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Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
The Illearth War
Creole Belle by James Lee Burke (upon it's release)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Probably something by Harlan Coben
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I read Of Human Bondage when I was 18. Thought it was a bit depressing.

I ran out of books but my Richard III quarterly and annual journal arrived this morning so they will keep me going for a week or two. Must order SD's mirror books. Son says he can't find his - don't think he's bothered to look!
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Iolanthe wrote:I read Of Human Bondage when I was 18. Thought it was a bit depressing.
Sounds like it's right up my alley 8)
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Iolanthe wrote:Must order SD's mirror books.
I think you'll like them. :D

Cortez, read TIW first. :lol:

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Avatar wrote:
Iolanthe wrote:Must order SD's mirror books.
I think you'll like them. :D

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I read them years ago as my son had them, and I enjoyed them then :D
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There are a handful of "Christian books that scare me" on my "must read someday" queue... getting closer.
"The Enemy Within"
"Bold Love"
"Life Together" by Dietrich Bonhoffer

In other categories, I'm soon starting:
"Guns, Germs and Steel"
"The Little Prince"

I'm pretty historically-illiterate, and "Guns, Germs, and Steel" sounds like a good place for me to start.
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Linna, I recommend G,G&S highly! I enjoyed it, a few years later my daughter had to read it for school and she was like, "You read that for fun? What is wrong with you!!" :P But I thought it was very cool and eye-opening.

Just started Sailing to Sarantium so book 2, Lord of Emperors, is probably next. I have a couple of spy/legal drama type things in my Kindle but I may put those off and jump into re-reading the Chronicles from the beginning, in anticipation of TLD coming out next year!!! :banana:
cortezthekiller wrote:One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Excellent. I read it as a teen and can still remember it vividly. (I was a teen a really, really long time ago.)
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deer of the dawn wrote:Linna, I recommend G,G&S highly! I enjoyed it, a few years later my daughter had to read it for school and she was like, "You read that for fun? What is wrong with you!!" :P
Hahah... my husband and I have an adjective that we use to describe potential objections to me reading a book - "hurty."
(We definitely apply that adjective to the Chrons.)

I think when someone's already seen/experienced certain things, reading about "how bad things are in the world" is not necessarily less painful,
but... somehow easier to deal with because it's less surprising?

Speaking of "hurty" fiction, I really think need to read some Flannery O'Connor one of these days.
Anyone want to give suggestions for where to start?
(esp. something short)

And you guys mentioned Solzhenitsyn... I was wanting to quote him on the Watch last year, and my hubby saw me posting, and realized I didn't know who he was and insisted I do something about this ignorance! :oops:
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Morgoth
Pretty much the only name I know from the Silmarillion. Hell I don't even know what a Silmarillion is, and I'm probably spelling it wrong too!
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Holsety wrote:
Morgoth
Pretty much the only name I know from the Silmarillion. Hell I don't even know what a Silmarillion is, and I'm probably spelling it wrong too!
Me neither. Although, Silmarillion rhymes with Silver Rings.
The three Elven Rings before they went into hidding maybe?

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One Christmas present sorted. Very good review in the BBC History Magazine (which a friend lends me when she's finished with it) - The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris. And it goes up to Edward I - a bonus.
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I actually have a queue for a change!

The Neutronium Alchemist
The Naked God
The Judging Eye
White Luck Warrior
Death of Kings
Azincourt
Memoirs of Cleopatra
The Regulators
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles


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Oh please. You'll blow through that in three days. :lol:
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aliantha wrote:Oh please. You'll blow through that in three days. :lol:
Heh, yea, I was gonna ask what he was gonna do with the rest of the week. :lol:
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Hahaha, nah, most of them are pretty thick...figure this covers me for a month. :D

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Krazy Kat wrote: Me neither. Although, Silmarillion rhymes with Silver Rings.
The three Elven Rings before they went into hidding maybe?
Nah, the rings weren't made yet. Sauron was just a lackey of Morgoth.

The Silmarils are gem thingies. Can't remember where they came from.

I'm not a huge Tolkien fan...don't like his writing style and the first 200 pages of LotR is just brutal.
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All right! Here's my queue for Agosto Espanol!

To finish:
Complete Fictions: Jorge Luis Borges
Don Quijote: Miguel Cervantes

To read:
The War of the End of the World: Mario Vargas Llosa
Conversations in the Cathedral: Mario Vargas Llosa
Cien Anos de Soledad: Gabriel Garcia Marques
Doce Cuentos Pelegrinos: Gabriel Garcia Marques

Perhaps some Ruben Dario in there as well...
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Orlion wrote:Don Quijote: Miguel Cervantes
The only way I know Don Quijote, thanks to my mom's copy of the original Broadway cast album...
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You absolutely have to have D Quijote. And also, within the same absolute, anything by Arturo Perez-Reverte.
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