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Post by EddieBlake on Mar 2, 2020 16:00:57 GMT -7
I <3 A Confederacy Of Dunces
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Mar 3, 2020 8:02:07 GMT -7
Post by lordkundalini on Mar 3, 2020 8:02:07 GMT -7
loved the alchemist. think I may go back to some Coelho. Read most of his stuff. have not read the spy or hippie by him yet.
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Post by ferd on Mar 3, 2020 8:08:46 GMT -7
loved the alchemist. think I may go back to some Coelho. Read most of his stuff. have not read the spy or hippie by him yet. -Hippie was good. |
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Mar 3, 2020 8:09:05 GMT -7
Post by ferd on Mar 3, 2020 8:09:05 GMT -7
I <3 A Confederacy Of Dunces -I tried and tried but couldn't get into this book. |
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Mar 17, 2020 13:41:37 GMT -7
Post by autophil74 on Mar 17, 2020 13:41:37 GMT -7
Just hit up the very empty campus library
Picked up "Angle of repose" by Wallace Stegner
I've been into environmental/ western lit these days and am switching off from Edward Abbey to Stegner
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Mar 17, 2020 14:25:42 GMT -7
Post by saulgoodman on Mar 17, 2020 14:25:42 GMT -7
I finished The Human Stain, which was the best of the Roth trilogy I started at new years. It's in the running for my fav by Philip Roth, but I think I still give a slight edge to The Plot Against America - now in HBO miniseries form. I enjoyed the 1st episode. check it out.
Recently started The Blind Assasin by Margaret Atwood. struggling with it so far TBH. could it be I'm distracted?
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Post by treetophigh on Mar 25, 2020 19:07:41 GMT -7
I sort of started The Sun Also Rises
stutter start reads and have passed out listening to the beginning a couple times, lol.
sounds like good one.
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Mar 25, 2020 19:36:08 GMT -7
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Post by autophil74 on Mar 25, 2020 19:36:08 GMT -7
I sort of started The Sun Also Rises stutter start reads and have passed out listening to the beginning a couple times, lol. sounds like good one. I remember being a fan |
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Mar 26, 2020 0:46:25 GMT -7
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Post by dirtyrice on Mar 26, 2020 0:46:25 GMT -7
Acid for the Children by Flea was a very enjoyable memoir and I look forward to its sequel. He’s a good person and decent author.
I read Pinocchio and it was One of The Most Important Works of Literature I’ve ever read, ever. Mind blowing biblical tale for sure, how did Disney even adapt it into that children’s cartoon is beyond imagination.
Now I am reading Anna Faris book Unqualified and she’s kind of a doofus but I like her. She did win Stonette of the Year 2007 for her role in Smiley Face.
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Mar 30, 2020 10:02:42 GMT -7
Post by saulgoodman on Mar 30, 2020 10:02:42 GMT -7
Did not really like The Blind Assassin. I think Margaret Atwood is just not for me.
Started Garden in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko. So far, I like it a lot. 150 pages in.
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Mar 30, 2020 11:42:53 GMT -7
Post by lordkundalini on Mar 30, 2020 11:42:53 GMT -7
i have to get back to a reading schedule. used to have couple hours on the train if i wanted it in quiet car.
ive only read occult books and other self improvement stuff since the work at home.
need some rec reading! get lost in a story
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Mar 30, 2020 11:48:44 GMT -7
Post by lordkundalini on Mar 30, 2020 11:48:44 GMT -7
been working thru this. very satisfying Qabalah: Discover Powerful Tools to Explore Practical Magic and the Tree of Life (Hay House Basics) Paperback – April 4, 2017 by David Wells
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Mar 30, 2020 12:53:54 GMT -7
Post by flyinghellphish on Mar 30, 2020 12:53:54 GMT -7
im almost that bored.
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Mar 30, 2020 14:01:48 GMT -7
Post by lordkundalini on Mar 30, 2020 14:01:48 GMT -7
Gershem Scholem the best source on jewish mysticism right on. i might read the Zohar by Rabbi Moses de Leon and look into Gershem Scholem
though im more interested in the hermetic offshoot:
By the late sixteenth century, the Christian tradition of Cabala gave birth to another offshoot when occultists, of what is now known as the Western Hermetic Tradition, integrated Qabalah into a system of Western mystical traditions, including alchemy and astrology.
here is a surprising convergence between the structure of the tarot deck, early interpretations of the cards, and Kabbalist teachings about the Tree of Life and the Sephirot
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Apr 4, 2020 10:52:36 GMT -7
Post by bear on Apr 4, 2020 10:52:36 GMT -7
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Apr 8, 2020 5:14:09 GMT -7
Post by lordkundalini on Apr 8, 2020 5:14:09 GMT -7
THE SEVEN SERMONS TO THE DEAD WRITTEN BY BASILIDES IN ALEXANDRIA, THE CITY WHERE THE EAST TOUCHETH THE WEST Transcribed by Carl Gustav Jung
good stuff!!!
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Post by saulgoodman on Apr 12, 2020 7:56:08 GMT -7
Finished Garden in the Dunes by Silko. Liked it a lot. Thought it might disappoint me by wrapping up tidy, but it didn't do so and made the reader answer a lot of the questions in the end.
Am now reading Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah. May he rest in peace, he taught me short story writing in undergrad. Had read 1 novel by him previously; did not dig. Later read a short story; dug a lot. Am afraid this 2nd novel is also going to disappoint. I am from a deep part of the deep south (so is Hannah), & maybe that's the reason I really don't like supposed southern yarns with tall characters and honey dripping sentences. Maybe I find it all too stereotypical. In any case, I kinda hate that shit. & this is just such a story.
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Apr 12, 2020 9:01:30 GMT -7
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Post by EddieBlake on Apr 12, 2020 9:01:30 GMT -7
Any gentleman southern lawyers?
That is one of the funniest tropes.
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Post by saulgoodman on Apr 12, 2020 9:51:01 GMT -7
^ not yet. But we got a funny-talking sheriff, so gentlemanly lawyer can't be too far behind.
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Apr 16, 2020 6:26:52 GMT -7
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