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wannago
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:26 am Post subject: |
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World Without End by Ken Follett
The sequel to Pillars of the Earth. I don't much care for any other work by Follett, but Pillars is one of my all time favorites. |
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TML1976

Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Location: South Korea
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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where is kyobo?
I've been to whatthebook, another store in shinsage at the expressbus term. and to a book store in coex. Is it one of the last two? cause i don't remember their names. |
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Tiger Beer

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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| "AUDACITY OF HOPE" by Barack Obama |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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The biggest one is downtown. It's on the corner, next to the Lee Soon-Shin statue that is in the middle of the street. Get off the subway at Gwanghwamoon. |
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VanIslander

Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
Just started this morning and the first paragraph is a smacker: it either wakes you up and gets you going for more or else it insults you and ends the foray.
An hour later I had to stop because I'm on a shopping trip in Seoul and I haven't time to finish it now.
Kyobo, here I come. |
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TML1976

Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Location: South Korea
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
The biggest one is downtown. It's on the corner, next to the Lee Soon-Shin statue that is in the middle of the street. Get off the subway at Gwanghwamoon. |
the statue near the american embassy? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| the statue near the american embassy? |
Yep. That's the one. There's a small pagoda thing on the corner.
Kyobo's on the corner on Jongro Street, in the basement. The main entrance is on the right side of the building if you are on Jongro Street. |
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TML1976

Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Location: South Korea
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:09 am Post subject: |
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| the statue near the american embassy? |
Yep. That's the one. There's a small pagoda thing on the corner.
Kyobo's on the corner on Jongro Street, in the basement. The main entrance is on the right side of the building if you are on Jongro Street. |
Thank you. |
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i_teach_esl

Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Location: baebang, asan/cheonan
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:52 am Post subject: |
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better than porn. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I just finished re-reading Sherman Alexie's first collection of short stories, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven". His later stories are more mature, but this collection is funny, sad, moving and a good demonstration why he is in the front rank of American writers today, and probably the most respected of American Indian writers. |
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The Bobster

Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Just started Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, a short story collection by Haruki Murakami. Haven't read any short stories in a long time, and I forgot - when they are good, sometimes they are hard. |
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Czarjorge

Joined: 01 May 2007 Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy |
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Adventurer

Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| wannago wrote: |
World Without End by Ken Follett
The sequel to Pillars of the Earth. I don't much care for any other work by Follett, but Pillars is one of my all time favorites. |
What is "World without End" about? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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Crusader Nation: The US in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920 by David Traxel
The back cover says it's about the Progressive Era, but it is really a social history of the US around World War I. There were only 3 chapters about the Progressives.
Still, it's pretty good. I know far more about John Reed boinking Mabel Dodge than I ever did before. Yes, you know who Mabel was. Just think about The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. You'll remember. |
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Gopher

Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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Have moved on to
Lizabeth Cohen's Consumers' Republic: the Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003); and
Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan (2007). |
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