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sanktlucifer 25-Jul-10, 04:01	Le crépuscule d'une idole Michel Onfray L'affabulation freudienne.
sanktlucifer 31-Jul-10, 01:26	The lottery Shirley Jackson
mrvroom 02-Aug-10, 12:23	Non-stop Brian Aldiss, excellent.
sanktlucifer 02-Aug-10, 20:04	The haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
sanktlucifer 09-Aug-10, 10:27	The Godwins and the Shelleys William St Clair
grege79 10-Aug-10, 04:05	The brain that changes itself Norman Doidge I can't recommend this book highly enough, especially if you have someone in your life impacted by stroke or learning difficulties.
coopershawk 18-Aug-10, 22:02	Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs by Wallace Stegner. Just finished this. Aside from some classics that i re-read occasionally, this is the best book I have read in several years, and perhaps the best collection of essays I have ever read. The subtitle provides a summary- "Living and Writing in the West." (not a cowboy book) Stegner begins with autobiographical material about his boyhood in the American West, continues with a seamless transition into western geography, then moves on to specific western writers, and the art of writing. Though the essays were written at different times, and for publication in a variety of periodicals and formats, the book creates a series of inter-connected insights into the geography of the American West, the human condition, western writers, and the art of writing. It's a book about the west, but also about humanity. The west provides the frame and the background, that gives the reader insight. I enjoyed the comments on the western authors so much that I intend to commence reading and rereading them right away. Some I have not read since High School, Walter Clarke, others I have never read at all, George Stewart.
coopershawk 18-Aug-10, 22:15	The Lost Cyclist by David V. Herlihy But first I am going to read a book I received as a gift. An "epic tale" of an American who died attempting to bicycle across North America, Asia, and Europe beginning in 1892, and the investigation of his death by a fellow cyclist.
coopershawk 25-Aug-10, 22:40	Huckleberry Finn Started listening to a recorded version on a long trip. Finished the trip before the book, so I will finish the book in the traditional way. I am not sure how many times i have read it before. At least three.
sanktlucifer 26-Aug-10, 02:10	Vanity Fair W. M. Thackeray
coopershawk 02-Sep-10, 07:42	Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard This has been on my "to be read" list for a long time. Now I am sorry I did not start it sooner so that I would now be reading it for the third or fourth time instead of the first. it's a tour de force of metaphor and observation. I am in awe after the first chapter.
sanktlucifer 07-Sep-10, 20:46	Rosemary's baby Ira Levin. I didn't know he wrote a sequel to this book : Son of Rosemary...
rilke 09-Sep-10, 14:18	Greece and the Hellenestic World It a fascinated History of past civilization.
sanktlucifer 10-Sep-10, 03:51	Son of Rosemary Ira Levin. I wonder how the story ends.
sanktlucifer 12-Sep-10, 10:21	La guerre des paysans Georges Bischoff. L'Alsace et la révolution du Bundschuh 1493-1525.
sanktlucifer 26-Sep-10, 07:33	We have always lived in the castle Shirley Jackson.
coopershawk 01-Oct-10, 21:12	Sweet Thursday John Steinbeck Nice novel, but short.
sanktlucifer 14-Oct-10, 08:20	The book of Enoch Translated by R.H. Charles.
obsteve 14-Oct-10, 10:27	Hey, sanktlucifer! You're like a demon reader- You're devouring those books!
obsteve 14-Oct-10, 10:28	I haven't read anything for ages, not for pleasure anyway
sanktlucifer 14-Oct-10, 10:55	obsteve I can't help it. if I don't have at least my two hours of reading per day I'm unwell. And when I think of all those books I still have to read and all those I will never have the time to read...
sanktlucifer 18-Oct-10, 09:53	Albion Peter Ackroyd. The origins of the english imagination.
coopershawk 20-Oct-10, 21:14	The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins subtitled: The evidence for evolution A fascinating book and very readable book. It illuminates concepts that I understood imperfectly with information that I didn't know.
shamash 21-Oct-10, 01:19	yes am reading about chess Am just now reading ATTACK WITH MIKHAIL TAL. Lots of juicy concepts about invading, opening lines, establishing outposts. Tal doesn't just develop a piece -- he launches it, to be in the vicinity of the target king. He has (for me) a whole new way of looking at deploying your pieces, and capturing your opponent's.
obsteve 21-Oct-10, 08:45	sanktlucifer setting good example has spurrede me into action! I have procured myself a copy of a great book- "Playing Commedia" by Barry Grantham It's a book on Commedia Dell'Arte history, characters, techniques, exercises etc.
sanktlucifer 06-Nov-10, 14:55	Sarah's key Tatiana de Rosnay.
sanktlucifer 08-Nov-10, 04:00	Die okkulten Wurzeln des Nationalsozialismus Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. Die Studie zur Ariosophie.
rilke 10-Nov-10, 14:39	Kierkegaard Some of his works.
sanktlucifer 11-Nov-10, 08:05	Im Schatten der schwarzen Sonne Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. Arische Kulte, Esoterischer Nationalsozialismus und die Politik der Abgrenzung.
coopershawk 27-Nov-10, 19:54	The Big Burn By Timothy Egan. The Montana forest fires of 1910.
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