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BlueHeronDruid
Location: Заебани сме луѓе
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Aug 29, 2013 - 3:00pm |
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Skaterella
Location: jrzy Gender:
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Aug 29, 2013 - 2:53pm |
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I just finished The Secret History & I read Joyland recently too. enjoyed both quite a bit.
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Alexandra
Location: PNW Gender:
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Aug 28, 2013 - 8:22pm |
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This girl is pretty awesome...and gritty....and makes you turn the page. And want to keep reading late into the night. (I tried to get my hands on Gone Girl a few months ago - but didn't work out. That'll be next.)
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ZM_Herb
Location: 28? 33' N 81? 23' W Gender:
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Jun 18, 2013 - 9:02am |
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winter
Location: in exile, as always Gender:
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Jun 18, 2013 - 7:53am |
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DaveInVA wrote: Because of how fragile it is I'd like to put each page between large plastic sheets (not glued of course) so the entire thing can be read and handled without damage from skin oils etc.
Good idea.
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DaveInSaoMiguel
Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:
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Jun 17, 2013 - 3:59pm |
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winter wrote: That is so cool! You might want to make sure that's an acid-free bag you keep it in: a lot of plastics are bad for paper over the long term, and it would be a shame if anything happened to that piece of history.
Because of how fragile it is I'd like to put each page between large plastic sheets (not glued of course) so the entire thing can be read and handled without damage from skin oils etc.
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winter
Location: in exile, as always Gender:
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Jun 17, 2013 - 3:54pm |
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DaveInVA wrote:I'm just catching up on reading all the newspapers that were on my front porch. Actually I found this in the walls of my last house that was built in 1764 in Petersburg. General Grants Band Members were using the house at the time this paper got "lost". Its the entire paper and not just the front page. Seeing as its from April 15, 1865 I've been very careful with it and its usually in a huge ziplock bag. Its ironic that it mentions "Jeff Davis" is now in still rebel held Danville and right now I live right behind the very house he was in on that date. They used about a number 2 font because they were trying to save paper because of the war, It even has the classifieds. Fun reading. I took it to the Nauseum of the Confederacy and they said its authentic. That is so cool! You might want to make sure that's an acid-free bag you keep it in: a lot of plastics are bad for paper over the long term, and it would be a shame if anything happened to that piece of history.
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DaveInSaoMiguel
Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:
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Jun 17, 2013 - 3:49pm |
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I'm just catching up on reading all the newspapers that were on my front porch. Actually I found this in the walls of my last house that was built in 1764 in Petersburg. General Grants Band Members were using the house at the time this paper got "lost". Its the entire paper and not just the front page. Seeing as its from April 15, 1865 I've been very careful with it and its usually in a huge ziplock bag. Its ironic that it mentions "Jeff Davis" is now in still rebel held Danville and right now I live right behind the very house he was in on that date. They used about a number 2 font because they were trying to save paper because of the war, It even has the classifieds. Fun reading. I took it to the Nauseum of the Confederacy and they said its authentic.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jun 17, 2013 - 3:31pm |
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winter
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Jun 17, 2013 - 3:11pm |
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bokey
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Jun 17, 2013 - 3:01pm |
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This post apparently contained an image that was dragged into the post editor. Sorry, but any text contained in the post after this point has been lost.
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bwkaplan
Location: Wilmington, NC Gender:
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Jun 17, 2013 - 2:44pm |
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TampaPurple
Location: East Gender:
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Apr 9, 2013 - 1:49pm |
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This Book is Full of Spiders (Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It) by David Wong
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SmilinJimmy
Location: Canada Gender:
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Mar 2, 2013 - 1:39pm |
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Just finished New York by Edward Rutherfurd. Really good read (par for the course).
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Exit2Eden
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Mar 2, 2013 - 8:50am |
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New car owner manuals - too much! Gone are the days when you stuck your key in the ignition and just...drove!
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Mar 1, 2013 - 11:27am |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:I hope I didn't wreck it for you with my complaint... but now I'm thinking I need to check it out again and give it another try. A writer I respect, Ed Ward, loved it. I might not have given it enough time to get going (although I was 1/3 of the way into it). Maybe, maybe not. I'm reading an old Neal Stephenson now, the Diamond Age. For some reason I missed that one, I've read everything else of his. Yes, even the 3000-page one. Somebody left a bunch of "Jack Reacher" paperbacks up in the Ski Patrol shacks so I've got 4 of those going concurrently. Mostly interchangeable, mostly crap, but total book crack. As mysteries they're really not very good and he always tries to throw in a twist that makes you go "ahhh what?" but you see it coming a mile off. Or it's just impossible. But they're addicting anyway and it's words on paper so that's better than not reading, right? Right? Nah, I was having trouble myself. I perservered, and it did get more interesting, and I did like characters, but the whole book is basically about just a few days in time. I like reading on my Kindle because it gives me defs of words I don't understand, and Chabon is quite the wordsmith. The annoying thing is that it doesn't give you pages, it gives you segments. I agree, any kind of reading expands your minds and stirs your creativity. Readers Are Leaders!
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Jack_Jefferson
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DD gypsyman
Location: Joined Nov 27, 2006 Gender:
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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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Mar 1, 2013 - 10:34am |
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hippiechick wrote:Just finished this (A little disappointed, I enjoyed his other books more, but he is still a wonderful wordsmith) I hope I didn't wreck it for you with my complaint... but now I'm thinking I need to check it out again and give it another try. A writer I respect, Ed Ward, loved it. I might not have given it enough time to get going (although I was 1/3 of the way into it). Maybe, maybe not. I'm reading an old Neal Stephenson now, the Diamond Age. For some reason I missed that one, I've read everything else of his. Yes, even the 3000-page one. Somebody left a bunch of "Jack Reacher" paperbacks up in the Ski Patrol shacks so I've got 4 of those going concurrently. Mostly interchangeable, mostly crap, but total book crack. As mysteries they're really not very good and he always tries to throw in a twist that makes you go "ahhh what?" but you see it coming a mile off. Or it's just impossible. But they're addicting anyway and it's words on paper so that's better than not reading, right? Right?
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Mar 1, 2013 - 10:25am |
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Just finished this (A little disappointed, I enjoyed his other books more, but he is still a wonderful wordsmith) Going to start this She is another favorite of mine.
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