What are you reading in general?

[aliantha]

Yes. Yes, it was.

I finished the book about ol' Drac -- it was quite entertaining. Now I'm reading Ute Tales and Ute Indian Arts & Culture. The second book is too big to fit in my backpack. I'm mining them both for details to put in the series.

[sgt.null]

I am about half way through, but it has been excellent so far. in fact i will to buy it at half price. I love his use of language, very pop art.

so far he has done a history of comic books, from the start of Superman and Batman up to the 60's. I already loved his comic writing and now i can see where the roots of that came from. and he has some brilliant insight. would love to sit in a room with him and discuss Ditko at length.

[Linna Heartbooger]

I just used to phone my grandmother for a translation. (She spoke a lot of languages.)

Now that is just cool.

Was she able to help you with Latin?

[Phantasm]

Just finished this

www.amazon.co.uk/Ghosts-of-Barlinnie-eb ... 624&sr=8-6

It was available for free download at the weekend just past.

Bit of a busmans holiday for me, as it's about the place I work in.
Interesting to know that there are at least 10 bodies buried in the grounds somewhere.

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I just used to phone my grandmother for a translation. (She spoke a lot of languages.)

Now that is just cool.

Was she able to help you with Latin?

Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, and a few others. When she died, (at 85), she was busy learning Russian, and composing music to set to poetry.

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[sgt.null]

[Linna Heartbooger]

Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, and a few others. When she died, (at 85), she was busy learning Russian, and composing music to set to poetry.

wow, that is so cool.

[lorin]

Caves of Steel by Asimov. A reread from my teen years. Not the great literary accomplishment I loved but interesting to read with an older eye. Funny how, as you get older you see innocence of an early author.

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I still love those.

--A

[Krazy Kat]

The Essential Freud: Introductory Essays - edited by Anna Freud

I've never been all that interested in this subject matter until recently, having now discovered an interest in transpersonal psychology. I thought I was going to need a bulky dictionary and a beginners guide to Freud. I was totally astounded how enjoyable and easy these essays read.

Simply put, Freud is just a big teddy-bear. Great stuff!

(and his dreamworks on dream interpretation are really really really fascinating)

How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker. The author says he has striven to keep this book from being another "popular science" book, as it's mainly a theory and would no doubt have met criticism from the upper echeolons of the psychiatry and scientist world.

For later's:

I bought today an omnibus edition of The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Harper voyager publications. Oddly, forty pages are pink. Twenty pink pages through Tull's Tale and the other twenty pink pages through Runnik's Tale.

Also purchased Blood and Thunder - by Hampton Sides

[Orlion]

Pink, huh? Must've been running out of paper

Currently reading Gates of Fire instead of The Pickwick Papers.

[deer of the dawn]

A while back I posted about House of Sand and Fog. I found the ending kind of, meh. I saw the movie last night and liked the ending much better. I loved the line, "Nah. It's not my house."

Halfway through a book I'm not sure I like but feel obligated to finish: Deadline by Randy Alcorn. His nonfic books have been excellent, and this is well written, I just feel no connection with the main character.

[Iolanthe]

Someone today lent me "Death Comes to Pemberley" by P. D. James. She apparently has a life long passion for Jane Austin and it will be interesting to see how Darcy and Elizabeth fare in a dective novel!

[deer of the dawn]

Okay, that's just weird, Iolanthe. I just stumbled on a site devoted to Mr Darcy fan fiction. I had no idea. The whole fanfic thing continues to astound me, how many people are out there cranking it out for fun. Most of it is complete crap, of course, but some JRRT fanfic I've read has been remarkably good.

[sgt.null]

[Iolanthe]

Okay, that's just weird, Iolanthe. I just stumbled on a site devoted to Mr Darcy fan fiction. I had no idea. The whole fanfic thing continues to astound me, how many people are out there cranking it out for fun. Most of it is complete crap, of course, but some JRRT fanfic I've read has been remarkably good.

First chapter and a bit, not too bad - written in Austin style. No murders yet!

There is a very good sequel to Pride & Prejudice called "Pemberly Shades" by Dorothy Bonavia-Hunt. There is also another one, I've forgotten what it was called, which was absolutely dreadful. I've also read a book, Old Friends and New Fancies, which is a sort of sequel to several of the Austins - has a mixture of characters from P&P, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, but not, as far as I remember, Sense & Sensibility. It's not bad, but Pemberly Shades is much better.

Don't think I would join a Mr Darcy fan club, but I might think about a Colin Firth fan club, especially wet coming out of that lake

What is "JRRT"?

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Tolkein.

--A

[Iolanthe]

Oh, I see - JRR Tolkein Ought to read him again, haven't done so for a long time.

[Damelon]

I have a friend of mine who is always rummaging around looking for old motorcycle parts. He ran into those two at a show in Iowa. He doesn't think much of the tall guy.

[Linna Heartbooger]

Caves of Steel by Asimov. A reread from my teen years. Not the great literary accomplishment I loved but interesting to read with an older eye. Funny how, as you get older you see innocence of an early author.

Oooh... I just read that and "The Naked Sun" for the first time last year.
I think it's maybe sad, if you find innocence in his writing of "The Naked Sun," too!
(but it really reminds me of what some of our world is moving towards.. *shudder*)