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Willoe
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Re: What books are you reading?
1984 by George Orwell. 
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7/15/2006, 10:37 pm
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Re: What books are you reading?
Eliot Pattison's wonderful deep but troubling mysteries set in Tibet:
The Skull Mantra - re-reading
Water Touching Stone
Beautiful Ghosts - just got - looking forward to
(there is another one, I've forgotten...)
Watchman, Alan Moore's magnum opus
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(I'd love to know if Venturous makes Maryland Crab Cakes! )
I have, but alas our crabs are in short supply due to the decline of the Bay  and crab is very expensive. I prefer to eat them out, either at a tradition crab smackin' place on the water with lots of beer, or at The Market Lunch, a carry out joint at Eastern Market in DC run by the fishmonger. cheap, and delicious!  yum, I am changing my lunch plans....
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7/18/2006, 7:36 am
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Re: What books are you reading?
Ven, I'm sure you're familiar with the Phillip's seafood restaurant chain? I've been to the one in Annapolis and had the best crabcakes in my entire life! (second best was at the Quarterdeck in Frisco, on North Carolina's Outer Banks). Our local supermarket (part of a small N. California chain) now carries one-pound tubs of crab bearing the Phillip's name for about $17 --- cheap! Upon further inspection of the writing on the container, though, it says that the crab comes from Thailand!!! It looks like MD blue crab backfin meat, but the taste is a bit different, although it's still very good. (I'm a seafood afficiondo and can be terribly picky about my shellfish  )
*shouts out to Cygnus* "Hey, you! Where's our Recipe thread?!?"
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Re: What books are you reading?
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*shouts out to Cygnus* "Hey, you! Where's our Recipe thread?!?"
what a good idea! look here:
VaudeVille:Various:Culinary Genius, or Just Recipes
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Re: What books are you reading?
Till We Have Faces, CS Lewis
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The Good Terrorist, Doris Lessing
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The Man in the Iron Mask, Dumas
Plus The King in Yellow
Also, Smirt, Smith, and Smire, collectively titled The Nightmare Has Triplets, James Branch Cabell.
The movie cabal must have been reading Cabell; masked men, exalted ironies, bitter choices and elegant sorrows. Worlds within worlds, issues about time and causality. Any Cabell readers out there?
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Re: What books are you reading?
"The Art Forger's Handbook" and "Drawn to Trouble" by Eric Hebborn. Just finished "The Art of the Forger" by Christopher Wright.
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Re: What books are you reading?
Sunday, I finally finished the V4V novelization. Then I started reading "Book the First: The Bad Beginning" in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. Finished it in about two hours. Started "Book the Second: The Reptile Room" last night.
I'd heard so much about the Unfortunate Events books, I had to check them out. So far, I find the writing style to be quite cute and clever.
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Re: What books are you reading?
I just finished reading Moore's Watchmen today. Great ending!
Now I am going back to reading "Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences."
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Beauty is just the beginning of a terror we can only just barely endure,
and we admire it so because it calmly disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible. (Rilke's elegy)
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Re: What books are you reading?
Bought George Orwell's 1984 while I was out today. It's been at least 20 years since I've read it - so I'm very much looking forward to rereading it. Have to admit, I was fairly shocked when I spotted cliff notes for 1984 right next to the book. Who needs cliff notes for that?! 
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