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Thread: What'cha Reading?
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10-23-2010, 04:57 AM #1111
Mightier than the tread of marching armies is the power of an idea whose time has come
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10-23-2010, 07:06 AM #1112
Light reading... just finishing change of heart by Jodi Picoult
bout to read Samurai William by Giles Milton
Still reading (slowly) Don Quixote by Cervantes and also The Romanovs by Lindsey Huges
Want to read....in the near future
The communist manifesto, Karl Marx
Discourses, Machievelli
Leviathan, Thomas Hobbs
The Journeys of Socrates, Dan Millman
The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
In the long term, the list is exhaustless"We knew he was someone who had a tragic flaw, that's where his greatness came from"
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10-23-2010, 10:09 AM #1113
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10-23-2010, 10:24 AM #1114
In the last 2 nights before bed, I read a book (Anastasia Absolutely) from one of my favorite series as a child, the Anastasia Krupnik books. So great!!
For my trip I got The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I really enjoyed The Shadow of the Wind, so I think it should be good.Masquerading as a normal person day after day is exhausting.
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10-23-2010, 11:29 AM #1115
That would have been a mistake.
But you are talking with me, not with someone for whom there is nothing outside the text (which, additionally, is still unfolding). Please speak your mind, you don't usually hold back your opinions.
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10-23-2010, 11:47 AM #1116
You consistently fail to read my tone accurately; perhaps I do yours. Either way, I'm bored by long-winded explication for people who insist on taking themselves/others so seriously.
I've stated my opinion of the book in brief (which is the purpose of this thread). If you want to have a discussion about post-structuralist literary theory it might be best to start another thread.
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10-23-2010, 12:02 PM #1117
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10-23-2010, 05:17 PM #1118
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Huh. I finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo last night, and I've got to say... it really was lacking in substance.
The first couple hundred pages kept my attention but the last six-hundred-and-whatever I burned through, hoping the story would get better.
For a supposedly feminist book it sure doesn't seem to speak very highly of women. Blomkvist screwed, what, three of the main female characters? Berger, fine, but what was the point of the tryst with Cecilia Vanger? And Lisbeth?
I'm totally at a loss. Lisbeth really is about as deep as Lara Croft. What the hell? Why even have a rape subplot with Lisbeth at all? Some sort of analogy (w.r.t. Harriet)?
I don't get it.
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10-23-2010, 06:25 PM #1119
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10-23-2010, 07:03 PM #1120
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I suppose you think it's 'empowering'...
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