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I just picked up a collection of short stories from my bookshelf that I've been carrying aroung for 26+ years and started reading it: "Great American Short Stories" Longmeadow Press - Complete and Unabridged. So far have made it through: Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe...

Hi... I am a Southerner. like yourself... but have never haeard of Charlaine Harris. I also enjoy vampire books (along with a wide variety of other book types) so I will have to check her out. Glad to meet cha'.

Reading in transit I read nonstop on planes. I always take a few books with me in my carry on and then stop at the airport bookstore and pick up a few more. Vacations are reading orgies for me. On a trip to Buffalo to visit family, I read 9 books in 8 days (including Updike's version of Great...

Jack Ketchum Just about anything by Jack Ketchum is sure to make you read with all the lights in the house on, the doors locked and the windows shut tight and locks double checked. I especially enjoyed: The Lost Now available as a mass-market paperback from Leisure Press. It's 1969...

Hi... I just re-read a few of Poe's stories. The Gold Bug, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Pit and the Pendulum. I first read The Pit and the Pendulum when I was about 5 years old. Mom used to read to us from 101 Famous Poems and I loved The Raven so she...

Hi... I just re-read The Stand. Actually it was like reading it for the first because I read the unexpurgated version. It was a bit of a bummer because I knew the ending but the esperience of reading the book was brand new. They left out over four hundred++ pages King originally intended for the...

Here is the link from NPR about the book in question. I almost posted the entire excerpt but worried about copywrite so here is the link: Random House Pulls Book About Muhammad's Wife Listen Now [16 min 41 sec] add to playlist Did Random House do the right thing? Why or why not...

I read an excerpt from the book from a link on NPR (I will try to find it and post it). The book is actually about a wife of Muhammad and tells her story in a very human way. Apparantly one is aware of her flaws as well as possibly flaws of Muhammad. (NOT saying Muhammad had flaws... just...

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"I found the ending a bit of a cop out. Paul couldn't resolve his difficulties and the author had run out ideas, so he just abandoned Paul with a faint hope for the future. I did not care for the structure of the book. " My understanding is that Lawrence was in fincial straits and really...

Hi, Autumn. Glad you are here. I am also a collector. I collect first editions, signed and finely bound books plus a few antiquarian. What sort of books do you collect?

It is hard to remember... but I think my first internet connection was compuserv. I thought it WAS the internet when I first connected. My first computer was a 286 (is that right? was there such a thing as a 286?) I remember it had a DOS operating system. I did some very early graphic work on it...

"Could anyone shed some light on what was so wrong with Mirium?" Mirium lived in her head. That is where she kept all her love and passion. She just could not relate if it became physical. It occurred to me that Mirium would have made a good Nun in that her relationship would have been...

How about it tzar? Or any others of you who may be more versed on deconstructing than I am (it would not take a lot to be more versed than I). Does the perspective of the "deconstructor" enter into the end result or is deconstruction a product of the text itself and has "universal legitimacy"...

If you like poetry, here is a link to a site where you can find all sorts of poems. You can even download ebooks of poems from various poets - free. It is really great! :flowers: PoemHunter.Com - Thousands of poems and poets.. Poetry Search Engine

Here are the last two from me. A Fool's Prayer in particular is a wonderful image. I can wee the story in my minds eye. THE FOOL'S PRAYER by: Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887) THE royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool...

I love poetry. Mom used to read it to us as children. Even now, I love to read poetry aloud if I can find an audience (my partner has heard more than her share by now...) The Raven by Poe is right up there near the top of my list of favorites. I will list here two that have special meaning to me...

Welcome! I am fairly new myself and enjoy it tremendously. I am sure you will also. Glad to have you with us. :flowers:

I think what motivates Gertrude more than anything are anger and regret. She is angry her life did not turn out the way she hoped. She is angry at Walter for not being who she thought she married. She is angry at her kids for not reflecting what she wants them to be which is actually what she...