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« Reply #100 on: October 20, 2004, 03:42:22 PM »
I was lucky. By the time I was in a grade where I might get assigned to read Shakespeare, I was in Russia. So instead of ruining forever my appreciation for the Bard, they ruined forever my appreciation for Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Maxim Gorky, Gogol, Pushkin and Yesenin.

Anyway, if you decide to plough through Shakespeare, be sure to get a volume with the original language. It's mind-blowing, what that guy did to English!

But it's not just the language -- check out this rant against astrology and its followers:

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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit
of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our
disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as
if we were villains by necessity; fools by
heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and
treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,
liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of
planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,
by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion
of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition to the charge of a star!


pwned!
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« Reply #101 on: October 20, 2004, 03:45:50 PM »
I <3 Shakespeare.
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« Reply #102 on: October 20, 2004, 11:10:15 PM »
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I <3 Shakespeare.


Awww...Cat's got a crush!  :oops:
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« Reply #103 on: October 21, 2004, 06:45:28 AM »
What are you? 7?

 :P
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« Reply #104 on: October 21, 2004, 04:16:18 PM »
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What are you? 7?

 :P


God, I didn't even see it!  :oops:

Walked right into that one, kudos Judge.
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« Reply #105 on: October 26, 2004, 03:19:07 PM »
"The Richest Man in Babylon."

It's a neat little book on money management. Pretty cool stuff.
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« Reply #106 on: October 27, 2004, 04:47:32 PM »
"10 things I learned From Bill Porter"

The bad thing is I left it in my locker and it is a four day weekend.
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« Reply #107 on: October 27, 2004, 05:34:09 PM »
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I just started God's Debris by Scott Adams.  Has anyone else read this?


Finished that last week and now I've started the sequel The Religion War[/url]
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« Reply #108 on: January 13, 2005, 12:39:35 PM »
1984

I haven't read it in years, not since I was an impressionable lad behind the Iron Curtain. It's still a king hell of a scary story.
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« Reply #109 on: January 13, 2005, 01:30:24 PM »
The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
and some other get out of debt quick book that wasn't worth the time it took to select it from the library shelf.
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« Reply #110 on: January 13, 2005, 01:43:06 PM »
Your first two are wonderful choices.  I just finished Snow Crash and am now reading

Mathematics and Humor
The Lies of George W. Bush
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« Reply #111 on: January 13, 2005, 01:52:02 PM »
My new goal is to read one biography per month.  I just need to fit them in with the other reading.
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« Reply #112 on: January 13, 2005, 01:53:18 PM »
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It's still a king hell of a scary story.

Truly. And timeless. I like that each time I read it it effects me in a slightly different way.

Right now I'm reading Dune: The Battle of Corrin.

I am psyched by the announcement that Brian Hebert is now prepared to complete the manuscript his father started for the original 7th and 8th books in the old series.
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« Reply #113 on: January 13, 2005, 03:34:36 PM »
At the moment, I just finished with the Helm's Deep chapter of The Two Towers.
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« Reply #114 on: January 13, 2005, 03:40:34 PM »
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At the moment, I just finished with the Helm's Deep chapter of The Two Towers.
Woah!  They made a book from that movie?  How cool is that?
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« Reply #115 on: January 13, 2005, 03:55:10 PM »
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At the moment, I just finished with the Helm's Deep chapter of The Two Towers.
Woah!  They made a book from that movie?  How cool is that?


Yeah.  They didn't get a lot of stuff right though.  This Tolkien guy didn't pay very close attention to the genius works of Peter Jackson.

I hear there are some books coming out soon based on the Stupid Sexy Flanders movies, too.  I'm hoping they don't suck.
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« Reply #116 on: January 13, 2005, 03:55:38 PM »
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At the moment, I just finished with the Helm's Deep chapter of The Two Towers.
Woah!  They made a book from that movie?  How cool is that?


Yeah, the book is a pretty good adaptation, but they had to leave a bunch of shit out.
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« Reply #117 on: January 13, 2005, 03:56:30 PM »
Whoa, Demosthenes, those must've been like one nanosecond apart!
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« Reply #118 on: January 13, 2005, 10:21:52 PM »
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
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« Reply #119 on: January 14, 2005, 06:17:44 PM »
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Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth


Pretty dark.  I loved the movie with Gillian Anderson
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« Reply #120 on: January 14, 2005, 07:10:12 PM »
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien

Yeah that movie was pretty good.  Great thing they made a book out of it.

EDIT: *Note Sarcasm*
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« Reply #121 on: January 14, 2005, 07:27:51 PM »
I'm currently reading "The Eye of the World".  It's book one in a.... some number of books series called "The Wheel of Time".  It's pretty good so far.
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« Reply #122 on: January 16, 2005, 01:24:10 AM »
I'm reading The Right Man: An Inside Account of the Bush White House by David Frum and The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham.
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« Reply #123 on: January 17, 2005, 09:43:22 AM »
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EDIT: *Note Sarcasm*


 :?:

What do you mean?
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« Reply #124 on: January 17, 2005, 11:53:29 AM »
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Your first two are wonderful choices.  I just finished Snow Crash and am now reading

Mathematics and Humor
The Lies of George W. Bush


Just finished the Corn book now I've started

If Chins Could Kill : Confessions of a B Movie Actor
by Bruce Campbell

It is wonderful so far but I'm only about up to the third grade.
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