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| coastline |
Posted - 05/29/2007 : 15:26:32
A show of hands, please ... who'd be up for some sort of forum reading group? We could read, say, a book a month and then discuss it the last week of the month or whatever. I'm digging the "What are you reading?" thread, but can't help but think how much richer the discussion could be if several people read the same book at the same time.
Could lead to some great fights, too.
Cohen
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| awestruck |
Posted - 07/02/2007 : 22:29:42
Yep. I am. I took the class b/c of Hemingway.
It's not you I don't like
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| kathryn |
Posted - 07/02/2007 : 21:41:01
Please don't tell me you're studying Gertrude Stein.
I got some heaven in my head
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| awestruck |
Posted - 07/02/2007 : 21:38:29
I don't have my copy yet, but I am going to go and buy one tomorrow. I will have to read a little at a time between my readings for my Stein and Hemingway class. I think I will be able to handle it. ;)
It's not you I don't like
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| kfs |
Posted - 07/02/2007 : 09:30:48
quote:
Originally posted by coastline
It's July 1. Who's got their copies of "A Thousand Splendid Suns"? I'm picking up mine today. I requested it at the library, but started out at about #650 on the waiting list, and I haven't moved up much in a couple weeks, so I'm just going to buy it at Barnes & Noble. We'll start discussing the book in about three weeks. I know kfs and awestruck are on board. Or at least they were at one point. And Kathryn is definitely not reading this one. This much is for sure. So who's in?
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs.
I have my copy and I'm reading right now!
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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 07/01/2007 : 19:22:48
it's canada day, i didn't like kite runner that much. i actually never finished it, but it is at my bedside table dog-eared, maybe i'll read a little more. i'll watch for the next book.
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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 07/01/2007 : 19:20:29
quote:
Originally posted by bedrock_barney
...I'm also going to need some help. In Deuteronomy for example can someone clarify 22.30 'A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt'. We're not going to be debating cross dressing surely?
 The humble apple
it means don't marry/sleep with your father's wife. did you read the verse before that? "if a man rapes a virgin and they are discovered the man shall pay the young woman's father 50 shekels of silver and must marry her because he has humbled her; he shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days." - discuss.
to clarify: floop's mom and lbf's mom are still up for grabs except by floop and lbf respectively.
The waxworks were an immensely eloquent dissertation on the wonderful ordinariness of mankind. |
| coastline |
Posted - 07/01/2007 : 09:35:41
It's July 1. Who's got their copies of "A Thousand Splendid Suns"? I'm picking up mine today. I requested it at the library, but started out at about #650 on the waiting list, and I haven't moved up much in a couple weeks, so I'm just going to buy it at Barnes & Noble. We'll start discussing the book in about three weeks. I know kfs and awestruck are on board. Or at least they were at one point. And Kathryn is definitely not reading this one. This much is for sure. So who's in?
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 06/05/2007 : 05:18:40
quote:
Originally posted by whoreatthedoor
I found the Old Testament funnier than Kama Sutra, Genesis at least.
This time we ride roller coasters into the ocean
We feel no emotion as we spiral down to the world
Only once Peter Gabriel left.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| floop |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 19:03:16
i'll read the Old Testi |
| darwin |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 18:54:16
lbf could we get the odds of floop reading Old Testament? |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 15:31:48
Gideons give out the New Testament in schools and hospitals, the whole Bible in hotels. They're not exactly loaded, but are funded entirely by subscriptions of the people that give them out, so they're happy for you to take them. They go around restocking once a year or so.
I know a guy who does it. He's a dude.
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| coastline |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 14:43:39
quote:
Originally posted by bedrock_barney
Guys, I've just pulled our Bible off the shelf and there are 878 pages in the Old Testament. I repeat that's 878 pages. How about picking out some of the highlights?
Good plan. But we'll get there when we get there. In August. Should be some damn fine summer reading -- well, if you're in the Northern Hemisphere.
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| awestruck |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 14:05:49
quote:
Originally posted by Jefrey
quote:
Originally posted by bedrock_barney
Guys, I've just pulled our Bible off the shelf and there are 878 pages in the Old Testament. I repeat that's 878 pages. How about picking out some of the highlights? Genesis should be a good 'un - I'm sure it is pretty steady stuff. Jonah should be good, as long as there are lots of whales. Lamentations sounds a bit depressing though. For some reason Samuel gets two books so presumably he is a popular dude with God?
I'm also going to need some help. In Deuteronomy for example can someone clarify 22.30 'A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt'. We're not going to be debating cross dressing surely?
The humble apple
It's generally deemed OK to skip the "begats". That should knock out about 300 pages.
Also, if you don't have a bible (or only 3 or 4), you can get one from any hotel. Those Gideons are rich dudes, they'll replace it for you.
But seriously, it's not considered stealing to take a Gideons bible, as long as you are doing it for honorable purposes. They want you to take it if it will help you find your way in life. Look it up!
== jeffamerica ==
The Gideons are nice, but they only hand out the New Testament. and the psalms. and my bible has 1454 pages in the Old Testament. it depends on the print. and your right about they want you to take it. i have about 5 of those too. they hand them out on my college campus sometimes.
Favorite Quote: awestruck is a she, she's a she. -trobrianders |
| Jefrey |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 13:38:16
quote:
Originally posted by bedrock_barney
Guys, I've just pulled our Bible off the shelf and there are 878 pages in the Old Testament. I repeat that's 878 pages. How about picking out some of the highlights? Genesis should be a good 'un - I'm sure it is pretty steady stuff. Jonah should be good, as long as there are lots of whales. Lamentations sounds a bit depressing though. For some reason Samuel gets two books so presumably he is a popular dude with God?
I'm also going to need some help. In Deuteronomy for example can someone clarify 22.30 'A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt'. We're not going to be debating cross dressing surely?
The humble apple
It's generally deemed OK to skip the "begats". That should knock out about 300 pages.
Also, if you don't have a bible (or only 3 or 4), you can get one from any hotel. Those Gideons are rich dudes, they'll replace it for you.
But seriously, it's not considered stealing to take a Gideons bible, as long as you are doing it for honorable purposes. They want you to take it if it will help you find your way in life. Look it up!
== jeffamerica == |
| bedrock_barney |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 13:28:46
Guys, I've just pulled our Bible off the shelf and there are 878 pages in the Old Testament. I repeat that's 878 pages. How about picking out some of the highlights? Genesis should be a good 'un - I'm sure it is pretty steady stuff. Jonah should be good, as long as there are lots of whales. Lamentations sounds a bit depressing though. For some reason Samuel gets two books so presumably he is a popular dude with God?
I'm also going to need some help. In Deuteronomy for example can someone clarify 22.30 'A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt'. We're not going to be debating cross dressing surely?
The humble apple |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 12:41:01
Well I ain't Laura fucking Bush and that's for damn sure.
See I'm all paranoid about used of the emoticons but look what happens when I don't.
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea. |
| coastline |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 12:24:15
Is Carolynanna a dream or a soul?
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 12:22:02
quote:
Originally posted by Carolynanna
We're joking....
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea.
prepare to be destroyed.
"I'm an editor of a major publication" - coastline |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 12:19:00
We're joking....
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea. |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 12:17:39
quote:
From childhood on, Frank is pure evil, an instiller of fear, a destroyer of dreams and souls.
wow, i guess you don't think much of me.
"I'm an editor of a major publication" - coastline |
| darwin |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 12:16:21
The Fleshy Lump? |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 12:04:49
Steve you should read Frank's World.
You're a bit like the character...
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea. |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 11:52:48
quote:
Originally posted by Carolynanna
We're joking.
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea.
i wasn't
"I'm an editor of a major publication" - coastline |
| coastline |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 11:40:19
You left out the best part, Carolynanna -- the subtitle -- "The Odyssey of a Fleshy Lump."
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 11:30:12
No, but isn't it fitting that it has Frank in the title.
Here's what one reader had to say;
"It just keeps zooming down at you, a perpetual cycle of hate, hate, frank, horrific dreams packaged with the knowledge that you can attain them, the state of being such a FRANK, a being self-condemned to hovering within and controlling all that is disreputable and eternal, violent and intellectual, such a Frank that enacts each twinge of his brain with such clarity and skillful desire to bring about horror and sickness that each seemingly unlikely turn of events gradually and subversively brings the world from happy day-glo mental static/stasis into the plaything of frank's own desire.. Put it on the same bookshelf as "Time's Arrow," by Martin Amis, and "Chants de Maldoror," by Isidore Ducasse. George Mangels is my hero! And the only other author i've read who's discovered the terror of Frank. Plus, if that's not enough for you, it's a really swell-looking book, and I think everyone should own one."
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 11:20:14
Which Frank? Frank Black?
I got some heaven in my head
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| awestruck |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 11:17:11
Hey i can read anything. I am no prude. No problems there. So I am in.
Favorite Quote: awestruck is a she, she's a she. -trobrianders |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 11:14:21
I've mentioned this book a million times but how bout Frank's World.
Its the oddest book I've ever read and I wish someone would read it so we could talk about it.
Come'on!
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea. |
| coastline |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 11:11:05
quote:
Originally posted by floop
Here's the list so far:
1. A Thousand Splendid Sons - Khaled Hosseini (for July)
2. Old Testament
3. Origin Of The Species - Charles Darwin
That seems like a hell of a list so far. Kathryn hates the first one, I hate the second one, and awestruck is likely to have problems with the third one (just kidding, Sonya). But seriously, why not? There are our first three books.
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| awestruck |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 10:33:57
quote:
Originally posted by Carolynanna
We're joking.
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea.
i know. but i still wanted there to be no doubt. 
i promise i know how to joke too. even if i am a christian. i still know how to have a good time.
Favorite Quote: awestruck is a she, she's a she. -trobrianders |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 10:29:32
We're joking.
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea. |
| awestruck |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 10:23:23
quote:
Originally posted by PixieSteve
quote:
Originally posted by Carolynanna
quote:
Originally posted by awestruck
ok with me. so i will get the book asap. and if it does have anything to do with creation or evolution, i can discuss it just fine. one stipulation please: no insulting please. (and i say this jokingly, not to start a huge discussion on evolution and creation)
Favorite Quote: awestruck is a she, she's a she. -trobrianders
You don't have a copy of the bible???
And you call yourself a christian...
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea.
hah i just noticed that too. what's up with that awestruck?
"I'm an editor of a major publication" - coastline
let me make myself clear... the book i was referring to was the book coastline had suggested. I have about 5 bibles.
Favorite Quote: awestruck is a she, she's a she. -trobrianders |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 09:47:34
quote:
Originally posted by Carolynanna
quote:
Originally posted by awestruck
ok with me. so i will get the book asap. and if it does have anything to do with creation or evolution, i can discuss it just fine. one stipulation please: no insulting please. (and i say this jokingly, not to start a huge discussion on evolution and creation)
Favorite Quote: awestruck is a she, she's a she. -trobrianders
You don't have a copy of the bible???
And you call yourself a christian...
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea.
hah i just noticed that too. what's up with that awestruck?
"I'm an editor of a major publication" - coastline |
| floop |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 09:02:44
Here's the list so far:
1. A Thousand Splendid Sons - Khaled Hosseini (for July)
2. Old Testament
3. Origin Of The Species - Charles Darwin |
| kathryn |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 08:10:00
I just wantto again remind everybody that the Kite Runner was not really such a good book. Don't believe coastline's hype.
I got some heaven in my head
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