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Americanbeauty
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There's a darkness inside all of us ...
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« Reply #49 on: May 24, 2005, 09:53:29 AM » |
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I finished reading War Of The Worlds last week. I also started and finished reading (today) The Last Juror by John Grisham. This one is not his usual stuff about lawyers and lawyers and lawyers ... of course it's John Grisham so there has to be lawyers somewhere  It takes place in Clanton, Mississippi. It's about 23-year-old "journalist" Willie Traynor (he's a college drop-out) who in the early 70's decides to buy The Ford County Times, which went bankrupt. Apart from obituaries, nothing very interesting to write about ... until the rape and murder of a young mother by the son of the notorious, corrupted, and feared Padgitt family. The life of the small and peaceful community of Clanton will be forever changed by this terrible event ...
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Lilly
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« Reply #59 on: July 14, 2005, 11:31:09 AM » |
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Cool Gant, sounds interesting. Funny you should mention Spain, because last night I finished reading The Assassination of Federico Garcia Lorca by Ian Gibson. It's a fantastic piece of detailed research, and a great insight into a too often overlooked time in Europe's history. The book is out of print now, but I think parts have been incorporated into Gibson's biography Federico Garcia Lorca. I knew little about the Spanish Civil War, but the book gives plenty of background, so you get an understanding of what it was like in Spain in the 30s. I was much more affected by it than I expected to be. Reading the details of how so much potential was stifled was quite sickening. Enlightening for anyone who wonders how totalitarianism can take hold of a state. This book is extra special for me because it's one of the few reminders I have of my dad, who was missing in Spain before he died (of natural causes - in case that sounds mysterious!). This was his copy and it was fun to decipher his annotations in the margins and try to understand what he was thinking.  I'm now reading a translation of three of Lorca's most well-known plays.  bill bryson - a short history of nearly everything
and i'm a stranger here myself
good beach reading
Cool vik. I like Bill Bryson, haven't read that one, but enjoyed his U.S. travel books. 
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