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| Gruenberg | Sep 20 2008, 01:26 AM Post #241 |
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Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is, thus far, pretty disturbing and very interesting, though I think there are a number of problems with her analysis. |
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| Gruenberg | Oct 9 2008, 03:38 AM Post #242 |
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The book group has moved onto Norwegian Wood, which I'm not hugely looking forward to as I found the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle totally impenetrable. Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent is thought-provoking without taking itself too seriously. |
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| eco | Oct 9 2008, 04:46 AM Post #243 |
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I LOVED the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, found it surprisingly easy to read. I suspect much of it sailed many thousand feet above my head but it was a joy to read nonetheless. |
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| qumkent | Oct 10 2008, 12:03 AM Post #244 |
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, it's about the Road Hill House murder in 1860 in England and one of the first great english police detectives who tried to solve it. It's creepy and distrubing as anything which looks too closely at the underbelly of victorian Britain tends to be. |
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| The Palentine | Oct 10 2008, 09:53 AM Post #245 |
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Bobby the Brain: Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All, by Bobby Heenan and Steve Anderson. Next to Freddie Blassie, Bobby 'the Brain' Heenan was one of my favorite managers in Wrestling. He made you want to boo him and his wrestlers(which was his job). He was even more entertaining doing commentary with Gorilla Monsoon, and his early days with WCW. This is a collection of stories from Wrestling, and his experiences in over 40 years with the business. as an additional bonus, here are three of my favorite Heenan Exchanges.... :lol:
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| The Evil Smurfs | Oct 12 2008, 07:49 AM Post #246 |
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I just finished "Soon I Will Be Invincible". Pretty good. It's framed as a superhero novel, but it's really about the people. And, oddly enough, despite the aggressive unhappiness of every character in the book, it's quite enjoyable. |
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| eco | Oct 13 2008, 05:12 AM Post #247 |
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My 'plus one' at my dad's wedding (where, I kid ye not, he accidentally referred to his bride as his "awfully wedded wife") is reading this. |
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| Gruenberg | Oct 25 2008, 06:48 AM Post #248 |
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So it turns out Breakfast at Tiffany' is a pants book. About to finish The Lost Boys by James Miller. |
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| Snefaldia | Oct 25 2008, 10:15 AM Post #249 |
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Reading more of Totman's books for research. I'm the sort of person who gets off reading history, so I'm actually enjoying the books- William W. Kelly- Water Control in Tokugawa Japan Conrad Totman- The Lumber Industry in Early Moden Japan My research topic is, surprise surprise, environmental policy in the Tokugawa era. I seriously need a leisure book. |
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| The Palentine | Oct 28 2008, 08:16 AM Post #250 |
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Hyper Police, Volume 1, by MEE. A delightful action/comedy manga where monsters out number humans(who are an endangered law protected spiecies.) The Main characters are a bounty hunting pair of a catgirl Natsuki, and her partner Sakura, a "foxgirl"(who secretly wants to eat Natsuki). Its very fun to read, and on the plus side it explained all about a catgirl's panties. :captspauld: |
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| The Palentine | Nov 18 2008, 10:03 AM Post #251 |
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy, by Ian W. Toll the title says it all. Really good book so far. Billy Conn-The Pittsburgh Kid, by Paul F. Kennedy A biography of the great boxer Billy Conn. |
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| The Evil Smurfs | Nov 21 2008, 04:06 AM Post #252 |
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Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid by Dr. Denis Leary. |
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| Gruenberg | Nov 28 2008, 08:03 PM Post #253 |
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Parecon by Michael Albert and The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin - maybe neither of them convince me that anarchism isn't the intellectual preserve of the young and the lazy, but hot damn these guys can write. And interesting ideas. |
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| Snefaldia | Nov 30 2008, 09:09 PM Post #254 |
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No one's hotter than Bea.
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Background: I read Atlas Shrugged on a whim freshman year, and it was one of the most painful experiences I've ever had in literature. So, when my mother told me about a scholarship application that involved reading The Fountainhead I almost dropped my tea out of terror. Picked up The Aeneid again after a few years on the shelf, I should have re-read it last year after I picked my way through the Iliad. For all the pseudo-political Julian abasement, it's really a testament that Virgil was able to create a piece of literature to follow Homer so well. |
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| New Leicestershire | Nov 30 2008, 09:32 PM Post #255 |
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“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” Dorothy Parker on Atlas Shrugged |
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