I may have to check this out although it may be to "real" for me. This kind of information just...well makes me sad.Originally Posted by pablo
Such an amazing book, about such a horrible event. Reads like a novel, with great level of detail. You can't help but think this is made up, but none of it is.
Maybe I can finally get out of my reading slump since I just bought another 240ish books.
good!
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Definitely do check it out. This type of book would make anyone sad, naturally, but it's an important book, and it's also a well-written and very informative book.I may have to check this out although it may be to "real" for me. This kind of information just...well makes me sad.
Such an amazing book, about such a horrible event. Reads like a novel, with great level of detail. You can't help but think this is made up, but none of it is.
The Architecture of Fear - anthology
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Bad Omens
With the passing of Gore Vidal, I'd like to read some of his work, but I'm not sure where to begin. Any ideas?
Reading this because I think my novel will have similar elements. I find it ironic I was suppose to read this freshman year of HS
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you will never change the outcome" -Michael Jordan
so do bears
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just looked that up (never heard of it). SOLD.
The Beatles: Biography, Revolution in the Head, You never give me your money. My Beatles 'Trilogy'
Also read a couple of biographies and I think I will read 'Seven years to save the Planet' by Bill Mcguire next.
Then...
... who knows, I might have to read Pet Semetary like I promised a certain bear!
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they did.
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You sound like meMaybe I can finally get out of my reading slump since I just bought another 240ish books.Only problem is my reading slump continues and my too read pile grows...
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Never heard of it??
More than a third of the way through my initial reread.
Just started this, my eyes really do not appreciate the jammed-together text but I'll trudge through.
Brice, it definitely is an awesome book.
Feev, you really haven't heard of this book* before? I highly recommend it.
*This book meaning And Then There Were None
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"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you will never change the outcome" -Michael Jordan
Anyone heard of this? Picked up a copy based on:
The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanity’s music ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven a vast intergalactic society to commit the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang. The resulting fines and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe. We humans suddenly own everything—and the aliens are not amused.
Thought I'd give it a try since I do some copyright work and can't think of it ever being the topic of a novel, much less sci fi.
The Scarlet Letter is such a great book. Hawthorne has such great use of language, he's rather quite a poet in his means of getting his story across. He's not easy to read as he's rather more focused on painting an emotional picture to you than moving the story along. He illustrates his characters well and he draws you into their struggles by giving visual means to their distress. I love the character of Pearl, she a very bewitching character; smarter and wiser than her years allow, seeming born of sin and is often desribed as elfish or fairy like. For a two hundred page book it's a long read, due to the thick use of language but it's a rewarding one.
Now I'm about seventy pages into Farenheit 451 which is been simply fantastic so far. Looking forward to finishing it tomorrow.
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I love Hawthorne. When I was in high school I hated him because most of the interesting stuff about him, including stuff like him having a lot of guilt about his family being involved in the Salem Witch Trials and his sort of questioning the nature of religion and such in his works a lot as a result, were left completely out of the conversation because I live in the bible belt and people get cranky about that stuff(the same goes for Emily Dickinson and her very likely bisexuality and dislike of the nature of religion of her time). I knew next to nothing about Hawthorne and hated his work as a result. Once I went to college and learned a lot of the historical context to place him in and what he was actually addressing with his writing, I fell in love with his work.
The Blithedale Romance is another work I would recommend. It is very interesting when read in context of the sort of utopian communal living situation that he and a bunch of Transcendentalists of the time tried to build and failed called Brook Farm.
The short stories ""Young Goodman Brown," "The Minister's Black Veil,"Rappaccini's Daughter,and "Wakefield" are some of my other favorite works of his.
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
Ummm....isn't that Good Omens?
You are in for a treat, sir.
The Beatles=best band everThe Beatles: Biography, Revolution in the Head, You never give me your money. My Beatles 'Trilogy'
Also read a couple of biographies and I think I will read 'Seven years to save the Planet' by Bill Mcguire next.
Then...
... who knows, I might have to read Pet Semetary like I promised a certain bear!
I figured I couldn't lose getting 240 books for less than $1 each AFTER shipping costs.You sound like meMaybe I can finally get out of my reading slump since I just bought another 240ish books.My to read pile grows any more after this and I'll have to move out the bed and sleep on books. LOL
That's another great one and amongst my all time favorites.
Just started this, my eyes really do not appreciate the jammed-together text but I'll trudge through.
Brice, it definitely is an awesome book.
Feev, you really haven't heard of this book* before? I highly recommend it.
*This book meaning And Then There Were None
Oh, that's an all time favorite too. *hugs his signed copy*
I also love Hawthorne, especially his short stories. Pick up Twice Told Tales to start.
Yep, Good Omens. Brain-freeze.
I think all those short stories are in the paperback I picked up a few weeks back, containing his great short works, two of them for sure are in there; it contained The Scarlet Letter which is why I bought it then found a nice hardcover of The Scarlet Letter I had to pick it up. I bought a copy of The Marble Faun by Hawthorne as well, so if you have read it I'd like to know if it is worth bumping up my list.I love Hawthorne. When I was in high school I hated him because most of the interesting stuff about him, including stuff like him having a lot of guilt about his family being involved in the Salem Witch Trials and his sort of questioning the nature of religion and such in his works a lot as a result, were left completely out of the conversation because I live in the bible belt and people get cranky about that stuff(the same goes for Emily Dickinson and her very likely bisexuality and dislike of the nature of religion of her time). I knew next to nothing about Hawthorne and hated his work as a result. Once I went to college and learned a lot of the historical context to place him in and what he was actually addressing with his writing, I fell in love with his work.
The Blithedale Romance is another work I would recommend. It is very interesting when read in context of the sort of utopian communal living situation that he and a bunch of Transcendentalists of the time tried to build and failed called Brook Farm.
The short stories ""Young Goodman Brown," "The Minister's Black Veil,"Rappaccini's Daughter,and "Wakefield" are some of my other favorite works of his.
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It's kind of hard for me to judge. I started reading it when I was in a reading slump and never quite got back to it.
I'm currently on Song of Susannah on my re-read and I'm shocked by how much I'm enjoying it this go around. In the past, I pretty much hated it.
I am Daenerys Stormborn and I will take what is mine. With fire and blood.
70 pages into Jane Eyre and loving it. Imagine I'll be over halfway through by the time I get home in a few days.
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