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[mm]

I don't think it is necessarily pretentious. Just people who like to talk about what they are reading and maybe to get some more suggestions.

Although this gem is puke worthy

[Jane]

[mm]

In the original English "Hop on Pop" by Dr. Suess.
Yes, I'm that fluent.

[Louis VI]

[Junior]

Ok I've started Cervantes' Don Quixote.

I always wanted to read it but never got around to it. Its a big book with some very literary and old englsih. So I guess its going to take a while.

i like to read one classic for every two modern writers.

[nukeday]

[NYC_Gal]

I'm brushing up on my Spanish and studying an e-textbook called Hello Hello. Disuse has made me rusty.

[Globutron]

[amanley206253]

Just finishing up the Book of the New Sun. I can't tell you how many times I've come across a passage that requires me to put the book down and smile at the genius of it. After finishing the Shadow of the Torturer and Claw of the Conciliator, I knew the third and fourth volumes would be epic, so I reread the first two to be thoroughly prepared. Gene Wolfe is quite the stellar chap.

What's next, I'm still deciding. I'm considering something more light (like something from Vonnegut that I haven't read) but we'll see. There's more from Wolfe I'd like to check out as well.

[Junior]

[paulandsilas]

I've been going for lighter far this past summer. Right now, I am on the last book of Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Next up is "The English Patient," and lastly, I want to reread "Women in Love" by D.H. Lawrence (The book should really be called "Men in Love."). Birkin is one of my favorite book characters.

[Louis VI]

I just read Saul Bellow's Seize the Day and the novella is as fresh and relevant as it surely was a half century ago. It's the story of a fortysomething who's lost his career and is stressing over paying alimony and not being able to see his two boys and more importantly is troubled by his well-off retired doctor father's lack of support, not just financially, in fact more emotionally. This loser takes the last of his savings, only enough to get by for a couple of months anyways, and invests it in lard futures trading with a guy he suspects of being a hustler, a fast talking con man he hopes really is trustworthy and though he decided a dozen times not to do it he invests his funds anyways, in fact, the habit of making impulsive decisions against his better judgement and interests defines his life. His is an angst-riddled character, and he spends a lot of time thinking about his problems as he awaits word of his investment in a hotel room rented by the month.

It is a character and a story from the era of Death of a Salesman and Waiting for Godot and in fact if you've read those two and liked the themes and issues then you might really enjoy Seize the Day. It sure gets one thinking, as the character is sure flawed enough to force one to analyze the decisions and behaviour of not only his but oneself and others one knows. And Saul Bellow is first rate and every page seems perfect in its own way, a work of art, unlike many writers nowadays.

[lawyertood]

The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose

A companion book to the HBO Miniseries about WWII in the Pacific

[Globutron]

Lyrics of the song Entangled by Genesis.

Whoring the band at the moment. This song is so... Is there a single word for haunting and beauty? I know there is... I remember it in a way that I don't quite remember it.

[Tundra_Creature]

Recently finished an easy read 'Mommy Told Me Not to Tell', by Cathy Glass. She's worked 20 years in foster care and now writes about some of the children she's taken care of. Interesting tales, and certainly makes you wonder about some of the homes these kids come from.

Also decided to borrow 'The Annotated Grimm Fairy Tales' from my local library. I have to admit, I've always liked fables, mythes and such things.