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Old April 18th, 2008, 08:52 PM   #751 (permalink)
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My biography phase continuesa unabated; I am now deep into Sylvia Plath and being reminded what a cock Ted Hughes was.
Yeah, it's not terribly surprising that the "Hughes" has been chisled off her gravestone several times.
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Old April 20th, 2008, 08:55 AM   #752 (permalink)
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I can't stay away from paranormal/ghost books.

I just finished "Ghosts, hauntings & the supernatural world" by Roy Harley Lewis and "Ghosts over Britain" by Peter Moss, and highly recommend both. Interesting/creepy stuff.
I love reading about those topics and watching shows like that on tv (documentaries ).
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Old April 20th, 2008, 12:18 PM   #753 (permalink)
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^^Woooo...Ghosts freaks me out. I don't really believe but sometimes they show things that give me pause and then freak me out bigtime.

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Yeah, it's not terribly surprising that the "Hughes" has been chisled off her gravestone several times.
I saw the two places she lived on Primrose Hill yesterday! My friend just moved to the square where she lived with Ted Hughes and the house where she offed herself is right around the corner. Strange experience for some reason.
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Old April 23rd, 2008, 07:38 AM   #754 (permalink)
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Just started 'The English' by Jeremy Paxman. Great book. As good as his other book 'Royalty'.
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Old April 23rd, 2008, 07:43 AM   #755 (permalink)
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Engleby by Sebastian Faulks. So far so good.
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Old April 25th, 2008, 02:13 AM   #756 (permalink)
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Finished Snakehead and am almost done with The Unholy Grail/Return To Groosham Grange, also by Anthony Horowitz. Great author, great book!
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Old April 26th, 2008, 11:58 AM   #757 (permalink)
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Schulz by David Michaels.

It's the bio of Charles Schulz who created the Peanuts comic.

He was a very dark dude. And depressed. On his wedding day he turned to his bride and said, "I can never be happy."

Anyway I grew up reading the Peanuts and watching the specials and now I have a whole new outlook on them.
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Old April 26th, 2008, 05:09 PM   #758 (permalink)
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Seawitch by Alistair MacLean, I'm only at the beginning
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Old April 26th, 2008, 05:58 PM   #759 (permalink)
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ugh, i'm not reading anything right now. i've got so much going on at work i can't concentrate on anything on the side that isn't dumb movies or internet gossip.
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After a couple of false starts I recently read Love In The time Of Cholera. I'm usually a fast reader but this had to be read much more slowly. Although I found that frustrating at first, I eventually learned to like the slow style of writing. Unfortunately, I simply couldn't love its principal characters. Big failure in that department.
while i liked it a lot, i couldn't get into love in the time of cholera the same way i did with 100 years of solitude, which i loved. even though it's longer and the story is more complex, i found it to be an easier read.
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Old April 26th, 2008, 06:35 PM   #760 (permalink)
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A Widow For One Year by John Irving.
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Old April 28th, 2008, 06:33 AM   #761 (permalink)
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I finished "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg. I found this one by chance at the library and thought I would give it a try since the subject matter seemed interesting, I had not read any book about transgender people before, and overall I thought it was a compelling story. I could feel the emotions both postive and negative that the main character went through. At times it made me ashamed to know what people who feel different from what we recognize as male and female had and have to go through in terms of hatred and persecution.

I started reading a book about a destructive relationship by Dutch writer Oek de Jong. Very detailed look into the main characters minds and their relationship, I feel it's too long and there are too many repetitive sex scenes.
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Old April 28th, 2008, 07:21 AM   #762 (permalink)
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A Widow For One Year by John Irving.
haven't read that one yet but i started 'a prayer for owen meany' by irving yesterday. i'm already about 200 pages in and i open it up any time i have even a few minutes free. he's such a great storyteller.
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Old April 29th, 2008, 01:22 AM   #763 (permalink)
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Lisey's Story

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Old April 29th, 2008, 09:10 AM   #764 (permalink)
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics by Natalie Angier

It's about science, and it's quite good so far
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Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer.

It's about the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints. It is fascinating.

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In 1984, Ron and Dan Lafferty murdered the wife and infant daughter of their younger brother Allen. The crimes were noteworthy not merely for their brutality but for the brothers' claim that they were acting on direct orders from God. In Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer tells the story of the killers and their crime but also explores the shadowy world of Mormon fundamentalism from which the two emerged. The Mormon Church was founded, in part, on the idea that true believers could speak directly with God. But while the mainstream church attempted to be more palatable to the general public by rejecting the controversial tenet of polygamy, fundamentalist splinter groups saw this as apostasy and took to the hills to live what they believed to be a righteous life. When their beliefs are challenged or their patriarchal, cult-like order defied, these still-active groups, according to Krakauer, are capable of fighting back with tremendous violence. While Krakauer's research into the history of the church is admirably extensive, the real power of the book comes from present-day information, notably jailhouse interviews with Dan Lafferty. Far from being the brooding maniac one might expect, Lafferty is chillingly coherent, still insisting that his motive was merely to obey God's command. Krakauer's accounts of the actual murders are graphic and disturbing, but such detail makes the brothers' claim of divine instruction all the more horrifying. In an age where Westerners have trouble comprehending what drives Islamic fundamentalists to kill, Jon Krakauer advises us to look within America's own borders. --John Moe
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