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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 9, 2019 0:20:41 GMT -5
i failed to mention that this book is a children's book and i'll be able to read it super fast.
think the next book i'll pick up is the sickness unto death by soren kierkegaard. i flipped through a few pages and i decided to read the intro after i read the work. i got this book at blackwell's in oxford during my trip in july i finished the princess and curdie on the bus when coming back from seeing jesus christ superstar. this book was a jumbled mess. not a good children's book. not a good book.
looking forward to starting the kierkegaard book tomorrow
I had never heard of it, so I looked it up. It was a sequel. There is apparently quite the controversy over the ending. It sounds to me like maybe the author was pressed hard to write a sequel that he didn't want to write, so he made an ending that forestalled any more sequels.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 9, 2019 0:21:21 GMT -5
looking forward to starting the kierkegaard book tomorrow ps. I suspect this is a sentence that is not often said. I've never read anything by him, despite that as best I understand it I actually kind of resonate with his ideas about many things.
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Post by mln59 on Oct 9, 2019 6:02:26 GMT -5
looking forward to starting the kierkegaard book tomorrow ps. I suspect this is a sentence that is not often said. I've never read anything by him, despite that as best I understand it I actually kind of resonate with his ideas about many things. fear and trembling was the first kierkegaard book i read. good stuff.
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Post by mln59 on Oct 9, 2019 18:29:01 GMT -5
i decided to read another issue of the atlantic first. i believe it is the december 2018 issue
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 14, 2019 12:22:52 GMT -5
I am reading a book by Seanan McGuire called Middlegame. A story about Roger and Dodger, two artificially created siblings who are part of a plan by some alchemists to "embody the doctrine" and essentially gain control of the world. Anyway, it's pretty good. Dodger embodies math, and she can reset the timeline but only if commanded by Roger, who embodies language. The story is very nonlinear, and it took me a surprisingly long amount of time to realize that it is just like a video game. Roger and Dodger keep reaching bad endings but then resetting back to earlier checkpoints and trying again, until they work out how to get the ending they want. (I'm about 2/3 through the book, so I don't know if that's what is going to happen for sure.) As "math", Dodger is inherently extremely skilled in chess, which is likely where the name of the book comes from. www.npr.org/2019/05/16/723709536/middlegame-makes-mathematical-magicI have finished this book, and I thought the setup and establishment of the story and characters was stronger than the resolution of the book. In large part this was because a significant portion of the heavily lifting at the end was done by a third character. She didn't come out of nowhere, but she seemed like a minor character for about 3/4 of the book and then she was suddenly not just a major character but in many ways the lead character.
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Post by mln59 on Oct 16, 2019 13:01:29 GMT -5
i signed up to participate in another book club. we are scheduled to read lady audley's secret by m.e. braddon for an event at the harry ransom center. gotta read it by november the 16th.
going to pick up a copy tomorrow and get started. the kierkegaard book will have to wait.
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Post by mln59 on Oct 21, 2019 9:28:05 GMT -5
i signed up to participate in another book club. we are scheduled to read lady audley's secret by m.e. braddon for an event at the harry ransom center. gotta read it by november the 16th.
going to pick up a copy tomorrow and get started. the kierkegaard book will have to wait.
started this book today. read the intro first and the intro gave away some important plot details.
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Post by Phaedrus on Oct 21, 2019 14:36:46 GMT -5
Has anyone read the Moviegoer by Walker Percy? Read about it today and was temped to read it.
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Post by mln59 on Oct 25, 2019 8:43:15 GMT -5
i have finished the intro and i'm glad i read it first. finished the Timaeus today. not a fan. i think it's a me problem, not a book problem. didn't connect with it.
have to read it by october the 26th. the plan is to look at some prints from the blanton's collection for about an hour, break for lunch, then meet for about an hour to discuss the book and "consider the ways myths and fairytales inform our understanding of the world around us."
have my book club thing tomorrow for this book. excited to see the items from the museum and then have a scintillating discussion about this dreadful book
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Post by mln59 on Oct 26, 2019 14:22:00 GMT -5
finished the Timaeus today. not a fan. i think it's a me problem, not a book problem. didn't connect with it.
have to read it by october the 26th. the plan is to look at some prints from the blanton's collection for about an hour, break for lunch, then meet for about an hour to discuss the book and "consider the ways myths and fairytales inform our understanding of the world around us."
have my book club thing tomorrow for this book. excited to see the items from the museum and then have a scintillating discussion about this dreadful book seems like i was the only one who did not like the book. everyone else came with effusive praise.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 26, 2019 15:12:43 GMT -5
have my book club thing tomorrow for this book. excited to see the items from the museum and then have a scintillating discussion about this dreadful book seems like i was the only one who did not like the book. everyone else came with effusive praise. Book discussions are funny. Rarely will people say, "I thought this book sucked". Partly that's self-selection -- either the people that didn't like it don't show up for the discussion, or the club only reads books people like. Partly it's peer pressure or the pressure of expectation that if the book club is reading it, it must be a good book.
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Post by guest2 on Oct 27, 2019 17:32:18 GMT -5
Has anyone read the Moviegoer by Walker Percy? Read about it today and was temped to read it. I liked it a lot, no so much the rest of his books, but that one was exceptional
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Post by Phaedrus on Oct 27, 2019 17:51:50 GMT -5
Has anyone read the Moviegoer by Walker Percy? Read about it today and was temped to read it. I liked it a lot, no so much the rest of his books, but that one was exceptional Thanks. What made it stand out?
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Post by guest2 on Oct 27, 2019 18:03:19 GMT -5
I liked it a lot, no so much the rest of his books, but that one was exceptional Thanks. What made it stand out? Im not sure, maybe the lead's indolence. I was reading through the NBA winners and that one stood out. The subplot with his cousin sort of reminded me of the Philadelphia Story a little.
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Post by nowhereman on Oct 28, 2019 19:06:02 GMT -5
I started reading "Truman" by David McCullough. Figured I'm pretty illiterate on presidential history and thought it might do me some good to read about him, and his policies, whether I think they're good or not.
I started in September but have only managed to get to page 45. Some might think the subject dull but in this case I think it's all ineptness and lack of focus on the part of the reader.
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