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• Spirits in Bondage finished
• Hell-Heaven finished

  Disappointing in the end I really enjoyed most of this story, but I felt like it was rushing more and more as it neared the end -- no longer providing as much of the lush detail about Bengali life in general, or the lives of the main characters. Then the end came - so abrupt that I honestly wasn't sure I was reading it right. I'm just disappointed by all the unanswered questions. I posted this on 27 July 2009
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• Book: The Sequel finished
• 3 Short Reads by Edgar Allan Poe finished

  Not among his best Other than "The Raven," which I've read so many times, the other items were not among my faves by Mr. Poe. I posted this on 06 July 2009
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• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button finished

  Curiously poignant and sad I enjoyed this story very much and was very disappointed by the movie's utter departure from it. The story has layers upon layers -- one could even read it as a black comedy -- but in the end it comes down to the relationships between children and parents, a universal theme well explored here. I posted this on 06 July 2009
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• Anna Karenina suspended
• Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer suspended
• Robinson Crusoe suspended
• Ulysses suspended
• Return of the Native unread

Hell-Heaven - Disappointing in the end

I really enjoyed most of this story, but I felt like it was rushing more and more as it neared the end -- no longer providing as much of the lush detail about Bengali life in general, or the lives of the main characters. Then the end came - so abrupt that I honestly wasn't sure I was reading it right. I'm just disappointed by all the unanswered questions.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Curiously poignant and sad

I enjoyed this story very much and was very disappointed by the movie's utter departure from it. The story has layers upon layers -- one could even read it as a black comedy -- but in the end it comes down to the relationships between children and parents, a universal theme well explored here.

I posted this topic 4 months ago. Replies (0)

3 Short Reads by Edgar Allan Poe - Not among his best

Other than "The Raven," which I've read so many times, the other items were not among my faves by Mr. Poe.

I posted this topic 4 months ago. Replies (0)

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #20: Potent Quotables

This is a great question! I love great quotations -- especially "great endings" of books. Stephen King has a number of those. There's a great line near the end of "Christine" about "...his unending fury" (which makes sense if you've read the book!).

I love, from "The Sun Also Rises," by Hemingway, when the Lady Brett ponders that they could have been "good together," and Jake's reply: "Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

And there's a whole wonderful passage in "The Return of the King" by Tolkien when the troops of the horselords from Rohan arrive on the battlefields of Gondor just when all hope seems lost. The people of Gondor hear "Great horns of the North, wildly blowing," and they know that "Rohan had come at last." The full paragraph is stirring and wonderful.

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