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#1576 |
Certified Bourbon taster
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Shawnee KS
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Gene Wolfe rocks. I read the Latro books every few years. Always find something new.
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#1577 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
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If you get onto a cyberpunk binge (and there really is some excellent stuff out there), I highly recommend this anthology.
http://www.amazon.com/Rewired-Post-C.../dp/1892391538 Also check out China Mieville sometime if you haven't already (if you're in the mood for fantasy/scifi authors with serious literary chops.). |
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#1578 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
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I'm teaching Freshman Comp II right now (which is the literature semester), so we're reading good stuff. Doing a tour of the Jim Crow South right now: Faulkner, O'Conner, Ellison and about to move into more modern stuff. I've been starting every morning off reading a good short story. I think I'm finally developing an authentic fondness for Faulkner. "Barn Burning" just kicked my ass this morning.
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#1579 | |
Now you've pissed me off!
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Burns to Blake, to Wordsworth. Monday is Coleridge... |
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#1580 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
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I have to teach Brit. Lit for my 11th grade English Curriculum. It's not my bag. I'd be all for some modern and contemporary (which isn't part of the curriculum... we're doing beowulf and chaucer)... but that old shit just doesn't do it for high school students (or me for that matter). I've always had a soft spot for Blake, though. He's just such a weird genius bastard.
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#1581 |
Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Just finished The Passage by Justin Cronin. It was interesting at first, but once it got to the Colony, it really hit a brick wall. I liked the concept of the colony, but the characters were extremely stale and I really didn't care about any of them.
Overall, a boring read that I kept reading and thinking "It's got to get better", but it never did. |
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#1582 | |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
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#1583 |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
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From where I'm sitting, going breakneck through the Romantic period is the way to go. So that you can take some sweet time with the kick-ass Victorian period.
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#1584 | |
Now you've pissed me off!
Join Date: Jan 2006
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That said, I always appreciate something more after I teach it. Later this semester I'm going to start throwing some crazier shit at them. We'll read Things Fall Apart, and The Wasp Factory, which is one of my five favorite novels. I could have chosen a section from Ulysses, but I'd sooner overseed my backyard with cultivars from the Alomar genus. |
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#1585 |
You Sweetie!
Join Date: Sep 2005
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'Math For Mystics'
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#1586 | |
You Sweetie!
Join Date: Sep 2005
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#1587 | |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Plano, TX
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I love O'Connor. I have a book of almost all her short stories that I got for like .25 at a used book store. |
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#1588 | |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
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The point in Revelation where Mary Grace launches herself across the waiting room to dig her hands into Mrs. Turpin's neck had me spitting out my coffee the morning I read it. So perfect. |
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#1589 |
"You like to drink?"
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "I like to drink."
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Right now I'm only really "reading" Mayflower by Philbrick for a writing class... so far it's well worth it.
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#1590 | |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Plano, TX
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And she always writes "oncet". I get a kick out of that for some reason. |
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