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  1. 06-05-2008, 04:40 AM #766
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    Quote Originally Posted by Idril View Post
    I loved The Way We Live Now but then again, I'm an unabashed Trollope fan. His novels are long, except for The Warden but they really are quick reads, his prose flows so nicely, the plot is always moving, the characters, for the most part, keep developing. A great Victorian author!
    I'm thinking this would be a healthy compliment to my Summer of James. Thanks.
    *begins*
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  2. 06-05-2008, 01:02 PM #767
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    I've just received my order today for 6 books from the Rougon-Macquart series by Emile Zola. They are:

    The Kill
    Pot Luck
    The Belly of Paris
    L'Assomoir
    Nana
    The Masterpiece
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    Les Miserables- Victor Hugo. About 30 pages into it, loving it so far.
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    When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
    Pretty amusing so far.
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    The Oddessy
    A Winter's Tale


    guess why?
    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

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  6. 06-05-2008, 04:05 PM #771
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    Quote Originally Posted by Page Sniffer View Post
    American Sea Writing - A Literary Anthology, pub by Library of America. Just found it onsale and bought it at the LOA website. Beautifully made book. Sixty-eight entries, 671 pages.
    Three cheers for the LOA. I look for their volumes whenever I'm in the library, and I'd buy them all if I could afford it. I'm on their mailing list, and those anthologies look really tempting...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jamesian View Post
    I'm thinking this would be a healthy compliment to my Summer of James. Thanks.
    *begins*
    Great! You'll have to let me know what you think of it.
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    feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
    porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
    but weighty and unmovable
    As black Dakota hills.     ~ Riesa
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    Quote Originally Posted by papayahed View Post
    The Oddessy
    A Winter's Tale


    guess why?
    I have to get the oddyssey. Have winters tale. Try pick Book up on way to work tomorrow.
    "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)"
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    The Host by stephenie meyer. i just got it today at approximately....3:00P.M., it is now...6:38P.M.
    Find your dream and stick with it...or your life will have slipped past in a whisper with you still on the bottom.
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  10. 06-06-2008, 05:43 AM #775
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    have a proof of that since march. Still havent read it though.
    "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)"
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    The Odyssey!
    "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."
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    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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  15. 06-07-2008, 07:24 AM #780
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    Hi. I just wanted to agree about how good Trollope is. I started collecting his works years ago, but haven't got them all yet. Too many books out there to read, so little money or time Anyway, he's brilliant at writing characters, with a light comedic touch. I can just see the unctious Reverend Obadiah Slope in my mind, along with the snooty and disdainful Mrs Proudie, and the many other excellent characters which people his novels. He writes with a lovely satirical eye about those bedrocks of the Victorian British Establishment, the Church and Parliament. I'd highly recommend him to anyone who likes a good story, well-told, with a bit of humour thrown in. He's not all about humour though. Take The Way We Live Now, or He Knew he was Right. There are some tragic characters in there too. A truly great author.
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