What are you currently reading?

[stingo]

Two books started:

War of the Whales by Joshua Horvitz

Oz Complete by L. Frank Baum

One soon to start:

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

[Bogey]

Oz Complete by L. Frank Baum

Excellent!!!!!!

Oh, does it have the original illustrations?

[stingo]

Excellent!!!!!!

Oh, does it have the original illustrations?

For the first book, The Wizard of Oz, it certainly does. I picked up the Kindle edition of the complete set for $0.99.

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[Karl Henning]

You will then be the second person of my acquaintance who will have read the whole of the Oz canon (unless our Bill is #2, in which case you must be third) 

[stingo]

You will then be the second person of my acquaintance who will have read the whole of the Oz canon (unless our Bill is #2, in which case you must be third) 

Well, I'm two books in so far - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz. 12 more to go. I intend to spread them out though because I think they'd suffer same-iness from binge reading.

[Karl Henning]

Well, I'm two books in so far - The Wizard of Oz and the The Wonderful Land of Oz. 12 more to go. I intend to spread them out though because I think they'd suffer same-iness from binge reading.

By all means, pace yourself! 

[stingo]

By all means, pace yourself! 

I shall. I also updated my original post with the correct book names. (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz)

[Ken B]

Thieves Like Us
Bill and Hillary Clinton Edward Anderson

[Bogey]

You will then be the second person of my acquaintance who will have read the whole of the Oz canon (unless our Bill is #2, in which case you must be third) 

Yup. Read all the Baum stuff and even dabbled in the Ruth Plumly Thompson run.   My favorite illustrator for the run was John R. Neill.  Always was bummed that he did not do the first book.



One of my favorites was this of Dorothy and the Shaggy Man in The Road to Oz.

[Ken B]

Yup. Read all the Baum stuff and even dabbled in the Ruth Plumly Thompson run.   My favorite illustrator for the run was John R. Neill.  Always was bummed that he did not do the first book.



One of my favorites was this of Dorothy and the Shaggy Man in The Road to Oz.

Dear gawd. All of them?
My son loved them when he was very young, so we tag-teamed through about four of them. Then we decided an illiterate child isn't so bad after all.

[aligreto]

Dear gawd. All of them?
My son loved them when he was very young, so we tag-teamed through about four of them. Then we decided an illiterate child isn't so bad after all.

I think that statement will strike a chord with a lot of parents with regard to their offspring's various reading choices.   

[Karl Henning]

I have not read any of them . . . I am, however, fixin' to watch Return to Oz for the first time this weekend.

[Bogey]

Dear gawd. All of them?
My son loved them when he was very young, so we tag-teamed through about four of them. Then we decided an illiterate child isn't so bad after all.

Stellar stuff, Ken.  The first four or five of them multiple times.

[bob_cart]

One to learn something:

and one fantasy/steampunkish for relaxing:

[Karl Henning]

Again:

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Will he really believe that she is a Theatre major? . . .

[Cato]

Again:

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Will he really believe that she is a Theatre major? . . .

Hmmm... 

[North Star]

Ordered this lot as I had a 10% off discount coupon at an online bookstore. I did have a copy of Of Mice And Men but it vanished before I had the chance to read it. 

 
 

[Ken B]

Ordered this lot as I had a 10% off discount coupon at an online bookstore. I did have a copy of Of Mice And Men but it vanished before I had the chance to read it. 

 
 

Good stuff. I recommend Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid most strongly.
I have the Fagles Odyssey yet to read; it sits on my table and lowers at me. (I have read two other translations.)
I read the old Humphries Metamorphoses, but the Mandelbaum is much better. I have also dipped into the Lombardo, which I like, on the strength of his Iliad. Fast and brutal! 
I have only read The Aeneid once (Fitzgerald), but I also read about half the Dryden. It has some lovely bits in it. About a cape named for a dead member of the party:
"Thy name -- 'tis all a ghost can have -- remains."

[North Star]

Good stuff. I recommend Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid most strongly.

Cheers, it looks nice.

Yet there drips in sleep before my heart
  a griefremembering pain.
Good sense comes the hard way.
  And the grace of the gods
   (I’m pretty sure)
 is a grace that comes by violence.

I have the Fagles Odyssey yet to read; it sits on my table and lowers at me. (I have read two other translations.)
I read the old Humphries Metamorphoses, but the Mandelbaum is much better. I have also dipped into the Lombardo, which I like, on the strength of his Iliad. Fast and brutal! 
I have only read The Aeneid once (Fitzgerald), but I also read about half the Dryden. It has some lovely bits in it. About a cape named for a dead member of the party:
"Thy name -- 'tis all a ghost can have -- remains."[/quote]


Here's the opening of Fagles' Aeneid

Wars and a man I sing — an exile driven on
by Fate,
he was the first to flee the coast of Troy,
destined to reach Lavinian shores and
Italian soil,
yet many blows he took on land and sea
from the gods above. ...

[Ken B]

Cheers, it looks nice.


I have the Fagles Odyssey yet to read; it sits on my table and lowers at me. (I have read two other translations.)
I read the old Humphries Metamorphoses, but the Mandelbaum is much better. I have also dipped into the Lombardo, which I like, on the strength of his Iliad. Fast and brutal! 
I have only read The Aeneid once (Fitzgerald), but I also read about half the Dryden. It has some lovely bits in it. About a cape named for a dead member of the party:
"Thy name -- 'tis all a ghost can have -- remains."


Here's the opening of Fagles' Aeneid

I loved Milton when I read him. I doubt I'd get through PL again, but it made a hell of an impression on me way back when. The only two English poets who I could recite more than tiny amounts of were Milton and Blake. Donne, Milton, Blake are my favorite English poets.