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For the Book Worms
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For the Book Worms
August 23, 2012 at 4:53 pm
My favorite? The TS Eliot one, of course.

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Although Faulkner is wise as always.

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RE: For the Book Worms
August 23, 2012 at 5:17 pm
My three favorite novels:
1) The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
2) The Bros. Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
3) Miss Lonelyhearts (Nathanael West)

I have been getting into Cormac McCarthy relatively recently and if I actually get into working on that totally batshit remake of Little Women I've been toying with, I fully intend to have Fritz Baer turn Jo into a Cormac McCarthy junkie partly by letting her read it herself, and partly by reading it aloud as part of his set and setting duties as a trip guide after Jo drops LSD into her eyeballs.
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RE: For the Book Worms
August 24, 2012 at 4:40 pm
I'm reading the Count of Monte Cristo at the moment, and loving it.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R Tolkien
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RE: For the Book Worms
August 27, 2012 at 10:47 am
For fiction, I'm now reading Dicken's Dombey and Son and for non-fiction, I'm reading Bart Ehrman's New Testament. Both are great.
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RE: For the Book Worms
August 27, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Good quotes!
I'm currently reading The Painted Bird by Kosinski and The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Both are horribly depressing Undecided but very well written.
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RE: For the Book Worms
August 27, 2012 at 2:21 pm
I'm re-reading Pride & Prejudice because I'm a sap, and Sex at Dawn, which is a fascinating look at human monogamy and how it's not really rooted in evolution.
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RE: For the Book Worms
August 27, 2012 at 2:40 pm
I´m currently reading In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. I´ve read it many times before but it still gives something new everytime I come back to it.
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RE: For the Book Worms
August 27, 2012 at 4:46 pm (This post was last modified: August 27, 2012 at 4:47 pm by Shell B.)
(August 27, 2012 at 2:21 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I'm re-reading Pride & Prejudice because I'm a sap, and Sex at Dawn, which is a fascinating look at human monogamy and how it's not really rooted in evolution.

I could have told you that. Wink It feels good, though.

I love the Poe one. I think all writers are crazy. Google thinks so too.
Christ, the Jane Austen one kind of describes my life, at the moment. Weird. I love books.
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RE: For the Book Worms
August 27, 2012 at 8:32 pm (This post was last modified: August 27, 2012 at 8:40 pm by Rayaan.)
I'm reading Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception

The mind fascinates me.
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(August 27, 2012 at 4:46 pm)Shell B Wrote: I think all writers are crazy.
I find that to be true for most intelligent/creative people ...

Crazy in a good way.
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RE: For the Book Worms
August 28, 2012 at 4:09 am (This post was last modified: August 28, 2012 at 4:26 am by Angrboda.)


I stopped reading fiction in college, as I felt I got just as much out of nonfiction and was learning something to boot. (I wasn't a strong reader.) I've recently reconsidered, but have yet to finish a fiction book. (My reading is driven by book clubs.) I started Jane Eyre, the Brothers Karamazov, and the Engines of God, but put them down after a few chapters and never resumed reading.

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And I joined a heathen bible study group, so we'll be starting the Old Testament shortly.
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