Mayberry Machiavelli
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Mon Jul-18-05 09:23 PM
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| I am now halfway through Pat Conroy's "The Lords of Discipline". |
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Edited on Mon Jul-18-05 09:24 PM by Mayberry Machiavelli
What a great book!
It blows my mind what a good writer this guy is and I've never read his stuff. Now I am really interested to read some more of his books.
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| MuseRider
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Mon Jul-18-05 09:28 PM
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of his books, they are all like that. It took me a couple of tries to get through The Great Santini because the dad was a lot like my dad even though my dad was never military and it was kind of creepy because of that.
I like his books a lot too although I have not read the last one about basketball.
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Mon Jul-18-05 09:46 PM
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| 2. Do I get extra credit if I mention the movie? |
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Edited on Mon Jul-18-05 09:47 PM by Hardhead
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| Mayberry Machiavelli
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Tue Jul-19-05 06:40 AM
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| 7. I like your "I Am the Doorway" signature graphic. One of my favorite |
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Tue Jul-19-05 06:55 PM
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(Not that I created it, of course.) Like all the great horror writers, King does best with short stories. I love his story collections and generally don't care for his novels.
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Mon Jul-18-05 09:47 PM
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| 3. The interesting thing for me about that book |
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is that now that I have read George Lakoff, for me, the father in that book is just the epitome of Lakoff's "strict father" model. It's the only way I can make any sense about the "strict father" model because my entire family is so darn "nurturant parent" that the "strict father" is just completely incomprehensible to me. :P
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Mon Jul-18-05 09:48 PM
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| 4. Is that a kinky porn book??? |
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:evilgrin: I think I saw that movie.
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| Mayberry Machiavelli
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Tue Jul-19-05 06:39 AM
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Mon Jul-18-05 09:51 PM
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| 5. Gosh, I don't know what to recommend first. I think it has to be |
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Beach Music. Excellent, excellent book. One of my favorite works of fiction -- ranks up there w/ some of my favorite American literature.
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Tue Jul-19-05 08:08 PM
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| 11. Beach Music IS the best! |
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I agree wholeheartedly!!! I heard it takes Pat Conroy like 9 years on average to write a book -- it really shows! His books are SO well written. He is definitely one of my favorite authors and Beach Music one of my favorite books!
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| bertha katzenengel
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Tue Jul-19-05 09:32 PM
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Surprised to find something in common w/ someone so quickly?
I'm late for bed. 'night, all.
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Tue Jul-19-05 07:09 PM
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The book is MUCH better than the movie.
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His writing is full of passages so beautiful they are poetry.
Prince of Tides is probably his best.
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