I read a Charlotte M. Yonge book - " 'Abbeychurch' or 'Self-Control and Self-Conceit.' "
Reading the play "Death of a Salesman" for the first time now.
What are you reading in general?
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Linna Heartbooger
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"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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So...I finished the Rome books.
The GF has been watching a series based on Gerald Durrell's autobiographical books of his childhood.
So that made me nostalgic for the books. When I went to dig them out from where they were supposed to be however, they weren't there.
Every other Durrell book I own was there, including almost everything by Laurence Durrell, (his brother), but not those three Corfu books.
Now, I know I have them, so the only other possible place is in storage. But that's not very accessible to me for various reasons. So I've just ordered them.
I think this is the first time I've deliberately bought a book I know I already own.
While I wait for them to be delivered, I'm reading Wolf of the Plains, the first of Conn Iggulden's books about the dynasty of Genghis Kahn.
--A
The GF has been watching a series based on Gerald Durrell's autobiographical books of his childhood.
So that made me nostalgic for the books. When I went to dig them out from where they were supposed to be however, they weren't there.
Every other Durrell book I own was there, including almost everything by Laurence Durrell, (his brother), but not those three Corfu books.
Now, I know I have them, so the only other possible place is in storage. But that's not very accessible to me for various reasons. So I've just ordered them.
I think this is the first time I've deliberately bought a book I know I already own.
While I wait for them to be delivered, I'm reading Wolf of the Plains, the first of Conn Iggulden's books about the dynasty of Genghis Kahn.
--A
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"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," by Dostoyevsky: a short story that the Chrons parallel remarkably, in terms of concept.
(Also, "Linna's first Dostoyevsky-reading.")
(Also, "Linna's first Dostoyevsky-reading.")
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
well right before the syfy series premiered I was told I should read The Expanse books before watching the series so I did and I loved them!
AND the series on syfy is really good too so I'm enjoying that and waiting for that next book to come out.
I just received the next book in erikson's kharkanas trilogy (fall of light) but have not started it yet because after reading the expanse I was still in the mood for some space opera or other decent sci fi and some one suggested that if I liked the expanse I might like Richard k morgan's book Altered Carbon. and I read that and loved it so I'm now on the third book in that series (which is reportedly the last book of that series but I can't believe he'd just abandon such a great character so I'm hoping he'll get a second wind on takeshi kovacs!!)
anyways, for you sci fi peeps, I'd recommend both The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (which is really two guys, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) and the Richard K Morgan books Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies.
AND the series on syfy is really good too so I'm enjoying that and waiting for that next book to come out.
I just received the next book in erikson's kharkanas trilogy (fall of light) but have not started it yet because after reading the expanse I was still in the mood for some space opera or other decent sci fi and some one suggested that if I liked the expanse I might like Richard k morgan's book Altered Carbon. and I read that and loved it so I'm now on the third book in that series (which is reportedly the last book of that series but I can't believe he'd just abandon such a great character so I'm hoping he'll get a second wind on takeshi kovacs!!)
anyways, for you sci fi peeps, I'd recommend both The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (which is really two guys, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) and the Richard K Morgan books Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense establish the bulk of the conceptual framework at play in Anti-Oedipus. If one absorbs D&R (which is probably the most difficult book that I've ever read) and TLoS, then A-O reads fairly easily (or at least, it's reading fairly easily so far).
Yeah, it's challenging material.ussusimiel wrote:That's some fairly heavy-duty reading there, Wos. I read some of their stuff a number of years ago and it almost fried my brain.
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Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense establish the bulk of the conceptual framework at play in Anti-Oedipus. If one absorbs D&R (which is probably the most difficult book that I've ever read) and TLoS, then A-O reads fairly easily (or at least, it's reading fairly easily so far).
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Where Alph, the sacred river, ranAvatar wrote:Conqueror, last of the series. This one covers Kublai Khan, whom as we know, did in Xanadu a stately pleasure dome decree.
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Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea...
One of my favorite poems ever.
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