I had forgotten that one. Funny, and with that wonderfully Dickensian name. For some reason it brings to mind Louis MacNeice's Bagpipe Music. http://www.artofeurope.com/macneice/mac6.htm
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Recommending entire volumes of poetry seems to me daunting: poetry is so dense. Single poems, however, allow you to nibble on a new poet and see if you enjoy the flavor. To start, let me recommend the astonishing Third Elegy from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, a beautiful and terrifying descr...
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Jane Austin, the MMO RPG? http://www.buzzfeed.com/kevintang/jane-austen-the-massive-online-rpg-game Does this fill anyone else with a feeling of dread?
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I tend to binge read mysteries, going through my favorite authors every few years, taking an armful at a time from the other building (garage/office/library) to the house. Just grabbed a stack of Ross McDonald today. Other favorites include John D. McDonald, Hillerman, Chandler and Hammett, Peters...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single year is blighted if it lacks a reading of Pride and Prejudice.
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Hi, I am a retired academic who reads science along with lots of other stuff. I own a fair amount of popularized physics, but my favorite authors tend to be elsewhere: Steven Jay Gould, John McPhee (geology), Douglas Hofstadter (math/computer science). I also read a lot of philosophy of science ...
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I think the last science book I read was Monster of God by David Quammen. It tells of man's relationship with those species that sometimes look on humans as prey, especially the great cats. It mixes biology and ethnography with analysis of myth, literature and popular culture. Very interesting.
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I liked the entire Disch horror series, though it was long enough ago that I can not remember the details. Disch was an interesting guy. He started in SF with some important work, but he was also a significant poet. He also as a children's author wrote The Brave Little Toaster. As a literary cri...
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Shhhhh! She is Lambchop in disguise. (Have you ever seen the two of them in the same place, or even the same photo? Have you seen Lambchop recently at all?) That purple hair is a wig. A sock puppet, disguised as a sock puppet. They will never see her coming.
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Poetry
discussion: Recommendations-single poems
Reading Jane Austen
discussion: First Group Read: Pride and Prejudice
I love mysteries!
discussion: Welcome to a place to discuss all things mysterious! What are your favorites?
Literary Horror
discussion: Supernatural Minnesota
The ConneXion Zone
discussion: Tell the Group Why You're Here
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