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Re: Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I. snoopcester Send a noteboard - 11/01/2010 11:32:53 AM
I'm planning on exactly 12 books that I need to read for the year since the volume of work is picking up again.

1. 1776, by David McCollough


I read it and quite enjoyed it as an American look at the war (having just read a British one at the time)

2. The Red and the Black, by Stendhal


This is on my "to read one day" list

3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (also on Tim's list, I noted)


Ditto for this, though possibly sooner as I own a copy already.

6. The Plague by Albert Camus


And again with being on that list

7. Paradise Lost by John Milton


and, erm, on that list again:P

*MySmiley*

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Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I. - 11/01/2010 02:34:47 AM 1025 Views
I liked 1776. - 11/01/2010 04:00:03 AM 945 Views
John Adams sounded good, but I've vowed to limit book-buying. - 11/01/2010 01:41:50 PM 926 Views
Re: I liked 1776 and try The Johnstown Flood. One of my best reads for last year *NM* - 11/01/2010 03:33:24 PM 446 Views
Cool, I'll put it on the list. *NM* - 11/01/2010 05:23:21 PM 442 Views
The Plague might disappoint you. - 11/01/2010 06:31:54 AM 872 Views
I was suspecting that: I studied some other Camus in school, but not that one. - 11/01/2010 09:02:04 AM 892 Views
Well, then I'd have to buy it in French, and that gets me back to my old problem: - 11/01/2010 01:42:35 PM 789 Views
Y'a pas de bonnes bibliothèques avec une section "Langues Étrangères" à New York? - 11/01/2010 02:11:33 PM 858 Views
I'm too lazy to respond in French. - 11/01/2010 02:37:41 PM 907 Views
Looks like you win. Can't find it on fnac.com either. - 11/01/2010 02:55:10 PM 944 Views
I just can't justify buying a book I would want to keep in paperback. - 11/01/2010 03:53:06 PM 895 Views
I would have thought "it's not available in hardback" was a good justification... *NM* - 11/01/2010 03:55:56 PM 398 Views
Not for a book that I am sure is in hardcover somewhere... - 11/01/2010 03:59:08 PM 874 Views
Are you sure it's in hardcover somewhere? *NM* - 11/01/2010 04:00:54 PM 410 Views
It's a classic. How could it not be? - 11/01/2010 04:03:07 PM 807 Views
Why would one do a new edition of a book that old - and that short - in hardcover? - 11/01/2010 05:00:04 PM 891 Views
Because it's a classic. - 11/01/2010 05:06:51 PM 809 Views
I see. - 11/01/2010 05:46:06 PM 967 Views
Book culture is different in France. - 12/01/2010 07:06:17 PM 1006 Views
That's so sad! - 12/01/2010 11:27:37 PM 773 Views
They do, but the price seems to be even steeper than that. - 12/01/2010 11:37:45 PM 969 Views
Re: They do, but the price seems to be even steeper than that. - 13/01/2010 02:36:35 PM 819 Views
Re: That's so sad! - 13/01/2010 02:24:53 PM 976 Views
Can you let me know what you think of 1776? - 11/01/2010 09:13:58 AM 1012 Views
Re: Can you let me know what you think of 1776? - 11/01/2010 11:29:22 AM 828 Views
I had skimmed a part of it previously - 11/01/2010 01:45:20 PM 841 Views
Oh, and regarding another of your points - 11/01/2010 02:49:26 PM 1010 Views
That's some pretty assonance . - 11/01/2010 02:56:20 PM 955 Views
It's pretty straightforward - 11/01/2010 03:57:41 PM 812 Views
Re: Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I. - 11/01/2010 11:32:53 AM 908 Views
On the Road is a classic. - 12/01/2010 04:08:11 AM 768 Views
I've read 2, 3 and 12. - 13/01/2010 07:38:33 PM 971 Views
There is a more important question to ask - 14/01/2010 08:04:51 AM 1104 Views
She reads the same books over and over and over. - 14/01/2010 05:08:20 PM 812 Views

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