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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:34 pm    Post subject: General Fiction Reply with quote

Only quality to keep up the standard Cool





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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well if you really want to make your head spin.....try 'foucaults pendulum' by umberto eco...also, 'the name of the rose' by the same author
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:11 pm    Post subject: Atlas Shrugged Reply with quote

I have a First Edition 57th Impression, which was about half way though first year, of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
This is one of the greatest books of the 20th Century and everybody should read it especially politicians of all persuasions.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:16 pm    Post subject: Re: Atlas Shrugged Reply with quote

Brookie wrote:
I have a First Edition 57th Impression, which was about half way though first year, of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
This is one of the greatest books of the 20th Century and everybody should read it especially politicians of all persuasions.

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ok....seeing there's an election on (kath told me Rolling Eyes ) i'll chase it up
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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well if you really want to make your head spin.....try 'foucaults pendulum' by umberto eco...also, 'the name of the rose' by the same author


I tried reading 'the name of the rose' and it didn't last....I am a very harsh critic and will not persist with a novel that is not communicating to me...life is too short to read boring books...'Moby Dick' taught me this lesson.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love reading but admit that it is most escapist chick lit that I read, easy to pick up whenever I get a chance. Also like crime and thriller type ones.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i hate reading, do not have the patience to read a book. i buy the newspaper once a week and go straight to sports and for sale.

Cathy is the reader in this house.
Does she have any books?
Only about a thousand, she has books coming out the wood work.
Kids books, irish mhyths, and heeps of old books.
Me just not a reader, if i start a book, will read one page and then skip 20 as its all to booooring.

thats just me.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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splitfamily wrote:
well if you really want to make your head spin.....try 'foucaults pendulum' by umberto eco...also, 'the name of the rose' by the same author


I tried reading 'the name of the rose' and it didn't last....I am a very harsh critic and will not persist with a novel that is not communicating to me...life is too short to read boring books...'Moby Dick' taught me this lesson.


yeah, i know what ya saying Cool .......i liked the detective story part of 'the name of the rose' it did "reach out to me"....some of those novels we were forced to read at school nearly turned me off reading for good Confused ...fancy trying to make a 16yo boy read 'pride and prejudice' Evil or Very Mad

i did enjoy some 'heavier' stuff later on tho!......anyone ever read 'the glass bead game' by hermann hesse?.....

what about 'zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance'?.....a classic for those budding mechanic/philosophers Idea
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree with you splitfamily (peter)..why make younger kids read crap that may be considered literary classics when it doesn't communicate to a generation. I am not a smarter person because I read old classics that are irrelevant to the world I live in. The western aristocracy of what is 'a must read' will not stimulate thought or discussion in today's people. It may be a noctch on someone's belt...someone I'd rather not converse with.
If you want high retention rates of literacy in students, give them something interesting to them to read.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

whoops...I didn't mean to do that previous rant..what I wanted to say was that Shantaram is a great book..and the entire set of the Japanese manga Death Note..



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