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I just finished the Da Vinci Code, a very entertaining book. However, I liked Angels and Demons more.
I'll start another book (probably another Dan Brown novell) after I move into my new house this weekend.
I'll start another book (probably another Dan Brown novell) after I move into my new house this weekend.
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buckeyegrad
Don't Immanentize the Eschaton
Yes, for the last year or so I have been into reading the "classics" and since it has been about 12 years since I last read Homer's Odyssey I figured it would be good to approach it again.ashlandbuck said:
Kinch,
I guess I said "light" since I am only reading two books instead of the 3-4 I usually have going, I've read one of these books before, and the history book is more of a road map to Medieval Europe than any in-depth analysis of the period.
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kinch
Wash me
Buckeyegrad:
I figured that's what you meant but it looked funny to me. :)
Clarity mentioned recently that he was reading Ulysses and other books (this might be classics in a different sense the Odyssey and others).
That is one of those things I always say I am going to do but never do. I think a lot of people, like me, plan on reading great works, sometimes very difficult and/or non-exciting ones, but never do. Cheers on doing it. . .
I figured that's what you meant but it looked funny to me. :)
Clarity mentioned recently that he was reading Ulysses and other books (this might be classics in a different sense the Odyssey and others).
That is one of those things I always say I am going to do but never do. I think a lot of people, like me, plan on reading great works, sometimes very difficult and/or non-exciting ones, but never do. Cheers on doing it. . .
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ashlandbuck
Banned
I was going to read Homer's Odyssey but once I heard the movie was coming out I just decided to wait for it.
"Oh brother where art thou" did a fine job of representing Homer's classic, don't ya think?
"Oh brother where art thou" did a fine job of representing Homer's classic, don't ya think?
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Everything by A.M. Homes, The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, Empire Falls by Richard Russo, The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd, and Bleachers by John Grisham.
Plus I still have Cows by Matthew Stokoe here, and need to take a fourth attempt at getting into that one.
Plus I still have Cows by Matthew Stokoe here, and need to take a fourth attempt at getting into that one.
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Clarity - I just "discovered" Richard Russo earlier this year. Loved both Empire Falls and Straight Man. Currently working on The Risk Pool.
I am also doing some 'pre-election' reading with "Plan of Attack" (following up "Bush at War" and The "Price of Loyalty" - if there is anything out there on Kerry I would love to know what it is - that chunk of pulp by the Boston Globe is unreadable trash).
Just finished "Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Taliban". Great read to get a sense of what we are up against in the region and one of the more pleasant reads of that kind of material I have seen in some time.
(Being semi-retired I both enjoy and finally have the time for reading.)
I am also doing some 'pre-election' reading with "Plan of Attack" (following up "Bush at War" and The "Price of Loyalty" - if there is anything out there on Kerry I would love to know what it is - that chunk of pulp by the Boston Globe is unreadable trash).
Just finished "Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Taliban". Great read to get a sense of what we are up against in the region and one of the more pleasant reads of that kind of material I have seen in some time.
(Being semi-retired I both enjoy and finally have the time for reading.)
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