Tag: reading
member name: N. L. D.
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January 24, 2009 10:43 AM EST --
Well, if you are here is a great Poe site. Quite a few of his poems and stories are in e-book form, so you can click on the link, print them out and read them later. Or just bookmark the . . .
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October 22, 2009 06:00 PM EDT --
I really enjoy reading and if I can get the books online for free, instead of being on a waiting list at the library, I am pretty excited. Here is a link to some free books including The GodFather . . .
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February 04, 2009 07:04 PM EST --
I recently recently reread this book after 25 years which, again, proved to be an intense experience. Mailer carefully details the events leading to and following the murders committed by Gary Gilmore. . . .
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November 03, 2009 09:50 AM EST --
I learned about this book in an interview on National Public Radio. The Collyer brothers were very bright, well-mannered, and gifted eccentrics who gained national attention in the 1930s for their extraordinary . . .
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September 25, 2008 07:02 PM EDT --
Kathleen Kent's debut novel is an intimate look at the Salem witch trials through the eyes of a child, 10 year-old Sarah Carrier, whose mother has been convicted of being a witch. In the Heretic's . . .
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January 24, 2009 10:51 AM EST --
Does reading Death of a Salesman make you feel as depressed as Willy Loman? Willy has lost at trying to live the American Dream and the play can be viewed as commentary about our society. Willy . . .
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February 05, 2009 09:52 AM EST --
A fantasy which won the Booker Prize in 2002, Life of Pi tells the magical story of a young Indian, who finds himself shipwrecked and lost at sea in a large lifeboat. His companions are four wild . . .
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September 24, 2009 06:37 PM EDT --
If there’s one thing that geeks have a plentiful supply of, it’s books. We just revel in them, whether it is a software manual, a science-fiction novel or the latest comic book.
But as . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:17 AM EST --
Nine-year-old Sarah Carrier has moved with her family from Billerica to Andover, Massachusetts. She travels with her parents, three older brothers and baby sister bringing smallpox to the small and devout . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:30 AM EST --
Pearl and younger sister May enjoy a carefree life of relative wealth and privilege in Shanghai in the 1930s. As what is known as “beautiful girls,” the sisters model for painters who create . . .
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October 08, 2008 07:29 PM EDT --
The Story of Lucy Gault has the same sense of historical sweep as many of Trevor's other novels and short stories about the protestant Anglo-Irish landowner class in Ireland. It is set at . . .
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January 14, 2009 07:39 PM EST --
I am a true fan of horror fiction and especially vampires novels. But I have to say the Twilight series is extremely way too childish for me. Here is a great link to The Vampire Library. . . .
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January 18, 2009 11:14 AM EST --
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is an amazing book with love, death, war and politics. All the contents of a great book. Jean Valjean is a thief and crook at the beginning of the book but throughout the . . .
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January 24, 2009 10:33 AM EST --
An exhilarating horror novel by Stephen King called Dreamcatcher caught my attention from the very beginning. Henry, Pete, Jonesy, and Beaver were friends since their early childhood. Together they . . .
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January 30, 2009 06:38 PM EST --
Joyce's towering masterpiece is a modern interpretation of Homer's Odyssey. The book was written over a number of years, then censored due to its sexual content, and was finally . . .
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February 01, 2009 09:14 AM EST --
Last of the Mohicans tells the story of the colonial scout Hawkeye, real name Natty Bumppo, with his 2 Indian companions Changachgook (his Mohican father) and his mohican brother Uncas. They stumble . . .
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February 01, 2009 09:26 AM EST --
Genly Ai, an envoy from the human galaxy is sent to the alien planet Winter/Gethen on a mission to bring the planet Winter into the fold of an evolving intergalactic civilization. He must do so by . . .
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February 04, 2009 06:43 PM EST --
This is a curiously flawed but still fascinating book. The author's great contribution (if his findings are confirmed by others) is to show that Stalin was more intellectual, more of a committed Marxist-Leninist, . . .
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February 05, 2009 09:59 AM EST --
In the late 1970's, and for over a decade, thereafter, the currency of Che Guevara's image was down-valued. That image still appeared emblazoned on tourist and teen commodities across . . .
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June 11, 2009 10:38 AM EDT --
I have been reading a lot of world literature lately and came upon this book about the nightmarish tyranny of the unknown.
One day in August a man has disappeared. The man was an entomologist and had . . .
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