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12-10-2007, 07:26 PM
|  | Occam's chainsaw | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: goin down in a blaze of glory
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Originally Posted by kesh  i think ella luciana used to organise it, but now she has a proper job and stuff. isn't there another mod in this forum though? does it even have to be a mod? | obviously a mod has to sticky it but I thought it had been more or less decided that the golden notebook was the next read. I already got a used copy anyway so that's what I'll be reading if anyone else wants to join me. cricket? |
12-11-2007, 03:30 AM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | I'll start reading next week when I get to teh big city and get a copy of The Golden Notebook.
On a side note, it's activities week, and classes go around doing fun shit and getting points for it, and imagine my gasming when I discovered that thanks to the seal placed on it, the markbook for my class was in fact a Golden Notebook!!!!!! My fellow Lessing enthusiasts on staff were informed, and found it duly amusing.
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I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
12-11-2007, 09:46 AM
|  | fizzy lifting drinks | | Join Date: Jan 2007
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| | | okay, sounds good. although my damn school library has eighteen Doris Lessing titles, The Golden Notebook is not one of them. harumph. but i will get it. just you wait. or just i wait. til it comes. |
12-11-2007, 09:52 AM
|  | for beauty douglas | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: i am the cheese
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| | did anyone read her nobel speach about how the internet is shit?
"How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc?" A hunger for books | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books
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12-11-2007, 10:27 AM
|  | give me the sickest one. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: fox in the snow
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| | | i think shes right, kesh. i am wasting my life doing this. i always feel much more productive when im off the net.
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i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats |
12-11-2007, 10:31 AM
| | for beauty douglas | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: i am the cheese
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| | | me too
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12-11-2007, 06:05 PM
| | Occam's chainsaw | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: goin down in a blaze of glory
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Originally Posted by dirtyplotte i think shes right, kesh. i am wasting my life doing this. i always feel much more productive when im off the net. | she's definitely right imo. I worry more for the younger generations who haven't experienced anything else. because I can always look back on my life and say that most of it was spent living/learning/ not wasting time on the internet but it's all they know. I'm sure it's just me getting old/ thinking the younger generation is doomed, but I don't know how they ever learn anything. wikipedia is about the only "educational" reading they seem to do on the net.
/old lady rant. |
12-11-2007, 06:08 PM
| | for beauty douglas | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: i am the cheese
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Originally Posted by herekitty she's definitely right imo. I worry more for the younger generations who haven't experienced anything else. because I can always look back on my life and say that most of it was spent living/learning/ not wasting time on the internet but it's all they know. I'm sure it's just me getting old/ thinking the younger generation is doomed, but I don't know how they ever learn anything. wikipedia is about the only "educational" reading they seem to do on the net.
/old lady rant. | i'm having a no interent day tomorrow.
i spelt it wrong, does that mean i can cheat?
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12-11-2007, 06:15 PM
| | Occam's chainsaw | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: goin down in a blaze of glory
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Originally Posted by kesh i'm having a no interent day tomorrow.
i spelt it wrong, does that mean i can cheat? | you'd only be cheating yourself kesh. so the answer is yes of course. |
12-12-2007, 11:32 PM
| | fizzy lifting drinks | | Join Date: Jan 2007
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| | | okay i got the book.
readygo. |
12-13-2007, 12:30 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | I'm hitting Borders on Saturday.
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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
12-13-2007, 06:15 PM
|  | here be some words | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: go move to russia
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| | | so i went to the library to try and find it and they didn't even have it, although on the website it said that two copies should be on the shelves. so i had to fill out this searching card and it made me so mad.
however, i never realized how prolific she was until i tried to find the book. she must have 50+ book out! |
12-13-2007, 06:16 PM
| | for beauty douglas | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: i am the cheese
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| | | i'm in. i haven't read it in so many years
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12-16-2007, 07:29 PM
|  | books written for girls | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by bort I'm hitting Borders on Saturday. | ewww! borders!!
so, on page 50ish. where the hell are they located? england? russia? somewhere? where did M. go for the year and why did she go? |
12-18-2007, 07:16 PM
| | fizzy lifting drinks | | Join Date: Jan 2007
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| | | okay bitches i'm starting tonight.
i've never been in a "book club." what do we DO? talk about our feeeeeeeelings? |
12-21-2007, 12:42 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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| | | i'll try and pick this up in town tomorrow, if i'm not trampled by psycho shoppers.
i'm so happy my (genius) suggestion was picked. |
12-21-2007, 12:47 PM
| | for beauty douglas | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: i am the cheese
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| | the section title "free women" is ironic y/n?
and what the author thinks of her book 40-50 years on. Guarded welcome | Book club | Guardian Unlimited Books
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12-22-2007, 04:56 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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| | | in the preface it is said to be ironic. |
12-22-2007, 05:22 PM
| | for beauty douglas | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: i am the cheese
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Originally Posted by Dig For Fire in the preface it is said to be ironic. | yeah i got that far, but discuss |
12-22-2007, 11:53 PM
| | here be some words | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: go move to russia
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Originally Posted by no_ones_song ewww! borders!!
so, on page 50ish. where the hell are they located? england? russia? somewhere? where did M. go for the year and why did she go? | she went to continental europe. various places. i know she mentions rome somewhere. i think she did it to give tommy some time to think about what he wanted to do with the rest of his life.
and she tells richard something like she wanted to be free herself for the first time since she had tommy. | </ |
