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  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    catefrances wrote:
    One Song Glory wrote:
    catefrances wrote:

    ugh you volunteered??? psycho. :P

    do you know what the papers gonna be on?

    i remember reading dostoyevsky and having to wrote a paper on crime and punishment and i hated reading it, cause i had to. and i didnt have enough time to absorb it. but afterwards i went back and read it(without the pressure you know) and i was more appreciative of it. in fact i may well read it again.

    Well the class is Time and Literary Modernism (can you guess what the subject of my prof's latest book is?? :lol: )....so it's going to be on time. Which means lots and lots of Bergson.

    bloody french... did they do nothing but sit around thinking deep thoughts. :lol::lol:

    Hmmm...might explain why all the major theorists are conveniently French. I suppose I should be grateful for my 12 years of French classes. I still can't fucking speak it, but I can read it well enough. Although I admit, with someone as dense as Bergson, I go directly to the English translation. My prof's an ex-pat American who just moved to Ottawa last year and doesn't speak a word of French, so it's not like it's necessary for the paper anyway. I'd probably need to translate for him if I included any French quotations.
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  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    barking dogs
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • dottles
    dottles Posts: 9,206
    chime wrote:
    dottles wrote:
    This All Encompassing Trip - Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World by Jason Leung

    Up to page 141 at the minute and I am loving it so far. It is very well written, I wasn't sure what to expect but it's great and I am really enjoying it.

    You're doing better than me ... must catch up :shock: ... although I'm trying to finish Dean Koontz - Breathless first so I can concentrate on This All Encompassing Trip.

    I have been on the bus this week so a couple of hours a day of reading :D
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    2012 - Manchester i & ii, Berlin i & ii, Stockholm. 2014 - Amsterdam i & ii, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin, Leeds, Milton Keynes.
    2016 - Boston Fenway i & ii, 2018 - Amsterdam i & ii, Pinkpop, London i & ii, Padova, Krakow, Barcelona, Seattle i & ii. 
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    A Clash of Kings
    GRR Martin
    so far so good only 100 pages in though.
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  • rcs
    rcs Posts: 711
    Just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy and have to say I was quite impressed. Not what I was expecting at all. Even though the books are aimed more at a young adult audience I found myself really drawn into the story and characters. There are some seriously gut wrenching moments throughout those books.

    Just started The World According to Garp by John Irving. Haven't read it since 2001 but it's such a great book I had to revisit it.
    E agora? Faz xixi na mão e deita fora!
  • Light of Stars
    Light of Stars Posts: 95
    Did you read A Prayer for Owen Meaney?

    So many people thought that was so significant. I liked it too, the idea has stayed with me even though I wasn't as thunderstruck when I read it.
  • MysteryTrain
    MysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    Keith Richard's Life.
  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    dottles wrote:
    This All Encompassing Trip - Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World by Jason Leung

    Up to page 141 at the minute and I am loving it so far. It is very well written, I wasn't sure what to expect but it's great and I am really enjoying it.
    just received this in the mail yesterday and plan to dig in this weekend. Does anyone know if Jason is still active here on the boards?
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    he.who.forgets wrote:
    dottles wrote:
    This All Encompassing Trip - Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World by Jason Leung

    Up to page 141 at the minute and I am loving it so far. It is very well written, I wasn't sure what to expect but it's great and I am really enjoying it.
    just received this in the mail yesterday and plan to dig in this weekend. Does anyone know if Jason is still active here on the boards?

    He posts occasionally ... but he never posted that much.
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • PJPixie
    PJPixie Posts: 3,026
    he.who.forgets wrote:
    dottles wrote:
    This All Encompassing Trip - Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World by Jason Leung

    Up to page 141 at the minute and I am loving it so far. It is very well written, I wasn't sure what to expect but it's great and I am really enjoying it.
    just received this in the mail yesterday and plan to dig in this weekend. Does anyone know if Jason is still active here on the boards?

    I ordered this book but haven't received it yet!! Can't wait to read it!
    The best use of Life is Love.
    The best expression of Love is Time.
    The best time to Love is Now.


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  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
    Violence - Slavoj Zizek
    Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
    You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets,
    Or you can come to terms and realize
    You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    Nastasja wrote:
    The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
    Violence - Slavoj Zizek
    Tales - Edgar Allan Poe

    I can't read multiple books at one go. Read one then move onto the next.

    I've read the Fountainhead, I much prefer Atlas Shrugged to this but then that is an absolute mammoth of a book to read.
  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    I am reading "Good Girls Don't" by Patti Hawn, sister of Goldie Hawn, aunt of Kate Hudson. I went to school with Patti's son in the mid seventies. This is Patti Hawn's story of her teen pregnancy in 1958. She put her firstborn child up for adoption and found him recently. My classmate was her second child. It feels odd to read how my bud from 9th grade was conceived.
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    dandy in the underworld - sebastian horsley
    notes of a dirty old man - bukowski
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    Nastasja wrote:
    The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
    Violence - Slavoj Zizek
    Tales - Edgar Allan Poe

    Zizek!! :o:D He makes me happy.
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    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
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    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
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  • Franny
    Franny Posts: 2,054
    Port Mortuary - Patricia Cornwall
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    rcs wrote:
    Just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy and have to say I was quite impressed. Not what I was expecting at all. Even though the books are aimed more at a young adult audience I found myself really drawn into the story and characters. There are some seriously gut wrenching moments throughout those books.

    Just started The World According to Garp by John Irving. Haven't read it since 2001 but it's such a great book I had to revisit it.

    I'm reading the Hunger Games too, at the behest of my 13 year old daughter. Finished the first one, and was overall impressed with the book. Well written, and doesn't shy away from the heavy stuff.

    Actually read it in one sitting over a few hours, that doesn't happen too often. Starting up on the second one here soon.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    World Without End - Ken Follet
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    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,489
    Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

    i think i've read this at least 20 times. i feel closer to my Dad when i read it b/c he also passed from his battle with ALS. good book, great message...
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  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    mfc2006 wrote:
    Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

    i think i've read this at least 20 times. i feel closer to my Dad when i read it b/c he also passed from his battle with ALS. good book, great message...
    Sorry to hear that mfc. Tis a great book.
    Cheers
    We were but stones your light made us stars

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