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Nathan Dodge

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About Time 5: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who
by Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood.

This volume covers in amazing analytical detail, seasons 18-21 of Classic Dr. Who. Essential reading for anyone who loves the show. The often-humorous barbs on the show's continuity, budget, acting, and influences--among many things--makes for fascinating reading. The authors assume that you're familiar with the show. I bought this to complete the Tom Baker years, but look forward to exploring his successor, Peter Davison, whose run on this show I completely ignored back then. There are also some great essays on various aspects of the program, such as "How Does Regeration Work?" Yes, this series is for the fanatic...
 

JoeNiblick

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Just finished: Revolutionary Road. Highly recommend the movie (although the book is great, too!)

Just starting: In Defense of Food.
 

Akubra

Familiar Face
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I just finished Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS, I had not read it since high school and I think I got a lot more out of it this time.

I just had a big binge of Africana, I read Harry Manners book KAMBAKU and Gordon Cundihill's book, LIONS I HAVE KNOWN. I recomend both highly if you love African hunting stories.

I am now on to King Leupold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild. It is about colonial exploitation in the Belgan Congo (non fiction)

After that I will start THE DAUGHTERS OF JUAREZ
 

ladybrettashley

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JoeNiblick said:
Just starting: In Defense of Food.

Excellent choice! I rather preferred The Omnivore's Dilemma, i think because it is a bit more in-depth, but In Defense of Food is likely more practically important for most folks. Then, i'm rather a food nerd!
 

Dewhurst

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Just started reading the Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translation of Dostoevsky's Demons (The Possessed) day before yesterday.
 

Rhian

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Yesterday I started The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, and today, stuck in bed with a cold, I find myself unable to put it down. As someone who has belatedly discovered that she would very much like to be a historian, I find it fascinating and resonant. As far as the supernatural elements go, I'm enjoying it as much as, if not more than, Stoker's Dracula. I can't tell if it will become a favourite yet, but it's going the right way about it!
 

Darhling

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Rhian said:
Yesterday I started The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, and today, stuck in bed with a cold, I find myself unable to put it down. As someone who has belatedly discovered that she would very much like to be a historian, I find it fascinating and resonant. As far as the supernatural elements go, I'm enjoying it as much as, if not more than, Stoker's Dracula. I can't tell if it will become a favourite yet, but it's going the right way about it!

I read this a few years back and I really enjoyed it aswell!!
 

Nathan Dodge

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Casino Royale- I'm determined to re-read the Ian Fleming Bond books--in publication order. I still have several holes to fill in the olde collection to do that.
 

Harp

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On order: The Whole Five Feet;
What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death and Pretty Much
Everything Else
by Christopher Beha.

Caught the New York Times review last week.
Beha, a Princeton alum decided to read through the entire
Harvard Classics collection, a five-foot shelf stack,
following his cancer diagnosis.
 

John Boyer

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Harp said:
Caught the New York Times review last week.
Beha, a Princeton alum decided to read through the entire
Harvard Classics collection, a five-foot shelf stack,
following his cancer diagnosis.

Harp,

The Harvard Classics remain one of my favorite collection of books. The Editor's Introduction: Readers Guide included in the collection make this a much more approachable lifetime reading program. Without this guide, it is difficult to know where to start. I must check out Behas' book on his experience.

Currently rereading Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Perhaps, my favorite collection of poems.

John
 

Harp

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John Boyer said:
Harp,

The Harvard Classics remain one of my favorite collection of books. The Editor's Introduction: Readers Guide included in the collection make this a much more approachable lifetime reading program. Without this guide, it is difficult to know where to start. I must check out Behas' book on his experience.

Currently rereading Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Perhaps, my favorite collection of poems.

John


John:

My summer reading has been on hold for the past few weeks--
working on a '94 Jaguar XJS convertible I picked up for a song--
but Beha's book review sparked my interest.

Whitman's Ode to Death from Leaves is a favorite.
His revisions and the inherent reasons for such are almost as intriguing.
 

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