Brisngr --Paolini Effective Speaking --course text
Iām currently Re-reading a short western by Louis Lamour.
Iām also reading āThe Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Waoā by Junot Diaz - great book; probably even better if I spoke Spanish, but what the hey.
Didnāt Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons write & draw a lot of the old Doctor Who comics in the '70s? I have a bunch of those.
I loved V for Vendetta. Thatās what got me into Alan Moore a couple years ago. Iāve read the first volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and I liked it a lot. Iāll check out From Hell. Another comic I liked a lot was Y: The Last Man. Anyone read that?
I couldnāt agree more! Gibbons was very much a product of the āEnlightenmentā period (what a mis-labelling of a period!) Typical Occidental and totally (I believe willfully also) ignorant of the Eastern Orthodox Empire. Anything pagan, anything Latin or ancient Greek would do for him as the standard of cultural measurement. Yes Galen was spectacular indeed. As a matter of fact, herbal medicine like Valerian and St. Johnās Wort was known in Byzantium and before - and both are becoming increasingly popular.
And they did a mean flame thrower tooā¦
Iām reading more Groo the Wanderer. (also listened to Rush, took snuff and had a lot of honey in my tea, bob. But Iām out of Tick comics to read)
ooh! Greekfire!
I just reserved a copy of āBattle Cry of Freedomā Watching āThe Blue and The Greyā has put me in the mood.
The new Stokerās Catalog
lol, nice
I hope I get the new catalog. I didnt order anything from the first two they sent me, but i was planning on it. I think some companies take you off their list if you donāt order anything. Not to say that stokers is like that. And I suppose its still a bit early. I just got done reading a book called Water for Elephants for lit class. Pretty good read. Next Iām gonna read The Nose by Nicoli Gogol. I was in San Francisco last week and our hotel was by the SF museum of modern art. An artist named William Kentridge had an exhibition and there was one really cool film piece based on The Nose. It was very cool. The Nose is on google books and only 40 pages or so, so what the hey.
David Gemmel, I currently have two of his set aside for a special occasions since I donāt want to finish them too fast.
Turns out there is a lot of mention of snuff in The Nose. "Should you care for a pinch of this? Snuff can dissipate both headache and low spirits. Nay, it is good for hemorrhoids as well.ā hmm canāt find the insert link function http://h42day.100megsfree5.com/texts/russia/gogol/nose.html
I recieved the Winter catalog from Stokers last week. I flip through it almost daily. If I still dipped, I would pick up a tub of that pinching tobacco in the butternut flavor. So cheap, but probably better than anything I could get in a store.
Iāve just picked up Studs Terkelās āWorkingā. Fascinating. Itās a collection of at least 120 interviews from the people that made up the american work force in the early 70s; old coal miner types, paperboys, stewardesses, cadillac salesmen, etc. Its amazing to see how nearly all the participants clearly and humorously percieve the inhumanity and meaninglessness of their bread and butter. I HIGHLY recommend this one.
cstokes4, the Stokers Loose Leaf chew is in my opinion the best available. The flavor is true & lasts a long time.
Just about to begin the complete poems of Garcia Lorca.
Re-reading David Copperfield, I had forgotten how many snuff mentions there were in that book. I know many consider him a bit too descriptive and wordy, but I do find once I get into any of his classics I have a hard time putting them down. He was one of the best as far as character development goes.