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lincolnkwI need book recs.
Non fiction, NOT self-help stuff.
I'm pretty much open to anything right now.
Iam currently readin (at work) The Lost Scriptures which is a clooection of Gosples and such that were not and have never been included in the Bible. Interesting reading, have to do in small chuncks as it's a little academic. But there are found Gospels from Mary Magdalene, Jesus' brither, friends of various Apostles and so forth. There are also a selection of Apocalypse items, one by Peter.
It's very interesting reading. The author (whose last name starts with an E, I forget the rest) is a Biblical Scholar and historin (if I rmemeber right) he lets you know whewre these were found, in what condiution and so forth. It is the sequel to Lost Christianity where he talks about the various versions of Christianity (with proff) that existed way back when it was first starting. Various interpretations and the thigs that arose. We're out of stock on it right now but I want to read that as well.
Just finished the biography of Eleanor of Acquitaine by Marion Meade. Damn, that qoman had a life. Related by birth or marriage to five kings. Most powerful woman of her era. Very fun read.
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stormwynd!! I got the tape today, haven't watched it yet, but Muppet!Angel!!! Love the concept. just one question, I know Sike is on the show. Didn't he die/discorporate/cease to be on Buffy? What's he doing on Angel?
Off to bed now.
Non fiction, NOT self-help stuff.
I'm pretty much open to anything right now.
Iam currently readin (at work) The Lost Scriptures which is a clooection of Gosples and such that were not and have never been included in the Bible. Interesting reading, have to do in small chuncks as it's a little academic. But there are found Gospels from Mary Magdalene, Jesus' brither, friends of various Apostles and so forth. There are also a selection of Apocalypse items, one by Peter.
It's very interesting reading. The author (whose last name starts with an E, I forget the rest) is a Biblical Scholar and historin (if I rmemeber right) he lets you know whewre these were found, in what condiution and so forth. It is the sequel to Lost Christianity where he talks about the various versions of Christianity (with proff) that existed way back when it was first starting. Various interpretations and the thigs that arose. We're out of stock on it right now but I want to read that as well.
Just finished the biography of Eleanor of Acquitaine by Marion Meade. Damn, that qoman had a life. Related by birth or marriage to five kings. Most powerful woman of her era. Very fun read.
And
stormwynd!! I got the tape today, haven't watched it yet, but Muppet!Angel!!! Love the concept. just one question, I know Sike is on the show. Didn't he die/discorporate/cease to be on Buffy? What's he doing on Angel?Off to bed now.
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Date: 2004-03-02 08:19 pm (UTC)from "Zanna"? I really should check that out some time. In the future.
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Date: 2004-03-03 06:29 am (UTC)The first time I listened I was all "eh" then i listened again a few days later and found it enchanting. Much like "Wicked" when i first got that one.
It grew on me.
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Date: 2004-03-02 08:21 pm (UTC)Youmight like Sisters in Arms, about the history of Nuns.can't find it at the moment, but I got it from the History Book Club at the same time as that Eleanor book. Some really interesting things about women's place in the Chrurch over history.
I'd have to get into my library for more recs,a nd there's no electricty in there so have to wait for daylight.
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Date: 2004-03-03 06:29 am (UTC)You Just HAD To Ask.
Date: 2004-03-02 08:56 pm (UTC)Mattingly, The Armada. Brilliant.
Kurlansky, Salt: A World History. Fascinating.
Anything by Peter Hopkirk or James (now Jan) Morris.
Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony.
Magris, Danube, or anything else, frankly.
Frederic Morton, A Nervous Splendour and Thunder at Twilight. Vienna as the Habsburgs decay.
McCullough, anything, from TR to the Brooklyn Bridge to the Panama Canal to the John Adams bio.
Anything by Stanley Weintraub or David Fromkin.
Lord Norwich on the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and/or on Venice or Byzantium.
Or, for some light reading, Goerlitz's History of the German General Staff. Ahem.
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Date: 2004-03-02 10:53 pm (UTC)Might as well stick with the subtitle theme!
Boyhood: A Memoir by J.M. Coetzee
Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs edited by Bowe, Bowe and Streeter.
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Date: 2004-03-03 06:37 am (UTC)Re: You Just HAD To Ask.
Date: 2004-03-03 06:33 am (UTC)Will bring the list to work and see what we have.
thank you.
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Date: 2004-03-02 11:11 pm (UTC)Looooong story short, 1st ep of SN5 Angel received a mysterious package. Opened it to reveal the amulet Spike used & burned up with. Picks it up... ..Spike un-incinerates... ..as a ghost. A while later, another mysterious package arrives, addressed to spike. Harmony opens it... FLASH! Spike is corporeal again. Turns out an old enemy (Lindsey from SN1 & 2 was behind it, but we still don't know precisely WHY he did all this...
(and I need a Buffyverse icon of some sort... hmmm....)
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Date: 2004-03-03 06:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-03 07:02 am (UTC)*SPOILER ALERT*
We do know that Lindsey will be back for at least one more episode this season, so there's a decent chance that the issue *will* be resolved, or at least addressed.
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Date: 2004-03-03 10:04 am (UTC)I'm betting they will.
Joss Wheadon is a master at such things; he's spent every season of both shows spinning so many dangling plot threads you can never figure out how he'll resolve them all, but then it all comes together in the end.