Reading Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory"
Great book about a disgraced priest living in Mexico during the Anti-Catholic era.
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OregonDuck541 wrote:Reading Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory"
Great book about a disgraced priest living in Mexico during the Anti-Catholic era.
I love all things Graham Greene. Even his biography of Lord Rochester, The Quiet American is a tight read, too. I'm just finishing up Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins before moving on to The Power and the Glory, too!
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I randomly picked up Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle at a used book store, and it was pretty good. I then found his more popular A Year in Provence on sale at Borders. It has a couple of vivid chapters. Can't wait to go to Provence this summer!
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I'm preparing for a summer spent at the library and am looking for off-beat suggestions.
I just started 'Special Topics in Calamity Physics' and am hooked -- not sure how I will be able to grade all of the papers that need eyeballing, finish writing my end of the year finals and polish off this book in a timely way, but it is so tasty that it makes me want to give it a good go.
How about y'all? Give up the goods!
I just started 'Special Topics in Calamity Physics' and am hooked -- not sure how I will be able to grade all of the papers that need eyeballing, finish writing my end of the year finals and polish off this book in a timely way, but it is so tasty that it makes me want to give it a good go.
How about y'all? Give up the goods!
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The Stranger by Albert Camus. It seems to be "the" book to read in Absurdism. I'm quite enjoying it. Very laconic.
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I'm reading "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" by Paul Theroux.
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I'm about halfway through "What is to be done" by Nikolai Chernyshevsky. A discursive but still entertaining Victorian novel. I seem drawn to Russian authors.
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I'm going through Kurt Vonnegut novels like cheap tequila shots with approximately the same effect on my brain.
Awesome. Pure awesome. I just wonder when the hangover will hit?
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when i read vonnegut, i always feel like im trippin. his mind was very strange, yet entertaining. currently reading "possible side effects" by augusten burroughs. love him. very cheeky, gritty, honest, funny.
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I had been steadfastly refusing to read Eat, Pray, Love, but I finally caved and started reading it today. I'm actually quite enjoying it so far.
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I'm re-reading "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac currently; only domestic travel, but remains fairly high-energy throughout.
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Just bought all these & am about to dive in--can't decide where to start!
In Motion by Tony Hiss
In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
A Week At The Airport by Alain de Botton
Down & Delirious in Mexico City by Daniel Hernandez
El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City by John Ross
So excited for all these travel books! Sadly I'm too broke to actually go anywhere at the moment...
In Motion by Tony Hiss
In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
A Week At The Airport by Alain de Botton
Down & Delirious in Mexico City by Daniel Hernandez
El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City by John Ross
So excited for all these travel books! Sadly I'm too broke to actually go anywhere at the moment...
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I'm reading Jorge Luis Borges's On Argentina, a collection of his earlier essays, stories, and poems -- most of which he wanted to be destroyed. Who knew that Borges was a gangster wannabe in his twenties?
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This is one is a history book, but it's a travel book as well. It's called The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. It's about the Great Migration of African-Americans from the South to the North and West from 1915 to 1970. She chose 3 people to highlight, who followed different migration routes at different points during that era, and intersperses their stories with bigger picture trends and statistics. It is a compelling book; it's factual but it reads like a novel.
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.
Not a travel book per se but gives a fascinating insight into Indian life albeit with a grander plot than normal people woudl experience.
Not a travel book per se but gives a fascinating insight into Indian life albeit with a grander plot than normal people woudl experience.
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