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#376

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Posted: 6/11/08 at 6:40pm

Hope you like Tender is the Night, Emcee. It's one of my very favorite books.

The Great Gatsby is one of my top three novels, and I've been meaning to read Tender is the Night for years. Now that I finally have some free time, it's the first thing I started.

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#377

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/11/08 at 6:46pm

Middlesex left me very disappointed I must say, well mainly the way it ended. I thought it had a lot of promise the first half.

I then read The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde which was a good quick read.

Now trying to kill off Mirror Mirror quickly before moving on to something else, not sure what yet.

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#378

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/11/08 at 6:58pm

Re-reading:

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, partially because of luvtheemcee's signature.

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.

#379

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/11/08 at 7:43pm

John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Perfect Summer Reading.

#380

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/11/08 at 8:20pm

rebel fay. i like vampires.

#381

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/11/08 at 10:16pm

Just finished "It's Good to be the King, the Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks," by James Parish. I found it in hardback for a buck at the used bookstore I frequent.
I was disappointed a little. Not enough insight into Mel for my taste, but a decent read because I am a big fan of his.

#382

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/12/08 at 5:09am

I bought Sloane Crosley's essay collection I Was Told There'd Be Cake at 6:00 tonight. I started reading as soon as I got home, and didn't put it down until I finished 2 hours ago. Needless to say, I loved it. Her experiences were endlessly relatable, and I laughed out loud too many times to count.

#383

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/12/08 at 6:07am

To those who were discussing Doctrow a page back, anyone have any idea about a book called something like 'Anthem' or 'American Anthem'? It's something along those lines.

The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

#384

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/12/08 at 8:11am

I'm reading "The Children's Blizzard" by David Laskin. It's all about a killer blizzard that struck the plains states in January 1888. It was so devastating and hit so fast that children froze to death on their way home from school. It was a great tragedy but the interesting part of the book was how it was handled after the fact by the press and the politicians. (And reading about a blizzard in 95 degree heat isn't such a bad idea!)

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#385

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/12/08 at 9:16am

Finished TALENTED MR. RIPLEY last night, as good as always.

Starting H. Rider Haggard's SHE, as in She Who Must Be Obeyed. Good fun so far, fast and furious.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

#386

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/12/08 at 9:31am

Lover's Quarrel - Moliere

#387

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/12/08 at 10:07am

vmlinnie: It's called American Anthem, apparently, but it seems to be out of print. I didn't find very much on it by googling.

#388

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/12/08 at 4:31pm

Angels and Demons

#389

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/14/08 at 2:16am

Just finished 'Choke' by Chuck Palauniuk and am halfway through 'Snuff' by same author. I am about to start David Sedaris 'When you are engulfed in flames'

'Downtown Elaiggghhhy?'

#390

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/14/08 at 8:47am

Finishing up When You Are Engulfed in Flames and about to start Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

#391

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/14/08 at 11:40am

I just finished Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding and now I'm reading The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory.

#392

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/14/08 at 2:57pm

The French Lieutenant's Woman by Fowles... read it years ago and just finishing it off again. Might re-read the edge of reason as i love my dictionary just reminded me how much i enjoyed those books.

Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!

#393

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/14/08 at 3:08pm

"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote.

#394

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/14/08 at 3:36pm

on my kindle, 'After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne'

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

#395

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/14/08 at 3:51pm

Elphaba is that a decent read? My other half is obsessed with Elizabeth (history major) so that might be a good present if you reccomend it

Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!

#396

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:19pm

yeah it is....realize that it starts almost at the end of her life, although they do go into Mary Stuart a bit (which I bought an amazing book about in Edinburgh...called 'My heart is my own' byJohn Guy, although has a different name for the US publication...he would probably also enjoy that, as it is the most in-depth thing I have ever read on Mary, Queen of Scots and also keeps my attention) Long answer to your question.

I am a huge Tudor buff, and the transition from Tudor rule to Stuart rule always interested me.

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

#397

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 4:38pm

I'm reading The Nonviolent Atonement.

GTs with Christus Victor and Anselm of Canterbury.

#398

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 4:53pm

Oy. My name is Rachael and I AM A "TWILIGHT" ADDICT

"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson

#399

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 6:06pm

I just finished Leslie Jordan's My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, and I am in the middle of Atonement, which I find astonishingly good, even though I have seen the movie and know what happens. Next in line for upcoming vacations are Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever, which violates my prohibition against memoirs, but, with a title like that, how can one resist, and Hero by Perry Moore.

"I am open, and I am willing, For to be hopeless would seem so strange. It dishonors those who go before us, So lift me up to the light of change." Holly Near

#400

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 6/16/08 at 9:01am

Elphaba, can you share your experience with the Kindle? Pros, cons? I've been wondering how they work, if they're worth getting.

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