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Mar. 23 2011, 2:48 pm
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>Hmmmm... Finished Sherlock Holmes. I'm still in a mood for the classics... Maybe some Shakespere is in order.
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Can't go wrong with "The Tempest". "Othello" would be my choice for something more bleak.
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Mar. 23 2011, 2:58 pm
Quote: j3067 @ Mar. 23 2011, 2:48 pm | Quote: DocFanFive @ Mar. 23 2011, 2:33 pm | >
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>Hmmmm... Finished Sherlock Holmes. I'm still in a mood for the classics... Maybe some Shakespere is in order.
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Can't go wrong with "The Tempest". "Othello" would be my choice for something more bleak.
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Hmmmm... The Tempest sounds good.
*franticly flips through gigantic Shakespere book*
although... The 12th Night is one of my favorites too...
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Mar. 23 2011, 4:51 pm
Anything that has to do with Mysteries!!
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Mar. 23 2011, 8:11 pm
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>I read quite a bit of comic books on a regular basis. In the last four days I read 3 Punisher graphic novels, "The Slavers", "Up Is Down", Black Is White", and "Born," all by Garth Ennis. I'm also a huge fan of Swamp Thing, the most underrated character in comicdom, and plan on reading Saga of the Swamp Thing 17-20 today.
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I've always like Swamp Thing myself. Comic wise, I just finished off #12 of The Walking Dead trade paperback series. Love the show, but the comics are far more entertaining.
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Mar. 23 2011, 8:39 pm
Re-read the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. Just started book three, Blood of the Fold. |
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Mar. 24 2011, 1:06 am
Stephen Hawking's books again. |
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Mar. 24 2011, 6:36 am
Quote: DocFanFive @ Mar. 23 2011, 2:33 pm | >
>Hmmmm... Finished Sherlock Holmes. I'm still in a mood for the classics... Maybe some Shakespere is in order.
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Jules Verne? Samuel Clemens?
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Mar. 24 2011, 7:58 am
I was on something of a Carl Hiassen "kick" over the winter. I read Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Native Tongue, and Skinny Dip back-to-back over a 2-3 month stretch. These days, I'm mostly reading periodicals. I read an interesting cover article in Newsweek recently titled "Brain Freeze," which describes how an overload of information via online and digital sources inhibits the decision-making process.
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Mar. 24 2011, 8:57 am
I have a tendancy to take breaks from books and begin other, so I'm currently reading 4 books.
Re-reading:
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Teen Angst...Nah
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If I Stay
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Mar. 24 2011, 10:43 am
and then there were none - agatha christie
brave story - miyuki miyabe (best book everr..)
i was obsessed with nancy drew for most of elementary school, i actually read all 56 of the original books + like 25 of the newer ones. thats what i accomplished from grades 4 - 6 . |
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Mar. 24 2011, 10:45 am
Quote: FleetAdmiral_BamBam @ Mar. 24 2011, 6:36 am | Quote: DocFanFive @ Mar. 23 2011, 2:33 pm | >
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>Hmmmm... Finished Sherlock Holmes. I'm still in a mood for the classics... Maybe some Shakespere is in order.
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Jules Verne? Samuel Clemens?
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Mar. 24 2011, 10:48 am
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>Stephen Hawking's books again.
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i just finished a biography on stephen hawking for school.. i got 95% on it =D
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Mar. 24 2011, 11:36 am
Reading "Nightwatch-A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe" Astronomy is my passion! I owe it all to Star Trek. |
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Mar. 24 2011, 12:02 pm
Right now I'm reading Yesterday's Son by A.C. Crispin which I've had for YEARS but just never got around to reading it. The Eyes of the Beholders by Crispin was the earliest Trek novel I read when I was a kid and it got me completely addicted to Trek novels, so I figured I'd read her 'claim to fame' novel which thus far is amazing.
I've been collecting Trek novels since probably '89 or '90 and I have probably 100 or more, though I've only read a fraction of them.
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Mar. 24 2011, 3:48 pm
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>Sir H. Rider Haggard's books: "King Solomon's Mines," "She," and "Allan Quatermain" will all be read soon, as time allows for it.
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Ah, good old King Solomon's Mines. Interesting book, you can really see how it influenced and inspired Tolkien.
It also asks that age-old Victorian question, when is homosociality just plain homo?
After She you totally need to watch She, the 1982, low-budget post-apocalyptic barbarian movie starring Sandahl Bergman VERY loosely based on it. What a riot!
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If you are referring to the relationship between Quartermain and his 2 comrades than I must strongly disagree; just three close male friends who admire each other. Quartermain is a widower and had a son. It is at most a strong bromantic relationship. Not that there's anything wrong with homosexuality, mind you. I can see where you're coming from, as Quartermain talks glowingly of his 2 comrades. I've read both King Solomon's Mines and Alan Quartermain and can't say which I enjoyed more.
I'm also a huge Arthur Conan Doyle fan; I've read all 4 Sherlock Holmes novels and the best of the SH short stories, as well as The Lost World, which bears many similarities to King Solomon's mines.
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Yeah, but there are a couple of parts where those men are obviously checking each other out. "Oh look at my manly brother-in-arms and his gloriously shaped body of perfect manhood!"
Very reminiscent of classical Greece, imho.
"What will they find when I am ripped apart? 'I love you, captain' written on my heart."
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