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Huh. Looks pretty cool, though not at all what I expected ~_^
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I'm in the middle of Frederick Buechner's On the Road With the Archangel, and I can't put the thing down. Great storytelling! I wish I'd gotten into his work sooner. ooooooooh frederick buechner is awesome... i've never read his fiction, but his nonfiction is some of the most witty, thought-provoking writing i've EVER come across... you should check out his book "wishful thinking" ~ the man is a genius. did you like the book? |
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The book was good, although it fell apart in the final 3 or 4 chapters, both theologically and from a storytelling perspective. Buechner asserted that God doesn't "afflict" people... so, um, what would you call the ten plagues?
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« Reply #46 on: July 20, 2003, 02:19:35 PM » |
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The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov (I've read this series before, but decided to start again) Quality. I have just finished The Giver and Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, and I have to say those are two of the best books I have ever read. Lowry is an incredible storyteller, and those two books are powerful and beautiful at the same time. They're both really short and are emminently readable (I finished each in about two hours), but they pack a punch! |
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« Reply #49 on: July 20, 2003, 09:23:51 PM » |
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The book was good, although it fell apart in the final 3 or 4 chapters, both theologically and from a storytelling perspective. Buechner asserted that God doesn't "afflict" people... so, um, what would you call the ten plagues? i don't know, i can't comment on that i guess... but i'm glad you liked his storytelling. really tho', i prefer his non-fiction ~ it's some of the most insightful stuff i've ever read... my favorite author by FAR... |
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« Reply #50 on: July 21, 2003, 07:37:46 AM » |
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it's title is misleading, because it has nothing to do with 3.14, and if it did i wouldn't be caught reading it. Awww....I was hoping it would be a book about math  Sounds interesting. I'll add it to the list. Since the list is egregiously long already, though, probably my hypothetical future children will read it before I do |
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I've started Everyday Apocalypse, I find myself disagreeing with some of his points so far, such as the book of Revelation not being at all literal. :angry: But the whole outlook of looking for revelutionary truth in everything is interesting.
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I find myself disagreeing with some of his points so far, such as the book of Revelation not being at all literal. Hmm? I don't remember that part, truth be told, and I've read the book thrice now. If you wan find that part again, can you give me the page number? Actually, why don't we start a separate thread about that book? It's got so much to discuss! |
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« Reply #54 on: July 28, 2003, 08:34:00 AM » |
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I haven't read it, sadly, but I thought the movie was great. Usually I hate it when people say that, but I'm going to be a hypocrite and say it anyway  It's an incredible story, and after you're done I look forward to discussing it with you. Maybe I should put it on 'the list'. As for myself, I was on a reading rage this weekend: I read five books. Among them was Madeline L'Engle's sci-fi/fantasy book A Wrinkle in Time, which I remembered liking a lot as a kid. I was less impressed with it this time around, and it was a lot more religiously pluralistic and off-the-wall than I had previously thought. Maybe her views aren't so accurately portrayed in this very short work of fiction, though, so I'll suspend judgment until I get around to reading Walking on Water (sometime in the year 2020, no doubt). On the other hand, I re-read The Westing Game as well, and was impressed by how well it was written. It is labeled a children's book, but I think The Giver is too, and it's one of the best books I've read. Kids and adults will both be amused and enthralled by the amusing and interesting puzzle mystery the book serves up, and nobody will leave only half full. |
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« Reply #56 on: July 28, 2003, 06:11:34 PM » |
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« Reply #57 on: July 29, 2003, 08:32:29 AM » |
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Lord of the Flies is a good book. I really enjoyed it (which sounds morbid, if you know the book, but anyway).
I'm trekking through Middle Earth right now, as I read the Lord of the Rings, for yes, the first time.
But yesterday, I was reading the AME Church 1980 Discipline book. It's outdated by 20 years, but I finally wanted to figure out where my denomination stood on things.
Anyway. I hope to pick up some Lewis Caroll this week. Like Through the Looking Glass. I heard it was pretty good. =)
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« Reply #58 on: August 09, 2003, 08:15:16 PM » |
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I just purchased 4 books for my reading list...they are:
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
My Antonia by Willa Cather
and I still have two more to read...all by september 2nd. ahah, I love being a slacker.
Our Town isn't too bad. It's nice because it's a play. I like plays.
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« Reply #59 on: August 09, 2003, 08:19:00 PM » |
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I'm halfway through What to Listen For in Music, by Aaron Copland. It's a decent book... sort of dry, but worth reading.
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« Reply #60 on: August 12, 2003, 04:03:09 PM » |
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I'm currently rereading Lord Of The Rings so it'll be fresh in my mind when Two Towers Extended Edition and Return Of The King come out this year. Then I realize I'm going to have to purposely shun LOTR for a while to avoid tolkien-obsession. It is still as beautiful and heart wrenching as it's ever been though.
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now and then, by buechner - I love reading his memoirs
life of pi - I loved this. Highly recommended.
blue like jazz by donald miller- also enjoyable.
After the tolkien binge, I think I'll reread some old spiritual classics, maybe some Merton fresh air.
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« Reply #61 on: August 12, 2003, 04:06:47 PM » |
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Hmm...plenty of props for Life of Pi. I might have to check it out...
And the Two Towers DVD comes out on August 26 (which is special for some other reason, though it escapes me right now...). Extended version lovers must wait many more moons. Tragic!
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« Reply #62 on: August 12, 2003, 04:08:01 PM » |
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I am currently finished The Princess Bride so I can start rereading Lord of the Rings for the same reason that iota mentions.
I don't think I will be able to read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; it is too heartwrenching.
Our Town and Through the Looking Glass are two good ones I want to reread sometime. Lewis Carroll is cool.
how is Les Mis going, Dv? it's a great book, but I must confess that I probably wouldn't have stuck with it if I had picked up the unabridged version first. I reread the abridged version immediately after finishing it, though, and later picked up the unabridged.
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« Reply #63 on: August 12, 2003, 04:09:24 PM » |
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I just picked up The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters today at the library and am looking forward to starting those.
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« Reply #64 on: August 12, 2003, 04:12:52 PM » |
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I just picked up The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters today at the library and am looking forward to starting those. The Screwtape Letters is a good book. I had an opportunity to read TGD, but at the time I thought it was some heartwrenching story about two parents divorcing and leaving some child abandoned... |
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« Reply #67 on: August 20, 2003, 12:36:06 PM » |
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I just finished reading all five Harry Potter books (it took me 2 weeks), and I am addicted. Oh my. I can't wait for the next movie. Though the fifth book was my favorite.
Right now I'm reading What's So Amazing About Grace by Phillip Yancey...and am coming to realize that I can't comprehend God's grace right now. Some of the things he's said, my logical mind refuses to believe how they can be true. I like Yancey's use of "modern parables" - it's put stuff in a new perspective for me.
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People keep telling me to read Harry Potter. It's not that I'm embarassed to read them--I'm enough of a Tolkien and Doyle fanboy that my credibility in that department is already low--but I just have so much other stuff to read that I should get the other stuff out of the way first.
And, despite my protests, there IS something in me that doesn't want to read them because I don't want to just follow the crowd. Rar.
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And, despite my protests, there IS something in me that doesn't want to read them because I don't want to just follow the crowd. Rar. I hear you, but I think the crowd is on to something this time. Polka_Dot, the fifth was your fav? I find that slightly odd. Maybe we should start a Harry Potter thread. Well, right now I kind of got sidetracked off my normal reading, so now I'm reading Calvin and Hobbes cartoons and the manual to my TI86 graphing calculator(which is really cool, BTW). |
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Programming my calculator back in middle school was the best. My friends and I would have these hugely intricate programs that would do all these amazing things. Then when we got to high school we realized that we were idiots and started programming computers instead ]_[
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Agreed. Bill Watterson gets preachy every now and then, but Calvin and Hobbes is still the best strip EVER. Wonderfully drawn and written, and with real CHARACTERS, not just stereotypes. It's consistently funny, but, more amazing than that, the strip makes you think sometimes, too.
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I like the Tenth Anniversary collection of his...he writes a good bit about his thoughts and reactions, and it helps me see the comic in a new light. He takes comics pretty seriously, which I suppose is natural, but a very interesting look into his brain.
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« Reply #73 on: August 20, 2003, 03:28:09 PM » |
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I am not sure you could call cartoons literature, but they are reading so thats close enough. I am reading Dune right now. Not very far in it, but its pretty good. Before I started that, I was catching up on the Remnants books. They are extremely weird and very short, but pretty interesting stories. Before those I reread Harry Potter. I think those are some of the most interesting books I have ever read. Lord of the Rings is better, but the way Harry Potter books are written is very good. J.K. Rowling has a very good imagination.
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I'll finally get to read the new Harry Potter book soon, I hope. A friend promised to lend me her copy. Can't wait, though I've almost forgotten everything that happened in book four...
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Polka_Dot, the fifth was your fav? I find that slightly odd. Maybe we should start a Harry Potter thread Yah, I am slightly odd. Or so I've been told. I loved how Harry was so real in the fifth book. All the anger and frustration with authority just made him seem so easy to identify with. He's fifteen, he' going to have an attitude problem. And the twins always crack me up. I just wish she would have tied up some of the loose ends in the book, instead of leaving them for the 6th book. I can't wait that long! Though I liked the 4th book just as much as the fifth book. It made me cry. Vlad! I thought the same thing, that's why I didn't want to read them at first. I thought they were over-hyped. But they're actually really good books with believable characters. And they got better with each book. Or at least, I thought so. |
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I am not sure you could call cartoons literature, but they are reading so thats close enough. I am reading Dune right now. Not very far in it, but its pretty good. Before I started that, I was catching up on the Remnants books. They are extremely weird and very short, but pretty interesting stories. Before those I reread Harry Potter. I think those are some of the most interesting books I have ever read. Lord of the Rings is better, but the way Harry Potter books are written is very good. J.K. Rowling has a very good imagination.
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