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I'll look into seeing how to arrange it differently. There IS no "stop discussing" date, because it goes on as long as it goes on---sometimes for weeks.
This was in the news today:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/us/19o...
I haven't read the whole article, but it sounds hopeful for homeowners who lost everything.
I could start it all over again.
I would have loved to make a pig of myself with you. I love mussels (and pommes frites, too).
I had to dig way back to find this thread. I'm finally reading City of Refuge A Novel and can't put it down. It really gives faces to all that disaster. I kept hoping THIS time the levees wouldn't break.
I loved "A Fish Named Wanda" and just about everything else I've ever seen him in. But I agree with Jane on Fawlty...it just wasn't my cuppa.
Ruth, I think that was one that Tonya hadn't formatted yet before we left WebBoard. She probably still has it on some moldering disk somewhere.
That sounds wonderful. I'll put in on my queue.
It sounds like a good selection for the NEXT list. Keep it in mind, Ruth.
Oh, good, Beej. It always helps to have someone in the business around. (But at first I thought you were talking about a book called "As It Stands Right Now." Hee hee.)
Molly wrote: It struck me as sounding an awful lot like the last administration's whole WMD fiasco and those who were hes..."
Molly, that's why it gave me chills. But I didn't want to side-track the discussion.
Sarah, I'm putting this in the Promotions folder. We reserve the CR folder to discuss books we are reading.
This really isn't talking about VM or the book, but about a quotation from Goering that I found absolutely amazing (and disturbing) in the epilogue: "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and then denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same as in any country." I got chills when I read that. Not the good kind.Jonathan, where did you find that?
Thanks, Jonathan. What a strategy! I got the feeling that almost everything he did was a strategy.
Don't let it influence your book discussion, Gabrielle! If you're uncomfortable with anything you've written, you're always free to delete it, although nothing you've said has made ME uncomfortable, even though we probably disagree on this topic. You're certainly entitled to think and feel the way you do.
Jonathan, I really enjoyed the book, and the YouTube clip. Thanks for posting the paintings that Van Meegeren ruined. (You answered a question in your clip that I was going to ask: How to pronounce his name. I said it wrong to myself all through the book.) Did you do any research into the psychological aspect of his personality? Besides being a master forger, he also seemed to be a master at making people feel connected to him. He must have had a very seductive personality. He knew just what stance to take to seem like something he wasn't. He forged himself.
I put it in May because it is longer than the Morton, and there is a large Classics selection in June. Reading both the Naipaul and the Waters in the same month would be a lot for me. Does anyone else think I should switch?
Joe, go here: http://web.archive.org/web/2007082503271...and you will come across a treasure trove of Constant Reader discussions. I'm sure you'll find several books there you would enjoy.
For our newer discussions, just go to the Constant Reader bookshelf here on GoodReads.
Joe, may I suggest that you start another thread for your question. This thread is for talking about The Feng Shui Detective.
You've really educated me today, Mina. I had no idea CFS had such serious consequences. Why don't they call it something else? The very name sounds like a disease where you're tired all the time, but that seems just a small fraction of the range of problems. I admire you for working so hard when the effort must be unimaginable for me.
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