Topic 2 of 47: What I'm reading right now
Mon, Nov 4, 1996 (07:56) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
What are you reading right now? What do you like/dislike about
it? Would you recommend it? How did you find out about it?
How far have you gotten into it?
348 responses total.
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Response 1 of 348: Mika-Petri Lauronen (Mixu) * Wed, Nov 6, 1996 (07:43) * 6 lines
Well, the book I am reading at the moment is not new - it is a leather bound
collection of all the Sherlock Holmes stories. I read them about 10 years
ago, and try to refresh my memory...
They are a good read, even when you know the plot... I especially like the
narration of Victorian Era England. And the language is hilarious, I´d say...
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Response 2 of 348: David D. (sfpclot) * Thu, Nov 14, 1996 (21:35) * 1 lines
Out of Control by Kevin Kelly. I just started it. I *think* it's about consciousness emerging from complex processes/structures. The first 65 pages are good. This morning I was reading about the intregral part wildfires play in balancing prairie ecological systems.
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Response 3 of 348: Amy Bellinger (Amy) * Thu, Nov 21, 1996 (20:28) * 2 lines
"Creating Cool Databases on the World Wide Web"
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Response 4 of 348: Ann Rydberg (Ann2) * Fri, Nov 29, 1996 (00:34) * 6 lines
Actually I am searching for the 'austen read line'. But I can tell you that I am just finishing Smiley's A thousand acres. I came across the title through my
interest in actor Colin Firth, who is/has just finished filming that story.
Rather interesting story based on the old King Lear theme - A father giving his 'kingdome' away to his three daughters. And then it all starts to fall apart,
families, properties,the love they thought they shared... Sad tale of our
loneliness actually.
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Response 5 of 348: Amy Bellinger (Amy) * Fri, Nov 29, 1996 (08:23) * 4 lines
Ann2: glad to see you finally here. Are you also reading -- or have you already read -- the other originals that spawned new adaptations featuring Firth: Nostromo and The English Patient?
Amy
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Response 6 of 348: Mika-Petri Lauronen (Mixu) * Mon, Dec 2, 1996 (02:52) * 5 lines
Finished the Sherlocks, and read some Wodehouse. At the moment I am tackling
(not counting Malleus Maleficarum and several scientific journals for my
studies) LeGuin's "Tehanu", and then I'll attack the Gormenghast-trilogy...
I guess it is my fantasy period once more...
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Response 7 of 348: kathleen (elder) * Thu, Dec 5, 1996 (19:14) * 3 lines
No new reading until after final exams are given and graded, thank you. But I bought The English Patient for the plane ride to San Diego for the holidays. The cover pic is the advert w/ Kristin Scott Thomas & Ralph Fiennes. I also found some new books about Jane Austen that I shall dig into over semester break.
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Response 8 of 348: Mika-Petri Lauronen (Mixu) * Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (09:30) * 3 lines
I am in the middle of the 1st book of Peake's Gormenghast, Titus Groan.
I have to say I am very impressed. The Brits really know how to write
(among with the Russians and some American eccentrics).
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Response 9 of 348: mich (mich) * Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (22:53) * 2 lines
I'm just starting The English Patient. I'm having a hard time getting into the rhythm of it. Should I see the movie before or after I read the book?
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Response 10 of 348: Myretta Robens (mrobens) * Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (10:10) * 4 lines
Mich,
I read the book before I saw the movie. I loved both. They share the rhythm, but use it in different ways. The movie is very faithful to the spirit and poetry of the book. The director has interpreted rather than mirrored the book
and done it very well. I think you could either see the movie or read the book first and not lose. Enjoy.
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Response 11 of 348: Allison Allen (Allison) * Thu, Feb 6, 1997 (16:20) * 2 lines
I am presently reading a collection of short stories called "Revenge". All the stories are written by women and are all about revenge. It is really great and very creative. Gives me all sorts of ideas. I highly recommend it, but not suitable for those of you prone to nightmares. So far, none of the stories have been gruesome, just rather disquieting. The editor of this collection is Kate Saunders. My personal favorite at this time is "Why Herbert Killed His Mother". It is a comical tale rather than
haunting.
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Response 12 of 348: chen jiaxin (chenjiaxin) * Thu, Mar 13, 1997 (06:54) * 7 lines
I AM PRESENTLY READING THE BOOK BY M.R JAMES,IT IS A COLLECTIONS OF GHOST STORY
MR. M.R.JAMES,HE LIVED IN THE LATER1800 AND THE EARLY 1900, WROTE BETTER THAN I EXPECTED.AND I DO HAVE A INTERST IN THE SUSPENSE FICTIONS.ANYBODY WHO HAVE READ THE THRILLER ON ECONOMIST 96/12/21?
DO LET ME KNOW YR FAVOURITES I DO LIKE READING THE NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES
YOU MAY E-MAIL ME AT CHENJIAXIN@HOTMAIL.COM
BYEBYE
MEET ME IN CYBER
BY THE WAY I AM LOGGING FROM THE P.R.CHINA,PRECISELY SHANGHAI ,CHINA
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Response 13 of 348: chen jiaxin (chenjiaxin) * Thu, Mar 13, 1997 (06:54) * 7 lines
I AM PRESENTLY READING THE BOOK BY M.R JAMES,IT IS A COLLECTIONS OF GHOST STORY
MR. M.R.JAMES,HE LIVED IN THE LATER1800 AND THE EARLY 1900, WROTE BETTER THAN I EXPECTED.AND I DO HAVE A INTERST IN THE SUSPENSE FICTIONS.ANYBODY WHO HAVE READ THE THRILLER ON ECONOMIST 96/12/21?
DO LET ME KNOW YR FAVOURITES I DO LIKE READING THE NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES
YOU MAY E-MAIL ME AT CHENJIAXIN@HOTMAIL.COM
BYEBYE
MEET ME IN CYBER
BY THE WAY I AM LOGGING FROM THE P.R.CHINA,PRECISELY SHANGHAI ,CHINA
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Response 14 of 348: Michelle (Lecteur) * Thu, Aug 14, 1997 (19:59) * 1 lines
This week I have read: Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris and Symposium by Muriel Spark. I am beginning Kinds of Minds by Daniel Dennett.
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Response 15 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Aug 14, 1997 (22:55) * 1 lines
All fiction? What are they about?
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Response 16 of 348: Kaye Erickson (Mkaye) * Sat, Aug 16, 1997 (17:27) * 2 lines
I read voraciously, constantly and with an eye toward help in my own writing. I did not, do not, can not understand nor apppreciate The English Patient. A friend says it is all about the state of the world--the burned man is the whole of humanity suffering, the nurse is the small fation of people trying to save mankind, the east Indian bomb defuser is the larger faction trying to prevent the demise of the world. Even this erudite friend of mine can't decide what the other guy was all about. And I can'
help but wonder where the nurse got her eternal, unending supply of morphine. Symbolically--TV, drugs, alcohol, etc whidh keep us all sedated in this world. I think it is pretty far fetched but certainly better an anlysis than mine which is----well I just don't get it. Help!!
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Response 17 of 348: Kaye Erickson (Mkaye) * Sat, Aug 16, 1997 (17:29) * 1 lines
Pooy typing, sorry. I should proof read but these tri-focals of mine let me down and I can't read what I have just typed. Shocked to see it come up in big type.
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Response 18 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Aug 16, 1997 (22:17) * 2 lines
If you check in to the austenarchive, you'll find a discussion of the English
Patient with quite a few comments.
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Response 19 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (10:02) * 1 lines
A completely "out of character" book for me, but the novel I'm presently reading is "The Horse Whisperer." Horses have never really done much for me, nevermind a story centered around one. But this is beautifully written, surprisingly exciting and has pulled me in completely.
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Response 20 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:51) * 2 lines
who's the author?
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Response 21 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (13:50) * 5 lines
Nicholas Evans, isn't it?
I just finished a terrific book by Elizabeth Berg, "Pull of the Moon." Definitely a chick book, but she expresses so well the inner discord a woman can feel when she is so focused on others that she isn't really (dare I say it?) "in touch" with her own identity. I plan to re-read it when I'm menopausal (hopefully no time soon!!)
Just started "Mrs. deWinter," the so-called sequel to Daphne DuMaurier's classic thriller/romance "Rebecca". It's slow going, a bit Dickensian in its descriptiveness, but I'm plodding through it.
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Response 22 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (16:49) * 3 lines
Yes, Nicolas Evans.
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Response 23 of 348: Martha Livingston (arthamom) * Sun, Jan 4, 1998 (11:33) * 2 lines
I'm supposed to be reading Thoreau's "Walden" for my book group. It was my suggestion, but I'm not getting very far. I've read it a couple of times in high school and college, so I thought it would be familiar enough to be comfortable mid-winter reading, and a change from the women's voices that completely dominate our group, but I can't focus on it. I think I may have lost some brain cells in childbirth...and maybe there's a reason I don't read the famous dead guys anymore; I don't expect Thoreau to b
a feminist, but it's hard for me to listen to someone who doesn't appear to know women exist! Anyway, it will give us something to talk about at book group besides "yeah, I liked it", and "yeah, me too."
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Response 24 of 348: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Sun, Jan 4, 1998 (14:51) * 32 lines
thoreau's dealings with/attitude toward women
does seem rather twisted, especially taken within
the context of modern attitudes (though applying
that standard would seem to negate the work of
nearly every male writer of any antiquity at all,
i should think)... perhaps he idealized them, in
his way... it is probable that the 3 closest re-
lationships of his life were with women (his mother,
sister, and lydian emerson, wife of waldo, whom he
probably loved)... seem to recall that he received
a proposal of marriage from a concord schoolteacher,
who was somewhat older than he, and his response to
have been something along the lines of "i never expected
to encounter such a foe, at this stage in my career"...
regardless of his peculiarities (or maybe because of
them, because they are certainly an aspect of what makes
him such a compelling personality), perhaps one should
attempt to approach his work from a "sexless" point of
view... even read 150 years later, his words still have
vigor, and many of his ideas still seem provocative,
stirring, and i would think they apply to everyone...
"The greater part of what my neighbors call good, i
consider in my soul to be bad, and if i repent of anything,
it is likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed
me that i behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing
you can, old man- you, who have lived seventy years, not
without honor of it's kind- I hear an irresistable voice
that calls me away from all that. One generation abandons
the enterprises of another like so many stranded vessels..."
that moves me still, and it will always be true (and sorta
reads like abby hoffman, when you think about it... anybody
read "steal this book"?)...
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Response 25 of 348: Martha Livingston (arthamom) * Sun, Jan 4, 1998 (16:00) * 2 lines
You're absolutely right, of course, about context. Nothing frustrates me more than when a conversation about a book gets stopped in its tracks by a stubborn readers' inability/unwillingness to consider the times the author was writing in and his/her world view. My beloved Virginia Woolf has been shot down twice as an elitist (and a bore, but that's another story) by book groups I otherwise loved and agreed with most of the time. I know I'll be defending Thoreau, too. I'm probably just mad because it's ge
ting harder and harder for me to focus on a book that doesn't start with a dead body and/or have a foil cover. You're right--Thoreau was a revolutionary, and his views on living a simple life are probably more applicable to my life than anyone he knew in Concord. I'll try again.
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Response 26 of 348: Wolf (Wolf) * Sun, Jan 4, 1998 (20:48) * 9 lines
Well, this has nothing to do with Thoreau, but i'm reading Kathleen Woodiwiss'
new novel Petals on The River. so far so good. fell in love with her stuff as a
teenager and still like it (even though I'm not a professed romance novelee). I
like that her stuff is full of details of historical reference. Of course the story line is
good IMO. My absolute fav is A Rose in Winter. (the masked character was
such a....hmmmm, can't say it here, I don't think).
Oh, and another of my favs is Amy Tan. She can really move me and I have
learned much from her pieces. Can't wait until a new one comes out.
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Response 27 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jan 5, 1998 (10:33) * 1 lines
Tell us more about Amy Tan if you will.
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Response 28 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Mon, Jan 5, 1998 (18:10) * 1 lines
I liked Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" but absolutely loved the movie. One of those rare instances where I preferred the film to the book (others include Forrest Gump and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter).
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Response 29 of 348: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Mon, Jan 5, 1998 (20:09) * 3 lines
"the graduate" (better movie
than book, i mean... extremely,
excruciatingly rare occurence)
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Response 30 of 348: Wolf (Wolf) * Mon, Jan 5, 1998 (21:18) * 7 lines
Amy Tan writes historical Chinese/American fiction. Her characters are so real
and vivid. She just reaches out and grabs my attention and my heart. Have
read all her stuff (save the children's books) and my favorite was "The Hundred
Secret Senses." Watched the Joy Luck Club and I cried the whole thing
through. Couldn't even get through the book. Forrest Gump was good, of
course I bawled. (yeah, I'm a wimp, cry at everything). ET was a better book
too.
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Response 31 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Jan 7, 1998 (12:28) * 1 lines
Never read "The Graduate"--and now I won't bother! Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock is one of the few actors I "firth" (synonym for drool now!) over!
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Response 32 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 7, 1998 (12:57) * 5 lines
Essential Zen
Men are from Mars-Women are from Venus
Shaping a personal myth to live by
Life 101
(concurrently although not simultaneously)
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Response 33 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Jan 7, 1998 (13:19) * 1 lines
Wow, lighten up, wer! (just kidding! :) Maybe there should be a top 10 category in the Philosophy conference! No Celestine Prophecy? You can borrow mine if you like--I got it for xmas 2 years ago and haven't opened it yet, but it came highly recommended. You don't like any fiction?
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Response 34 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 7, 1998 (14:11) * 5 lines
I love fiction, go back and look at my
top ten, or maybe I should go post a new
one...1998 is turning into a very wierd
year for me, and I felt that I needed
some outside perspectives...
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Response 35 of 348: Wolf (Wolf) * Wed, Jan 7, 1998 (21:21) * 1 lines
and it's early, yet, wer!
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Response 36 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jan 8, 1998 (00:57) * 4 lines
I know, Iknow!
Everyone keep your fingers crossed,
my mom is having her triple bypass
on Friday...
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Response 37 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Thu, Jan 8, 1998 (21:18) * 1 lines
I will keep a good thought for her, and you, wer.
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Response 38 of 348: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Thu, Jan 8, 1998 (21:28) * 2 lines
yeah, me too, wer (she'll
be in my prayers...)
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Response 39 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jan 8, 1998 (22:29) * 2 lines
Prayers for you mom, wer.
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Response 40 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jan 8, 1998 (23:08) * 1 lines
Gracias, mi amigos.
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Response 41 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sat, Jan 10, 1998 (16:04) * 1 lines
Well, wer, how did her surgery go? I'm eager to hear the good news...(thinking positively)
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Response 42 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jan 10, 1998 (21:54) * 6 lines
It went exceedingly well, and I thank
everyone here for their good thoughts
and wishes...Now, if you've got any
left *wink* send a couple to my Dad,
he might be in worse shape than her
right now...Thanks again, my friends!
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Response 43 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sat, Jan 10, 1998 (22:32) * 1 lines
What a load off, I'm sure! However, worrying can bring on that urge to smoke...did you succumb? Or should I say how much?
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Response 44 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Jan 11, 1998 (00:44) * 3 lines
Actually, due to the nature of the weekend,
it's help curb the urge somewhat...Thanks
for all the support, Autumn.
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Response 45 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Mon, Jan 12, 1998 (17:40) * 1 lines
You're welcome--supportive people can be a blessing or a nuisance, I know...I live with one!
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Response 46 of 348: kay (kay) * Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (11:45) * 1 lines
The book i just finished readingis Marcovaldo of the seasons in the city by Italo Calvino. a bit heavy for this romance addict. I felt like the girl in the movie The truth about cats and dogs who had to have a dictionary to understand the book? any way its a strange book and i sure had too deep of a sub meaning for me to gather. but it was fun reading it.
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Response 47 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (20:00) * 1 lines
I am making a note of it & will check the library for it after I finish this 700 page monster I've been working on.
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Response 48 of 348: Lorie Scafaro (LorieS) * Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (14:55) * 5 lines
I'm almost afraid to mention it in this esteemed group of readers, but I just finished a collection of Shirley Jackson short stories that was wonderful (mostly unpublished, altho some were simply published long ago in long-defunct magazines). The collection is called An Ordinary Day (sorry, still don't know how to put that in italics).
And in a similar vein, I bought a Dave Barry collection today. Any fans of the absurd out there?
Or just short-story lovers?
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Response 49 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (15:31) * 5 lines
Like this,
<em>An Ordinary Day</em>
or
<i>An Ordinary Day</i>
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Response 50 of 348: LS (LorieS) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (11:55) * 5 lines
Thanks, wer. May I call you wer? I've read so many of your posts, I feel like I know you. So, to experiment.
Yesterday, after reading here, I went out and bought a second Shirley Jackson short story collection, The Lottery and Other Stories. So I guess the short fiction kick continues.
So, now we'll see if I can post this and the italics come out right.
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Response 51 of 348: LS (LorieS) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (11:57) * 3 lines
Wee! That's fun. I wonder what I was doing wrong, 'cause that looks like what I tried in the past that never worked and always brought up error messages.
Thanks again!
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Response 52 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (17:43) * 7 lines
What I'm reading right now...
my grade book -- report cards go out tomorrow!
Read The Story of Ruby Bridges to my kids today. We had an insightful and productive discussion on racism today (most specifically segregation).
I'd love to get into some smut novels but I haven't had the time! *grin*
Read a few essays by Ayn Rand the other day. On selfishness. A lesson we should all take -- how to truly be selfish!
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Response 53 of 348: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (17:43) * 27 lines
read rand pretty extensively, long ago... her intelligence is captivating,
and her ideas almost persuasive, by virtue of their clarity, alone... that,
however, is because they are as old (and persuasively clear) as hell... it
was the influence of rand (and scott fitzgerald, though for different reasons,
obviously) that led me to become a marxist... objectively, what difference
is there between the ideology of rand, and nietzsche (for example)? seems
to me that beyond differing experience (and a little more intellectual honesty,
on his part), there is none... one is an extension of the other...
and really, don't you find the suggestion that human beings require any
(further) justification for their selfishness a little disingenuous? akin to
tigers "celebrating their claws", as nietzsche might say? bourne out by nature,
and experience (and sort of redundant)?
(sigh... i oughta stop here, but i'm not... nothing personal, but i'm really pissed off tonight, and ayn rand seems as hospitable a host for that as any)
the thing that irritates me most about the rand crowd (of which the esteemed
alan greenspan is a charter member/thug) is the attempted intellectualizing
(even idealizing) of ideas with roots in the most primitive, most bestial
aspect of human behavior... it is, i think (using the words marx used for a
more benign transgressor, thomas malthus) a "libel on mankind"... or so it
is my everlasting wish to believe...(and "objectivism", in my judgement, and
within the context rand suggested, is as "libelous", and dishonest a conclusion
regarding human potential as i know)...
anyway... since i'm really pissed off (seething) at ken starr, maybe i oughta
take this over to politics... and, to tell the truth- though i stand by every
word i said- all in all, i think ayn rand was a great old broad... (even though
i didn't buy a word she said, could always count on her to get the juices flowing... she did not shy from controversy)...
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Response 54 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (09:04) * 9 lines
That settles it, Nick, definitely want you
on my side in any conquest tour...
Yes, Lorie, you may call me wer, in fact
I've grown quite accustomed to it here.
And, in reality when I've met Spring folks,
wer sounds more natural than William when
spoken by them.
*wink-ta-you-know-who*
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Response 55 of 348: LS (LorieS) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (15:01) * 4 lines
Nick, it's great to hear someone else who likes Rand's writing (she's interesting, after all, and sometimes that's so hard to find) but discounts her "philosophy." Have lately had her work foisted on me by some huge fans, and since I hadn't read it since high school (terribly long ago), I gave her another shot. In fact, I was looking at a collection of previously unpublished stuff just the other day, but I passed on it to buy some more fictional fiction. After all, there are days when you just don't wa
t to think so much.
At least, I have days like that.
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Response 56 of 348: Wolf (Wolf) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (19:06) * 1 lines
me too, like today.
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Response 57 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Jan 26, 1998 (18:00) * 3 lines
I had a heady-thinking weekend.
And enjoyed every minute of it.
Okay... maybe not EVERY minute!
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Response 58 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jan 26, 1998 (22:09) * 1 lines
So, what did ya think about?
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Response 59 of 348: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Tue, Jan 27, 1998 (01:32) * 9 lines
(was reading "the making of the president 1960"...a third
of the way through, skipped to near the end... the part
describing kennedy's waterbury speech, near election day...
made me so sad, i just said to hell with it... jack kennedy
really is dead, and he's deader every day... and the american
century is nearly over, and soon no one will care too awfully
much about that, either (or even remember what the fuss was
all about)... and aren't we closing it out in fine fashion?
yeah... some days it's best to just not think at all...)
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Response 60 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Jan 27, 1998 (01:32) * 2 lines
thought about happier days... past and future. Thought about how the only one that can make me happy is myself. Thought about how inconcievable it is that I could 'save the world' but how very possible it is for me to make a difference in the life of another. Thought about things that make me smile, thought about smiling... the way it is contagious toward the rest of my body...
And then I just reflected on what a complex being means...
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Response 61 of 348: Wolf (Wolf) * Tue, Jan 27, 1998 (01:32) * 1 lines
man, Stacey, you need to take a break (but what you said is soooo true) *smile*
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Response 62 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Jan 27, 1998 (01:32) * 1 lines
Days of inward reflection are important,no? But they leave you feeling so raw afterwards.
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Response 63 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Jan 28, 1998 (08:59) * 4 lines
this is often true.
Colorado sunshine and warm weather helped!
I feel pretty good now.
Finally able to enjoy fresh outdoors instead of just the stuffy gym.
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Response 64 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 28, 1998 (15:18) * 1 lines
good, good, good...
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Response 65 of 348: gena (zx6rider) * Sat, Feb 28, 1998 (08:28) * 1 lines
Hi all. Good to see a book group here at the Spring. I just finished Funerals For Horses by Catherine Ryan Hyde. It was a random pick off the shelves at my local library. I couldn't put it down. It is a story of a family, centrally the youngest girl and her on-again-off-again fight against insanity... Findit. Read it.
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Response 66 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (11:38) * 8 lines
Read "A Hundred Brothers" by I don't know who: thought provoking, idiotic, brownish feeling, scattered.
(BTW that is read as in I "red" not as in you should read!)
Also read "Rent Boy" by Gary Indiana: graphic depiction of the life of a 'rent boy' (homosexual male prostitute) through letters to an unnamed loved one. Very graphic! I enjoyed the perversity and honesty of this one.
Am now reading "The Dark Rivers of the Heart" by Dean R. Koontz: been a Koontz fan for almost ten years and this is similar in style to all the rest of his novels. Chilling, well-researched, technical, complicated.
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Response 67 of 348: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (23:37) * 3 lines
i've read 7 or 8 of koontz's books... along with sue grafton, prob.
my favorite "mind candy" books (that i read just for the sheer enjoyment
of it)...
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Response 68 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (01:17) * 4 lines
Can't get into Koontz...don't know why, either...
Enjoyed Whispers but the other two or three I read
have kept me from reading any more...
I likes Ellison for Mind Candy...
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Response 69 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (09:21) * 2 lines
finished Dark Rivers last night and am beginning A Confederation of Dunces.
Sadly enough (to some) this is my first reading of it.
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Response 70 of 348: gena (zx6rider) * Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (18:55) * 5 lines
Just finished John Grisham's THE PARTNER. Pretty interesting... remind me to call Grisham if I ever need a lawyer. His characters never lose.
Am also reading Jackie Joyner-Kersee's autobiography.
Have a visit to library in my near future.
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Response 71 of 348: Doug Larue (doug) * Sun, Apr 5, 1998 (06:25) * 103 lines
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Response 72 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (17:04) * 1 lines
My tastes are pretty divergent right now. I just finished "Prince of Tides", which was a little too dysfunctional and poignant for me. So when in the library I picked up "Healing Foods", "1001 Pitfalls in English Grammar," and (of all things), "The Rules" (wanted to see if I did it right!) I guess after "Prince" I need a break from fiction for a while.
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Response 73 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (00:14) * 1 lines
reading "She Loves Me" --- I'll let you all know...
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Response 74 of 348: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sat, Jul 11, 1998 (19:42) * 3 lines
i have just read "The Essence of the Thing" by Madeleine St. John. brilliant book. made me cry, which is the first time in ages.
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Response 75 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Sun, Jul 12, 1998 (06:35) * 1 lines
*smile*
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Response 76 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (21:04) * 1 lines
(scribbling the title on my reading list)
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Response 77 of 348: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (08:27) * 3 lines
damn. i bought twenty-five pounds worth of books, and read all four in under a week. i've got too much time on my hands, obviously. now i'm stuck again, and have no money to buy anything new :-((
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Response 78 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (11:46) * 1 lines
Don't you have a library???
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Response 79 of 348: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (17:55) * 2 lines
only a college library, which isn't the most prolific fiction establishment, as you may imagine :)
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Response 80 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (22:31) * 1 lines
In addition to all the faculties' boring doctoral theses, I bet they have a lot of the classics in their lit section, anyway...Come on, a little Jane Austen and you'll be drooling with the best of them!
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Response 81 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Aug 1, 1998 (17:41) * 3 lines
ok, i read, in two sittings, The Horse Whisperer. It was well-done and not
based on the movie (the other way around, actually). Some parts seemed rushed,
but i was captured anyway. good read. glad i haven't seen the movie (yet)...
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Response 82 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sun, Aug 2, 1998 (18:07) * 3 lines
I read that one in the springtime, Wolf. I'm glad you enjoyed it, but I didn't like it. For one thing, I absolutely hated the arrogant, pushy heroine, which really violates my first rule for a good novel. As for the rest, the characters just didn't hold my interest. I realize I am the lone dissenting opinion on this book, because everyone I know liked it!
I've been working on "Miserly Moms" and "Tightwad Gazette" these days for thrifty ideas--I need some fresh inspiration!
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Response 83 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Aug 2, 1998 (23:08) * 1 lines
Ever read "Living Cheaply With Style"?
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Response 84 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Aug 3, 1998 (09:16) * 1 lines
autumn: i didn't like her much either until i understood what her major malfunction was.
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Response 85 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Aug 4, 1998 (21:41) * 1 lines
What was it? I forget already! Wer, thank you for the recommendation. I will check the library for it tomorrow. The one I just finished included recipes for for making your own Grape Nuts and baby wipes! Geez, I don't think I'm THAT frugal...
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Response 86 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Aug 4, 1998 (21:59) * 10 lines
autumn: she was a control freak and when the bad stuff happened, it threw her
out of whack and even though she knew she couldn't control it, she tried. the
book focused more on her and the whisperer than the horse and the girl. the
changes in their behavior (everyone's) was too abrupt. it was a good story and
perhaps i'll read his next one (think it's The Loop) just to see.
the frugal stuff is in Woman's Day or Family Circle. they're good ideas but i
guess i'm too lazy to incorporate most of them. but look at her now! kinda like
Martha Stewart. speaking of her, does she have any other job? (she's a
perfectionist too, you know)....
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Response 87 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Aug 4, 1998 (22:03) * 1 lines
Ha ha! I'm imagining Martha Stewart playing the role of Annie in the "Horse Whisperer!!" LOL! I consider myself a very frugal person (e.g. I made all my own baby food), but there's no way I'm saving cereal boxes and using them for storage containers!
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Response 88 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 5, 1998 (00:08) * 1 lines
cereal boxes do make cool postcards, though...
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Response 89 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Aug 5, 1998 (04:19) * 2 lines
... and something to read if a newspaper isn't handy.
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Response 90 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (17:05) * 3 lines
I use cereal boxes all the time in my classroom. Only problem is I have to bribe others to eat cereal quickly because I refuse to buy it at all.
(Too much sugar, too many preservatives, too expensive... AND I prefer eggs and hash browns for breakfast (even if it means I have to get up WAY early!)
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Response 91 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (17:13) * 5 lines
Same here, eggs, hash browns and toast are my breakfast, very rarely do I
eat cereal. I used to be into Total, Shredded Wheat, Raisin Bran and
Wheat Chex. Oh, and I forgot, Grape Nuts. My grandpa used to eat
nothing but Grape Nuts around the clock.
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Response 92 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (21:25) * 1 lines
s'mores poptarts and splash V-8 juice (at least of late)
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Response 93 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Aug 10, 1998 (23:09) * 2 lines
ah, that explains it...
the food conference moved to books!
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Response 94 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (15:21) * 1 lines
ha ha, we have so much overlap here at the spring, don't we? None of us is ever able to remain on topic!
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Response 95 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 12, 1998 (02:37) * 4 lines
I don't know, as Stacey said, you can pretty much count on food
or sex being representative of our discussions...
maybe should just get rid of the all the conferences
except those two...
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Response 96 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Aug 14, 1998 (21:20) * 1 lines
If we restricted ourselves to those two, we'd probably start talking about music and films!
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Response 97 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Fri, Aug 14, 1998 (21:25) * 4 lines
picked up a couple more Belva Plain books (the continuation of Evergreen, only
i don't know which one starts first, so i bought both-good excuse, eh?)
hi Autumn!
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Response 98 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (09:34) * 1 lines
been reading a lot of safety manuals, guidance documents and OSHA regulations as of late... (newest second(third)job)
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Response 99 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (10:32) * 2 lines
ooh, ooh...
does that mean there's gonna be a Safety Stacey doll?
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Response 100 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (11:14) * 3 lines
So, what's the new job? I am intrigued...
Just finished Alice Walker's "Possessing the Secret of Joy", about female circumcision amongst African women. Heady stuff.
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Response 101 of 348: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (11:40) * 4 lines
That happened to me once.
But I just talked to the elders of my tribe, and they gave it back.
OH!!! You said f e m a l e.....
Anyway, even so, it was pretty heady stuff.
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Response 102 of 348: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (11:53) * 7 lines
The Manor Road Coffee House, here in Austin
had a benefit for African women who have
suffered the fate (infection or death or ?) of
female genital hacking (or whatever the word is that's used).
That coffee house isn't there anymore, but the benefit raised $500.
A good good thing.
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Response 103 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (12:17) * 1 lines
This book made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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Response 104 of 348: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (12:32) * 7 lines
She's got a vast readership.
The consciousness on the issue is rising.
So the power structure of the culture wants to maintain its grip on the ways
of its culture, but change can force its way through, even from
outside the culture.
But I wonder how world influence actually gets into the culture
and evolves it, like with this whole scenario.
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Response 105 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (12:45) * 1 lines
remembering that evolution can be a painstakingly slow process with many malformations of the eventual end result (stop time pic)... yes.
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Response 106 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (12:46) * 5 lines
oops!
you asked HOW.
Geez.
Lemme gather my typing strength... (much easier to discuss over coffee)
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Response 107 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (13:17) * 5 lines
world influence arrives through either
the free flow of information or the
forced flow of information...
either the culture becomes inquisitive because of incidental contact,
or an unwanted intrusion disrupts it
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Response 108 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (14:41) * 2 lines
what about the trickle of information that's not really free flowing but certainly not forced?
kinda like a human rights pamphlet that blows across the boundary of a country to a young soul who never knew she had so much freedom of mind and body and emotion and... (oh yes, did I mention the pamphlet happened to be in a language she understood? Well, it was.)... anyway, how bout that trickle?
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Response 109 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (14:41) * 1 lines
Let's hear it for trickles!!!
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Response 110 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (14:42) * 1 lines
yea, incidental contact!
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Response 111 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (14:52) * 3 lines
*kick*
different idea all together WER!
*smile*
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Response 112 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:12) * 4 lines
I gots different ideas as well and, btw,
that kick was not incidental contact...
(did kinda turn me on, though...)
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Response 113 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:14) * 1 lines
What is also thought-provoking is the author's assertion that the reverse can take place, in this case, that some Southern white women (American) had the same thing done to their daughters.
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Response 114 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:19) * 2 lines
WHY, WHY, WHY????????
(and if someone says 'religious reasons' I shall just go off on my whole religious arguement-- UGLY scene!)
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Response 115 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:22) * 4 lines
(she's telling the truth, too...)
but chastity would be the number one reason, Stace
(gonna get kicked again, aren't I?)
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Response 116 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:25) * 1 lines
Not to mention stopping them from masturbating.
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Response 117 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:32) * 1 lines
extreme chastity, then...
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Response 118 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:37) * 2 lines
*frown*
... guess the old standby 'you're gonna go blind' just doesn't cut it anymore...
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Response 119 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (22:15) * 5 lines
ohmygosh! this is terrible. don't they do something similar in india? oh, wait,
where's the place where they actually make them smaller? didn't know that was
practiced here in the states (and how southern are we talking?). not trying to
say that the US hasn't done it's share of unthinkables but THAT? wasn't the
syphyllus thing bad enough?
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Response 120 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (15:06) * 1 lines
Um, the book made reference to Louisiana, Wolf...
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Response 121 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (20:35) * 1 lines
where? plantation homes, i'll bet. good thing i didn't grow up here *whew*
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Response 122 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (00:09) * 1 lines
you're *gasp* not a born-in-da-bayou babe?
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Response 123 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (08:17) * 2 lines
sorry to burst your bubble, wer, nope, this gal is from everywhere. just been
here the longest!
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Response 124 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Thu, Sep 3, 1998 (21:37) * 1 lines
So where all you been, Wolfie?
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Response 125 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (02:08) * 2 lines
Yeah,
where, where?
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Response 126 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (11:40) * 1 lines
uh-oh, i gotta go look and see what i had said *grin*
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Response 127 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (11:47) * 35 lines
ok-how far back do you want me to go?
germany (several times)
france
spain
newfoundland
desertland
texas
california
pennsylvania
delaware
vermont
connecticut
louisiana
kansas
florida
georgia
alabama
mississippi
missouri
ohio
virginia
w. virginia
n & s carolina
kentucky
tennessee
washington d.c.
arizona
rhode island
massachusetts
new york
new jersey
(some of the places are from my Army brat days, others are from personal travel,
and still others are due to my current job for schools or temporary duty)
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Response 128 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (19:04) * 1 lines
Now, wolf, can you give us a list of books you have read organized and sorted by place?
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Response 129 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (22:30) * 1 lines
Wolf, if you ever feel the need to add Maryland to that list, you come stay with me, you hear?
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Response 130 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Sep 5, 1998 (11:07) * 1 lines
Same here, for Texas. How did you manage to miss Texas?
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Response 131 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Sep 5, 1998 (12:17) * 1 lines
she didn't...on her list it's between desertland and california...
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Response 132 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Sep 5, 1998 (16:56) * 3 lines
terry: no
autumn: thanks
wer: yup
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Response 133 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Sep 6, 1998 (01:02) * 2 lines
OK Tell us about Texas, wolfie.
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Response 134 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Sep 6, 1998 (12:04) * 11 lines
like, what don't you already know about texas? places i've been to? ok,
Dallas
Houston
Corpus Christie
San Antonio
Austin
Laredo
Brownsville
Harlingen
and all the little towns up and down the highway to all of those places!
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Response 135 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Sep 6, 1998 (12:05) * 5 lines
Wait!
McAllen
Pharr
Edington or Edmonton or something like that (it's where the Pan American University is)
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Response 136 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Sep 6, 1998 (17:06) * 2 lines
Wow, you been to more places in Texas than me! Ever been to Bastrop?
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Response 137 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Sep 6, 1998 (20:13) * 1 lines
probably!
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Response 138 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sun, Sep 6, 1998 (21:32) * 1 lines
Just finished "Gone South" by Robert McCammon, which takes place in the bayou of Louisiana with some pretty interesting swamp folks! It was OK.
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Response 139 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Sep 7, 1998 (07:33) * 2 lines
Whta to you find interesting about these folks?
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Response 140 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Sep 7, 1998 (10:35) * 1 lines
was it southern louisiana or northern? cuz the worlds are completely different..
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Response 141 of 348: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Mon, Sep 7, 1998 (16:28) * 25 lines
What was your favorite alligator's breath like when she talked to you?
What was her name?
Was she the main character?
Could she play football as good as Mark McGuire?
Was she the ghostwriter of the book?
Have you started reading it again back at the beginning?
When did Squidboy come in?
I heard it was towards the middle.
Did his bike have cards flappin' the spokes?
Were there alotta words on each page?
Did any of the words give ya trouble?
Did you meet any of the characters in real life yet?
How soon will the sequel come out?
Did the library not want you to read it?
Did the librarians make faces at you when they saw what you were gonna check out, or did they treat you okay?
Why oh why are you always asked so many questions, Autumn?
Did you learn to read at an earlier age than your daughters did?
Can your daughters read better'n me?
I still read one word at a time and I look every word up in the dickshunairy.
Some of the words look vaguely familiar because I remember them from long ago.
Those are words that I like to keep under my pillow without ever taking them out to look at them, because they enter into my dreams better that way, and they continually improve my Sleepasaurusness.
I hope the book you are reading now likes you as much as I do.
If it doesn't, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
I have alotta authors' phone numbers.
If you ever want me to request your favorite writer to rewrite a book that you're reading that doesn't really seem to like you, no problem, just let me know, Autumn.
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Response 142 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (20:32) * 3 lines
Ha-ha, there are quite a few that could stand to be rewritten, Jim!! Could you please just start with Edith Wharton and have her change "Age of Innocence" so Newland and Ellen get to spend at least one night with each other? Just like an hour. I'd really appreciate it.
Just finished "A Drinking Life" by Pete Hamill. This is a memoir by a well-known (not by me!) newspaper columnist about the role alcohol played in his life and influenced him. I'm not big on biographies, but this was quite interesting from an historical perspective, especially growing up in the 30s and 40s.
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Response 143 of 348: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (12:21) * 7 lines
I would call Edith, but she's busy, I know, lyin' around underground.
Pete's 61, still kickin', just got a job as editor of the New York Daily News, so you want me to call the Mr. Hamill and ask him to rewrite the part where Ellen and Newland meet in Boston and have him have them consummate like crazy
night after night until they get extraordinarily sick of each other?
I dunno who yer favorite author is.....living favorite author. I bet whoever it is would do anything at all for you. Rewriting a passage you'd like rewritten would be a, well, a labor of love.....any passage in anybody else's book.....nuthin' to it.
I could call Autumn Moore and ask her to rewrite it. She's a writer you should really get to know. She even lives where you live. In fact she lives in your body, so take care.
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Response 144 of 348: Ray Lopez (ratthing) * Fri, Sep 25, 1998 (22:41) * 18 lines
the book i am reading right now:
How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci
this is a fantastic book, one that gives you tools for self-exploration. the whole premise of the book is that Leonardo (probably the greatest genius of all time) seemed to base his genius on seven general priniciples that can be understood and cultivated in all of us. these principles are:
1) Curiosita: an insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning
2) Dimostrazione: a commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence, and a willingness to learn from mistakes.
3) Sensazione: the continual refinement of the senses, esp sight, as the means to enliven experience
4) Sfumato: a willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, uncertainty
5) Arte/Scienza: the development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination. "whole brain" thinking
6) Corporalita: the cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
7) Connessione: a recognition of and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena. systems thinking.
this philosophy of living meshes well with many other "good ways" of living, such as those espoused by two of my other favorite role model/heroes: Ben Franklin and Aristotle. i strongly recommend this bood to anyone who is wanting to expand their lives and experience of life!
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Response 145 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sat, Sep 26, 1998 (22:29) * 1 lines
Wow, what a great recommendation. I know a few Renaissance men who might like that book...
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Response 146 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (18:21) * 4 lines
Hey Wolfie...
Colorado was absent from your list...
Come give it a visit sometime... we"ve PLENTY of room!
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Response 147 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (18:22) * 4 lines
Ooops!
Forgot.
I am currently reading Travels With Charley (Steinbeck)
Trying to curb some of my own wanderlust reading about others...
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Response 148 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (18:23) * 4 lines
Hey Wolfie...
Colorado was absent from your list...
Come give it a visit sometime... we"ve PLENTY of room!
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Response 149 of 348: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (18:25) * 2 lines
I am currently re-reading "Blue Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson, and re-reading "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance"
oh, and lots of very dry physics books :-/
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Response 150 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (18:31) * 2 lines
How in the heck did that get posted twice?!?!
Especially when I submitted something after it?!?!
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Response 151 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (21:01) * 1 lines
something in your magic fingers?
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Response 152 of 348: Ray Lopez (ratthing) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (21:26) * 8 lines
huh-huh-huh huh huh....
...magic fingers...
...huh huh huh-huh
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Response 153 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (22:00) * 1 lines
Just finished "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb. It dealt with a lot of sad themes in a very humorous fashion. It's hard to believe it was written by a man.
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Response 154 of 348: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Thu, Oct 1, 1998 (18:18) * 1 lines
nice Beavis n Butthead, Ray :-)
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Response 155 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Oct 7, 1998 (00:08) * 1 lines
Just finished Deja Dead and All That Begins, Begins With Blood.
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Response 156 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Oct 7, 1998 (10:50) * 1 lines
do tell...
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Response 157 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 8, 1998 (13:24) * 2 lines
Written by?
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Response 158 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Oct 9, 1998 (16:28) * 1 lines
ack...so many questions...will look when I get home...
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Response 159 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Oct 10, 1998 (20:19) * 6 lines
am still reading The Golden Cup by Belva Plain. the reason it's taking me sooooo
long is that the only chance i get is one hour on wednesday nights while my
daughter practices gymnastics.
yeah, will have to visit colorado-never been there or driven through it.....hmmm
how can i add that to my itinerary to S.A.???
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Response 160 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Mon, Oct 12, 1998 (20:34) * 1 lines
Just finished "Boy's Life" by Robert MacCammon and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a little bit childhood innocence, folklore, mysticism and murder mystery rolled into one.
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Response 161 of 348: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Mon, Oct 12, 1998 (21:37) * 4 lines
I'm reading his "Girl's Life". I'm 3 fourths thru it, but it's got me
bug-eyed. It's got some stale beer, shopping after midnight, sphincters,
and some dilapidated Vichy sidestreets all sloshed into one big grotesque
crime thriller. I can't put it down, and am reading it as I write this.
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Response 162 of 348: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Mon, Oct 12, 1998 (23:19) * 1 lines
ROTFLMAO!!!! (Love those vignettes in Vichy's slums!)
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Response 163 of 348: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Tue, Oct 13, 1998 (12:19) * 6 lines
Lydia turned me on to that book.
She mentioned it to me during "The Parent Trap".
That night I bought it on the black market in the backstreets of Austin.
Talk about a page-turner....didn't have to use my fingers---the pages seemed
to turn by themselves....good thing, too, cuz I couldn't put that book
down till I got thru it all. That Lydia has really good taste in books.
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Response 164 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (12:34) * 2 lines
Brandon is out of town (STILL) and I bought some mind candy to occupy the evenings. I am reading Dragon Tears by Dean R Koontz. Typical reality fiction with some sci-fi thrillerness to it. The psychological thrillers are my favorites, the ones that intensify every tiny creak in your own house, while you're reading.
I also bought an erotic thriller but forgot the title... let you know later.
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Response 165 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (14:45) * 1 lines
Erotic thriller, cool!
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Response 166 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (15:03) * 7 lines
let me guess...the title is
"Little Stacey's Spice Cake"
Kathy Reichs wrote Deja Dead
Read Robin Cook's "Fatal Cure" and am currently reading
Laura K. Hamilton's "Blue Moon"...
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Response 167 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Oct 15, 1998 (20:19) * 2 lines
oh, did i mention i'm still reading Belva Plain's The Golden Cup? well, i am, but
actually got a couple hours worth of reading done thanks to jury selection all week long!
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Response 168 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (03:53) * 7 lines
since my last post above, I finished "Blue Moon"
and have read these Laura K. Hamilton books as well
"Guilty Pleasures"
"The Laughing Corpse"
"Circus of the Damned"
(can anyone tell that my escapist drug of choice is reading?)
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Response 169 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (21:08) * 1 lines
who's isn't???
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Response 170 of 348: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (23:31) * 7 lines
I like to put on a horse costume and
run around in the pasture in the rain.
When a horse strides up to me in the mood to mate or
whatever ya call it, I take off my horse costume and
start mooing real real loud in its face.
The horses don't like that.
Good thing.
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Response 171 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (21:31) * 10 lines
anyway....i finished The Golden Cup (thanks to being sick with a cold). and to
any of you who may have been listening awhile back as i labored over which book
to read next (after Evergreen), i chose correctly. so any of you belva plain
readers who read evergreen and want to know the rest of the story begin with
The Golden Cup then move to Tapestry. when i'm done with Tapestry, i'll find
out if there are any more in the series. OK?
and as to your horse thing, you were the guy on discovery stealing bull semen dressed
as a cow, huh? always wondered who'd dress up as a cow in estrus and trick a
full (and ready) bull into copulation. now i know. i can sleep better at night.
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Response 172 of 348: Kristen Baker (kristen) * Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (06:05) * 1 lines
I'm rereading Illusions, by Richard Bach. It's one of my favorite books, but I always rush through it. This time I'm slowing down.
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Response 173 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (06:48) * 5 lines
I'm reading "Inside Windows NT Infrastructures" by David Iseminger. Wiley
& Sons. ISBN 0-471-24276-4. About scaleup, cabling, performance
tradeoffs, remote access, and nuts and bolts technical issues like
choosing the best domain model, switches vs. hubs, backbones, etc.
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Response 174 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (11:38) * 1 lines
that'll cure your insomnia, riette *grin*
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Response 175 of 348: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (19:58) * 2 lines
reading tim pat coogan's bio of michael collins...
(tremendous)
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Response 176 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (20:12) * 7 lines
Finished Dragon Tears.
Reread Microserfs (Douglas Coupland)
Reading Hideaway (Koontz)
I was all set to try the horse thing Leplep but the sky refuses to rain here.
I kinda did a runthrough, dress rehersal with my kitties in the basement though.
They were into it.
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Response 177 of 348: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (20:42) * 12 lines
Rafikki has a regular horselaugh that
gets me gigglin', but all she does is
look at me with those eyes that say:
"c'mon, Jim, hey! that's no horselaugh!!"
when she took off her palomino costume, she gave
it to me to put on, and then proceeded to
show me some remarkably executed bronc bustin'
---she is really good at that
---I wouldn't let her try and swap that costume with
any trick-or-treaters, come Halloween, or some
kids are gonna....uh, you'll have some pretty scared ones on your hands
---she'll just bust 'em
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Response 178 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Nov 10, 1998 (08:54) * 3 lines
(we had TONS of trick or treaters!)
Finished The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
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Response 179 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Nov 10, 1998 (09:18) * 3 lines
Reminds me, time to run Leightons Halloween party video as the spring.net
slideshow.
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Response 180 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (09:50) * 1 lines
finished Random Winds....what to read next??? have to go pick something out tonight!
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Response 181 of 348: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (13:27) * 1 lines
If you like mysteries, " Bad Chemistry " by gary krist is a good one.
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Response 182 of 348: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (13:31) * 1 lines
"The Bitch Factor" is also an excellent book. I forget who the author is. Have fun hanging on to the book though. My copy is making the rounds of my friends.
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Response 183 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (13:57) * 1 lines
haha!!
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Response 184 of 348: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (19:59) * 1 lines
the book is about a female PI turned bounty hunter who ends up stranded by a blizzard with a prisoner. It's very good.
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Response 185 of 348: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (03:10) * 4 lines
The BITCH FACTOR? Ha-ha! If I'd written a book, I call it that too!
Currently reading 'Hitler's Willing Executioners' (David Goldhagen), 'Blood, Tears and Folly' (Len Deighton) and 'Shetl' (Eva Hoffman). I feel the need to read the last two parallel to Goldhagen's book to keep perspective - he is the angriest man I've read in a long time (understandibly so).
The most profound book I've ever read is one I finished a month ago - 'Holocaust', by Martin Gilbert.
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Response 186 of 348: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (04:53) * 2 lines
The title comes from a saying that says something about a woman being 51% sweetheart and 49% bitch. And, something about not pushing your luck.
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Response 187 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (20:44) * 3 lines
picked up Daydreams today (another Belva Plain)...am waiting for a new one by Amy Tan.
absolutely love her work. she takes me into a world and culture of which i know
nothing about. and her characters move me so....
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Response 188 of 348: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Sun, Nov 22, 1998 (00:32) * 2 lines
another good book that I've recently read:
Hardrock Stiff by THOMAS ZIGAL
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Response 189 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Nov 22, 1998 (12:19) * 1 lines
*blush* i did it again--it should've read daybreak not daydreams!!!
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Response 190 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Dec 14, 1998 (20:44) * 13 lines
update on daybreak. i'm a little over 3/4th's of the way through and i tell
you, it has been tough. the book explores anti-semitism and bigotry through
some of the characters. i'm not jewish nor am i african american, but this
really ticked me off. not at any fault of belva plain, but just the characters
she created. everything is working out now but there for awhile, boy, it was
hard. hating people who are different is stupid. you'd have to hate everybody
because we are all different. well, anyway, don't want to get on a soap box,
but for those of you sensitive to this issue, i figured i'd warn you before you
dive into this book. but it is good and the twist of fate works out
wonderfully! (even though one of the characters pays dearly).
does anyone participate in a reading group? i wondered how it works and who gets
to pick out the reads.......
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Response 191 of 348: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (12:15) * 1 lines
I think that a reading group is a wonderful idea.
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Response 192 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Jan 4, 1999 (11:41) * 1 lines
I picked up a book yesterday at a little coffe shoppe in Indian Peaks called SMACK. Forgot the author but the first 30 pages have kept me rapt.
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Response 193 of 348: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jan 4, 1999 (11:42) * 2 lines
What's it about, someone on heroin?
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Response 194 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Jan 4, 1999 (11:45) * 1 lines
a child that gets involved with that scene when he runs away from a bad home life...
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Response 195 of 348: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Thu, Feb 7, 2036 (03:41) * 1 lines
I'm still reading "Timequake", by Kurt Vonnegut. I've nearly finished it but I still don't really know what's going on...I'm hoping there's a big revelation at the end :-)
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Response 196 of 348: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Thu, Feb 7, 2036 (02:21) * 2 lines
'the essential lenny bruce' (last night)
'dear theo' (tonight)(if i feel like it)
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Response 197 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Jan 6, 1999 (19:33) * 1 lines
"lenny bruce is not afraid.."
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Response 198 of 348: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Sun, Jan 10, 1999 (23:41) * 7 lines
yup
and it's the end of the world
(as we know it)
(though a few years cohabitation with
leonid, leonard and lester may've tempered
lenny's bravado just a little)
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Response 199 of 348: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Wed, Jan 13, 1999 (15:58) * 1 lines
Red Phoenix
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Response 200 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 13, 1999 (18:10) * 1 lines
A Whisper of Blood
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Response 201 of 348: Adam C. Lipscomb (AdamLipscomb) * Tue, Jan 19, 1999 (12:47) * 4 lines
Just picked up _The Transparent Society_ by David Brin. Brin takes on the privacy issue with a fascinating twist: he proposes that what is needed is not ironclad privacy for everyone, but reciprocal transparency, especially as it relates to governments and corporations. The government already has huge databases on every American citizen - nothing Orwellian here, it just happens as part of a system of record-keeping. Despite all of this data, Americans are still among the most free people on the planet
with only the Scandanavian Social Democracies above us on that list, and the Scandanavian governments have, in addition to the type of data our government has, socialized health care systems too! The problem is not that these records exist, but that we don't know who's looking at them. Brin recommends ensuring that there is a constantt bidirectional flow of information, that we have a right to know wht's going on in the corridors of power as much as, if not more than, they have a right to monitor us.
Anyway, it's a pretty cool book.
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Response 202 of 348: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Jan 19, 1999 (17:26) * 1 lines
I@m re-reading "The Essence of the Thing" (Madeleine St. John) and with every page I think it hurts me a little bit more. Such a sad, sad book...and so real-life, too. That's probably the worst thing about it.
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Response 203 of 348: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Jan 19, 1999 (17:27) * 1 lines
and of course it's the best thing, too...confusing :-)
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Response 204 of 348: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Wed, Jan 20, 1999 (19:46) * 14 lines
the idea of 'reciprocal transparency' is an interesting one... what is
troubling, immediately upon consideration of it, though, is the evolution
of the idea, the mutations likely to arise from it... once the notion of
privacy is obsolete, all kinds of unpleasant scenarios come to mind,
especially in the kind of moral climate existing now (and into the future
forseeable, i'd guess)... privacy is the only protection available to
the radically different, and as long as absolutists congest the thinking
of the human race, is a commodity to be protected at all costs, i would
think... there's also the potential for abuse, unequal inevitably, because
of the power issues involved... the idea of 'i'll show you mine if you'll
show me your's' isn't as compelling when one considers the institutional
paronoia endemic to government (coupled, of course, with disproportionate
measures of power)...
sounds like a fascinating book, gonna look it up...
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Response 205 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 20, 1999 (22:43) * 3 lines
think it would make a great topic here on the Spring,
as well...
suggestions as to conference, anyone?
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Response 206 of 348: Adam C. Lipscomb (AdamLipscomb) * Thu, Jan 21, 1999 (00:29) * 8 lines
Sounds like an interesting conference topic.
Brin does not gloss over the problems inherent in his proposal - he's very honest about both possible problems with Transparency, as well as the existence of unforseen problems also.
I'm about halfway through the book now, but one example Brin gives is the use (already occuring) of CCTV cameras in public, high crime areas. It is a fact that the presence of these cameras acts as a deterrent to street crime. Thh problem any sane person has is, how do I know if I'm being spied upon for something other than legitimate law-enforcement reasons? Brin's solution? Not only are all citizens able to dial into the feed from any of these cameras, but they can also dial in to a camera placed in
the Police Department's monitor room. Who watches the Watchmen? We all do.
I'm not sure I'd like to live in a completely Transparent society - I'm still prone to scratch my butt and pick my nose when I think I'm not observed (like right now, for example), and the last thing I want to do is scare the children.... ;-)
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Response 207 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Jan 25, 1999 (19:50) * 5 lines
just finished The Color of Water by James McBride.
Typically I do not enjoy biographies but this one grabbed me and kept me rapt until I was done.
Adam,
Sounds like a fascinating read... I'll have to pick it up!
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Response 208 of 348: Adam C. Lipscomb (AdamLipscomb) * Mon, Jan 25, 1999 (20:05) * 5 lines
The COlor of Water - who's it about?
THe last good bio I read was _Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton_ - really enjoyed it, but then, I'm a Burtonphile. _Edgar A. Poe: A Mournful and Never Ending Remembrance_ is very good too.
In the mystery department, anyone else read the Tubby Dubonnet series by Tony Dunbar? They're pretty good - they're set in New Orleans, and the main character is a borderline seedy lawyer. They give a very good feel of the unique character of the City of N'awlins. There's also some really good descriptions of cajun cuisine, which just makes me want to go out and eat a ton or so of boiled crawfish.
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Response 209 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Jan 26, 1999 (13:18) * 3 lines
The Color of Water is written by a black man for and about his white mother. the chapters alternate from his point of view and narration to her words when questioned by him as an adult.
Lots of color/race/whoami issues.
THe title comes from his mother's explanation to the question, "well if God's not white or black, what color is he>"
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Response 210 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Feb 9, 1999 (17:23) * 3 lines
reading mind candy!!!
John Saul's Brain Child.
Gotta love a book you can finish in two sittings without trying and stretching your imagination with horrible visages of otherworldly evil!!!!
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Response 211 of 348: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Feb 9, 1999 (19:54) * 1 lines
reading "My Legendary Girlfriend" by Mike Gayle.....it's pulp :(
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Response 212 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Feb 9, 1999 (20:43) * 1 lines
i'm still reading belva plain's whispers. of course, i only have time to read it during my stationary bike ride 30 mins two times a week. right now one of the characters is really getting on my nerves. yeah, i know, it's just a book but it just goes to show how belva is able to draw you in.
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Response 213 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Feb 9, 1999 (21:59) * 1 lines
just finished Violin by Anne Rice...
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Response 214 of 348: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Wed, Feb 10, 1999 (05:37) * 1 lines
what's that about, wer?
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Response 215 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Feb 11, 1999 (18:05) * 9 lines
girl meets guy
guy is a ghost who plays a violin
girl has always wanted to be able to play violin
ghost is sadistic
girl is strong and more "messed in the head" than the ghost anticipated
(insert bunch of stuff here)
everyone lives/dies happily ever after
it's a good read if you like her super descriptive period type pieces...
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Response 216 of 348: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Wed, Feb 17, 1999 (20:15) * 3 lines
reread 'all the president's men' last night...
part of 'the final days', too... (saw ben bradlee
on larry king, made me nostalgic)
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Response 217 of 348: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Thu, Feb 7, 2036 (01:30) * 7 lines
flannery o'connor, complete stories
this new edition i bought contains several stories i hadn't read
previously (written in the forties, when she was a graduate student),
and they are wonderful...a little different from those i've grown
familiar with...more open-ended, for one thing... even a little less
developed, but in some way i find them even more satisfying...she was
such a tremendous, unique talent, and always worthwhile...
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Response 218 of 348: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sat, Mar 6, 1999 (15:43) * 1 lines
"Philby", Phillip Knightley. life and times of a russian spy.
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Response 219 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 3, 1999 (22:59) * 5 lines
just finished "Fault Lines" by Anna Salter and
"The Street Lawyer" by John Grisham...still
muddling through "Virtual Reality" by Howard
Rheingold and rereading "UNIX in a Nutshell"
as well...
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Response 220 of 348: Autumn (autumn) * Sun, Jul 4, 1999 (00:10) * 1 lines
I recently enjoyed Poisonwood Bible, Colony and Chocolat. However, I was disappointed in Midwives, which had come so highly recommended, and am ready to give up on Accordion Crimes after one more chapter.
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Response 221 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Jul 4, 1999 (01:10) * 1 lines
don't you hate that!
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Response 222 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Jul 4, 1999 (23:27) * 1 lines
working on belva blain's promises. yeah, i know, i have a whole library of her books. am still waiting for amy tan to publish another one (luv her work).
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Response 223 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (01:10) * 2 lines
yeah, I'm waiting on the next
Laura K. Hamilton one to come out...
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Response 224 of 348: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (04:59) * 5 lines
I read the letter - especially the youthful love letters - of Franziska zu Reventlow.
Born a countess in Husum (coast of the North Sea) around 1870, she was quite the bohemian, living from around 1893 to her untimely death 1911 in the famous bohemia of Schwabing, a part of Munich.
In my early youth, I guess I was much in love with her. I read all that was just being put in print - republished novels and essays, but most of all her diaries, unpublished before. What an extraordinary person! I can't describe it all to you, I just thought she was the most adorable person I ever heard of, read about or met.
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Response 225 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (14:47) * 1 lines
so how do we get a hold of her diaries?
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Response 226 of 348: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Tue, Jul 6, 1999 (04:47) * 7 lines
Don't know if anything is available in English. Sorry.
She was such a complex person, constantly in opposition with her own urges and needs. Very liberal for that time... A person with much love, but never sure for whom.
All so difficult to express for me without making her seem an easy gal or cheap. Especially since she was not famous, but infamous, and had at times to resort to strange means to support herself, especially after she had a son (whose father was NEVER disclosed by her, not in letters nor diaries I've read).
Hard to describe... Let's put it this way: patterns in live pretty much spread these days - not neccessarily all desirable - were lived by her over hundred years ago in the rigid society of Wilhelminian Germany, deep when it was an Imperial state, and state-service, military and order were the basis of the society. She was the prototypical nonconformist. Died for it, too, in the end.
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Response 227 of 348: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Tue, Jul 6, 1999 (04:57) * 17 lines
Just checked Amazon... There are books on theology by a Henning Graf Reventlow, doubtless a relative, and one title that discusses several women of late-19th century Germany (book in German, sorry):
Übergangsgeschöpfe: Gabriele Reuter, Hedwig Dohm, Helen Böhlau, und Franziska von Reventlow
by Ludmila Slavova
Our Price: $43.95
Hardcover (October 1998)
Peter Lang Publishing; ISBN: 0820439622
Book Description
Im Weiblichkeitsdiskurs um 1900 wurde die Frau weitgehend als Sinnbild der Sexualitt oder als sprachloses Objekt dargestellt. Man sprach den Frauen schpferische Fähigkeiten ab. Dieses Buch befaßt sich mit der Problematik weiblicher Sprachlosigkeit und Kreativitt in ausgewhlten Frauenromanen der
Jahrhundertwende. Es untersucht die ambivalente Haltung dieser Autorinnen zu ihrem Geschlecht sowie die Frage, inwieweit ihre Werke von den standartisierten Weiblichkeitsbildern der Zeit beeinflußt wurden.
BOOK SYNOPIS IN ENGLISH The discourses on femininity in nineteenth-century
Germany considered women as speechless objects and as incarnation of sexuality. The discursive practices denied women creative capabilities. This book focuses on female speechlessness and creativity in selected novels by four turn-of-the century women writers. The study examines the ambivalent attitude of these authors towards their gender and the question of how their works were influenced by the prevalent images of femininity.
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Response 228 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Jul 25, 1999 (22:44) * 3 lines
Wenesday, Thursday and Friday I read Jean M. Auel's
The Clan of the Cave Bear and
The Mammoth Hunters
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Response 229 of 348: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Jul 26, 1999 (12:17) * 1 lines
reading another Koontz... "Sieze the Night"
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Response 230 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Aug 8, 1999 (18:14) * 1 lines
my mother forbade me from reading that book (clan of the cave bear) while i lived in her house. and you know, i haven't read it since moving out on my own! saw the movie, though.
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Response 231 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Aug 9, 1999 (00:05) * 5 lines
finished the fourth in the series, also, and read Almost Adam
by Petru Popescu last week...
My Mom never forbid me to read any book although she asked me
to wait until I was older to read The Exorcist...
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Response 232 of 348: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Aug 9, 1999 (19:46) * 1 lines
she was afraid the sexual scenes would frighten me....
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Response 233 of 348: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Aug 9, 1999 (23:47) * 2 lines
in the first book? okay, I can see that...the rest have way more
explicit scenes, though...
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Response 234 of 348: Stacey Vura (