Is anyone interested in a great books thread?

[Whatever]

I just read "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein. I like it. It's been a while since I had time to read a good book (well, two weeks ) and I was just so deeply into it, I'm having trouble waking up.

 

[Beebers]

That's a fine piece of writing, that book.
I'm re-reading My Old Man and the Sea, by David Hays and Daniel Hays. Father and son, the book is their memoir of their sail in a tiny boat, The Sparrow, from New England and around Cape Horn.

" . . . I grew up sailing with my father and brother, and with salts who whispered the great name the way elderly aunts whisper 'cancer'. 'The Horn can be tranquil,' one sailor said, but 'The Horn' was whispered."

 

[Don'tLiveonMoon]

I started reading "Eragon," which I've been wanting to read for a while now. I've heard an awful lot about it, partly because the author is so young. I've been really looking forward to it, but I'm about a third of the way through it and it really hasn't grabbed me so far. Hopefully it's just taking me a long time to get into...
Erin

 

[Beauregard]

Has anyone read The Winter Queen, by Boris Aknin?

I'm not really sure what to make of that....

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Winter snow-prippy crownholdaloter, Boarees Aktin-tin?

Not sure flamberger makeing of thatamost.

 

[scarylarrywolf]

I really haven't done much reading because I'm slow at it, and have a short attention span when it comes to that sort of thing. However, if anyone is interested in an excellent short story in the adventure genre, read Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game".

I made a few attempts to make that into a puppet movie, but I was too young to realize the importance of a human main character to the plot, and a wolf just wouldn't work.

 

[Don'tLiveonMoon]

Are you excited about the last Left Behind book, Beau? I work in a bookstore and we've got a ton of copies ready to fly off the shelves on Tuesday!
Erin

 

[Beebers]

I had the great misfortune of spending my last three high school years in a public school with an abysmal curriculum that was soaked in Boredom and sunk by Lethargy. I was one of those Avid Readers who came to resent being told what to read, when to read it and how to perceive it. I was a rebel -- wait -- was??? Oh, right, still am -- hence, I'm now at this relatively late date returning voluntarily to a lot of stuff I had turned away from when it was being hurled at me. Right now it seems to be quantities of poetry, Tennyson, Dickinson et al, also Arthur Rimbaud. He's NOT for the faint of heart, not everyone's cup of tea by any means, but what a brilliant writer. A Frenchman of Victorian times whose lifestyle would be viewed with a very jaundiced eye indeed in today's world. He died young, worn away by his own choices, and never wrote a word after the age of twenty. Fascinating brilliant creature. Anyway. A lot of poetry for me, lately.



Andy, any scholarly comment to offer on Rimbaud?

 

[Beauregard]

Are you excited about the last Left Behind book, Beau? I work in a bookstore and we've got a ton of copies ready to fly off the shelves on Tuesday!
Erin

Yeah, yeah, yeah very. Much, much, desperate!

Shame that it will... A. not be in England for a while, and B. not be in the library for a while after that.

BTW, have you read them? and/or do you get to read teh last one early if you work there?

 

[AndyWan Kenobi]

]Andy, any scholarly comment to offer on Rimbaud?

Sadly, no... But I have seen all of the Rocky movies. Is that close enough?

 

[Jennifer12]

Sadly, no... But I have seen all of the Rocky movies. Is that close enough?

And isn't Rimbaud referred to in Eddie and the Cruisers? "A Season in Purgatory?" Or something about Purgatory.... Or am I misremembering?

Jennifer