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  1. staceass

    Dante's Inferno

    Well, I think that depends on your definition of "comedy". Traditionally, the definition usually hovers around a young protagonist in conflict with an old authority. My personal take on this is that the comedy in "The Divine Comedy" is that our hero (Dante) is at risk of falling prey to the...
  2. staceass

    funniest lines in a book

    "they hung in the air, exactly the way bricks don't." douglas adams, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
  3. staceass

    Oprah's new book club title . . .

    Rumour has it ms. winfrey is getting ready to make her next selection, so i thought i'd regurgitate this thread. My take on it is kinda hot/cold. i'm not too hot on most of the picks. the descriptions just don't 'do it' for me, and thus i've not read many of them. I have enjoyed (mostly...
  4. staceass

    Cookbook search

    that "whole beast" one looks great! mcOrdered. I'd still like to find something more focused-- like the bones book i mentioned before. but this is a great starting point. Thanks :)
  5. staceass

    Where do you buy most of your books?

    as of flate, i've been getting a lot of books from dvdboxoffice.com. they started selling books a while ago, and so far it's been pretty good going. if you can't find what you're looking for you can email them and they'll try to find it for you. shipping's free, too, which is a bonus...
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    Cookbook search

    Hey there! I'm looking for a cookbook. Not a specific title, but a specific topic. I want a book like this: http://www.dvdboxoffice.com/books/products/90150559 but on the topic of varietal cuts... like... heart... and kidney.. and liver... and tongue... and all those other bits that you...
  7. staceass

    top five on your TBR list?

    I reserve the right to change my mind and other such rot... 1. Never let me go 2. Gastronaught 3. Pride & Prejudice 4. Toyminator 5. Nasty Bits ew... labyrinth. blekch. i remember when that was on my TBR... wish it had stayed there...
  8. staceass

    Book Recommendation: Current Events and Political Climate

    thanks for the suggestions. i've read the wikipedia article already, and that's actually what lead me to wanting a proper book on the subject. on such a big topic, it was a bit too 'birds eye' to really be enough for me.
  9. staceass

    Book Recommendation: Current Events and Political Climate

    With things going generally bonkers lately in the middle east and so on, i've been feeling decidedly inadequate as far as my understanding of the history and scope of the latest conflict. I would like to address the issue by picking up a couple books that could reasonably 'bring me up to speed'...
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    Page Turners

    i agree totally about it being a mood thing -- generally, i really enjoy a good read, but specifically what i'm looking for in that can change with the weather. of late, i have had a great deal of trouble staying awake while reading. mind you, i have been reading some heavier stuff lately. it...
  11. staceass

    need help...

    on the dan-brown-in-high-school train of thought... Discussing the Davinci Code Curriculum Kit ooooo.... scary.... on other trains-- particularly the bar car... bookie, it's obvious to me that you're not a strong reader. your spelling and sentence structure are evidence enough to...
  12. staceass

    What do you use as a bookmark?

    me? whatever's at hand.... which occasionally turns out to be my hand... i've actually spent the greater part of an afternoon walking around with my finger holding my place. it quickly became so natural that i forgot i was holding it, and thus forgot i needed something to mark my place, so kept...
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    "How Opal Mehta Got" copied story - Kaavya Viswanathan

    just got this from my kirkus newsletter... While the Gettin's Good: $495 Will Get You a Used Copy of Kaavya Viswanathan's 'Opal Mehta' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Log into your PayPal account now at Amazon, you can get a used copy...
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    "How Opal Mehta Got" copied story - Kaavya Viswanathan

    i don't know that i would consider salman rushdie to be a chick lit author... ;) (from CBC.CA article: "For instance, in Rushdie's children's novel Haroun, the title character encounters posters bearing slogans such as "If from speed you get your thrill / take precaution – make your will."...
  15. staceass

    Anthony Bourdain

    i've seen the TV show. it ranks right along side Good Eats on my scale of 1 to indespencible (1 being fluff like christine cushing and indescpencible being Good Eats ;) ). yes. i'm a BIG food nerd. there is a book that matches the "Cooks Tour" show, though... check it out here... and...
  16. staceass

    Favorite 3 books of all time

    i tried recently to remember all the books i've read... i failed miserably. here's 3 good'ns that i do remember: 1. east of eden (john steinbeck) 2. kitchen confidential (anthony bourdain) 3. stranger in a strange land (robert a. heinlein)
  17. staceass

    Kate Mosse: Labyrinth

    i think that's exactly the concensus, though: the book isn't SO bad. it's simply not so good either. whether you look at it from a half glass full or half empty perspective probably has a lot to do with other factors like how full your TBR shelf is, or weather or not you have the patience to...
  18. staceass

    Kate Mosse: Labyrinth

    ooooo! good word!!!
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    Kate Mosse: Labyrinth

    finished well... i finished it. the final verdict: meh. while it's certainly not the worst book i've read (i'll nominate nick tosche's "in the hand of dante" for that 'honour'), it's definately not going to be on my recommended list, either. after enduring a 50 page-or-so sum-up of all...
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    Kate Mosse: Labyrinth

    an update -- i'm about 150 from the end of the book it's picked up in pace some-- i stopped meeting new people a while ago, and now we're busy establishing who the bad badies are and what their motivations are, who the goodies are and how they're going to save the day. there's still a lot of...
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