What are you reading?

[Faust]

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Back in school mode. </p>

Fascinating Fascism - Susan Sontag.</p>

[mortalveneer]

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School &amp; Play mode:</p>

Mokyr - Lever of Riches</p>

Kafka - Zurau Aphorisms</p>

Lowrey - Under the Volcano
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[nycd]

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http://www.nyc2123.com/

[ddohnggo]

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middlesex

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

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Reading, looking, studying ...</p>

Martin Munkacsi</p>

Edited by F C Gundlach
Texts by Klaus Honnef and Enno Kaufhold
Forward by Richard Avedon</p>

One of the best photographers of all time, his ability to capture
movement/stillness, that prolongs itself in eternity, is breathtaking![64]</p>

[ddohnggo]

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howard zinn - a people's history of the united states

[Faust]

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<span style="font-style: italic;">Modernism: The Lure of Heresy</span> - Peter Gay.</p>

Has anyone read Summer in Baden-Baden?</p>

[dontbecruel]

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The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth</p>

After years of gentle persuasion by my girlfriend, I'm finally chipping away at my long-held prejudice against German literature.
</p>

[Faust]

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[quote user="dontbecruel"]

The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth</p>

After years of gentle persuasion by my girlfriend, I'm finally chipping away at my long-held prejudice against German literature.
</p>

[/quote]</p>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru2uixqA7Fk</p>

[kira]

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Found myself wandering into the bookstore and happened upon the 'Who Knew' section. Dont quite know why I have not seen it before. Full of titles like:</p>

A Brief History of the Smile</p>

The Toothpick</p>

The Humble Little Condom: A History</p>

The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug: Aspirin</p>

and my favorite The Secret Life of Lobsters </p>

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It put quite a nice smile on my face. </p>

[Faust]

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I use The Toothpick as an example when I tell my students that there is no such thing as running out of thoughts (whipping them into shape to not give me half-size papers). Nothing like a 400 page book on a toothpick to drive the point home.

[kira]

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[quote user="Faust"]I use The Toothpick as an example when I tell my students that there is no such thing as running out of thoughts (whipping them into shape to not give me half-size papers). Nothing like a 400 page book on a toothpick to drive the point home.
[/quote]</p>

I think it is absolutely great. I am feeling compelled to go and check out the 'Who Knew' section now frequently. I almost bought the Lobster book but ran out of time... </p>

[laika]

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</p>

"Clues: Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes," an essay by Carlo Ginzburg</p>

feeling the tininess of my pea-sized brain acutely....[:|]</p>

[Faust]

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[quote user="laika"]


</p>

"Clues: Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes," an essay by Carlo Ginzburg</p>

feeling the tininess of my pea-sized brain acutely....[:|]</p>

[/quote]</p>

Is there a link? JSTORE? I'll read anything that has Sherlock Holmes in the title.</p>

[gusgusterson]

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[quote user="Faust"][quote user="laika"]

"Clues: Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes," an essay by Carlo Ginzburg</p>

feeling the tininess of my pea-sized brain acutely....[:|]</p>

[/quote]</p>

Is there a link? JSTORE? I'll read anything that has Sherlock Holmes in the title.</p>

[/quote]</p>

I spent most of 2007 reading The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes. It's printed exactly as it appeared in the Strand. Holmes isn't a jerk until after he returns from the dead.
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Read the Border Trilogy and finishing Suttree. Dude. This did make me think I was some sort of cowboy until I rode a horse for the first time a few weeks ago.
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