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Apr. 11th, 2005 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_dazzlerAnyone have any books they'd like to refer to me, for reading? I've been working through the backlog on my reading shelf lately and finding new stuff to look into is being considered just now. Any topic is good, I can handle English and Spanish and if I push it real hard, maybe French. (I may need help on the French if it makes use of something other than the general popular terms/language though. So if you suggest that, be ready to be nagged and stuff.)
Oh! And Hank? The origami critters are still a hit. Thank you. Miles asked me how to make cranes so I showed him - but I thought you might want to show him how to make some of the others? Some of those I wouldn't have the first clue how to go about making anyway. You went pretty wild there, pun unintended. ;)
Oh! And Hank? The origami critters are still a hit. Thank you. Miles asked me how to make cranes so I showed him - but I thought you might want to show him how to make some of the others? Some of those I wouldn't have the first clue how to go about making anyway. You went pretty wild there, pun unintended. ;)
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Date: 2005-04-11 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-11 05:32 pm (UTC)I used to a lot more than I have of late - trying to get back into it.
So. Any recommendations?
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Date: 2005-04-11 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-11 05:37 pm (UTC)And I can bring down something new to snack on from the kitchen too while I'm at it...
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Date: 2005-04-11 05:35 pm (UTC)Get Them On Your Side: Win Support, Covert Skeptics, Get Results
by Samuel B. Bacharach.
Interesting stuff so far.
Of course, you could always go back to the words of the Master, and reread _The Prince_.
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Date: 2005-04-11 07:38 pm (UTC)Hrm. Machiavelli it is.
I don't want to get into this right now...
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Date: 2005-04-11 05:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-04-11 06:15 pm (UTC)What else do you do with books? Well, I reckon they'd be good for beating someone upside the head for being ornery.
You should read Shane by Jack Schaefer (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=kr4zSrGBVc&isbn=0553271105&itm=1). It's the quintessential cowboy story. It's really short, but a lot of fun.
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Date: 2005-04-11 07:46 pm (UTC)Reread it I will. Be interesting to see how it reads now...
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Date: 2005-04-11 07:08 pm (UTC)Baudolino by Umberto Eco
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
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Date: 2005-04-11 07:21 pm (UTC)I know there were things in Baudolino besides numerous mentions of topaz, but damned if I can remember it...
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Date: 2005-04-11 07:36 pm (UTC)Hrm. And alla them others too while I'm at it.
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Date: 2005-04-11 07:42 pm (UTC)*adds to list*
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Date: 2005-04-11 07:43 pm (UTC)The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji. (Haroun, don't look at me like that. You should read this one too.)
Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire
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Date: 2005-04-11 07:45 pm (UTC)Ali? Tack this one onto the book order, and I'll pay you back?
Salaam,
Haroun
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Date: 2005-04-11 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-11 07:59 pm (UTC)all glam-rock approved.
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Date: 2005-04-13 03:35 am (UTC)The Pearl Jam one I read. Def Leppard goes on the list of things to buy!
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Date: 2005-04-11 08:02 pm (UTC)'cause um....you never know.
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Date: 2005-04-11 08:04 pm (UTC)I think I'll sit and have a good laugh over both those concepts.
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Date: 2005-04-12 03:50 am (UTC)Plato: The Republic
Also Summa Theologica by Aquinas and the Screwtape Letters by Lewis.
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Date: 2005-04-13 02:47 am (UTC)I leave you to guess which one, as I add this to the order. Mmm. Big book order coming in soon, yesss.
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Date: 2005-04-12 12:34 pm (UTC)As to reading. I'm assuming you've read the Lord of the Rings ones. (Up to the battle of Pelinor fields! Is it weird that I'm still nervous for the characters, even if I've seen the movies?)
Um...I don't think you'd want to read any of the books I've been reading lately. But Tamora Pierce is very cool.
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Date: 2005-04-13 02:49 am (UTC)I have read them and have copies of my own, as anyone should. (The books aren't quite the same as the movies. Read on!)
Tamora Pierce? Kid's literature, right? Added to - woah. Amazon gave back a lot of returns on that one!
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