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Thoroughly depends. I'll buy a hardcover if it's a remainder or I can get it on eBay at a price I can afford. I'll also buy hardcovers for what I call my 'core library'. For example I am trying to get all of Dickens' works in hardcover, specifically the Everyman Library printings. The...

I'm waiting on my ebay copy to arrive. Along with four other books.

I'm not sure I'm interested in US political history. At least not a full biography on a US political figure. I'm a Political Science grad and really not interested in the field anymore. Just angers up the blood. And I'm Canadian so if I read a biography on a North American political figure...

Well this is an effort to balance my reading. I have already suffered one reading burnout this year. In March all I read was Great Expectations. While I enjoyed the book itself it was hard to make myself read anything. Hopefully the variety will not only be interesting but make me smarterer...

I thought there was a better thread on being "well read" but considering the search engine drops the term "well" and "read" isn't exactly rare finding it proved difficult. Anyway, in an effort to be a better read individual I'm sorting my TBR list into a specific order. While not rigid I...

Write a book about Jesus marrying. That's real popular lately.

Try Kafka, Turgenev, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Dickens, Nabokov and writing better thread titles.

Well the converstion went more like this: Me: I finished Microserfs Her: What did you think? Me: I thought it was great! I'm thinking of doing All Families Are Psychotic next. One of the characters in Microserfs, Karla, won't call her parents because her "family is pyschotic". I'm...

I spoke to a co-worker today that recommended reading All Families after Microserfs.

Figured this author deserved his own thread in our forum of Author discussion. There's already this thread but nothing on all his works. I just finished Microserfs which surprised me in many ways. At the end of the year when I reflect on which books I enjoyed most this book will be on the...

I dunno, this is kinda a positive thing given the networks listed. ;)

What writer would want to admit they can't get it out without being high? Edgar Allen Poe did apparently partake but he also read and wrote a lot by oil lamp in a poorly ventilated room. It's strongly theorized that carbon monoxide poisoning helped Edgar along.

What the Hell are you talking about?! Where do you get that?! Do read my whole posts or just select a handful of words from them? If a writer can't be understood, by anybody, they are not much of a writer now are they? The level of accessibility does not determine a books greatness and I...

Just because I can't help but feel you're serious. That confuses me. :confused:

Quick question: What's with the glut of poor topic titles lately?

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Finished a couple days ago. First non-fiction I've read since school other than some essays by Chomsky. The title is perfect for the book. Diamond contends that it's guns, germs, and steel which have driven some societies to success and others to extinction or near close to it. Guns covers...

Whatever you get keep your receipt. Cheap Made in China crap comes back broken/defective all the time.

200 books for free. So after day 1 I gotta pay. My spreadsheet is cheaper. :)

Yeah.... that's my problem with the Da Vinci Code. It confuses me so I mock it. Incredible insight Mr Johnson. Thanks for the chuckle.