Yes! But I've only seen the movie.Originally Posted by VertOlive
Didn't Price write Clockers? Whites has a very similar feel...
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Yes! But I've only seen the movie.Didn't Price write Clockers? Whites has a very similar feel...
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Per Petterson, I Refuse.
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Fel, Tower of Sorcery
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A.S. Byatt's Possession
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
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Galileo's Middle Finger:
Heretics, and the Search for Justice in Science
By Alice Dreger{aka, "son of a womb turd"
Fred
"Remember, it isn't only the good boys who help win the wars;
it is the sneaks and stinkers as well."
~ Winston Churchill
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The wryly funny Happiness is Possible, by Oleg Zaionchkovsky.
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A history of the middle east, Peter Mansfield. Not a historian so I can't account for accuracy and interpretations, but an accessible read for non historians
Working on Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer. About a journalist on his journey to be a memory champion
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I'm reading Christopher Beha's Arts and Entertainments. Not sure what I think of it yet. Sometimes contemporary novels that try to be funny just strike ma as sad.
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Just finished reading Patrick Suskind's "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" - a dark and twisted, but lovely and luscious read ...
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That was an odd book. I read it back in '84 or so
Online arguments are a lot like the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
As soon as the audience begins to participate, any actual content is lost in the resulting chaos and cacophony.
At that point, all you can do is laugh and enjoy the descent into debasement.
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Perfume was an interesting book and a half decent movie adaptation. Surprising ending
Recently finished Polar Star and Red Square which are follow ups to Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith. Decent wintry crime thrillers.
VertOlive (April 28th, 2015)
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Re-reading The Thin Man. I honestly forgot how much I love Hammett
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It got quite strange toward the end if I remember correctly.
Just re-read:
Pitt the younger by William Hague
The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
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Finished Lila by Marilynne Robinson.
Now reading Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut (a novel about E.M. Forster). Interesting so far.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
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Lila is on my to-read list. I loved Gilead, but haven't found time yet to read Home or Lila.
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That's some good stuff. It's been decades since I read detective fiction.Re-reading The Thin Man. I honestly forgot how much I love Hammett
We'll be finishing MacBeth on Monday. C.S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce" (which I cannot recommend enough) will likely take us until month's end.
Online arguments are a lot like the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
As soon as the audience begins to participate, any actual content is lost in the resulting chaos and cacophony.
At that point, all you can do is laugh and enjoy the descent into debasement.
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Winter World, the Ingenuity of Animal Survival by B. Heinrich. The observations are fascinating, but the language is somehow off.
Can an animal honestly invent its response to sub-zero cold? He seems to attribute the ingenuity in the title to the creatures themselves....
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
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The last book I read would be "The Count of Monte Cristo" for my English class. I simply don't have time to read any books now a days. Sadly I actually only read half of the book.
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Barbara Pym, A Glass of Blessings -- absolutely wonderful.
Arnaldur Indridason, Reykjavik Nights -- deeply enjoyable prequel to the Erlendur series.
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