littlerockguy
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The World Lost Another of The Brothers Gibb Today
by watson inso sad to lose anther of the bee gees.
robin lost his battle with cancer today.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gehz5rjfnh4.
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littlerockguy
I had this as a signature quote on my work email for a long time but since I changed computers at work I haven't added it because I'm thinking about changing to a different quote but haven't thought about what to change it to next.
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
Margaret ChoLRG
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littlerockguy
ONE of my favorites
“I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.”
Marlo Thomas
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Reading is over-rated
by yadda yadda 2 inhave you ever seen people who just constantly read.
they read at every given opportunity, at the gym, on the bus and train, at the beach, all weekend, even while holidaying overseas they mostly just read.
you even see them going down the street holding a book while walking, like some kind of zombie.
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littlerockguy
Panhandlegirl,
Yes, Taylor Caldwell wrote Captains and the Kings. I have her novel Dynasty of Death you are talking about and the other novels in that series but I haven't read those yet. I loaned them to my father and he read it; said it was loosely based on the DuPonts. All of the books I have read of hers I really enjoyed. She was definitely a visionary.
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Reading is NOT Overrated!
by White Dove inhow do you read?.
i find myself attracted to certain authors and book series.. which reminds me, i need to download the grapes of wrath.. i love steinbeck's writing of historical fiction.
looking into the history of frontier america is so interesting when written in story form.. i read from most genres.. what's your poison?.
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littlerockguy
I have been reading a lot of historical fiction by Taylor Caldwell. I have been hooked on her books since I read Captains and the Kings. I read Testimony of Two Men, The Listener and No One Hears but Him, The Devil's Advocate and Ceremony of the Innocent. I found it interesting that Ceremony of the Innocent was one of Stevie Nicks favorite books and after reading it I always wondered why. It is such a tragic novel and it really pissed me off reading it but I still can't help but like the book. I still have a lot of her books that I have collected that I have not read yet but look foward to reading them. Right now I'm enjoying Dear and Glorious Physician by her. I ancient cities of Rome, Antioch and Alexandria really come to life in the pages of that novel. You can see the colorful panoramic scenes and smell the environment of the scenery with the sounds with her descriptive writing in her novels which explains why her novels are so long and some may say are longwinded but they are a great escape for me.
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Reading is over-rated
by yadda yadda 2 inhave you ever seen people who just constantly read.
they read at every given opportunity, at the gym, on the bus and train, at the beach, all weekend, even while holidaying overseas they mostly just read.
you even see them going down the street holding a book while walking, like some kind of zombie.
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littlerockguy
mindseye:
I have that whole series of The Story of Civilization" by Will and Ariel Durant but I haven't read it all since I dont have the time either but I have read quite a bit in some of the different books in the series. I have been collecting books for years now and have a couple of bookshelves at my apt and at my dad's as I have inherited his library. Right now I'm working on collecting all of Taylor Caldwell's books in hardback. I cherish the time I have to read and can't say enough on how it enriches my life.
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The music that moves you....
by FlyingHighNow inonce when i was profoundly sad for too many days, my brother in law sent us a mix tape.
he named each song after a person in our family.
this is the one he named heather.
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Existentialism
by frankiespeakin inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/existentialism.
existentialism /firstheading bodycontent .
tagline from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /tagline subtitle /subtitle jumpto jump to: navigation, search /jumpto bodycontent "existential" redirects here.
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littlerockguy
Albert Camus' The Stranger is the best book I have read concerning the philosophy of existentialism.
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