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8101Good to read about the 5 stars. It's been sometime since I read the last ConJohnM-11/14/2015
8100I may wait a couple of months and go back and do Connelly's book again now tSmoothSail-11/14/2015
8099Thanks again. I also have the new Connelly book on library reserve. Very much inJohnM-11/14/2015
8098After the trouble I was having getting into it, I decided to look at the reviewsSmoothSail-11/14/2015
8097Sorry to hear this. I have it on reserve at the library and was looking forward JohnM-11/14/2015
8096Started Robert Crais' new book The Promise. Got as far as Chapter 28 and douSmoothSail-11/14/2015
8095The original manuscript of Beowulf is available online November 7, 2015 By MichaTom Clarke211/9/2015
8094Saved From The Bonfire: The Tom Wolfe Papers standpointmag.co.ukTom Clarke-11/6/2015
8093Or also is it from Benjamin Franklin? He's a quotable from long ago.Stan-11/4/2015
8092Connolly's new one, The Crossing. Excellent, IMO. Yes. I agree. I listenedSmoothSail111/4/2015
8091This would be a good quiz someone could put together: Is this from Shakespeare DMaA-11/4/2015
8090 the world to recognize him as a genius. That's why it's a crime to dumStan111/4/2015
8089Even though Shakespeare was popular in his day, it took a few generations for thDMaA-11/4/2015
8088Readers in Dickens and Shakespeare's time saw them as mere popularizers. LindyBill-11/4/2015
8087Don't know how quotable they are, but we have modern writers like Flannery OTom Clarke-11/4/2015
8086Shakespeare is in his own class. I doubt there will ever be another one. Which iDMaA111/4/2015
8085I can't imagine who from our modern writers might be the Shakeseares of the Stan-11/4/2015
8084great ones like Shakespeare or Dickens These two were both looked down upon at LindyBill-11/4/2015
8083A sign Western Civilization is in decline is for as many writers as we've prStan-11/4/2015
8082Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society by Mario Vargas Tom Clarke-11/4/2015
8081You can have fun with that, and not just with Shakespeare. "These are the Tom Clarke-11/4/2015
8080Dumb down our dumb-downed masses further. Lower the bar until the laziest studenStan-11/3/2015
8079Just finished an overnight read of Connolly's new one, The Crossing. ExcelleJohnM-11/3/2015
8078Just finished an overnight read of Connolly's new one, The Crossing. ExcelleLindyBill111/3/2015
8077Amazon is opening its first physical bookstore today By Jacob Kastrenakes on NovTom Clarke111/3/2015
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