What good books have you read recently?

[hooplala]

What do you mean by using the same words over and over?

I tend to use "the" and "a" and "and" a lot.

[One-Eyed Thayne Magee]

weird. i use those words, too.  

but he uses words like 'kafka' and 'bread dough' and i've noticed characters in different stories using the exact same phrase. it's kind of freaky how the same sentence can range from being spooky to funny to outright creepy depending on the story and who's saying it.

[hooplala]

That's interesting, I will look into that.

[Cain]

Now reading some of the Sandman comics, which my local library has the good sense to stock.  I can't remember the name of one, but its where Lucifer abdicates from Hell and the other is Worlds End.

[LMNO]

"Season of Mists"

LMNO
-has all the Sandman comix, hardcover.
-is a dork.

[Cain]

I thought it was that, but wasn't certain.  I only took it out yesterday, so I've only got through a couple of chapters.

[hooplala]

A friend just gave me the last few Preacher books, so I will be reading those over the holidays in addition to A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man.

[doubtless incident]

a newly translated rendition of dante's inferno with pop-up pictures.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

a newly translated rendition of dante's inferno with pop-up pictures.

best version of dante's inferno EVER is a comedy acted out in a pit of mud =)

[Bella]

I just started something called "The Mexican Pig Bandit" by James Crumley.

[hooplala]

Yesterday I started Ulysses by Joyce, I was kind of dreading it because people had told me how hard it was to read and how boring it was . . . so far I am loving it.

There was one part that I didn't care for so much, but just that one part so far . . . the rest is fairly fascinating.

So far anyway.

[Toots]

I'm reading "Six Wives" about the wives of Henry VIII by Phillip Starkey, and I just finished a biography of Lucrezia Borgia...I don't know what happened but over the holidays I developed a liking for biographies.

Next on the list: The Man in the High Castle. Can't wait!

[Cain]

I'm reading "Six Wives" about the wives of Henry VIII by Phillip Starkey, and I just finished a biography of Lucrezia Borgia...

She was reputedly more insane then her brother...

[Toots]

I'm reading "Six Wives" about the wives of Henry VIII by Phillip Starkey, and I just finished a biography of Lucrezia Borgia...

She was reputedly more insane then her brother...

The book I read argues the oposite. That her brother Cesar had huge ambitions and killed his own brother as well as one of Lucrezia's husbands (apparently the only one she actually loved)...he did die of syphillis so he must have been fairly insane at least for a while.

He had someone stab his brother in the eyes--this is well documented apparently--nice!

[Cain]

Oh Cesar was insane, no doubt there.