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Hoof Hearted · 07-12-2006, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Buddug

Ah , Catcher in the rye .... Tight prose and thought . Love it . Love the scene with the little sister on the roundabout .

I'm within 30 pages of finishing Catcher in the Rye. I've got Scarlet Letter lined up (just visited Hawthorne's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetary), Return of the Native (T.Hardy) and A Farewell to Arms(Hemingway). Went to the library today to p/u The Sun Also Rises (didn't have it!) and got DaVinci Code and How the Horse Shaped Civilization instead.
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07-12-2006, 12:14 PM

Oh no , I have replied to an old post again .

dar512 · 07-12-2006, 02:00 PM

Nothing wrong with that. Besides, this thread's pretty much ongoing.

wolf · 10-21-2006, 08:20 PM

Wow, I've not been keeping up with my posting here ... okay, not on any thread, but I'm clearly behind on listing my recent literary choices. Luckily, I have kept a chronological list since 1984.

FINISHED
Doppelganger - Marie Brennan
The Bone Collector - Jeffrey Deaver
The Coffin Dancer - Jeffrey Deaver
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe - H.R. Ellis Davidson
The Sentinel - Gerald Petievich
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic - Lynne A. Robinson and LaVonne Carlson-Finnerty
The Wire in the Blood - Val McDermid
Love is the Bond - M.R. Sellars
All Acts of Pleasure - M.R. Sellars
Divination for Beginners - Scott Cunningham
The Sinister Pig - Tony Hillerman

ONGOING PROJECTS
The Old Testament
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brother's Grimm, All New Third Edition
I like fairy tales before bedtime

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
this is a very, very long book. Not a lot happens. But these things don't happen in very interesting, nicely described ways.

Do As I Say, Not as I Do: Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy - Peter Schweizer
I get so mad reading this I can only do a little at a time, so I keep it in the bathroom.

The Robin Wood Tarot - Robin Wood
I love this tarot deck, and recently learned that the artist had written a book about it's creation, and gives details regarding the symbolism she chose for each card. So far I think it's a much better guide to the deck than Tarot Made Simple, which uses her cards also.

wolf · 10-26-2006, 01:39 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
this is a very, very long book. Not a lot happens. But these things don't happen in very interesting, nicely described ways.

I have managed to reach an approximate halfway point (page 500ish of slightly over 1K, the book is in my briefcase and I'm too lazy to look.)

Sundae · 10-26-2006, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

The Robin Wood Tarot - Robin Wood
I love this tarot deck, and recently learned that the artist had written a book about it's creation, and gives details regarding the symbolism she chose for each card. So far I think it's a much better guide to the deck than Tarot Made Simple, which uses her cards also.

I have the Robin Wood tarot and Tarot Made Simple. Didn't even realise Robin was a she

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Originally Posted by wolf

Gods and Myths of Northern Europe - H.R. Ellis Davidson

Any good? I love Norse mythology

I have just started Stephen King's Wolves of the Calla.
Am in the unheard of situation of having books to spare, rather than rereading the ones I have.

To read-
The Island - Victoria Hislop
The Python Years - (diaries) Michael Palin
I Can't Stay Long - Laurie Lee
Desert Royals - Jean P Sasson (trashy, but was part of a 3 book deal)

and a couple more I picked up by habit in the charity shop but can't even remember.

Feel like a bulimic at an all you can eat buffet - happy, but slightly overwhelmed

wolf · 10-27-2006, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

(re: Gods and Myths of Northen Europe) Any good? I love Norse mythology

In a word, no.

It's not that it's a terribly bad book, but it's a rather dry and scholarly account of the myths, doesn't relate them in full, but does give an interesting perspective on how the myths are and were expressed in some other cultural practices of the region.

I liked this edition, but any version of the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda should do for a start.

07-12-2006, 03:07 PM

Well , thank you for being so kind , dar512 . I am packing up my books at the moment because I am moving from France to the Caribbean . I have given many books away , and I am now packing what I really want . It is an interesting thing to do , but very slow too , because I keep stopping .

I am flicking through Thoreau ( Walden) , also The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane . I am trying to remember certain lines so that I can attack you all when you try to justify guns .

dar512 · 07-12-2006, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Buddug

I am flicking through Thoreau ( Walden) , also The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane . I am trying to remember certain lines so that I can attack you all when you try to justify guns .

How ironic. You're gather ammunition for your argument.

07-12-2006, 03:13 PM

No , I just like fine American ideas .

Urbane Guerrilla · 10-10-2006, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Buddug

No , I just like fine American ideas .

That being the case, Buddug, then take a look at the later pages of the gun threads over in Current Events. I just posted a reading list of fine American ideas there myself.

07-12-2006, 03:54 PM

....and oh , hoof-hearted , do not think that I have not seen you . The Scarlet letter , well how can you understand Miller without Hawthorne ?

As for Hemingway , he is part of my life because I love him and because he NEVER really understood Pamplona .

Hardy is a bucolic old fart .

Voilà , I cannot be expected to talk about everyone all of the time .

JayMcGee · 07-12-2006, 06:36 PM

Salinger was de rigour at my old school: however, my old english lit. teacher was a contempary of and actually know George Orwell, so all of his books were naturally on the menu. These days I tend to read only sci-fi (the hard stuff, not yer pansey pratchet whimsy) and at tne moment am re-reading Haldeman's The Forever War

07-13-2006, 06:35 AM

I love George Orwell , and unlike you I have never had the privilege of being taught by a teacher who knew him .

I did however live in Barbastro in Spain at one time , where Orwell was in hospital during the Spanish Civil War . I tried to contact the old boy one night via a home-made ouidja board . Olive oil on a pane of glass . He did not reply , alas .

wolf · 07-13-2006, 09:32 AM

That explains a lot about you. You're possessed by a greasy Spanish demon.

07-12-2006, 02:00 PM	#3
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Nothing wrong with that. Besides, this thread's pretty much ongoing. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

10-21-2006, 08:20 PM	#4
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Wow, I've not been keeping up with my posting here ... okay, not on any thread, but I'm clearly behind on listing my recent literary choices. Luckily, I have kept a chronological list since 1984. FINISHED Doppelganger - Marie Brennan The Bone Collector - Jeffrey Deaver The Coffin Dancer - Jeffrey Deaver Gods and Myths of Northern Europe - H.R. Ellis Davidson The Sentinel - Gerald Petievich The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic - Lynne A. Robinson and LaVonne Carlson-Finnerty The Wire in the Blood - Val McDermid Love is the Bond - M.R. Sellars All Acts of Pleasure - M.R. Sellars Divination for Beginners - Scott Cunningham The Sinister Pig - Tony Hillerman ONGOING PROJECTS The Old Testament The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brother's Grimm, All New Third Edition I like fairy tales before bedtime Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke this is a very, very long book. Not a lot happens. But these things don't happen in very interesting, nicely described ways. Do As I Say, Not as I Do: Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy - Peter Schweizer I get so mad reading this I can only do a little at a time, so I keep it in the bathroom. The Robin Wood Tarot - Robin Wood I love this tarot deck, and recently learned that the artist had written a book about it's creation, and gives details regarding the symbolism she chose for each card. So far I think it's a much better guide to the deck than Tarot Made Simple, which uses her cards also. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

07-12-2006, 06:36 PM	#13
JayMcGee Cardigan-wearing man Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Much Binding In The Marsh Posts: 1,082	Salinger was de rigour at my old school: however, my old english lit. teacher was a contempary of and actually know George Orwell, so all of his books were naturally on the menu. These days I tend to read only sci-fi (the hard stuff, not yer pansey pratchet whimsy) and at tne moment am re-reading Haldeman's The Forever War __________________ I like wearing cardigans...... my current favourite is an orange cable-knit with real leatherette buttons.

07-13-2006, 09:32 AM	#15
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	That explains a lot about you. You're possessed by a greasy Spanish demon. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

07-12-2006, 12:14 PM	#2
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	Oh no , I have replied to an old post again .

07-12-2006, 03:07 PM	#8
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	Well , thank you for being so kind , dar512 . I am packing up my books at the moment because I am moving from France to the Caribbean . I have given many books away , and I am now packing what I really want . It is an interesting thing to do , but very slow too , because I keep stopping . I am flicking through Thoreau ( Walden) , also The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane . I am trying to remember certain lines so that I can attack you all when you try to justify guns .

07-12-2006, 03:13 PM	#10
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	No , I just like fine American ideas .

07-12-2006, 03:54 PM	#12
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	....and oh , hoof-hearted , do not think that I have not seen you . The Scarlet letter , well how can you understand Miller without Hawthorne ? As for Hemingway , he is part of my life because I love him and because he NEVER really understood Pamplona . Hardy is a bucolic old fart . Voilà , I cannot be expected to talk about everyone all of the time .

07-13-2006, 06:35 AM	#14
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	I love George Orwell , and unlike you I have never had the privilege of being taught by a teacher who knew him . I did however live in Barbastro in Spain at one time , where Orwell was in hospital during the Spanish Civil War . I tried to contact the old boy one night via a home-made ouidja board . Olive oil on a pane of glass . He did not reply , alas .

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