juv3nal is not currently reading any books.
I’m male, from Canada. I’ve been a DailyLit member since January 29, 2007. My reading interests include Mystery, and "Spy Fiction".
Books
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Jacques Futrelle Short Stories Volume 2 finished
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Jacques Futrelle Short Stories Volume 1 finished
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes finished
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The Diamond Master finished
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Kim finished
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes finished
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes finished
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles finished
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Secret Adversary finished
- Little Brother suspended
- The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare suspended
- Gulliver's Travels suspended
- Overclocked suspended
- The Count of Monte Cristo suspended
Posts
Etc. - Question of the Week #7: Holiday Edition
The collected short fiction of Borges. Not because it would be particularly instructive about life. I think even if they were guaranteed to read it, 18 year olds tend to be pretty resistant to that kind of thing. Borges just spins a heckuva short story.
Book Requests - The Red House Mystery by A A Milne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_House_Mystery
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1872
Cory Doctorow - How about Little Brother?
LB is pretty good so far, but I wish he wouldn't spend so much time explaining tech stuff (rfid, botnet, arg, etc.). I mean I get that not everyone is an internet geek like me, but I don't think he gives the reader enough credit for being able to figure stuff out.
Ideas - This might be of interest
I don't know about sourcing the text of these books, but it looks like there may be a lot of more recent (1923 to 1963) stuff that isn't on, say, gutenberg, that could be out of copyright:
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-copyright-renewal-records-available.html
Kim - Thank You!
Just wanted to say thanks for adding this.
I read it ages ago when I was a wee one.
It's even better than I remember.
Book Requests - Sir THomas Malary's "Le Morte d'Arthur"
thirded
Book Requests - More Sherlock Holmes, please
Perusing the sidebar at http://sherlock.jamesbickers.com/
It looks like you're missing some. "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" in particular.
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth - Decartes' Reasoning is Current
Too much thinking on any one thing means that implicitly anything else is thought about too little. What does it mean for something's importance to be lost if it does not mean that people *consider it less*? Too much thinking on one thing implies the importance of all else being diminished.
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth - Decartes' Reasoning is Current
"if man spent too much time thinking about yesterday, today's importance would be lost"
Surely Descartes would have recognized this as a tautology. "too much" is by definition excessive, ergo bad in some way.
Book Requests - Rudyard Kipling's Kim
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2226
Book Requests - Jacques Futrelle
Gutenberg has a couple (http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/f#a3763), but what I'd be more interested in seeing is a bundle of the "Thinking Machine" short stories here: http://www.futrelle.com/
Book Requests - Frank Duff's "Lysergically Yours"
seconded.
Ideas - A listing of recently added titles
A listing of recently added titles would be great.