagombo Snuff Box
a collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut.
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PadmeA_Panties
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Finished Revelation yesterday and started The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut.
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Just finished Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Revelation last night. I'll start reading Hellgate: London: Goetia at lunch today.
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Since I last posted here, I've read:
Gabriel's Gift - Hanif Kureishi
More or less interesting book about a kid in modern London whose father is a washed up musician and whose mother is a tramp; they're divorced. Gabriel can draw. Various witty and urbane things happen. Okay, but it went too long and didn't have an ending.
Plutarch's Lives - Plutarch
Talk about going long. Took ages to get through; as with anything this sprawling there are great bits and awful bits. Fabius, Caesar, Artaxerxes, for example, read like great novels. Some of the others were just dull.
Disappointment with God - Phillip Yancey
Absolutely staggering work of theosophy by a great Christian philosopher. Takes the notion of a good God and the fact of a world riddled with suffering and angst and makes them work together. After arguing philosophically for half the book, Yancey throws it all out and says that all the philosophy in the world doesn't mean crap when you're in serious emotional pain and starts over and for that alone, he deserves your respect. An essential read; deep, profound, meditative, doesn't give God a break, but doesn't give humanity one either. Outstanding. Also, very readable; I blew through it in three days.
Habits of the Heart - Robert Bellah, et al
Study of American society; it argues that individuality, something very important and very positive, has become cancerous in American society and become something more than psychologically healthy individuality. It has, in fact; it's become psycholigically unhealthy isolation. But the book doesn't offer any real ways out; when it tries, at the end, to point the way back to a cohesive society, it just feels flat and pollyanna; if people were willing to read this book and change their lives to make society better, society would never have gotten worse in the first place. American society is cancerous, yes, but I fail to see any way out.
Kabuki: Circle of Blood - David Mack
Graphic novel set in a dystopian Japanese future; ostensibly about a Japanese female assassin who's after the man who raped her mother, killed her mother, brutalised her as a child and etc. But it's actually about the power of memory and the past; it's about ghosts and coming to terms with the pain of the past. Mack's artwork is beyond stunning; images float and meld and mold into each other. It's extremely violent and pretty graphic sexually, but the title character is maybe the most fully rounded and psychologically complex female character in the history of graphic novels. Five stars.
The Clouds - Aristophanes
Aristophanes spoofs Socrates and its hilarious for about a third of its length; after that, it just loses focus. Having read the life of Aristophanes and Socrates thoughts on him in the Symposium, I found it interesting to get his thoughts on Socrates, but that didn't sustain interest.
Medea - Euripides
The ugly aftermath of Jason and the Argonauts; the heroic Jason, having achieved the Golden Fleece, screws over the woman who saved his life and leaves her and her children for another woman. Bitter little tragedy; a sucker punch to the face.
Lysistrata - Aristophanes
Hell of a lot better than The Clouds; in order to end the war between the Greeks and the Spartans, the title character leads a rebellion of the women. Nobody gets sex until the war is over. This leads to a tremendous array of erection jokes; funniest Greek thing I've ever read. Had me rolling on the floor; can be seen as either a spoof of women or as a work of proto-feminism. Aristophanes probably meant the former, but that doesn't mean the latter isn't there.
Inferno - Dante
As mindtripping as advertised; screwed me right up. A mind blowing beyond belief.
Gawain & the Green Knight - Anonymous
Surprisingly modern poem of King Arthur's time; Gawain's quest is one of sacrifice and not of valour. And the closing twist seems straight out of Hitchcock and it ends with Gawain having failed utterly in his quest and left to go home with nothing but disdain for the hidden frailties of human nature. It seems very different from the courtly refrains of other poems of this period. It still reads as shocking and must have been beyond that at the time.
You know, there are others, but I grow weary. 
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