21-07-2007, 23:50 | #101 |
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I know what you mean, its weird- i can remember reading the first couple of books before the hype really took off and these have stretched ~half my life i think. The whole thing is over- especially as she's said she probably wont write another HP related book.
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Yeah, it is just about half my life too. I can still remember the weekend when I was eleven and read the first three books, and then I guess a year or so later the weekend when the fourth one came out. It feels so far away in one sense, but I guess I got to go back to that time for a few hours last night. Now though, it has been closed off, and I become a little bit more separated from my youth. I suppose at this point I really just need to find something else to do rather than sit alone, drowning in feelings of nostalgia and melancholy.
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Perhaps. That wound up coming out rather more depressed sounding than I expected.
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23-07-2007, 00:36 | #105 |
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it's why i stopped posting, didnt want to send you over the edge.
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Don't worry, I am no where close to any edges. I suppose occasionally slightly melodramatic, but fairly emotionally stable.
Anyway, to change the topic, has anyone read The Naked and the Dead? I have wanted to discuss a few things with someone, but I have not yet found anyone who has read it. |
31-08-2007, 16:24 | #107 |
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I finnished HP7 a couple weeks ago. Nice way to end the series.
Now, I need suggestions for a good historical novel. Historical novel I recently read and liked. - The Aztek - Shogun - The 13th Warrior - Pillars of the earth Anybody?
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31-08-2007, 16:47 | #108 |
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Tai-Pan? Also by Clavell.
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31-08-2007, 18:30 | #109 |
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A friend of mine just wrote a book "From Fantasy Football to Fatherhood" by Douglas H. Hall.
He mocks all of us incessantly. He's a very funny guy and I'm looking forward to reading it.
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31-08-2007, 19:34 | #110 |
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I'm just about to start the second year of uni, studying these four topics
Medieval England- 1066-1400 American History- Civil war+reconstruction Early Modern England- (war of the roses-Glorious revolution) World History- 1450-1750 So if anyone knows any books relating to them which they think will be good, give me a shout! @barbu i've just finished a few weeks ago reading Kublai Khan by John Man, was excellent, really interesting. Have been looking for his Genghis Khan and Attila the hun. I've just finished reading a few days ago, 'A Persian Fire:the first world empire, Battle for the West' by Tom Holland, really interesting book, opened up that era of history to me that 300 left out- first of all being that there were close to 5000 of them there! Right now im reading- 'Constantinople- The last great Siege, 1453' by Roger Crowley- quite interesting, though i imagine it could be a bit boring if you weren't into that era of history, basically showing the first uses of what became modern artillery and the siege etc.
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