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booklover206

booklover206

Hmmm, I read alot.. I want to understand what happened and why. I try and take what I learn from reading about other times and cultures and use it to help make sense of things going on today.

I am an avid reader of books. I especially enjoy History, Literature, and Mysteries. I am currently trying to collect the Penguin... more »
  • Seattle, WA, USA
  • member since February 13 2007

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  • Jassafari

    Jassafari says

    Thanx for the friendship.

    What are you reading? Tell me, I really would like to know?

    JASS!

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • JT

    JT says

    It all depends on what you mean by progress, isn't it? In some ways, of course not: we've just become more artful lying to ourselves. In other ways, we have gotten better: imagine the Gaza War in Homer's time: who would have been outraged?

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • tony rebello

    tony rebello says

    As always, I browse your shelves with a pencil in hand and come away with a lot. Is Louis cha good? Calasso's Katch needs time to sink, am alternating it with gregorio's Critique of criminal reason. Just finished Murder in Canton, ( burp ) and am saving 2 more of gulik's for a rainy day. ( It's pouring like you can probably not imagine how! But will save them anyhow.) Sherlock in shanghai ! good ? Read a Sherlock in sth. america.... very good!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • teobesta

    teobesta says

    ya, i had heard an interview and that's why i got the book
    but when i eventually had to put it down (lack of time) every so often
    i got the characters all confused!!! :(
    it was still a nice read though and i just wished i could understand the references so i could enjoy it more
    :)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • teobesta

    teobesta says

    hey i finished tales of a city a short while ago and i must say that though it started out being really interesting, by the time i was half way, he just lost me
    i think there were too many references to pop culture that i just couldn't relate to or understand for that matter
    i don't regret having read it though...

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • teobesta

    teobesta says

    so far so good! i heard an interview with the author on the bbc some months back and was finally able to get my hands on tales of the city just recently. i haven't been able to put it down very easily every time i pick it up. will be looking for significant others too then though there are a couple of others on my wish list too :)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • tony rebello

    tony rebello says

    Read a few books after seeing them on your shelf. Good stuff. It is now mandatory to check your shelves before visiting a book store. Glad to see there are 3 van Gulik's I can look forward to reading.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • wrongnotebook

    wrongnotebook says

    Finally! Someone who's also read The Queen's Throat! Going through the first few chapters and I just needed to talk to someone about it. Looooooovving it!!!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • tony rebello

    tony rebello says

    We seem to have a similar reading profile. Luckily a very large portion of your book shelf is new to me and that is what I search for. New reading.
    Am struggling thru THE FIELD by Lynne McTaggart, and am using Alexander McCall Smith's 2 new books, and Iggulden's WOLF OF THE PLAINS ( Genghis Khan ) as releif.
    Unfortunately I have a dead ear for metric prose or poetry. Enjoy shakespeare intellectually, but the music goes unheard.
    Saw 2 van Gulik's on your shelf that I will track down. Met a dutchman on this flight, with a past of several generations in sth. africa. Fascinating guy. Am looking forward to reading my latest aquisition/gift... THE MAKING OF SOUTH AFRICA... by Martin Meredith.
    Fusion of cultures is mind blowing.So is the fact that people and events hardly change.The scripts keep repeating in new venues and costumes.The growth of infantile aryanism (vedas) into the complex hindu structure , points to the people the Indus valley ( the same culture and time span of
    Crete and Babylon ).It takes a lot of my interest but there is so little on these almost lost cultures.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • tony rebello

    tony rebello says

    Simply love this site. Have been very erratic in visiting it, while travelling.Am glad to see your name among my contacts/friends. Enjoyed going thru your book list.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • JT

    JT says

    I've read Cold Calls, & in his selected poems, there's a version of a battle I haven't seen elsewhere. If you haven't read his other, non-Homeric work, it's well worth a look.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • JT

    JT says


    I think "War Music" is the best contemporary translation of the Iliad; far more than other 20th century tries—even Fitzgerald’s—it brings that world singing back.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • teobesta

    teobesta says

    maui! this picture is in koh kradan, thailand (houellebecq trip), the other 2 are: 1 in kho hai, thailand (the disappointing murakami trip but made up for it with 9 other books) and 1 in sipalay, philippines :^)

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • teobesta

    teobesta says

    great avatar. the only other one i've seen that involves a book and the beach (i keep alternating between the 3 i took of myself at the beach). book + beach = the perfectest combination i can think of.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • akansha_16

    akansha_16 says

    n welcome india

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • akansha_16

    akansha_16 says

    i m in college so i will come at ur place after 2 yr

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Katherine Bolger Hyde

    Katherine Bolger Hyde says

    Just go to my page, click on the group, and click the "join this group" bar--I think it's on the upper right.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • akansha_16

    akansha_16 says

    hi
    i m also a great fan of harry
    would u like to join me

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Katherine Bolger Hyde

    Katherine Bolger Hyde says

    I see you enjoy Margery Allingham and/or Dorothy Sayers. Would you like to join my new group, Mysteries by dead Englishwomen?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • mjacobs

    mjacobs says

    Thank you for the friendship request. How could I refuse another reader of the Judge Dee mysteries?
    All the best,
    Monique

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )


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