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Post subject: Re: What ya reading......
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:39 pm
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Official 2012 CLEP Study Guide--English Literature section/sample test.

For those who don't know, you can take a CLEP exam for any college course that you feel you could pass...I passed US History I, US History II, Natural Sciences, American Literature, and American Government, all with a minimum of study. Saved time, money and energy.

I take the next test next Thursday...120 questions in 90 minutes. Have mercy!

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War and Peace by Tolstoy... it's much less tedious than I figured it would be based on its length. 300 pages in, 800+ to go.

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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:34 pm
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I must have missed several important days in grammar school, unfortunately for me they were the days that Writing Skills were taught. Consequently I've had a continuous struggle with sentence structure,spelling and punctuation.
I just got lucky. While rummaging through a thrift store book shelf I ran across the coolest little book. "A WRITER'S REFERENCE" by (Diana Hacker) Published By: Bedford Books of St.Martins Press. Its the handiest little reference book I've ever seen each section is clearly marked with Tabs and numbered references. It has darn near everything the average hammerhead needs to know about writing. And I got it for .50c 8)
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:52 pm
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The latest Vince Flynn thriller (Kill Shot) starring Mitch Rapp... on my NookColor.

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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:34 am
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ie: Illinois Entertainer, March 2012 issue
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:54 am
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Hartley Peavey's White Papers. Found here:

http://peavey.com/support/technotes/

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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:20 am
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The Woman in Black, by Susan Hill.

Just been to see the new Hammer film (Hammer - yay! :D ) of the story, which had more satisfying jump-out-of-your-skin moments than I can remember in a movie for many a year. Mrs C had to watch a lot of it with her coat over her head and screamed so much I believe several other people in the cinema required to be taken away in ambulances with coronary incidents. Daniel Radcliffe did seem to need to slowly walk backwards down dark corridors an awful lot...

For the last 25 years The Woman in Black has also been a stage show in London, and we've seen it several times, as it's a fun thing to take visiting out-of-towners to. The film and stage play turn out to be very different from each other, so now I'm curious to see what the book they're both based upon is like.

50 pages in, quite nice. Susan Hill set out to write a straightforward, old-fashioned Victorian ghost story, and she seems to have nailed it.

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Ooo-er...!

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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 1:45 pm
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Looks interesting Ceri, I will check that one out. 8)

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Too Soon Old - Too Late Smart by Dr. Gordon Livingston. Thirty true things you need to know now. A personal look at the world of psychoanalysis, marriage, life, all that good stuff.

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Screamin' Armadillo wrote:
Official 2012 CLEP Study Guide--English Literature section/sample test.

For those who don't know, you can take a CLEP exam for any college course that you feel you could pass...I passed US History I, US History II, Natural Sciences, American Literature, and American Government, all with a minimum of study. Saved time, money and energy.

I take the next test next Thursday...120 questions in 90 minutes. Have mercy!


Screamin Armadillo...Good on you. Between CLEP and DANTES tests, I passed Algebra I&II, Natural Sciences, English Literature, US History, Speech, American Gov't, Humanities, and a couple others that escape me at the moment, but 9 in all...made it much faster getting my two degrees. Keep going..I never took one that I didn't pass!

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P.S. To stay OT....what am I reading? "The Fender Stratocaster Handbook, How to buy, Maintain, Set Up, Troubleshoot and Modify your Strat" by Paul Balmer...Heck of a title I know, but I got a friend with an American Standard, and this book goes into great detail with pics too! He wants me to do a set up for him...and I always seem to have a hard time getting the dual posts type bridges just right.

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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:56 am
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Pete Townsend Biography - Who Are You?

Pretty interesting stuff until it got to the eighties. Now I'm struggling through it. Hoping it will pick up in the noughties around John Entwistle's death and the issues Pete had when caught surfing "certain" web sites. This is a really big book with a lot of footnotes on top of the already heavy detail of the book itself.

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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:54 pm
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It took me forever to get through this the first time, my guess is a little longer this time, keep the thread going if you would until then:

Complete Works of Shakespeare - The Alexander Text

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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 3:24 am
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Complete Works of Shakespeare - The Alexander Text

Hi SBLS: I'm a man who likes his Shakespeare, but the Alexander Text is a new one on me. Googling reveals it to be the Harper-Collins edition edited by Peter Alexander. Ah-ha. Never seen it; is it good?

I like the Arden Editions of Shakespeare by far the best, but of course not available in a single volume. About a yard of shelf space needed for those; but worth it...

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...And while this thread's at the top, I've just been reading Dance with Death by Barbara Nadel.

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Part of a series of police procedural thrillers set in Turkey, mostly in Istanbul. Just like me, Barbara Nadel is English and visits Turkey a lot, so this is an informed outsider's view on that fascinating country. A lot different than one might think, once we scratch beneath the surface.

Not a heavy read, and lots of fun.

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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:37 am
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Ceri wrote:
Solid Body Love Songs wrote:
Complete Works of Shakespeare - The Alexander Text

Hi SBLS: I'm a man who likes his Shakespeare, but the Alexander Text is a new one on me. Googling reveals it to be the Harper-Collins edition edited by Peter Alexander. Ah-ha. Never seen it; is it good?

I like the Arden Editions of Shakespeare by far the best, but of course not available in a single volume. About a yard of shelf space needed for those; but worth it...

Cheers - C


Authentic is what I thought the first read, cool that it includes an interesting acknowledgement, introduction and preliminary, for a relatively inexpensive one volume source. Although I expect those are all somewhere in other editions as well. I'll keep at it, the tragedies are always at the end so maybe this time I'll save "All is well, that Ends well" for last.

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