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Okay - thanks.I'm Murrin wrote:Linah - Titus Groan is the first book of the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake.
I thought it might still be a continuation of that Gormenghast discussion from earlier.
"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."
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"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
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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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Close. It's by Margaret Atwood. That one's pretty good. It's more or less the middle book of a trilogy, even though it was published first. The Year of the Flood was published second, but its events happen earlier, and I think I liked it better. Haven't gotten around to reading the third book, MaddAddam, even though Amazon tells me I bought it. Maybe I'd better get on that....Avatar wrote:Oh, I'm now reading Oryx & Crake by Margaret Ashwood.
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I'm reading a WFC freebie: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater. It's YA contemporary fantasy, and apparently the first in a series. I'm a little over halfway through and am ambivalent. I nearly put it aside at about the 100-page mark because the author was still introducing new characters and nothing had really happened yet. I'm reserving final judgment 'til I see how she wraps things up. If it's a cliffhanger ending, I'm going to be severely annoyed...
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Oh... Margaret Atwood.aliantha wrote:Close. It's by Margaret Atwood. That one's pretty good. It's more or less the middle book of a trilogy, even though it was published first. The Year of the Flood was published second...
I cringed so many times when reading (some of) "The Handmaid's Tale."
Also, I think I vehemently told my book club that I didn't finish it...
(Pretty sure that makes me complicit in the slow decline in which all the people who didn't finish the book each month talked about how they didn't finish the book.
It eventually became difficult for some of us to even admit to reading the whole book in a given book.)
"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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Linah Heartlistener wrote:Oh... Margaret Atwood.aliantha wrote:Close. It's by Margaret Atwood. That one's pretty good. It's more or less the middle book of a trilogy, even though it was published first. The Year of the Flood was published second...
I cringed so many times when reading (some of) "The Handmaid's Tale."
Really? that is a book that is so good even a shitty movie of it is still ok. [other atwood is highly debatable]
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Loved that trilogy.aliantha wrote:Close. It's by Margaret Atwood. That one's pretty good. It's more or less the middle book of a trilogy, even though it was published first. The Year of the Flood was published second, but its events happen earlier, and I think I liked it better. Haven't gotten around to reading the third book, MaddAddam, even though Amazon tells me I bought it. Maybe I'd better get on that....Avatar wrote:Oh, I'm now reading Oryx & Crake by Margaret Ashwood.
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I don't love all of her books. But The Handmaid's Tale is a classic. I have friends my age who are adamant that it ought to be required reading for every young woman today. What made you put it down, Linah?Vraith wrote:Linah Heartlistener wrote:Oh... Margaret Atwood.aliantha wrote:Close. It's by Margaret Atwood. That one's pretty good. It's more or less the middle book of a trilogy, even though it was published first. The Year of the Flood was published second...
I cringed so many times when reading (some of) "The Handmaid's Tale."
Really? that is a book that is so good even a shitty movie of it is still ok. [other atwood is highly debatable]
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Hahaha, dunno how I typed that instead. Anyway, I'm enjoying it. More than The Handmaids Tale, although I quite liked that too. And more than I expected when I started.Linah Heartlistener wrote:Oh... Margaret Atwood.aliantha wrote:Close. It's by Margaret Atwood. That one's pretty good. It's more or less the middle book of a trilogy, even though it was published first. The Year of the Flood was published second...
I cringed so many times when reading (some of) "The Handmaid's Tale."
I know about the other books, the person I borrowed it from has them all luckily.
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I intend to get around to the MaddAddam books eventually. I have one of her others, The Blind Assassin, on my pile right now.
Next book I'll be reading is probably The Girl With All the Gifts by M R Carey. Hard to work out what I want/need to read for award consideration, though I know I need to get ahold of The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison.
Next book I'll be reading is probably The Girl With All the Gifts by M R Carey. Hard to work out what I want/need to read for award consideration, though I know I need to get ahold of The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison.
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I enjoyed The Blind Assassin a lot more the second time I read it. Not sure why. There is a lot going on.
I think I was about 12 the first time I read The Handmaid's Tale. There's a quote I refer to fairly often: "Ordinary is what you are used to."
I think I was about 12 the first time I read The Handmaid's Tale. There's a quote I refer to fairly often: "Ordinary is what you are used to."
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I'm thinking there are many kinds of pain and many dark things in the way the world's systems are set up...aliantha wrote:I don't love all of her books. But The Handmaid's Tale is a classic. I have friends my age who are adamant that it ought to be required reading for every young woman today. What made you put it down, Linah?Vraith wrote:Linah Heartlistener wrote:Oh... Margaret Atwood.
I cringed so many times when reading (some of) "The Handmaid's Tale."
Really? that is a book that is so good even a shitty movie of it is still ok. [other atwood is highly debatable]
But somehow, the evil and the abuse of authority and the apparent helplessness of the women in that story.. just horrified me.
(Maybe that's exactly where I was "supposed" to be.)
I was like, "The situation these women are in is so completely unacceptable... *turns page* ...wait, what? It's even worse than I'd imagined?!"
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Reading Perdido Street Station. It is so wonderfully weird and grotesque! I like it!
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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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I am a huge fan of both the Hitchhiker's books and the Dirk Gently Books. He walks that line between absurd and "yeah, that kinda makes sense" like no other author I've ever heard of.Linah Heartlistener wrote:That title amuses me... yup, y yup, pretty Douglas Adams.Wildling wrote:The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams