Sephia
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Hi all...just interested in what everyone is reading. Personally, i am rereading "1984" by George Orwell, also, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce (for school) and also "Lookig Backward" by Edward Bellamy.
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TahoeT
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Sephia said:
Hi all...just interested in what everyone is reading. Personally, i am rereading "1984" by George Orwell, also, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce (for school) and also "Lookig Backward" by Edward Bellamy.
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane. I've read 1984 several times - great book.
Have you read Brave New World or any other Aldous Huxley???
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Sephia
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I've read Brave New World...good book. I liked it a lot though I still think 1984 is better. Do you know of any other good dystopia books?
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Victor
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After back to back Dan Brown....DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons and Digital Fortress, next up is Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes. No mystery, no murder, no codes to break. Just beautiful Italy, friendship and food.
My brain needs a break........
Under the Tuscan Sun
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arcadia
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Reged: 11/24/03
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Guess I will will make this my introductory post. (Hi everyone  )
Right now, I'm re-reading The Temple And The Lodge, co-authored by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh (both of whom were co-authors, along with Henry Lincoln, of Holy Blood, Holy Grail). It's basically about trying to tie the origins of the Freemasons to the survival of the Knights Templar in Scotland after the pope banished them as an Order of the church.
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Sephia
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Hi Arcadia!
How is the book, sounds ok, but Hly Blood Holy Grril was a tad dry at parts..is this better?
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NoLifeKing
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I am reading Religion and Science by Bertrand Russell. After that I plan to read a Chuck Palahniuk book, then Siddhartha: A New Translation by Herman Hesse... I always have to break my dry books up with a little bit of Chuck Palahniuk
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arcadia
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Sephia,
The Temple And The Lodge starts off a little slow, explaining a bit of the history of Scotland, but as I am a history buff as well as a bibliophile it wasn't all that hard to get through.
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Sephia
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oh....maybe a bit later, since I'm up to my ears in history right now.
Currntly: Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey.
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ngnm
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Reged: 12/21/03
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someone above asked for dystopian novels other than BNW & 1984 - two very good dystopian novels i've read is "Kallocain" by the swedish poet Karin Boye (ISBN #0299038947 - amazon have it), and "The Handmaid's tale" by Margaret Atwood.
They're both very different from BNW & 1984, but still quite similar.... and above all very, very good..
oh, and this is my first post..
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