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Originally posted by Surfah View PostFirst time? Did you never take an English class in HS or college?"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Finally finished Wolf Hall. Never got into her writing style. I almost gave up half way through, but switched to the audiobook. Am now 10% through Bringing up the Bodies.
In the meantime, I read Wild (http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Found-Pac...65701257&sr=8-) I thought, hey I like books about people doing cool things, sounds good. I hated the author. She was so dumb, she deserved to die (I was kind of hoping...). Synopsis: Young woman has mom die, so she has a very early midlife crisis, cheats on her husband with multiple people, starts doing heroin and then decides to hike the Pacific Crest trail. She is woefully unprepared (never backpacked in her entire life) and doesn't even start at the beginning. :Grrr: Don't tell me that you are hiking the PCT and then freaking start 500+ miles from the beginning.
Also I am almost done with book 1 in the Mistborn series. http://www.amazon.com/Mistborn-The-F...dp_kinw_strp_1 I have not read much fantasy, besides the Game of Thrones series, and the Dark Tower series, but I really like this. Brandon Sanderson has a very bright future ahead of him.
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Originally posted by MarkGrace View PostYep, first time."Nobody listens to Turtle."-Turtlesigpic
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Originally posted by Surfah View PostWow. That surprises me. Those are required reading. As a kid I liked that show Beauty and the Beast that had Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman in it. Vincent, the beast, would read Great Expectations and I thought that must be the greatest book ever if this lion-man-beast would read it aloud. So I picked up a copy and read it and thought this book sucks. I read it again later in HS as it was required reading and my opinion was unchanged. Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow couldn't make it any better either.
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Originally posted by Surfah View PostWow. That surprises me. Those are required reading. As a kid I liked that show Beauty and the Beast that had Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman in it. Vincent, the beast, would read Great Expectations and I thought that must be the greatest book ever if this lion-man-beast would read it aloud. So I picked up a copy and read it and thought this book sucks. I read it again later in HS as it was required reading and my opinion was unchanged. Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow couldn't make it any better either.
I honestly don't think I could tell you what the required books were in HS. I was actually thinking about this earlier, and the only one I could come up with was The Old Man and The Sea. But I had no interest in reading anything beyond baseball boxscores at that point, and I especially wasn't going to do assigned reading for class. In college I only took writing classes, not literature. It really wasn't until law school that I started to enjoy reading for fun, but even at that point I didn't do much of it because I always had texts to read. So the last few years I've been trying to catch up on some of those classics.Last edited by MarkGrace; 04-11-2013, 02:34 PM.So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.
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Originally posted by Eddie View PostI started Dorian Gray once. I just couldn't get into it. Don't know why - I was able to finish Pride and Prejudice.So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.
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Killing Lincoln. No opinion about the book yet but the author makes my skin crawl."Either evolution or intelligent design can account for the athlete, but neither can account for the sports fan." - Robert Brault
"Once I seen the trades go down and the other guys signed elsewhere," he said, "I knew it was my time now." - Derrick Favors
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Originally posted by MarkGrace View PostSo I'm the only one here that didn't do the required reading?
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I really enjoy reading - even back then. I just figured if it was something the teacher wanted me to read, it couldn't actually be good - could it?
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Originally posted by Blueintheface View PostKilling Lincoln. No opinion about the book yet but the author makes my skin crawl.
I listened to a fascinating interview on NPR by a professional ghost writer. These celebrities almost never write their own books and in most cases there is no reference to the ghost writer anywhere in the publication. He said most of them are narcissistic a-holes (surprise!)."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostYou mean the guy listed on the cover as the author? I assume you aren't talking about the ghost writer he hired to write it.
I listened to a fascinating interview on NPR by a professional ghost writer. These celebrities almost never write their own books and in most cases there is no reference to the ghost writer anywhere in the publication. He said most of them are narcissistic a-holes (surprise!)."Either evolution or intelligent design can account for the athlete, but neither can account for the sports fan." - Robert Brault
"Once I seen the trades go down and the other guys signed elsewhere," he said, "I knew it was my time now." - Derrick Favors
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Originally posted by happyone View PostI really don't want to start a new thread for this, but I found this article on Lew Wallace, the author of Ben Hur and Civil War general. The author talks about the motivations behind the book and its popularity - at one point it was the most popular novel in the US. More than 83% of all libraries had a copy.
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/h..._the_best.html
companion article about some artifacts, including some of his drawings
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/h...ketch_and.html"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by BigPiney View PostFinally finished Wolf Hall. Never got into her writing style. I almost gave up half way through, but switched to the audiobook. Am now 10% through Bringing up the Bodies.Last edited by SeattleUte; 04-28-2013, 08:40 PM.When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
--Jonathan Swift
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