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The Third M?n · Posted: 09.16.2003 3:15 pm Post subject: Book you're currently reading

El Principe Destronado by Miguel Delibes (it's a Spanish book). I'm also reading Great Expectations. You?

matt header · Posted: 09.16.2003 5:05 pm Post subject:

"Being America" by Jedediah Purdy

Mark Dujsik · Posted: 09.16.2003 5:19 pm Post subject:

Oh yeah, reading. I had this big plan to read a lot this semester, but not working out too well.

I need to read The Taming of the Shrew--again--for my Shakespeare class, so let's just say I'm reading that.
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beltmann · Posted: 09.16.2003 9:41 pm Post subject:

It's tough to find time to read merely for pleasure when teaching literature, but I've usually got several books going at once. Right now:

Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser

You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet: The American Talking Film History and Memory, 1927-1949, Andrew Sarris

Jean Renoir, Andre Bazin

The Chosen, Chaim Potok

Eric

Danny Baldwin · Posted: 09.16.2003 10:48 pm Post subject:

I'm reading Glamoria by Bret Easton Ellis...yeah, I like the guy, so what.
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mfritschel · Posted: 09.16.2003 11:36 pm Post subject:

"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand, I love her stuff!

the night watchman · Posted: 09.16.2003 11:39 pm Post subject:

I'm reading A Fine Dark Line by Joe R. Lansdale, some Kafka stories (finally getting into his writing), and I just finished The Other Fifties: Interrogating Midcentury American Icons edited by Joel Foreman. I ususally read a fiction and nonfiction book at the same time, but I haven't decided yet what nonfic book I'll pick up next.
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the night watchman · Posted: 09.16.2003 11:44 pm Post subject:

the night watchman · Posted: 09.20.2003 3:48 am Post subject:

Settled on some light nonfic -- Haunted America by Michael Norman and Beth Scott. "True" ghostly tales from each of the fifty-one states and Canada. It's a companion to Haunted Heartland by the same authors.
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The Third M?n · Posted: 09.20.2003 10:17 am Post subject:

Having finished El Principe Destronado I have now started El Camino (The Way), by the same author, Miguel Delibes.

the night watchman · Posted: 09.20.2003 6:35 pm Post subject:

Oh, and I just recently purchased "What Bird Did That?" by Peter Hansard and Burton Silver, a self-described "driver's guide to some common birds of Noth American." Essentially, it allows you to identify the bird droppings on your windshield, and comes complete with photographic examples of each species of bird's dropping, a "splay topography" which details the parts of the dropping and the different formations -- such as splerd, sklop, and schplutz -- drying times, and even a section on bat splay. This, I could not pass up. Yes, it's tongue-and-cheek, but the information found therein seems scientifically accurate, which actually makes it even funnier.
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Michael Scrutchin · Posted: 09.20.2003 8:29 pm Post subject:

With school, I don't get to do much pleasure-reading. Currently reading for school: Propaganda and Persuasion (Jowett & O'Donnell), Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion (Pratkanis & Aronson), Propositional Logic (Pospesel), and Four Theories of the Press (Siebert, Peterson & Schramm). The course I'm taking on propaganda is fascinating. I'm also going through slowly, when I have the time, the Shirley Jackson short story collection titled The Lottery and Other Stories.
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mfritschel · Posted: 09.21.2003 4:58 pm Post subject:

Oh "The Lottery", who knew what fun one could have with stones and a box!

the night watchman · Posted: 09.21.2003 5:52 pm Post subject:

Yes, that collection is very good. If you ever get the chance, I recommend The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
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likeadeadduck · Grip Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Encinitas, CA

Im reading the Left Behind series by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins and I can honestly say they are the best books i have ever read. They are based on the biblical version of the rapture, but even if you are not religious (I am) they are very exciting and interesting books to read.
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