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Post by duncan175 on Aug 8, 2008 11:14:44 GMT -8
i tend to think you should watch the film before you read the book Sure Ross, go ahead and ruin a perfectly good read. I've found just the opposite is way preferable. Books provide character development, and plot twists a film typically glosses over, if it addresses them at all. But to each their own!!! thats why i watch a film first if you see the edited story first and then read it in full you will enjoy both. if you have already read the book you will be watching a film and notice all that is missing and may not enjoy it as much.
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Post by drizzletown on Aug 8, 2008 14:18:06 GMT -8
Another local to my old hometown called "Walking Tractor".
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Post by duncan175 on Aug 29, 2008 1:54:49 GMT -8
river out of eden - richard dawkins
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Post by dripsey3 on Aug 29, 2008 3:56:33 GMT -8
Studs Lonergan - James T. Farrell
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Post by peacenik on Aug 29, 2008 7:19:19 GMT -8
i'm re-reading a really interesting book by Patricia Treese called: "Messengers- After Death Appearnces of Saints and Mystics" . . . i read it about a two years ago . . .and am half-way through a slower re-reading of it . . . and it is both enlightening and confirming and interesting.
the author recounts various occasions and experiences of people having seen, and spoken with, holy (sometimes not-so-holy) souls who had passed on . . sometimes recent passings and sometimes long since . . . not hallucinations or imaginings or wish-fulling fantasies, but unexpected and visits . . .always with a purpose.
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Post by Nicky on Aug 30, 2008 5:19:36 GMT -8
3rd degree - James Patterson
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Post by peacenik on Aug 30, 2008 8:30:09 GMT -8
and this: . . . . although strictly speaking, it's not "reading a book" . . . i got a copy of a book which is titled - "A Collection Of Traditional and Contemporary Bilingual Ukrainian Folk Songs" by Carol Wookey & Julie Wookey and Olga Walker (subtitled - "76 popular Ukrainian songs with phonetic English transliterations, music, translations & cultural notes") . . . i really wanted the book for one particular Ukrainian song called "ZHOORAVLEE (Cranes) . . . here are the lyrics to the song in english:
Listen my dear friends. Look over the marsh. Flying, flying through the clouds Are the cranes, noble cranes.
Krooing in our ears. Is their endless flight. Flying, flying ever farther Are the cranes, noble cranes.
Calling croo, croo, croo Foreign land i'll die. Crossing over the huge ocean Shattered wings will be be Very shattered wings will be. Croo, croo, croo . . . croo, croo, croo.
Klichoot: kroo, kroo, kroo Vchoozhinee oomroo, Zaki more perelechoo Kriloynka zeetroo. Kriloynka zeetroo, Kroo, kroo, roo . . . kroo, kroo, kroo.
the song holds meaning to the many displaced persons, who found themselves "outside" the Ukraine following the War and in a foreign land . . . and knowing they could and would never return "home" but die far away from home and family, they compared themselves to the cranes who flew out over the oceans and landed on ships that sailed carrying them to foreign lands . . . lands too far for them to fly back home, except with "shattered wings" . . . and then comes the fading dying "croo croo crooing" of the cranes . . .
there are many beautiful and moving Ujrainan folk songs (The Chad Mitchell Trio recorded one called "Bandura" (which they re-titles as "Mt Guitar" for the american audience to understand), but this song about the "dying cranes" has always been my favorite . . . many Ukrainians who had had to flee their homeland beause of war, have this song sung over their grave at their funeral/burial . . . and it can be quite an emotional moment.
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Post by b@@b on Aug 30, 2008 8:57:51 GMT -8
...between the lines. As I hope we are all.
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Post by happy4life on Aug 31, 2008 11:01:51 GMT -8
"Animal, Vegtable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Post by erik on Aug 31, 2008 13:39:14 GMT -8
No End In Sight, the compendium book to the '07 doc of the same name detailing the many mistakes made before, during, and after the downfall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The book contains much of the material seen in the film, and then some.
See the movie, too--it's extremely insightful, if admittedly very depressing as well.
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Post by dixiefan91978 on Aug 31, 2008 15:25:21 GMT -8
Wow this became a popular thread! I posted first in Feb and it's still going. I am now reading New Moon the second book in the twilight series. Today at Target I bought the last two books because I know I am going to finish New Moon before the week is over these books are addicting. I did finish the Gemma Doyle books which also were very good but that was awhile back. I've read a few more books since then.
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Post by dixiefan91978 on Aug 31, 2008 15:26:12 GMT -8
3rd degree - James Patterson I've read the first two in this series I have the 3rd and 4th one sitting on my nightstand
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Post by b@@b on Aug 31, 2008 16:33:03 GMT -8
Hopefully no one in the fam will be reading any of my son's books for him during the 5th Grade this year.
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Post by b@@b on Aug 31, 2008 16:35:18 GMT -8
oh, on a lighter note...
Javan ...."Footprints in the Mind" quite recently. Poetry.
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Post by SandraC on Aug 31, 2008 18:58:41 GMT -8
Beloved- Toni Morrison.
Good book. . really good book.
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Post by duncan175 on Sept 1, 2008 1:09:36 GMT -8
No End In Sight, the compendium book to the '07 doc of the same name detailing the many mistakes made before, during, and after the downfall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The book contains much of the material seen in the film, and then some. See the movie, too--it's extremely insightful, if admittedly very depressing as well. didn't know there was a book, the doc is excellent
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Post by dixiefan91978 on Sept 1, 2008 8:51:01 GMT -8
No End In Sight, the compendium book to the '07 doc of the same name detailing the many mistakes made before, during, and after the downfall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The book contains much of the material seen in the film, and then some. See the movie, too--it's extremely insightful, if admittedly very depressing as well. I just looked on Netflix it seems you can watch it right from your computer I may do that someday since I have netflix but I may try the book first
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Post by eaglemaster on Nov 13, 2008 4:41:07 GMT -8
Resurrecting this thread, I would like to mention that I am currently reading:
The Black Swan
from Nassim Nicholas Taleb who was born and partly raised in Lebanon and who is currently the Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He lives (mostly) in New York.
I got this book as a gift from a former client of mine who insisted that it is a must read. Having gone through the first 80 pages, I shall agree that its contents is quite intriguing...
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Post by drizzletown on Nov 13, 2008 9:27:14 GMT -8
I'm reading goofy, lovable Carl Hiaasen. "Nature Girl" to be precise. Love his humor, and love reading about Florida.
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Post by duncan175 on Nov 14, 2008 16:37:02 GMT -8
recently finished
fear and loathing on the campaign trail 72 - hunter s thompson
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Post by Kent67b on Nov 14, 2008 16:41:13 GMT -8
I'm reading "Storm Warning" by Billy Graham.
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Pride. Power. Pinstripes.
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Post by More Fiddle on Nov 14, 2008 18:06:34 GMT -8
Loving this resurrection!
Right now, I'm reading "(Not That You Asked)" by Steve Almond. It's a collection of "rants, exploits, and obsessions". The guy's a freakin' riot.
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Post by Forever JNo on Nov 14, 2008 20:43:07 GMT -8
I'm reading Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich. A co-worker got me started on this series and now I'm hooked!
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Post by BILLI on Nov 14, 2008 22:05:13 GMT -8
I have that book! I havent started it yet! Someone gave it to me, I havent read any others though. Does it matter?
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Post by Forever JNo on Nov 14, 2008 23:10:07 GMT -8
It doesn't really matter because each one can stand on its own. But I suggest going in order because each book builds the relationships and characters and makes the things that occur that much funnier.
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