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I'm working my way through the B.P.R.D series (Mike Mignola's spin off from Hellboy) And before that I read the whole Preacher series. My local library has the most insane graphic novel collection - it rocks.
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yay! to good libraries, i've just picked up the 3 buffy omnibus's from mine  ~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street. |
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I know, it's such a shame certain books are required high school reading - I think so many fantastic works are ruined for so many people because of it. I loved The Great Gatsby but I never had to read it for school. Then again, I understand the idea of making students read "the big works" in the context of giving you an education. I'm half way through Tess of the D'Urbervilles & finding it okay so far. __________________________ You are a Farrier. You enjoy nothing more than seeing a well-fitted hoof. Just because it's an animal doesn't mean it can't have a touch of style. Try this pump; here's a stilletto; my, did you see the calves on that pony? Size 6? Oh, madame, really! Still, there are so many hooves, and so little time, and you often miss out on the fun (and the better meme results.) __________________________ "Truth! Justice! Freedom! ... And a Hard-boiled Egg!" - Terry Pratchett, Night Watch |
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having just put down the 'buffy, the quotable slayer' book i got free with sfx, it was quiet strange seeing xander on the board!
~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street. |
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being homeschooled, I pretty much read what I wanted in high school. I had four assigned books per school year, and that was it. Gatsby was one I read on my own, I think. and Tess, too. it's super good, but soooo depressing. I hope you like it.  ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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I read Gatsby and Tess for enjoyment, out of school. I didn't enjoy either of them.
I just finished The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages. It was quite good. Up next is Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. ******************************** The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not so sure about the turnip. ~~ Terry Pratchett |
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Cauldron by Jack McDevitt (last in the series I think
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It is incrdeible. A joy to read. I am now on Tomorrow by Graham Swift ................................................... There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more. |
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i was homeschooled too! *squeals* ahem. *calms down with deep breaths* I'm trying to finish Michener's Hawaii today, since I don't have to work. it is a very long book. and they keep using the same names in a confusing way. ____________________________ Future First Lady of Cyberspace Green Robot World the Canadian half of Minobot! |
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Bill Willingham's Fables: Sons of the Empire.
______________________________ Do not leave me with a bowl of anything for an extended period of time. |
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Congratulations on getting so far! I started that book after our first trip to Hawaii. About 20 pages in, I had to start. Hard to get through a book that begins with the evolution of a place from the atom up. ******************************** The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not so sure about the turnip. ~~ Terry Pratchett |
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Sharon Zukin - Landscapes of Power (thesis-related)
Italo Calvino - Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings James Howard Kunstler - The Long Emergency I used to be really good about reading only one book at a time. And given that all three of these are the kind of book that require a certain intimacy and resoluteness of attention, I might have to put one of them down for the time being. It's sad because they're all excellent.
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Finished 'Blood Rites' by Jim Butcher. But now I'll take a holiday from the Dresden Files ;-) I have started 'World without end' by Ken Follett today. It's off to a very promising start... and another 1000 pages to go. I love long books!
" 'A lovers' spat',(...)'Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story really.'" - D. Gemmell |
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we are not alone.... ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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no kidding. now going through the book again and rereading certain parts. @ Apathy: i love finding fellow homeschoolers! ____________________________ Future First Lady of Cyberspace Green Robot World the Canadian half of Minobot! |
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Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix, Volume 6: Nostalgia
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me, too! especially since most people will automatically (if subconsciously) assume lots of things about your education when they hear you're homeschooled. it's nice to know other people who understand that your education was not, by definition, inferior to education in a "real school." ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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"A heart breaking work of staggering genius"
its strange... High Ranking Official of the Realm of Unproductivity and Procrastination, Dean of the UUP, First Class member of the order of the Pineapple. scruffy ambulating reanimated hypothetical vegetarian leigonairre of the undead. ~ Cav Look, I've got a cape and a tendency towards violence. It does not make me a superhero! ~ Domitella |
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I'm about half way through American Psycho.
I just started a new Dirk Pitt adventure by Clive Cussler. ----------------------------- Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Additional handling charges may be required. |
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Weeeel...
Ms Butler did it again. Just finished the Fledgling. The beginning was really scary and I didn't like the image of a child doing adult things ( I don't want to spoil the book for anyone), but the way Butler uses the voice of the heroine helps you understand that she is an adult, by human standards. Butler makes the whole feeding thing seem highly erotic and strangely compelling, even for me who is quite appalled at the thought of someone using people, me as cattle. On the other hand she does not shy away from showing the negatives of such a relationship, addiction, death, exploitation. I am certainly going to try and find everything Ms Butler has ever written and read it (well I have almost the complete Pratchett, Gaiman, Le Guin, V. Woolf, A. Carter etc. I am obsessive that way) Now to choose the next book to read, should it be the ladies of grace adieu or the man who mistook his wife for a hat, which I have seen in the theater and loved? No frigging talking lions in here Silence is argument carried on by other means. The lamp’s glow was very weak compared to the blue glow emancipating from the basement. Aaron Rayburn - The Shadow God |
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