has anyone heard of John Dickson Carr? i'm reading a collection of his stories its pretty good!
has anyone heard of John Dickson Carr? i'm reading a collection of his stories its pretty good!
"What's in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
William Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet
1. José Saramago - Stad der blinden (EN: Blindness)
2. Because it's an interesting fact, a lot of people getting blind all of a sudden. A friend of mine had the book and also told me it's good.
3. Dutch: "De oranje schijf lichtte op. Twee auto's vooraan gaven vlug gas voor het rood werd." (EN: The orange disk started to shine. Two cars at the front accelerated quickly, before the light could turn green.)
4. 22/333
5. I already like the story. It's nicely written, nice use of sentences and doubletalk.
Loved this book!!Originally Posted by Erna
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
1: The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
2: I saw the film and loved it, and lots of people have recommended the book to me.
3: "Tom glanced behind him and saw the man coming out of the Green Cage, heading his way".
4:108/250
5: Very good - even better than the film. The good thing about the book is that you feel like you /are/ Tom Ripley, which makes it much more interesting.
So did I, and in fact just noticed on Friday that he has just published a sequel, of sorts, to it, called Seeing.
1: Europe Central by William Vollman
2: I became interested when it won the US National Book Award last year, and it's been on my bookshelf at home.
3: "A squat black telephone, I mean an octopus, the god of our Signal Corps, owns a recess in Berlin (more probably Moscow, which one German general has named the core of the enemy's whole being)."
4:10/832
5: Interesting writing, but I'm only a few pages in. I'll post an update as I get further along.
1) The Reformation: Europe's House Divided by Diarmaid MacCulloch
2) There's a long answer and a short answer to this. I'll give the short answer here - I grew up in the West Of Scotland
3) "Who or what is a Catholic? This Greek word has become one of the chief battlegrounds is western Latin Christianity, for it is used in different ways which outside observers of Christian foibles find thoroughly confusing.
4) 213/708
5) Extremely informative
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
That's a great site and very helpful, thank you!There is a sort of glossary in the back of this translation but the site goes into much more depth. And I'm loving the book, I will definately read more Bulgakov in the future, I've even added the above mentioned book on my amazon 'wish list'.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
1. Laurell K. Hamilton, OBsidian Butterfly book 9 on the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series.
2. I'm steadily working my way through the series and getting more and more addicted as I go.
3. See quote the book you are reading thread, I love Hamilton's opening quotes.
4. 260
5. Fantastic, its really getting into a character that hasn't been much focussed on the series as yet called Edward.
'We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry becasue we are members of the human race.'
- Mr D. Keating Dead Poets Society
1. Jorge Luis Borges via translator, Andrew Hurley. The book, "Collected Fictions" and have been re-reading "The Garden of Forking Paths"
2. For enjoying a classic as well as find the theme of the work. So far, I know it deals with the idea of how the universe is filled with different courses or possibilities that occur simultaneously, but we only go through one course. I sense there is skepticism in this idea through the plot.
3.4. Actually I'm finished, so I'm just scanning it really. But the pages are 118-128.On page 242 of The History of the World War, Liddell Hart tells us that an Allied offensive against the Serre-Montauban line (to be mounted by thirteen British divisions backed by one thousand four hundred artillery pieces) had been planned for July 24, 1916, but had to be put off until the morning of the twenty-ninth.
5. It is a very intriguing blend of the metaphysical and of war.
Hey! What are u reading right now? Answer the following:
1. "The Adventures of Huckleberry" Finn by Mark Twain
2. a friend of mine recommended it to me.
3. "YOU DON'T KNOW about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter."
4. page 237
5. Its a classis that gives you the view of how America was back in the old days.
Last edited by Gozeta; 05-16-2006 at 01:06 PM.
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
Jeanne Moreau
Oooooohhh...enjoy enjoy truth! I'm still reading the Anita Blake series as well, sadly I started out of order, but c'est la vi, it is still an awesome series in my opinion!
1. I am now reading "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman
2. I decided to read it because I heard Salzman speak at a convention and a book about teaching writing in Juvinile Hall sounded awesome
3. "Mr. Jenkins unlocked the bolt and pushed and pushed the steel-frame door to K/L unit open with his shoulder."
4. pg 24/326...just started
5. too early to tell, but it still promises very interesting samples of the students' writings
I liked this one too but I prefer The Adventures of Tom Sawyer!
EDIT: Oh it is Gozeta.
I thought it was Virgil, man!
Last edited by Pensive; 05-17-2006 at 03:39 AM.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Suetonius - Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Vergil - Eclogues
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus - Letter of the Younger Pliny
Galinsky - Roman Culture
Shelton - As the Romans Did
Comparetti - Virgil in the Middle Ages
Man, I'm dull...
"Extremem hun, Arethusa, mihi concede laborem"
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was, she said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.
Read about that book in the newspapers before I knew Blindness existed (they were mentioning this book also). I want to read Seeing, too
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