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In-between my work-related reading, I'm currently reading In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker; an SF author. Well-written, in a light tone.

"The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. 'I already know the important things!' we say. Then Changer comes and throws our old ideas away."

--Frank Herbert; Chapterhouse: Dune

 

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

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Aegypt by John Crowley, published in the 80s. Picked up at random, never heard of it before. Absolutely bloody brilliant - don't you just love it when that happens? Of course, subsequent googling reveals the guy is world famous, much loved by many etc - all of which had passed me by for the past 20 years.

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Rereading _Generations_ by William Strauss and Neil Howe; _The Codebreakers_ by David Kahn and next up will be _The Bell Curve_ by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray.

FWIW, I think that Generations and _The Nine Nations of North America_ explain a lot about this continent. I also think that Internet booksellers are as bad as Internet pen sellers for people who like to write and read. Has the word "libraholic" been coined yet? If not, it has now.

 

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Sometimes a technology reaches perfection and further development is just tinkering. The fountain pen is a good example of this.

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yup,

 

i'm a bookaholic. i buy 'em, particularly from amazon.com re-sellers of used books--got stiffed only once. i got sarah paretsky's "firesale" for a penny and $3.69 shipping. i just purchased andrea camilieri's latest mystery and i am reading "mistress of the art of death" by ariana franklin. a new mystery series begins. retirement is wonderful.

i am going to join the library, for dvds. :bunny01: :bunny01: :bunny01: :bunny01: :bunny01:

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking- william butler yeats
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world. robert frost

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I bought my daughter the Harry Potter set and she is now on book 5....

I really was not going to read them, but listening to her made me decide to...

So I just finished book 2 and am pleasantly surprised at how they are just as good read for adults...

I have to wait until her friend at school finishes book 3 (hopefully this weekend) to continue...

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I usually read a novel and something factual in tandem.

 

Novel - David Gemmell's Shield of Thunder

 

Factual - book one of the ISIS Bob Dylan anthologies.

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I'm reading Why We Buy, by Paco Underhill. A very interesting look at someone who helps stores design their layout to increase sales.

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An ebook: "Getting Stoned with Savages", J. Maarten Troost

and "On Chesil Beach", Ian McEwan

 

I am really enjoying the first book - it is autobiographical and set in Vanuatu, and I love reading of these places.

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yup,

 

i'm a bookaholic. i buy 'em, particularly from amazon.com re-sellers of used books--got stiffed only once. i got sarah paretsky's "firesale" for a penny and $3.69 shipping. i just purchased andrea camilieri's latest mystery and i am reading "mistress of the art of death" by ariana franklin. a new mystery series begins. retirement is wonderful.

i am going to join the library, for dvds. :bunny01: :bunny01: :bunny01: :bunny01: :bunny01:

 

I always find it hilarious when I get a used book online that's so cheap it makes the standard shipping look expensive :P

 

Of asphodel, that greeny flower, I come, my sweet, to sing to you!" -- William Carlos Williams

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Finally finished the Umberto Eco book! Now to email Tytyvyllus.

 

Now I am reading "Aspects of the Novel" by E.M. Forster

 

 

Yes the Shakespeare was a rather bittersweet item. But the end,....

 

 

Kurt

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I bought my daughter the Harry Potter set and she is now on book 5....

I really was not going to read them, but listening to her made me decide to...

So I just finished book 2 and am pleasantly surprised at how they are just as good read for adults...

I have to wait until her friend at school finishes book 3 (hopefully this weekend) to continue...

 

Griz, I liked books 1 and 2, but I recall thinking that the end of Book 3 is where things really start to get terrific, plot-wise. By the end of Book 4, the general light-heartedness has faded, and you start to see where things are going long-term....and you start to read faster!

 

Better hurry, you've got to catch up before July 21! :D

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I'm catching up on some science fiction I've missed due to being too busy to read more than Analog and Asimov's. The latest in the Retrieval Artist series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, the end of the Species Imperative trilogy by Julie E. Czerneda, and next up is Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain. Light reading, mostly, though I have high hopes for the last title.

 

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Many thanks to FPN posters who suggested authors Neil Gaiman and Anton Gill.

Just ordered 5 more Gaiman books and awaiting the last 'Huy the scribe' mystery.

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"The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, the remarkable story of Captain Cook's encounters in the South Seas," by Ann Salmond, Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies at the University of Aukland. This was recommended to me by Maori poet Robert Sullivan. A very interesting -- entertaining even -- account of two cultures in collision. If you've read any Pacific history or literature (Melville anyone?) this will be quite engaging.

 

Doug

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"Sick Puppy" by Carl Hiaasen. A couple of years ago a friend gave me one of his books, and I've since read most of them. Fun and light, nothing deep or serious. A great "drop off to sleep" line of books. And they are all interesting.

 

Randy

"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." J. B. Books (John Wayne in "The Shootist")

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