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Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#250Summer Reading
Posted: 9/2/05 at 12:15pm
Ooh, I love Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Isn't Strange a bastard? But a loveable bastard, of course. :)
So many of the best fantasy writers come from England. The only American one I can think of offhand that I really like is Ursula K. LeGuin.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#251Summer Reading
Posted: 9/2/05 at 12:17pmI'm reading THE LITTLE FRIEND by Donna Tartt, which is alternating between being absolutely mesmerizing and lively and indulgent and draggy.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#252Summer Reading
Posted: 9/2/05 at 7:20pmJust finished A Lost Lady by Willa Cather and the latest Gossip Girl novel for a easy read, on chapter 3 of My Bondage and My Freedom by Freddy D.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#253Summer Reading
Posted: 9/2/05 at 7:22pm
Still reading THE HISTORIAN, but almost finished. I'm on page 540ish, I think.
Has anyone else read this? I skipped over the whole Zacharias Chronicle thing.. I was really boring. Oh well.
grizzabella
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/05
#254Summer Reading
Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:54pmActually, Plum, I've just gotten into it, and Jonathan Strange has just made his first appearance, so I have a lot to look forward to! Can't wait!
"And the postman sighed as he scratched his head, you really rather thought she ought to be dead..."
#255Summer Reading
Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:57pmI'm reading READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN. Slow, but worth it.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#256Summer Reading
Posted: 9/2/05 at 11:05pm
THE WOMAN IN WHITE by Wilkie Collins.
As big a crowd pleaser 140 years ago as Harry Potter is today, I'd say.
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#258Summer Reading
Posted: 9/2/05 at 11:25pmEquus by Peter Schaffer and about to start The Stanislavski System by Sonia Moore.
Thou giveth fever.
#259Summer Reading
Posted: 9/3/05 at 12:01am
Dracula, Prince of many faces: His Life and Times
by Radu R. Florescu and Raymond T. McNally
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#260Summer Reading
Posted: 9/3/05 at 12:05am
I rereading The Nanny Diaries.
I like comparing my real-life experiences with those in the book. Most are very similar.
#261Summer Reading
Posted: 9/3/05 at 7:43amMunk, I loved Reading Lolita in Tehran. Such a wonderful, rewarding book.
bdwybelle
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#262Summer Reading
Posted: 9/3/05 at 12:04pm
I literally just finished One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. I have seen the movie so I knew what was going to happen at the end, but it is still very upsetting.
Now I'm going to start Forever by Peter Hamill. It sounds amazing.
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#263Summer Reading
Posted: 9/3/05 at 1:26pm
Thanks for the recommend for The Rule of Four...my friend is finishing her copy and wants to loan it to me. I think I'll take her up on the offer.
Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?
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Jezebel
Featured Actor Joined: 5/5/05
#264Summer Reading
Posted: 9/3/05 at 6:04pmI've put off One Hundred Years of Solitude yet again, and started The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon. But definitely after that, I'll get cracking on Solitude. Maybe.
#265Summer Reading
Posted: 9/3/05 at 8:13pm
I've been thinking about reading Reading Lolita in Tehran for a while. I like reading books that give lots of emphasis to cultural study, so I was wondering:
Does the book contain a good deal of information on the culture in Iran?
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#266Summer Reading
Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:27pmFinished Shopgirl and (at last) Sophie's Choice. Now I'm trying to choose between The Blind Assassin and a coffe-table book about samurai. Hmmm.
Orpheum
Stand-by Joined: 8/24/05
#267Summer Reading
Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:32pm
I feel that The Blind Assassin is Margaret Atwood's weakest novel, depsite its plaudits.
Updated On: 9/8/05 at 01:32 PM
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#268Summer Reading
Posted: 9/8/05 at 4:05pmI'm reading A Separate Peace. I haven't read it since high school, but noticed they had a TV movie playing on Showtime. Didn't watch it though. I went out and bought the book instead.
#269Summer Reading
Posted: 9/8/05 at 6:26pm"Hard Candy"..short stories be Tenessee Williams. God I love all his work, and these are no different.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#270Summer Reading
Posted: 9/8/05 at 9:35pm
"My Life and Loves" by Frank Harris.
It's the erotic biography of an Englishman from puberty to his death. It takes place in Victorian England and was banned from publication in the US until very recently.
GREAT book!
#271Summer Reading
Posted: 9/8/05 at 9:36pm"Rage to Survive..The Etta James Story"....what a story it is too....WOW !!!!
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#272Summer Reading
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:08pmI'm in the middle of "The Broker" by John Grisham. It's not gonna win the Pulitzer or anything, but entertaining...
"High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man" - Tears for Fears
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#273Summer Reading
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:33pmAnyone else find amused by the fact that a top prize for American writing is named for a yellow journalist?
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#274Summer Reading
Posted: 9/9/05 at 12:13pmFinished "The Euastace Diamonds" by Trollope and intent to go through the whole series. Not sure about his Barchester Novels.
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