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Just curious. I picked up "The Club Dumas" recently. After reading the first chapter I realized that it is the novel on which the film "The Ninth Gate" was based.
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Sabriel and Lirael by Garth Nix; the Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey.
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Oh I love Dubliners, especially "The Dead." One of the few works that has made me cry.
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An oldie:"The Seekers" by Daniel Boorstein. In it I encountered the word "schism"
which an erudite clergyman taught me a long time ago is pronounced "sizzm".
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I am in the middle of "Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis, about the competitive world of Scrabble...lots of anagrams, alphagrams, obsession and humor.
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"Oh I love Dubliners, especially "The Dead." One of the few works that has made me cry."
Finished last night. It didn't make me cry. Fine set of stories, though.
Few stories make me cry. Bicentennial Man and Man without a Country are the only ones I can think of off the top.
I think I'm going to take a few weeks of no reading and then start on volume I of Feynman's Lectures on Physics.
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Dear FF: If your "Man Without a Country" was the one about the guy condemned to life imprisonment aboard a US warship because the said he hated the US, I would not have expected a lachrymose reaction. I love my country, but that story is too much. http://www.bartleby.com/310/6/1.html
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I'm just starting Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan. I haven't read it in several years and wanted to taste it again.
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physics textbook (my dip in and out book)
persuasion ( my comfortable, it's late and i'm tired book)
true history of the kelly gang ( my, i'd better read this quickly before i have to give it back book)
the amber spyglass ( my long bath book)
the womans handbook (my slightly self consciously listening to jazz and drinking red wine book)
small gods ( my, i drank too much red wine and i can't be bothered with/ can't comprehend any more book)
heart of darkness (my bus book)
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