yee-aaah, i got a little excited on the posting and posted 3 times instead of once. woops. rookie mistake. i hate the government interfering in my personal choices. and that includes "the man"....or the cops, you know. and what made you think i was a dude? what if i am a dude who likes to ...

i think that consciously, and unconsciously, we all wear uniforms--i have to wear a uniform to work and i wear a uniform that i think reflects my personality, usually a skirt and a nice shirt. if i was to wear something that i then got arrested for, i would be pissed off. however, this person that w...

I'm an old man now, but I remember reading "Catcher in the Rye" when I was seventeen, away from home for the first time and working at Hudson's Department Store in downtown Detroit. I had one room in a boarding-house not too far from Hudson's, I was laying on my bed reading and laughing o...

i would like to suggest Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Froer. this book is haunting, and illuminating and besides Invisible Man ,which i see by the archives has already been read here, is one of my all time books that everyone in the world should be made to read--by choice of course! i...

howdy! nice to have such a multi-linguist here!

hello marilyn!
i too am newer to book talk, and have been enjoying the recomendations and comments very much.
jsut dive right it, there is no better way that to begin by looking through past irchives and looking at the history of what has been read.
i look forward to seeing you online!
kb

i cast 2 votes for book 2, and 1 vote for book three

thank you ophelia for posting such an insightful excerpt--it is difficult to put these kind of reader feelings into words, but that certainly hit the mark. nabakov wrote about the one thing no one wants to admit happens in our society, but it so prevalent.

mmm hhm,
am giving books to my tween niece, and a gift card to amazon to my girlfriends!

i am so happy to share this quote from Theodore Dreiser, and his book Sister Carrie : "Among the forces that sweep and play throughout the universe, untutored man is but a wisp in the wind. Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by ins...