What are you reading? Part 5 [November]
11-25-02, 06:35 PM
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Awesome, I can only say, it's gets better and better the further you get to the end.
As for other classic horror, I never could get past the first chapter of Frankenstein. One day I gotta give it another go. Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is terrific though, and a short read.
And I just read Chickamagua again last night, by Ambrose Bierce. Man, that guy was into splatter gore before there ever was a film industry! It's a Civil War short story, but reads like Dawn of the Dead.
As for other classic horror, I never could get past the first chapter of Frankenstein. One day I gotta give it another go. Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is terrific though, and a short read.
And I just read Chickamagua again last night, by Ambrose Bierce. Man, that guy was into splatter gore before there ever was a film industry! It's a Civil War short story, but reads like Dawn of the Dead.
11-26-02, 07:52 AM
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Enjoy yourself, Geofferson. Dracula is one of the all-time great reads. I taught it in a section of English 101 a few years ago, and it was one of the few novels that almost everyone enjoyed.
I haven't been reading nearly enough lately, but I did just read Tony Kushner's play, Homebody/Kabul, which is brilliant. He's definitely the best American playwright since Sam Shepard, and, if he continues to produce plays so prolifically, he might surpass them all.
I haven't been reading nearly enough lately, but I did just read Tony Kushner's play, Homebody/Kabul, which is brilliant. He's definitely the best American playwright since Sam Shepard, and, if he continues to produce plays so prolifically, he might surpass them all.
11-26-02, 09:52 AM
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I haven't been reading nearly enough lately, but I did just read Tony Kushner's play, Homebody/Kabul, which is brilliant. He's definitely the best American playwright since Sam Shepard, and, if he continues to produce plays so prolifically, he might surpass them all.
I haven't been reading nearly enough lately, but I did just read Tony Kushner's play, Homebody/Kabul, which is brilliant. He's definitely the best American playwright since Sam Shepard, and, if he continues to produce plays so prolifically, he might surpass them all.
11-26-02, 10:48 AM
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That's nice to hear, Alyoshka. A few weeks ago I saw both parts of Angels in America while visiting Phoenix. From reading them (again and again and again) I had always suspected that they were the greatest American plays ever written; finally getting to experience a production only confirmed it. They're magic, pure and simple. I'm now dying to see Homebody/Kabul. Have you read it?
11-26-02, 11:45 AM
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Awesome, I can only say, it's gets better and better the further you get to the end.
As for other classic horror, I never could get past the first chapter of Frankenstein. One day I gotta give it another go. Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is terrific though, and a short read. And I just read Chickamagua again last night, by Ambrose Bierce. Man, that guy was into splatter gore before there ever was a film industry! It's a Civil War short story, but reads like Dawn of the Dead.
Awesome, I can only say, it's gets better and better the further you get to the end.
As for other classic horror, I never could get past the first chapter of Frankenstein. One day I gotta give it another go. Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is terrific though, and a short read.
And I just read Chickamagua again last night, by Ambrose Bierce. Man, that guy was into splatter gore before there ever was a film industry! It's a Civil War short story, but reads like Dawn of the Dead.
11-26-02, 10:07 PM
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Just finished Bram Stoker's Dracula last night. 
It was a fun read. I thought the ending kind of dragged though and didn't live up to the expectations from halfway through the book.
I'm starting Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series next.
It was a fun read. I thought the ending kind of dragged though and didn't live up to the expectations from halfway through the book.I'm starting Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series next.
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11-30-02, 05:11 PM
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Just finished Michelle Malkin's book, Invasion, damning the INS, among others, for immigration enforcement travesties. I read it in two days, and highly recommend it to anyone who is either interested in, enraged by, or just plain doesn't yet know anything about the current state of affairs. She's also going to be on C-SPAN next Sunday, the 8th, at 8:00 pm eastern, on Booknotes. I know I'll be tuning in.
Up next, maybe Unequal Protection, by Thom Hartman, about how corporations in America just keep getting stronger and stronger at the expense of individual rights.
Or maybe after Invasion, I'll take a break from the political stuff with either some Tolkien or P.K. Dick, like I keep meaning to.
Up next, maybe Unequal Protection, by Thom Hartman, about how corporations in America just keep getting stronger and stronger at the expense of individual rights.
Or maybe after Invasion, I'll take a break from the political stuff with either some Tolkien or P.K. Dick, like I keep meaning to.
