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    How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom.

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    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows~J.K Rowling..
    I need to go to the bookstore.....

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    Leaves of Grass, First and "Death-Bed" Editions,
    --Barnes & Noble Classics

    i have to thank virgil for his high praise of the first edition which inspired the purchase.
    "He was nauseous with regret when he saw her face again, and when, as of yore, he pleaded and begged at her knees for the joy of her being. She understood Neal; she stroked his hair; she knew he was mad."
    ---Jack Kerouac, On The Road: The Original Scroll

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    Turning Training into Learning: How to Design and Deliver Programs that Get Results by Sheila W. Furjanic and Laurie A. Trotman.

    It's for my next job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jon1jt View Post
    Leaves of Grass, First and "Death-Bed" Editions,
    --Barnes & Noble Classics

    i have to thank virgil for his high praise of the first edition which inspired the purchase.
    Thanks Jon. I'm no expert on Whitman, but I think the first edition is the better. I don't think he edited well. When he just let it out he was at his best. In all fairness to him, he was really breaking ground with his form and didn't have any models to go by. I've grown to really respect Whitman as I read him more.
    Last edited by Virgil; 09-04-2007 at 10:12 PM.
    LET THERE BE LIGHT

    "Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena

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    I do book orders from chapters.ca, so:

    The Last Day of a Condemned Man- Victor Hugo
    Notes from the Underground- Fyodor Dostoevsky
    The Gambler- Fyodor Doestoevsky
    The Death of the Korosko- Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky
    'I can resist anything but temptation'- Oscar Wilde

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    The Psycho Ex Game by Merrill Markoe and Andy Prieboy

    I saw it when I was 13(5yrs ago) and I knew I had to have it...but I forgot about it...so wandering around looking for AP study prep guide, I saw it and bought it...instead of the study prep

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    Father Raven and other tales by A E Coppard

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    The Stranger ~ Albert Camus

    whoooozzzzzeeee....pause. (trying to figure out exactly what makes someone so damned obstinate at times)
    "Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house, they are company and don't let me catch you remarking on their ways like you were so high and mighty."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Riesa View Post
    The Stranger ~ Albert Camus
    One of my favorites; please do write a review once you finish reading (that is, if you have time).
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    "It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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    The Silmarillion -- J.R.R. Tolkien
    If you kill a book, you kill an idea

    We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn

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    Ecce hommo by Nietzsche.. wouldnt be better ask, last book you have stolen?
    The 21 century dislike of us is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a broke glass.

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    An evil cradling-Brian Keenan
    Atonement- McEwen
    Inferno-Dante
    sabbaths theatre- Philip Roth
    What Maisie Knew- Henry James
    Voice of the gods- Trudi Canavan
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer


    my poems-please comment Forum Rules

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    On amazon.com I bought:

    Marriage on the Rock - Jimmy Evans (Pastor is going to start pre-marriage counseling and that is his choice)

    and

    How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success fromt he Country's Top Students - Cal Newport (I think I am getting all psyched out about starting school)
    "So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."


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    Hmm I think it was


    Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence
    "The elements themselves do not endure;
    Examine how they change and learn from me...
    Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old
    Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly
    Contrives. In all creation, trust me,
    There is no death -- no death, but only change
    And innovation; what we men call birth
    Is but a different new beginning; death
    Is but to cease to be the same..."
    --Ovid, Metamorphosis


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