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husky51
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04.16.2011, 07:56 PM |
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husky51
The Old Guy
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Serenity\'s_Blade
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Im currently reading the Earthsea series. exelent set of books.
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arren18
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Great subject for your first post, I must say. Welcome to the Tavern!
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husky51
The Old Guy
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04.18.2011, 01:37 PM |
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fenkashi
Dibs on Supreme Overlord
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Welcome, indeed.
I have a list of books...there are lots on it that I read as a kid and don't really remember now. So anyways, I'm reading all of them...
First up is Catch-22.
Oh and I'm in the middle of the Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart. Just need time to get to the end. xD
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supertrf
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Registration Date: 04.03.11
Location: 合肥,安徽,中国P.R.China
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Welcome!
I'm also new...
Now reading:
1984 by George Orwell
__________________ 吾热爱吉卜力,热爱宫崎骏,爱动漫爱映画! 中国历史源远流长,泱泱华夏五千年。 文明圣火,千古未绝者,惟我无双;和天地并存,与日月
同光! 俺は宮崎駿監督のアニメーション映画が大好き! スタジオジブリの映画が一番! えど、アニメとライトノベルはお宅の精神食品が! 日本の文化は最高だ! I love Chinese culture, Japanese culture and USA culture! And I think animation is my best enjoyment in which Miyazaki Hayao's movie is the best!
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Nausicaa_Cat
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I'm reading Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. So far it's okay, though it can always be a bit tricky reading Russian prose since even when translated there's lots of references to Russian phrases or names or places that don't really mean anything to foreign readers. Still it's interesting.
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husky51
The Old Guy
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04.23.2011, 01:30 AM |
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fenkashi
Dibs on Supreme Overlord
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The Morning Star by Andre Schwarz-Bart
I'm so excited...and I've only read the jacket so far. xD
...I really need to stop starting new books before I finish old ones.
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husky51
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Working my way through my Louis L'Amour collection...
"Conagher" and "Rivers West" the last two days... He is an easy read, but realistic IMO
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finished "Killoe" this morning... also by L'Amour
in the future, if I don't mention the author, it is by L'Amour
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Just finished 'True Grit' by Charles Portis
The recent movie follows the book more than the first movie did, IMO book was first published in 1968...
Note:
I am not reading a lot just to be posting in here. I really do read these books and I am blessed that for many parts of the day, even when working, I am able to read quite a lot.
One job site ,when I take breaks and another where I sit and watch for others to come by and chase them off. While sitting I can read, watch tv, DVDs, did I mention read???, do crosswords. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to do the sitting and watching part... lol
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Rossdude
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Registration Date: 02.13.11
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Read Robert E. Howard short stories
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05.01.2011, 04:29 AM |
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husky51
The Old Guy
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05.01.2011, 10:30 PM |
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Yay! Kiki
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden which is really really really good.
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05.02.2011, 07:17 PM |
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husky51
The Old Guy
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05.02.2011, 10:10 PM |
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Brida - Paulo Cohelo...
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Why so much stress? Don't you have gains to get? We all do, even you! And the more you seek The more you find, then Love, night and rain - life is good So try to luck and kill the pain Tell me, do you always think you have no worth? Find it in yourself!
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husky51
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"Triple Jeopardy" a trilogy of Nero Wolfe short stories...
And I DO mean OLD!!! From 1951 and 52...I was still living in Canada then...
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an update...
Yes, our reading tastes change, which has been brought to mind by my reading of the above book. I finished it today and I must say, when I first read Rex Stout I was totally enamoured of his work. Now, however, I had to kinda force myself to finish what I had started...
It was, of course, extremely dated, but consistant with the time in which it was written... Now days, a man does NOT go into a barber shop, check his top coat, hat, vest and tie and be lathered up for a shave and then have a haircut. Most shops don't even offer a shave anymore, at least not around where I live. This was just one point I make to show the tales are dated. A great deal of the stories contain these datings and I grew tired of them.
'nuff said, he is still a great author, but I have apparently moved on in my tastes...
aigh, such is life...
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read a manga, "Freeway"
now starting on "The Iron Dragon's Daughter" by Micheal Swanwick
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Nausicaa_Cat
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quote: Originally posted by Yay! Kiki
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden which is really really really good.
Ahhh, I love Memoirs of a Geisha! The film is awesome too.
I just read The Little Prince, the children's story, on a whim whilst I was waiting for my mum to come home. I swear it's one of those books that no matter how old you are every time you read it it holds a new charm.
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husky51
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06.04.2011, 09:25 PM |
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Yay! Kiki
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quote: Originally posted by Nausicaa_Cat
quote: Originally posted by Yay! Kiki
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden which is really really really good.
Ahhh, I love Memoirs of a Geisha! The film is awesome too.
I just read The Little Prince, the children's story, on a whim whilst I was waiting for my mum to come home. I swear it's one of those books that no matter how old you are every time you read it it holds a new charm.
They are both so good~
And The Little Prince! That is such a good story. I have the deluxe unabridged popup book, it is the best thing in the world.
Right now I think I'm going to keep rereading the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman.
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