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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 13, 2006 19:11:06 GMT -5
I'm on chapter 6 now. The book is so good, I find myself making excuses to go to the can more often.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2007 15:18:21 GMT -5
"Atonement" opens on Friday. Piper Perabo is playing Keira Knightley.
Speaking of whom (Piper), something went wrong with Google Images "moderate safe" filter. All I can say is I hope the Piper got paid.
I have several books to read:
The High Fidelity guy's latest. No Country for Old Men. Richard Russo's latest. Love in the Time of Coloring Books.
BUT I was given a subscription to the New Yorker which eats up all my reading time. There's only one solution: cut back on VolleyTalk. And the blog. I gotta jettison the blog. No one's reading it anyhow. I can tell. Does it hurt my feelings? Yes. But what doesn't hurt my feelings? Feathers? Well, yes, feathers don't. Snowflakes? OK. Feathers and snowflakes. And marshmallows. But that's it!
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Post by OverAndUnder on Dec 5, 2007 9:39:29 GMT -5
"Atonement" opens on Friday. Piper Perabo is playing Keira Knightley. Speaking of whom (Piper), something went wrong with Google Images "moderate safe" filter. All I can say is I hope the Piper got paid. I have several books to read: The High Fidelity guy's latest. No Country for Old Men. Richard Russo's latest. Love in the Time of Coloring Books. BUT I was given a subscription to the New Yorker which eats up all my reading time. There's only one solution: cut back on VolleyTalk. And the blog. I gotta jettison the blog. No one's reading it anyhow. I can tell. Does it hurt my feelings? Yes. But what doesn't hurt my feelings? Feathers? Well, yes, feathers don't. Snowflakes? OK. Feathers and snowflakes. And marshmallows. But that's it! Come on Ruffda, admit it, you're not spending all your time reading the New Yorker, you're spending all your time desperately trying to come up with that perfect winning caption to the New Yorker cartoon contest. What's really sad is the number of times you've come up with an amazing line the NEXT week after the submission date has passed. Oh how it must hurt you to see the three caption finalists and know that your brilliant words were immeasurably better, but will never see the light of day because of your corpulent tardiness. The humanity!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2007 12:58:31 GMT -5
I can never think of a caption for those things. And by the time I get to the current issue (I'm always a week behind), it's too late anyhow.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2008 10:51:35 GMT -5
"Atonement" was a very good movie adaptation. Don't let anyone tell you differently. And it is _too_ sad. I wasn't blubbering -- I don't blubber unless food's involved -- but I was quietly dripping manly tears.
The kid playing the young Briony was great. And the music was a bonus. Loved the typewriter into music transitions.
Anyhow, I haven't seen a movie from a book as faithful as this one in a long time. Sure, the book is deeper and better, but that'll almost always be the case. Not every movie can be a Godfather.
2K acts her way out of a paper sack in this one, too. I liked McAvoy a lot.
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Post by goGopherBill on Jan 11, 2008 11:30:20 GMT -5
Yawnn..zzzzzzz
If DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS ,
THEY"D BE REPUBLICANS..
by Ann Coulter..currently on page 183
and just finished CRUSH DEPTH a military action book set in the year 2011 when the Boer -led reactionaries seize control in South Africa and a coup in GERMANY leads to atomic naval warfare, and what America might go thru.
By Joe BUFF ..about submarine warfare.
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Post by chipNdink on Jan 11, 2008 20:35:12 GMT -5
Just finished "The Kite Runner", highly recommend it. Can't wait to go see the movie now.
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Post by mln59 on Feb 19, 2018 12:34:58 GMT -5
had to search for this thread....bump from the depths of volleytalk
currently reading provenance by ann leckie...author of the ancillary justice trilogy. highly recommend her stuff
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Post by akbar on Feb 19, 2018 12:40:50 GMT -5
I have developed an allergy to the written word and prefer oral communication with the occasional cliff notes, graphs and charts....but not too much -
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 19, 2018 12:41:12 GMT -5
Love this thread! Only a gentleman and a scholar could've created this!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 12:42:53 GMT -5
Speaking of Saoirse Ronan ...
Also, currently reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Second attempt, actually. Not sure why I stopped the first time.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 19, 2018 12:49:18 GMT -5
Speaking of Saoirse Ronan ... Also, currently reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Second attempt, actually. Not sure why I stopped the first time. Loved this book, particularly about the section where people see what they want to see in a group of dots. Some people see Orion or the Big Dipper or Cassiopeia, but actually, the dots can be connected a myriad of ways. Why not a T-rex?
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 19, 2018 12:51:40 GMT -5
Speaking of Saoirse Ronan ... Also, currently reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Second attempt, actually. Not sure why I stopped the first time. Loved this book, particularly about the section where people see what they want to see in a group of dots. Some people see Orion or the Big Dipper or Cassiopeia, but actually, the dots can be connected a myriad of ways. Why not a T-rex? I read a book like that once. Except all the dots had numbers on them, and when you drew lines between the dots with consecutive numbers it made it easier to see the shapes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 12:52:38 GMT -5
Never understood why people are always connecting dots. Did they ever entertain the possibility one or two of those dots just wanted to be left alone?
Dot's my theory anyhow.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 12:53:28 GMT -5
Guy uses prime numbers for his chapters. Not something you see every day.
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