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[scottobear]

Roaming the alleys of my mind, pondering coming tomes to fill it.

I need to find a new book to read. If I don't find some to buy soon, I'm going to go to project gutenberg and download something. I'm unsure of what I want to read, though. Some nonfiction, documentary/historic/biographic stuff, I think, then a cheesy pulp fiction (like Tarzan or the shadow), then more solid stuff again. I really don't like having nothing new to read in the house... I have about 5 books on my palm right now, but they'll be consumed before I know it. How do I get t long-dead authors to write more stuff? I'd really like to find some lost Jules Verne or HG Wells.

Right now I'm leaning to Two Years in the Forbidden City by princess Der Ling. (My sweetheart has me floating on an Asia kick. :) )

A Guilty Statement.. I never got around to reading Last Of The Mohicans... but for some reason, I don't feel a drive to. Perhaps I'll take a look, and see if I've been missing anything.

In other news... I *really* want Mexican for dinner. A cheese enchilada, some refried beans and rice. nummy!

Wow! Look at this little bitty mammal, barely bigger than a paper clip. I didn't know there were mammals that small....but apparently there were 195 million years ago.

Incredibly enough, while reading this, actual monkeys flew out of my butt.

Comments

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

Check out Net Library they have all the gutenberg books plus! And a cool reader program that marks your place and highlights...ALL kinds O' cool and free!!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

oh, ubergroovy! Thank you dearie! :) *hug*

Re: how about...

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Maus is great! I didn't know there was a 2!

I'll have to peek at those!

Swashbucklers!

[egofood.livejournal.com]

I recently bought Sea Dogs because Age of Sail II was so completely worthless. (All I wanted was a tall ship and a star to steer by.) So I read a review which listed related items. Game? Sid Meier's Pirates! Movie? The Sea Hawk. Book? Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini. So I went to Project Gutenberg. Before I knew it I had read several chapters. Went to B&N and bought a bunch of his books. Then I read Mistress Wilding while waiting on my shipment. Chock full of derring-do and buckling swashes and a fun read. The bio of this guy is kind of tragic. All in all an interesting fellow.

Re: Swashbucklers!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

buckle some swash!

Thanks for the reccomendation, i'll take you up on it!