Tag: books
member name: Lauren G.
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October 16, 2006 06:33 PM EDT --
In a new book by former White House staff member, David Kuo claims that Bush Aides mocked Evanglical Christians, long considered Bush's base.
Kuo said that White House staffers called evangelicals . . .
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October 17, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
Seems like the movie can never quite live up to the magic of the book. I was wondering if anyone out there can think of examples where the movie actually surpassed (or at least matched) the genius of the . . .
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October 12, 2006 10:49 AM EDT --
Turkey's best-known novelist Orhan Pamuk, who faced trial this year for insulting his country, won the 2006 Nobel prize for Literature on Thursday.
"In the quest for the melancholic . . .
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October 17, 2006 02:40 PM EDT --
Anyone else here sick of this untalented maudlin writer's treacly book being hawked all over the margins of Gather? His writing is as cloying as a Hallmark commericial and to boot he was busted for . . .
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October 11, 2006 12:24 PM EDT --
Indian writer Kiran Desai, who at the age of 35 has become the youngest woman ever to win Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, Wednesday recalled her parent's efforts . . .
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November 27, 2006 02:54 PM EST --
I'm a huge book dork and so I'm always eager to see what books I have read that made the NYTimes Notable books list. Last year I had read quite a few on the list, but this year I've only read four . . .
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October 23, 2006 01:56 PM EDT --
I had no idea Stephen King was a Democrat! But then I got this slick marketing letter from MoveOn.org. I'm so used to getting letters from politicians through MoveOn, so I thought this letter was pretty . . .
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October 28, 2006 02:56 PM EDT --
Has anyone ever read Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. It is my all-time favorite work of nonfiction. It's absolutely breath-taking in its breadth and detailed discussion of religion, Mormonism, . . .
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October 10, 2006 02:35 PM EDT --
I recently finished Life of Pi and wanted to find some people to discuss it with. I was really looking forward to reading it. Many friends had recommended it and it had won the Booker Man prize, so I thought . . .
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January 17, 2007 05:37 PM EST --
I am terribly excited that there is a rare book group on Gather with lots of members! I LOVE collecting rare and interesting books.
My question is, where do you like to look for them? With the . . .
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October 04, 2006 06:14 PM EDT --
Meet new people while discussing great books. Come to the Leonard Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library for a fun and lively monthly book discussion! October's selection is Mark Haddon's bestselling . . .
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September 22, 2006 06:11 PM EDT --
Has anyone here read Francine Prose's new book "Reading Like a Writer?" It's an AMAZING book that teaches writers the all-important but all too often forgotten lesson of READING in order . . .
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October 09, 2006 04:10 PM EDT --
I haven't been able to find any book groups on Gather that focused on more literary books by Pulitzer prize winners, Booker nominees, classics, or experimental literature. Are you sick of reading crappy . . .
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