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PadmeA_Panties
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4/20 7:10pm
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Add: Armageddon in Retrospect, posthumously by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. now as well. Just picked that up today.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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4/21 1:00am
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I'm reading Stephen Sondheim, A Life.
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DeJade_Vu
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4/21 6:02am
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes and Oliver Twist, as part of my mental preparation for my trip to London on Wed.   
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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4/22 11:56am
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Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798) - William Wordsworth
Better than most Wordsworth, I give it that and very easily.
Dejection: An Ode - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not up to par.
England in 1819 (1819) - Percy Shelley
Short and angry. Better than most Shelley I've read.
Ode to the West Wind (1819) - Percy Shelley
Typical Shelley; five stanzas about the wind and if you think that's hard, think again, it all seems to come very naturally.
Bright Star - John Keats
Unpretentious; solid enough reading, instantly leaves the brain.
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Zaz
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4/22 10:14pm
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I miss the poetry thread... 
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Zaz
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4/25 6:51am
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Biography of Rudyard Kipling.
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PadmeA_Panties
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4/28 4:56am
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Finished Good Omens Sunday, continuing with Vonnegut's post-humous: Armageddon in Retrospect.
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King_of_Red_Lions
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5/3 10:37am
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - translated by Tobias Smollett
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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To Autumn (1819) - John Keats
Lightweight.
The Queen of Spades (1833) - Alexander Pushkin
Avoids the most common negative of Russian literature, longwindedness. Brief little short story that is nasty and as satirical as they come. The ending is pitch perfect, Alfred Hitchcock Presents before television had ever been invented. Great short story; highly recommended and can be read in one sitting, if you've got half an hour . . . and who doesn't?
The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church (1845) - Robert Browning
Like My Last Duchess, this is a sort of dramatic monologue in poetic form; this one doesn't flow as well as My Last Duchess and I frankly missed most of the import or would have had there not been footnotes.
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came (1855) - Robert Browning
A nightmarish dreamscape . . . a hero that we don't know arrives at a nightmarish and ugly location to confront an evil that we don't understand, still nursing the wounds from a battle we never get the details of and mourning the loss of friends in the aftermath of an atrocity that we only get the barest glimpse of. It was weird reading this; I'd never thought of Browning as a 'modern' poet before, but this was definitely a precursor, with more information withheld that given and no resolution whatsoever. It has a mood of profound evil lurking just around the corner and of incredible corruption and loss somewhere in the recent past of its 'hero,' and even that word isn't the right one. This may not be an anti-hero, not yet, but it's damn close. My God . . . nothing else I've read by Browning has even come close to this; astounding, disturbing, terrifying . . . poetry at its bleakest.
Easter 1916 - William Butler Yeats
Political and historical; a musing on a political rebellion in Ireland that was put down on Easter Sunday, 1916. Unless you know the context, this one passes without any note being taken of it. If you know what he's talking about, it's bitter and ugly and angry.
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PadmeA_Panties
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Currently reading Alan Alda's memoir: 'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed'.
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Darth McClain
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I've been reading N.J. Dawood's translation of Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. They've been pretty entertaining and provide an interesting perspective on the "medieval" (to use contemporary Western terms) Islamic era. Looking back on the "good old days" and glorifying and criticizing them at the same time can be a very good read.
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RebelScum77
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Just picked up Cahill's "Mysteries of the Middle Ages".
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Sith_Lord_Linkoping
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The BTK Murders by author Carlton Smith
Interesting so far.
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DAR
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5/6 8:20pm
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Just picked up The Chris Farley show after that maybe Identity Crisis again.
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Soothsayer
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Has anyone read The Crystal Skull by Manda Scott?
This stood out to me at the book store given the title and the new Indiana Jones movie. It sounds like it might be a fun adventure read.
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