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Damn. Agreeing with English perfessers? I'm going to have to change my approach. I don't want to be establishment.


I'm a rebel without a clause.

Damn. Agreeing with English perfessers? I'm going to have to change my approach. I don't want to be establishment.


I'm a rebel without a clause.

Sp error!  Rebel without claws.

Bought the 'Twilight' series of books when i was in Beijing. Have finished the first 2 now i am forcing my self to slow down and enjoy the next 2.

Just finished The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong. I was told he's a good writer, but this book was terrible.

Moving on to Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels. My grad professor recommended it...so far it's pretty good.

I am about to plunge into "The Dark Volume" the sequel to "The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters"....the latter one is highly recommendable.

Quote from: Mr Nobody on May 05, 2009, 07:54:31 PM

Damn. Agreeing with English perfessers? I'm going to have to change my approach. I don't want to be establishment.


I'm a rebel without a clause.

Sp error!  Rebel without claws.

Rebel with outer claws?

More like rebel with outer clew. But that's another yarn.

So I put that book to the side.  I found The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach by Howard Gardner.  Thick, slow reading, but the first book I've read on educational theory.  I'll keep y'all apprised.

Xin Ran's China Witness is brilliant.  I'm sneaking it into training sessions with me because I am learning so much and the stories are so fascinating.

If you can get it (and its equally brilliant predecessor "The Good Women of China") I REALLY recommend it!!

Finished Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels--amazing book, I highly recommend reading it.

Think I'll give my brain a little break and read some Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic. Trying to decide if I should keep going to the library or just sift through the 50 years of Paris Review that's on top of my desk (that's almost 200 issues).

After finishing the latest butcher and green series books, I then read Simon Green's Furies, pretty good for heroic fantasy. Then I finished off the Greywalker series by Kat Richardson, not bad, kind of 'I see dead people'/PI cross.

Just started on the Repairman Jack series by F Paul Wilson. It's shaping up OK, but less 'speculative fiction' orientation and more normal kind of tough guy than I hoped from this writer. So far, anyway.

Currently halfway through Leon Uris' saga of turn-of-the-20th-Century Ireland, Trinity. Read it in high school, but now I actually understand it. Uris is more famous for Exodus, but this is a deeper and maybe better book...really spellbinding.

Before that I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Nobel-prize opus, One Hundred Years of Solitude for the second time.
The first time I read this book, when I turned the last page, I truly and literally sat down and wept at the sweet, powerful beauty of what I had just witnessed. I didn't cry this time, but I came close...the book was even better the second time through. I agree wholeheartedly with one of the reviews on the book's cover: "...the first book since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race..."
It's been referred to as "the entire South American civilization presented in one book", but I'd go further. It's LIFE presented in one book...sometimes miraculous and sometimes mundane, sometimes tragic and sometimes hilarious, but always mysterious and compelling.
If you ever have the chance to read this luminous masterpiece, by all means grab it.

Leon Uris is awesome, might have to look at getting a few of his books when i am back home.

I am currently re-reading the 'Twilight' series. I love this series and can't get enough of it

Leon Uris is awesome, might have to look at getting a few of his books when i am back home.

I am currently re-reading the 'Twilight' series. I love this series and can't get enough of it

Truly original. I bet these three sentences have never been put together before.

Quote from: Bugalugs on June 03, 2009, 08:39:09 PM

Leon Uris is awesome, might have to look at getting a few of his books when i am back home.

I am currently re-reading the 'Twilight' series. I love this series and can't get enough of it

Truly original. I bet these three sentences have never been put together before.

It does however show that Bugalugs is truely a wide ranging reader.