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02-20-2006, 05:17 PM
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I recently finished reading Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which was excellent, and I'm now reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
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02-20-2006, 06:03 PM
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Warton.
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02-20-2006, 06:03 PM
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I am currently reading the following works: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil/ The The city of Falling Angels - John Berendt; The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown; Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden; The Gospel of Judas - Simon Mawer; The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Andrew Sean Greeer; The Locusts Have No King - Dawn Powell; The Club Dumas - Perez-Reverte; Slow Dance On Fault Line - Donald Rawley; The Bay of Love and Sorrows - David Adams Richards; Waxwings - Johnathan Raban; The Colorado Kid - Stephen King.
Yep, I do a lot of reading now that I don't have a television and when I am not writing or working on the internet.
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02-20-2006, 06:07 PM
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SGW. how multitasked are you?? geesh
Im lucky if I can read one book..
that would be "Cell" by Stephen King
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02-20-2006, 06:13 PM
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Well, it comes from years of religious debating and having nothing but non-fiction works surrounding my desk and computer when I am online and providing some good information regarding some type of doctrine, or dispute of doctrinal differences. So, it is a natural thing. I at one time was able to read twenty books (not in one sitting of course).
How I usually do this is that I would devote some time to reading each one. I would start one and then start another, and so on and so on and so on (and then and then and then), lol.
The point is, I like to read. If I had my way, I would be sleeping ontop of my books (which I have done often enough in my previous life - fall asleep surrounded by all kinds of books).
But eh, I am rebuilding my library.
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02-21-2006, 08:36 AM
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I started Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri this morning, the collection of nine short stories that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Based on the first story, A Temporary Matter, I think this is going to be a great collection.
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02-21-2006, 09:28 AM
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Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas.
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02-21-2006, 02:14 PM
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Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas
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02-21-2006, 05:53 PM
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Killer Angels - Michael Shaara. My second read of this book for school purposes. One of my favorites.
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02-24-2006, 10:08 AM
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Freakonomics: A Rouge Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
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02-24-2006, 10:13 AM
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I'm now reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Is that good? What's that about?
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02-24-2006, 10:32 AM
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I am reading Hannibal by Thomas Harris. It's much better than the movie.
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02-25-2006, 01:27 PM
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Revelation, i gotta read Hannibal, don't i?
I'm currently reading Blacklist, by Sara Paretsky, and it's really good.
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02-25-2006, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by beautifulempress
I'm now reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Is that good? What's that about?
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From the inside cover:
The Republic of Gilead allows Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs...
A dystopian future, through the eyes of the main female character, Offred.
Is it good? Well, as with all fiction, good is subjective. The book is highly regarded, so probably yes. But I'm not that excited by it. Ordinarily I would probably have put it down by now without finishing it, especially as I have plenty more stuff to read. However, I determined late last year that I'm weak at analysing fiction, and this is one of several stories that I've set aside for study. I'm reading it alongside the York Notes (student notes) in order to learn about analysing fiction (in conjunction with Jeremy Hawthorn's Studying The Novel), so, even though I don't enjoy the story that greatly I'm going to stick with it and hope to learn from it.
I've also got Huxley's Brave New World, along with the York Notes, so will probably read that next and use that as a comparison. I may also read Orwell's 1984, a story I read and enjoyed many years ago. Through these three dystopian novels and the student notes for two of them I hope to improve my ability to analyse fiction. I have the York Notes for several other novels and will work through these during the year.
Maybe by the end of the exercise I'll appreciate The Handmaid's Tale more. Right now it's dragging a little.
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02-25-2006, 08:28 PM
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Faulkner's Thse Sound and the Fury and
I just picked up D.H. Lawerence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
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