What are you reading?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #450 on: October 03, 2011, 05:34:39 PM »
Game of Thrones is up there with the most faithful reproductions of a book, and I like it just fine that way. I mean obviously they had to throw in a few gratuitous sex scenes to keep people interested, but I'm not complaining.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #451 on: October 03, 2011, 05:39:25 PM »
Started a Clash of Kings, and am halfway through the Game Of Thrones TV series. Even though Martin was involved in the making of the series, I'm still surprised at how true to the books it is.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #452 on: October 06, 2011, 08:56:15 AM »
As a Driven Leaf by M. Steinberg
"Never think you can turn over any old falsehood without a terrible squirming of the horrid little population that dwells under it." -O.W. Holmes "Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.."

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #453 on: October 11, 2011, 09:19:52 AM »
'Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth'
By Jeffrey Satinover

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080105625X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Some books of this nature are unfortunately combined with the politics of the religious right, but I became particularly interested in this one by the reviewer who stated that "The chapter on genetics alone is worth the price of the book."

The following review was another indication of its objectivity:

Paul Jennens wrote "As an openly gay man having lived in the lifestyle for 12 years, I found Dr. Satinover's book refreshing and poignant. His book reflected an amazing and timely understanding of homosexuality and current gay culture, and its position in our society as a whole. His analysis of the role of religion in this issue is refreshingly objective for such a controversial and emotional subject. This book will challenge the perspective of openly gay people--whether atheist, agnostic, or persons of faith--who honestly answer the questions it poses in their own lives."

Hmm, it would take a very convincing review to make me read work from 'Focus on the Family' especially when the 'customers also bought... lists "The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today " and "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom"

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #454 on: October 18, 2011, 11:48:29 AM »
A portable library is a magnificent thing when away from home.

Just finished:
Phineas Finn (1867)
Anthony Trollope

The Benson Murder Case (A Philo Vance Story) (1926)
S. S. Van Dine

Just started:
The Eustace Diamonds (1871)
Anthony Trollope

Dipping into at will:
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
W.B. Yeats

On deck:
Bulldog Drummond (1920)
"Sapper" (Herman Cyril McNeale)

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #455 on: October 20, 2011, 04:44:28 PM »
The Robe
Lloyd C. Douglas
"Never think you can turn over any old falsehood without a terrible squirming of the horrid little population that dwells under it." -O.W. Holmes "Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.."

Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #456 on: October 27, 2011, 09:20:18 PM »
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I'm learning a ridiculous new word every few pages.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #457 on: October 28, 2011, 03:59:17 AM »
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I'm learning a ridiculous new word every few pages.

I loved that book.  Have fun with the endnotes.

Reading Oliver Twist.
Where did you educate the biology, in toulet?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #458 on: October 28, 2011, 08:42:18 AM »
Currently have Julians Bruder by Klaus Kordon, The German Speaking World: A Practical Introduction To Sociolinguistic Issues by Patrick Stevenson, Дама С Собачкой by Anton Chekov and Language Myths on the go. Slow progress really.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #459 on: October 28, 2011, 10:12:17 AM »
Snuff
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #460 on: October 31, 2011, 12:06:01 PM »
Have added the Boston Blackie and Raffles series to my pulp crime fiction collection.  I could be stuffy and say I'm studying the genre, but actually I'm just chuckling and enjoying.  Delicious reading in a time-traveling capsule.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #461 on: October 31, 2011, 01:27:53 PM »
RE: The Pink Swastika

How does the book explain homosexuals being sent to the death camps if they were pro-gay?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #462 on: November 01, 2011, 03:23:57 AM »
I could understand the execution of senior nazis, but what about the purge of homosexuals throughout the reich, pursued with as much vigour as the hunt for Jews, Romanies, Slavs, the disabled etc?

To say that some senior Nazis were closet homosexuals who distracted attention from themselves by persecuting others is practically historical fact; however, to claim that the Nazi movement was even in part a homosexual copnspiracy is an extraordinary claim.

Finally, there is very good cause for gay people to shout down any objection and that is that unlike a political position or taste in music an attack on homosexuality is attack on both the person themself in a very personal manner and attack on anyone they love.

Is it any wonder that people react less than amicably after thousands of years of being called 'abominations' and being persecuted, often to death, for who they are?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #463 on: November 02, 2011, 07:41:11 PM »

The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #464 on: November 06, 2011, 05:57:16 PM »
Sartor Resartus
Thomas Carlyle

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #465 on: November 08, 2011, 07:51:46 PM »
I'm a few pages into "The Silmarillion" again, but I fear it will be lost among the more important reading to be done.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #466 on: November 08, 2011, 08:21:43 PM »
I'm reading my posts, I'm the only one who does.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #467 on: November 08, 2011, 08:40:36 PM »
I'm reading my posts, I'm the only one who does.

Where did you educate the biology, in toulet?

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« Reply #468 on: November 10, 2011, 08:46:51 AM »
Vongeo is a wanker, he wears a wanker hat; he always smells like urine and he thinks the Earth is flat.

No longer is this sentence is cut in half. Jekra!

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #469 on: November 16, 2011, 10:26:24 AM »
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

It took me a few chapters to realize it was the basis for Blade Runner.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #470 on: November 18, 2011, 03:47:43 PM »
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

It took me a few chapters to realize it was the basis for Blade Runner.

Philip K. Dick is awesome.
I'm sorry. Am I to understand that when you have a boner you like to imagine punching the shit out of Tom Bishop? That's disgusting.

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« Reply #471 on: November 18, 2011, 04:44:15 PM »
I have a few more books by him, what do you recommend?
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #472 on: November 18, 2011, 04:56:24 PM »
Do you have The Man in the High Castle, and A Scanner Darkly? Those are good.
I'm sorry. Am I to understand that when you have a boner you like to imagine punching the shit out of Tom Bishop? That's disgusting.

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« Reply #473 on: November 18, 2011, 05:04:53 PM »
Those will be next on my list.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #474 on: November 20, 2011, 06:22:41 PM »
I lied, I just started Ender's Game, and I like it a lot so far.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #475 on: November 21, 2011, 02:48:04 AM »
Duizend schitterende zonnen by Khaled Hosseini. Dutch translation of A Thousand Splendid Suns

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« Reply #476 on: November 21, 2011, 04:01:43 AM »
Do you have The Man in the High Castle, and A Scanner Darkly? Those are good.

Phillip K Dick has a great imagination for worlds and stories but I tend to find that his characters feel flat. The man in the high castle typified this for me.

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« Reply #477 on: November 21, 2011, 11:21:02 AM »
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt. Hilarious so far.
I'm sorry. Am I to understand that when you have a boner you like to imagine punching the shit out of Tom Bishop? That's disgusting.

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« Reply #478 on: November 21, 2011, 06:31:02 PM »
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt. Hilarious so far.

Berendt gets south Georgia spot on.



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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #479 on: November 22, 2011, 09:22:53 AM »
My great aunt lived south of Savannah for many years, I love that part of Georgia.
I'm sorry. Am I to understand that when you have a boner you like to imagine punching the shit out of Tom Bishop? That's disgusting.