Cheezy the Wiz
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Oh, I forgot.
I'm reading "Letters From a Stoic" by Seneca.
I'm reading "Letters From a Stoic" by Seneca.
What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8
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Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett.
Abaddon
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I am enjoying tom Holt's books a lot at the moment.. he is my new Terry Pratchett!
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Okay, NOW I'm ready to stop buying books for quite awhile.
Or not. I went to the Farmer's Market today, and noticed that the book sale was on its last day and thus were selling a bag of books for $3. You get a big paper grocery bag, and fill it with whatever you want for $3 total.
So I got:
Life in Shakespeare's England
The Elder Statesman by TS Eliot
The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
Faulkner's Career: An Internal Literary History
Understanding Fiction
Reappraisals of Fascism
The Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction
Adventures of a Mathematician by S.M. Ulam
The Arrow of Gold by Conrad
Under Western Eyes by Conrad
Romance by Conrad
Johnson on Johnson
An Anthology of Political Philosophy
I also got what I thought was Dickens' Great Expectations, but taking it home, I realize now that its A "novelization" of a movie that is itself loosely based off Great Expectations the Dickens book. Since it promises to be the worst sort of garbage book, I'm just gonna throw it away now.
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Finished. Very good, as expected.
A passage:
"The syllogism he had learnt from Kiezewetter's Logic: 'Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal,' had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius--man in the abstract--was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite separate from all others. He had been little Vanya, with a mamma and a papa, with Mitya and Volodya, with the toys, a coachman and a nurse, afterwards with Katenka and with all the joys, griefs, and delights of childhood, boyhood, and youth. What did Caius know of the smell of that striped leather ball Vanya had been so fond of? Had Caius kissed his mother's hand like that, and did the silk of her dress rustle so for Caius? Had he rioted like that at school when the pastry was bad? Had Caius been in love like that? Could Caius preside at a session as he did? 'Caius really was mortal, and it was right for him to die; but for me, little Vanya, Ivan Ilych, with all my thoughts and emotions, it's altogether a different matter. It cannot be that I ought to die. That would be too terrible.'"
Mr. Keith
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Just finished Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz.
On to All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
On to All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
Bozo Erectus
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The Terror by Dan Simmons
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Resuming Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter Thompson after a brief hiatus.
Gogf
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I just got The Science of Fear by Daniel Gardner and a collection of short stories by H. P. Lovecraft. I'm really enjoying the Lovecraft book, and the Gardner book is also good, though I'm not far enough into that one to really form an opinion yet.
I looked for Fooled by Randomness but I couldn't find it at my local Barnes and Noble.
I looked for Fooled by Randomness but I couldn't find it at my local Barnes and Noble.
Julian Delphiki
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Just about to start reading Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones.
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Ok, Hunter Thompson is going on hiatus again. Its not that it isn't a good book--it really is--its just that the presidential race right now is making me quite sick of hearing about politics, enough that when I read I want a break from it all.
So I'm gonna read Don Quixote!
So I'm gonna read Don Quixote!
I know what you mean. I didn't actually finish all of Gonzo Papers Vol 2. because almost every article is about the Reagan administration, or the '88 race. Vol 1, which I read a few weeks before, focused mainly on his life as a writer (chasing down freelance jobs, fighting with editors, etc), and other topics outside of presidential politics. I love this stuff, but when I deal with it all day at work, and then bat it around a little bit here...I can get burned out too.
I just started Norman Mailer's American Dream but I'm not sure if I'm going to finish it. I'll have to hit up the library cataloge later and try and pick out another book....
I'm currently reading two books. The Sookie Stackhouse series by author Charlaine Harris (recently made into a HBO show titled True Blood). The other book I'm reading is The Art of War (The Denma Translation) by Sun Tzu.
When Life Nearly Died, about the Permian-Triassic extinction.
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Just finished Good Omens (btw the best book I have read this year), and on a whim bought The Rise and fall of the Great Powersby Paul Kennedy but haven't started reading it yet.
Gorrable
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Good Omens is great.
Reading The Great War for Civilisation - the Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk. Dipping into The Corrections by Jonathan Franson when that gets too heavy.
Reading The Great War for Civilisation - the Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk. Dipping into The Corrections by Jonathan Franson when that gets too heavy.
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