what do you read?

Life of Pi
Plainsong
Persuasion
Imperial Dynasties of China

Last month's reads.. Life of Pi was the best book i've read in awhile. Plainsong was ok. Persuasion is a classic Jane Austin and although beautifully written for me the read was torture; predictable among other things i hated she is a blabbermouth. Dynasties of China.. was read more for professional purposes but is a great synapsis of China's imperial age... torture, murder, deceit = fun
 
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I'm very suprised that no one has mentioned Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe...It's a classic and great reading...I read it in college and again a month or so ago...Behold A Pale Horse by William Copper...If you have the patience to plow thru this heavy read it will be well worth it
 
Interesting, I'll keep those on the radar.

Currently reading White Apples by Jonathon Carroll, even stranger than the usual Carroll material.
 
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Which Carroll book should I start with, White Apples or The Wooden Sea??
 
normZurawski said:
Interesting, I'll keep those on the radar.

Currently reading White Apples by Jonathon Carroll, even stranger than the usual Carroll material.
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More interesting is what your reading Norm...What kind of reading is Jonathon Carroll...New things are always fun
 
joanqs said:
Which Carroll book should I start with, White Apples or The Wooden Sea??
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Have never read The Wooden Sea. My first was Sleeping in Flame which I would highly recommend.

Spencer the Kalmyk said:
More interesting is what your reading Norm...What kind of reading is Jonathon Carroll...New things are always fun
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I'd call it magical realism. White Apples is a hair, a very thick hair, on the magical side. About 1/3 into it I'd call it so-so. It's certainly not everyone's cup of tea. Think Tom Robbins in, say, Skinny Legs and All, but even more off the wall and less crafty with the metaphors and so on.
 
joanqs said:
BTW- in another post you mentioned going to Taiwan, do you go b/c you work in the bike industry?
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Well sometimes my basement starts to resemble a bike industry with all the crap I have laying around. But no, not professionally. My bike and my wife were both "Made in Taiwan". So we've been there a few times.
 
normZurawski said:
Have never read The Wooden Sea. My first was Sleeping in Flame which I would highly recommend..
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Thanks for the recommendation, based on what i've read about the two I will probably start with White Apples. BTW- do you go to Taiwan because you work in the bike industry?
 
Well now how did I manage to answer your post before you asked it? Must be all that magical realism...
 
actually it is because i have a crystal ball that sees into the future. i didn't get it in taiwan though....😀
 
Shaggz said:
I got a copy of Merle's Door: Lessons From a Free Thinking Dog for Father's Day:

http://www.harcourtbooks.com/MerlesDoor/interview.asp
This is the first time in about 6 years that I have wanted another dog.
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Update: Finished this book. A really fantastic book and highly recommended,. However, the authors telling of Merle's passing through "the door" brought back another wave of emotions, that makes me retract my statement about wanting another dog.

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After this, The Road is next. Another Father's Day gift...
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100 pages into this, and it is probably one of the best books I have read in a long time. I can not help but project myself into this story, and am left utterly empty. The father's love for his son is so pure, that the thought of their fate is even more depressing than the circumstances surrounding their existence.
 
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100 pages into this, and it is probably one of the best books I have read in a long time. I can not help but project myself into this story, and am left utterly empty. The father's love for his son is so pure, that the thought of their fate is even more depressing than the circumstances surrounding their existence.
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I'll be reading this with my 12th graders soon, it looks like. Put it together with Hamlet, Siddhartha, and The Things They Carried, and you've got a bundle of laughs.🙄

I'm inflicting AtPH on my 10th grade Honors students this coming year as well.

Currently working my way through The Book by Alan Watts, continuing my mini-course on Eastern thought.

Did anyone see Cormac's interview with Oprah?
 
bonefishjake said:
um, no. i know you're off but i hope you didn't see it either.
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Well, I DVR-ed it and watched it after it aired. The guy has never done a television interview and only two print interviews over the course of a 40-some year career.

Being the fanboy that I am, it was cool to just hear him speak, though some of her inane questions made me want to destroy something.
 
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