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Lord Edgeware Dies by Agatha Christie
Peril at End House (Poirot) by Agatha Christie
Taken at the Flood (Poirot) by Agatha Christie
Autobiography by Agatha Christie
Death of a Salesman (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Arthur Miller
The School for Scandal and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Dead Man's Folly (The Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie
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People who can write like you do naturally, innately, belong in le salon. Your absence is sorely missed.
Very best,
Brent
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 10:18 pm (EST) on Dec 13, 2009
You're welcome! I guess was drawn to all the classics you've listed in your library that you have either read or would like to. I am trying to knock some off of my TBR pile, but there are so many. I don't know if you feel similarly, but sometimes after I have finished a "classic" and don't enjoy it...I feel guilty! Shouldn't I be appreciating the book? Oh well. (Also, you were so welcoming in the "Salon" group - so thanks!)
Marie
posted by mihess at 11:07 am (EST) on Nov 3, 2009
Ooh. I just noticed you rated The Moonstone with two stars. Maybe I'm not your friend after all! :P
posted by wisewoman at 11:24 am (EST) on Oct 31, 2009
I have been reading the Rubaiyat since I was a teenager and people, knowing that it is one of my favourites, keep giving me copies, some of which are very unusual. So I have become a sort of collector by default.
Cheers - minnie
posted by pinkozcat at 6:46 am (EST) on Oct 25, 2009
Your recent activity is interesting; Stieg Larsson seems to be the writer of the moment. I haven't read any of his books yet. Do you recommend him? He is getting rather mixed reviews.
Cheers - minnie
posted by pinkozcat at 1:42 am (EST) on Oct 25, 2009
posted by sweetiegherkin at 3:02 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2009
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 1:13 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2009
I've just recently begun collecting every Agatha Christie I can find, btw. Though you don't seem to have enjoyed the last couple of hers you've read, I'm sorry to see. But it's good that you're still reading her!
Best,
Brent
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:47 pm (EST) on Oct 17, 2009
[http://www.librarything.com/topic/64120]
posted by DirtPriest at 6:56 pm (EST) on Oct 15, 2009
I just finished it and I have the follow up to read at a later date. First let me say having read your review I hope you are in good health.
I found your review interesting and agree with much of it. Being British my impression of Americans is that they are the most insane nation on the planet, collectively speaking.
The book Satired war because war is itself insanity, we live in symbiotic relationships to each other, and we are all independent on other people.
We the West have just murdered over 1 million people in Iraq, many of them innocent women and children. How many of those children were potential Einsteins or Mozarts or Van Goughs.
War is futile I have never been a fan of Agustine and his doctrine of Just War. I would always argue "Who would Jesus bomb".
And that for me is the main message I think that Heller was trying to convey, War is INSANE.
If you want to know why Humans war then I believe you will find the answer in another great book written by another American Willam Bramely, called The Gods of Eden. The conclusion may well disturb your sensabilities having read loads of books around this subject I would say Bramelys research was excellent.
Best
Arten
posted by Arten60 at 4:36 am (EST) on Oct 9, 2009
posted by porchsitter55 at 3:57 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2009
Anyhow, none of this is to make you like the book better! I definitely respect your opinion :). And I'm a fan of Dracula too. It deserves its classic status!
posted by wisewoman at 3:51 pm (EST) on Sep 30, 2009
And re: The Time Traveller's Wife, this is one of the reasons why I love LT so much. Everyone has a different opinion and we all manage to coexist happily anyway, with lots of interesting discussion. It wold be pretty darn boring around here if we all loved the same things for the same reasons. I look forward to more of your reviews!
posted by spacepotatoes at 3:47 pm (EST) on Sep 17, 2009
I find it helpful to switch back and forth between books of different genres. So I'll read a modern book and then jump right into some famous classic, and go from there to a young adult fantasy, and then something hilarious like Wodehouse, and then maybe a mystery, and then I do it all over again :). I have a to-read list but I delight in impulse reads and rereads. Changing genres with each new book can be a good way to keep it all fresh (of course, until I get entangled in a series!).
Thanks again for the add! I'll see you around :)
Amy
posted by wisewoman at 8:06 am (EST) on Sep 16, 2009
I wonder how I would like The Historian as a reread. Just what I need, another book to add to my pile!
posted by wisewoman at 8:20 am (EST) on Sep 15, 2009
Remember that my opinion of The Historian is just my opinion. I too liked Dracula and I liked the idea of searching for Vlad the Impaler and her lost father. I had to go back to my archives (my written journal) as I read this in 1995, before LT. Well, I liked it up to a point. Just said that it was difficult to keep three story lines straight over four decades. The only real negative thing I mentioned is that I thought i could have been named The Dracula Code, whch I suppose was a slam comparing it to the DaVinci Code. Read and, hopefully, enjoy it. And let me know what you think, okay? Say hello to your mother for me. :-)
posted by Donna828 at 10:05 pm (EST) on Sep 14, 2009
P.S. I -compulsively- -often- compulsively recommend books.
posted by infiniteletters at 4:05 pm (EST) on Sep 14, 2009
http://www.librarything.com/series/Meg%2...
http://www.librarything.com/series/Aunt%...
posted by infiniteletters at 2:54 pm (EST) on Sep 14, 2009
posted by sweetiegherkin at 12:19 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2009
http://www.librarything.com/topic/70612
http://www.librarything.com/topic/67150#...
posted by callmejacx at 4:43 pm (EST) on Sep 6, 2009