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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2018 19:26:14 GMT
John Milton's epic poem 'Paradise Lost'. One of the best things I've ever read.
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Post by PreachCaleb on Jan 30, 2018 20:09:44 GMT
Just finished White Fang.
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Post by poelzig on Jan 30, 2018 20:41:23 GMT
I am currently reading Bread For All: The origins of the Welfare State. Usually I go into Waterstones bookshop and read all Bernard Cornwell's swords and whatever fiction for fun and free. But once a year I buy a book by way of an admission fee and this year I ended up with Chris Renwick's little effort which was well worth it, particularly since it had been remaindered and was going for washers. No libraries where you live?
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 7, 2018 2:20:46 GMT
I’m currently reading Sax Rohmer’s Brood of the Witch-Queen (1918), a wacky thriller that I’m enjoying. I put off reading Rohmer for ages after hearing that his work was unreadable, racist, ludicrous, badly-plotted—ehh, kerflooey with all that! Rohmer’s not a great writer, but the book is really fun and silly, exactly the sort of thing I like: fast-paced, eclectic, heroic, a bit like early Fleming, if Bond were ever to fight the supernatural. This is what I was expecting when I picked up Dennis Wheatley’s The Devil Rides Out, but Wheatley’s prose is as dry as straw. The romance is well-done—rather close to R. Austin Freeman.
I can’t comment on Fu Manchu, though—this one doesn’t feature him—though I have seen and greatly enjoyed the ’32 film adaptation.
P.S. Judging from Rohmer’s picture on Wikipedia, the man harbored a desire to be William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes!
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Post by vegalyra on Feb 8, 2018 22:19:41 GMT
I finished John Buchan's Huntingtower earlier today, and started the sequel, Castle Gay, before getting distracted by the internet. I just really love Buchan. I haven't read his works in quite some time but remember the Thirty Nine Steps and Greenmantle quite affectionately. Prester John was another great adventure story... Right now in between my required legal studies I'm reading Plato's The Laws. It's actually quite engaging.
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