I recently started reading Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart. So now I am reading that and also casually looking through/reading Louis Wain's Catland and A Catland Companion: Classic cats by Louis Wain & many others.
I have a huge stack of books that I need to read so I still have no clue what I will be reading next.
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Joey Zasa2004-12-27 15:53
I am in the same situation, but first I must read my favourite: The Dark Tover V. (later the VI. and the VII.) - the Wolves of the Calla from Stephen King.
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Anonymous2004-12-27 20:46 (sage)
The Separation, y Christoper Priest is at the top of my list at the moment, followed by Under an English Heaven. I love war literature...should really read a wider range of novels.
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h-cube2004-12-28 0:29
I'm winding down my Nicholson Baker kick with "Box of Matches". Like "Mezzanine", it's not got much plot, more of a series of observations, but his hyperobservant-ness about the mundaneness of everyday life has opened my eyes.
"Fermata" is my favorite though - fun and raunchy, and who amongst us hasn't wished to be able to stop time?
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Jeffrey2004-12-28 9:49
darkness over sethamon from Raymond E.Feist
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Anonymous2004-12-28 20:17
Battle Royale.
The book is tons better than the movie, despite the occasional engrish.
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Anonymous2004-12-29 14:26
Just finished Exile's Return, by Raymond E Feist... moving onto some book I've forgotten the title of (and too gorged to go find out), by Terry Brooks.
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Anonymous2004-12-29 20:31
沈める滝 (Shizumeru Taki) by 三島由紀夫 (Yukio Mishima)
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lolocaust!rsvcwx6Axc2004-12-29 22:26 (sage)
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
(again)
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Anonymous2004-12-30 3:42
Umberto Eco - Baudolino
So far, there have been about 7 fake heads of John the Baptist, one fake Gradalis(Holy Grail, in fact, a wooden cup of a north-italian farmer) and some fake letters from John the Presbyterian to both Frederick Barbarossa and what's-his-name Basileus of Constantinople and the Pope too, IIRC.
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Anonymous2004-12-30 9:53
William Gibson - Neuromancer
I finished reading Murakami's Hardboiled Wonderland and The End of the World recently. Good Book.
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Anonymous2004-12-30 16:23
The Humane Interface, by Jeff Raskin.
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Anonymous2004-12-30 20:58
Currently reading: Battle Royale
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Anonymous2004-12-31 1:29
>>11
It was hard for me to not think about how much the Matrix 'payed homage' to that when I read it.
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Anonymous2004-12-31 2:29
The Vampire Armand - Anne rice.
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5!tct.RRw5wc2004-12-31 15:25
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's "Illuminatus!" Trilogy.
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Anonymous2004-12-31 18:29
>>16
Enjoying it? For the sillies, I'd rather read something else, personally.
I am, though partially as a semi-religious text. Discordian, you know.
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nenn2004-12-31 21:26
Culture Jamming (i dont remmeber who its from at the moment)
great book everyone should read it. :D
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Anonymous2005-01-01 10:11
Pattern Recognition isn't that bad. Isn't that bad!
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Anonymous2005-01-01 10:48
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell (sequel)
just finished reading those. i thought they were very good. the first one sort of tears christianity apart, and then the second one puts the pieces back together. warning, these books are very sci-fi. they're not very long, you could read each of them in a couple of days. basic plot: radio signals containing music from an alien planet are recieved on earth, Jesuit Missionaries make first contact. christians and people interested in christianity (at a sort of philosophical level) should enjoy these.
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Anonymous2005-01-02 10:02
The Neverending Story by Micheal Ende.
Loved to movies when I was a kid and got this as an xmas gift, I just cant put it down.
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Anonymous2005-01-02 11:28
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
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Anonymous2005-01-03 16:48
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
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Anonymous2005-01-06 20:06
"Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson. A very exciting book about the overwhelming poignancy of product branding and the fascination with the modern mysteries of the internet.
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Anonymous2005-01-07 6:39
_Refactoring to Patterns_, if you've tried one of the vaunted design patterns books and couldn't get into it try this one instead. Very nice examples, explanations, and introduction chapters (code smells, etc.). The author isn't afraid to build on the work of others instead of just repeat it and he makes it much easier to get your hands on things. I've been going through a personal project while reading and I think I've improved it a lot.
_Through so Many Dangers_, memoirs of a common soldier in the French and Indian war, but with very well done annotations filling in all the details with facts and giving excerpts of officers' journals and what not, checking veracity, and noting plagiarized passages, etc..
I never realized just how valuable the country's waterways were back then. The soldiers were constantly going up and down rivers and then portaging for miles just to get to another one. Rapids could be deadly in some cases taking out boats full of men and artillery and still the waterways were constantly used. Some forts were built right in the middle of rivers they were considered so important.
There are also action scenes, of course: Indians cutting open someone's stomach, pulling out the entrails, tying them to a tree, and making the person run around the tree. a French fort commander treating with some Indians after a battle to try and rescue enemy soldiers from terrible deaths, and other French joining in with the Indians. Expeditions going wrong because someone sneaked off and alerted the enemy (or so the soldier claims).
Some interesting other details about war, like just how much a common soldier was told. For example he'd write that they were charged with attacking the outbuildings of a fort and killing everyone within, but the general in his log had really planned his group as just a diversion to draw out the enemy. Details about how weather or long marches or building forts as you go or strength and concentration affecting a battle, all very interesting stuff you often don't see in fiction books.
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Anonymous2005-01-14 7:09
Last night I finished Sputnik Sweetheart.
Next up is Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human.
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Anonymous2005-01-16 11:48 (sage)
Now I read "The Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann in original.
I write here for the first time.
I am glad to know that Ni-Channel is famous worldwide.
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Anonymous2005-01-16 17:50
A very, very bad translation of Star Fraction by everybody's favorite anarchist, Ken MacLeod.
As a part of my new year's resolution to become more well read I recently finished Borge's "The Aleph" and I'll soon be starting on Eco's "Foucault's Pendulumn". Also a friend of mine gave me a copy of Boris Vian's "Blues for a Black Cat" and J.G.Ballard's "War Fever".
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Anonymous2005-01-18 23:40
Finished up Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale (excellent) and started on Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel (a bit dull so far).
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Anonymous2005-01-19 10:41
just finished "Jonathan Strange& Mr Norell" by some english lady,
now i read "Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson and a Howard Hughes biography. 28> i recommend "der zauberberg" and "doktor faustus"
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Anonymous2005-01-19 20:49
I really loved Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel... but to be honest, the last 3rd reiterates the first 2/3rds. If you don't enjoy it already, I doubt you'll find it any better.
If you enjoy books _like_ G,G,&,S but simply not the style of prose therein, I recommend Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan, and Sex, Time, and Power by Leonard Shlain.
S,T,&,P suggests that human sentience, or introspection, or whatever it is that sets us apart from other animals, is the result of our appreciation for the passage of time, and that a highly probable explanation for why we appreciate the passage of time but no other animal does, is because the period is so much more pronounced in human females than in any other species. Only in human females can the loss of iron be life threatening, and according to Shlain anemia was the #1 cause of death for pre-modern human females.
Botany of Desire is a book heavily influenced by Dawkin's thoughts on evolution, especially those from The Blind Watchmaker and The Selfish Gene. It talks about how plants and agriculture affected human culture and evolution, and vice versa. The focus is on the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and umm... one other that escapes me. :P
Personally, right now, I'm reading Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. I love the way he applies economic theory to situations that people complain are too complex to understand. He makes it feel like all the hatred that motivates violence and slaughter and racism in the world is just a facade, a naive explanation for the fact that violence is often the quickest way out of poverty, be it at the individual level, or that national level.
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Anonymous2005-01-23 22:25
I'm re-reading a Poul Anderson science fiction novel from around 1970 called "The Avatar." If you like his work, this is one of his lesser-known novels and it's worth your time to find.
He kicked so much ass he had to have been born with eight legs. Is any of the current crop of science fiction authors in his league? Not just for plotting and characterization, but for prose, dialogue, and all-around l33t wr1ting sk1llz?
erm, collapse, I don't like jared diamond. His work is more or less built for debate. He makes a case, it's just that all the evidence isn't really interesting.
Dad ran off with kafka on the shore, I did Mishima's After the Banquet a while ago. Trying Taiwanese literature, but this isn't working.
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Anonymous2005-02-13 12:18
Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" and Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day", but I'm almost finished with that.
I read Ring, only thing I ever read by Stephen Baxter. Can't say I cared for it. I liked the universe it took place in, but not the actual story. Perhaps if I had read the books before it... eh.
I'm currently reading The Disposessed by Ursula LeGuin. Its okay.
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Anonymous2005-03-06 14:00
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson.
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Anonymous2005-03-06 14:59
Almost finished with Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh.
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Anonymous2005-03-09 18:40
Just started Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, currently on chapter 12. Is the whole book/series like this?
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Anonymous2005-03-09 18:40
Just started Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, currently on chapter 12. Is the whole book/series like this?
I've been planning to read all those books that go along with the galaxy hitchhiking fun-guide-thing. I'm rereading the entire of series of Redwall in order of publication. Star Wars craze might force me to pick up a few Star Wars books at the library. I really want to read "A Wrinkle in Time" or something again. I know it's for like 5th or 6th graders, but that book blew my mind!
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Anonymous2005-04-01 13:45
Lolita.
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Anonymous2005-04-03 14:55
Masters of Deception
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Anonymous2005-04-05 20:39
I'm reading Leibniz's "New Essays on Human Understanding".
It has... limited appeal, but there's some good stuff in there.
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Anonymous2005-06-03 18:25
I recently finished reading Neil Gaiman's "American Gods", and now I'm reading "Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell".
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Anonymous2005-06-09 15:54
Just finished reading "Woken Furies" by Richard Morgan - fantastic SF/Adventure book, but you sort of have to read the first two novels first. Now I'm trying to finish off "Absolution Gap" by Alastair Reynolds - more SF.
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Anonymous2005-06-14 23:07
Just finished "Foucault's Pendulum" by Eco (good if way too long) and am now starting, the same as >>52, "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell"
Although I'm enjoying it, I'm kind of regretting picking up yet another 600+ page book. I think I'll go for some short stories next (am thinking Sherlock Holmes but am open to recommendations...)
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Anonymous2005-06-15 6:13
Discworld. :]
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Anonymous2005-06-18 4:13
2nd book by stephen king's dark tower
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Anonymous2005-07-11 10:06
Reading "Brandvãgg" by Henning Mankell, crime story by swedish author.
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Anonymous2005-07-15 5:14
>>40
I'd like to read that some time, my parents are big fans and the mini series seemed interesting. Much better and more respectful than "The Last Samurai", at any rate.
Anyway, for me, after seeing the movie & anime adaptations of "The Count of Monte Cristo", reading the book is a joy. It holds up fabulously, and it's wonderful seeing all these characters I've come to know go through these things with just a little more backstory and detail. I think if I'd gone through them in another order I wouldn't have liked the film & tv adaptations as much, but this order is superb.
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Anonymous2005-07-17 16:22
Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K LeGuin
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Anonymous2005-07-17 18:41
Orson Scott Card's Shadow of Giants from the Enders series & Hart's Hope.
Stranger in a strange land by heinlein. It's good.
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Anonymous2005-08-25 9:52
>>69
meh meh. all(2) of his books that I read had to do with bashing evangelical christianity. did he write any book that does not mention christianity?
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Anonymous2005-08-25 19:41
Time for the Stars, I think. Stranger in a SL I think is heading into religion bashing mode, now that you mention it.
I saw Friday, and Next Friday, and Friday after Next. Nowhere near as good as the book.
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Anonymous2005-08-27 17:35
i am reading so many books in parrallel. it is sort of hard to get the context of one book and then find the context of another book. maybe it is because i was so used to reading just one book.
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Anonymous2005-08-31 18:06
Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
I took one year to get past the first half of the first book :(
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Anonymous2005-09-02 4:05
I'm pretty sure he knew he wasn't immortal, but he didn't know when he was going to die, no.
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Anonymous2005-09-02 14:50 (sage)
I'll finish Tyranny of the Night by Glen Cook today. It makes me wish I was a war historian so I could pick up on all the references that I am sure are there. And as much as I love his stuff I think this is probably his most complicated series to date which is annoying because it means I will have to spend another year waiting for the 2nd novel in this new series to come out.
And as much as he kind of sucks I think I will start reading Clive Barker's Everville next.
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Anonymous2005-10-20 0:27
Wicked, read that recently. It seriously started out very good, an awesome portrayal of the land of Oz as a real world. It goes downhill after you realize THE PLOT IS FLAT
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Anonymous2005-10-20 20:00
I'm going back to Stephenson's baroque trilogy after a six month hiatus.
Hopefully I'll remember what happened in the first book.
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Anonymous2005-10-29 17:13
I'm reading Wheel of Time and i'm really fucking tierd.
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Anonymous2005-10-30 3:58
>>80
Spare yourself. The series goes downhill faster than a black man after a white woman.
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Anonymous2005-10-31 11:13
Currently reading Lolita. Figured I'd see how it all started.
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Anonymous2005-11-03 20:16 (sage)
Just finished Kobo Abe's Woman in the Dunes, which was amazing. I'll watch the movie this weekend.
Today I began Seeds of Decadence in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel. I'll probably work on getting through that rather casually (off and on?) and maybe begin Maldoror soon.
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Anonymous2005-11-03 21:23
Generations by William Strauss and Neil Howe
Very interesting book written in 1991. It tries to prove that there is a generational cycle in American history. It also makes some rough predictions about the future based on generational patterns. Though some of the specifics are wrong, like thier prediction that the senior citizen movement will weaken over the next few years (starting in 1991) as the GI Generation starts dying off, others seem errily accurate, like the idea that there will be a major secular crisis soon (likely a major war or revolution, peaking around 2020). While this may not seem like an impressive insight today, remember that they wrote the book in 1991, when almost everyone was trumpeting that the "End of History" had arrived with the defeat of the Soviet Union.
I'm not done reading it yet...I read a synopsis on the Wikipedia and some parts of the book near the beginning and end...
I also heard that the authors wrote a more recent sequel about the current rising generation. I intend to read that once I'm done.
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Anonymous2005-11-04 16:17
I'm rereading Watership Down for the third time to keep myself occupied on the bus ride to- and from-work. Previously I was reading Carl Sagan's "The Dragons of Eden" and blew through it in two days' worth of 45-minute bus rides.
After Watership Down I'll probably start on my copy of Battle Royale I have sitting somewhere around here (which I borrowed from a friend last year while I was at college and still haven't given it back to him, and I haven't seen him in months cause he's still at college and I'm taking a year off!)
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Anonymous2005-11-20 5:09
Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart and Stork, 2nd edition.
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Anonymous2005-11-20 13:59
crome yellow. - aldous huxley.
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Anonymous2005-11-22 11:20 (sage)
the origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
a genuine eyeopener according to my uncle...
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Anonymous2005-11-23 20:45
Ringworld
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Anonymous2005-11-24 10:13
Im reading lolita
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Anonymous2005-11-24 19:43
lol im reading childhooods end
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Anonymous2005-11-24 19:48
no books on the interbutt
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Anonymous2005-11-27 7:03 (sage)
candy by Mian Mian
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Anonymous2005-12-29 5:02
R. Patrick Gates FTW!
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Anonymous2005-12-29 23:07
currently reading 'A short history of nearly everything'.
People claimed that it was a rough guide to science, but it's nothing really new from what i've learned in college (i took A- levels). The interesting parts are actually the backstories of how the scientific theories came to be and the (usually) eccentric people behind it. so far, more history book than science book (as the title implies, anyway), it's kinda witty at times and much more accesible compared to the textbooks we have.
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Anonymous2006-01-19 18:03
Light Music by Kathleen Ann Goonan
It's a good book, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone without the ability to jump cleanly from one subject to another and back again without thinking about it.
If you don't know what I mean, you can't do it.
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Anonymous2006-01-19 19:40
The diceman
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Anonymous2006-01-20 1:50
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Anonymous2006-01-22 7:57
Seems all I'm reading these days are lecture notes. sigh.
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Anonymous2006-01-27 12:27
Starman Jones - Robert A. Heinlein
very cool and laid back book... not much of a hassle to read and enjoy, yet nice bizzarre anachronic world he created i like the Country/Space theme it involves
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Anonymous2006-02-24 22:19
almost finished 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King.
The scariness isn't overt, it sort of creeps up on you after you're halfway into the novel, and you realize you're freaked out by nothing that's apparent.
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Anonymous2006-03-05 14:34
>>101
Funny. I just finished King's Wolves Of The Calla, which references 'Salem's Lot heavily and makes me want to reread it.
As mentioned, I've been working my way through the Dark Tower series. After that, I'm planning on reading Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues.
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Anonymous2006-03-05 18:11
Beserk by Tim Lebbon
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Anonymous2006-03-05 19:45
Chainfire by Terry Goodkind
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Anonymous2006-03-06 7:15
The Prince-Machiavelli Quick and to the point, great read if you got a couple of hours to burn.
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Anonymous2006-03-17 20:54
Wheel of Time series by robert jordan
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Anonymous2006-03-18 4:24
Madam Bovary - Flaubert
Coming Up For Air - Orwell
Extraordinary Tales - Borges
Alice in Wonderland - Carrol
The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus
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Anonymous2006-03-20 7:58
I'm stalled in the middle of Clavell's Shogun, and am making my way through Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. After finishing Murakami Haruki's translated works I've been searching rather futilely for something to read that interests me half as much.
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Anonymous2006-03-20 20:19
Count Zero - William S Gibson
The Soft Machine - William S Burroughs
Blood Electric - Kenji Siratori
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Anonymous2006-03-21 19:04
i'm currently hooked on The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. you should be too.
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Anonymous2006-03-21 20:53
Le comte de Monte-Cristo.
I'd rather be reading Good Omens, but Amazon sucks and I'm waiting for my copy since 20 days.
I found a copy of Gibson's The Difference Engine at a used bookstore for 3 bucks. I was reading a little before work and I got sucked into it. This is going to be enjoyable; I can't wait until I've got a nice stretch of time ot read it.
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Anonymous2006-04-01 19:07
Right now, I am reading 'Miracles' by C. S. Lewis, and 'Tales Before Tolkien' a colection edited by Douglas Anderson. I am also, half-assedly reading 'LOTR', and 'The Greater Collected Works of Poe' but I'm almost always reading those.
The book is about obsession. Over orchids mainly. And theives because they steal orchids from everywhere but ironically the accused guy was legally not a thief.
>>118
More like, adaptation of the orchids amirite.
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Anonymous2006-04-13 11:49
Sorry for my interuption:
Do you people read bout The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho?
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Anonymous2006-04-15 15:17
I never heard of it, is the Alchemist good?
For me, I'm reading, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers. It's a non fiction autobiography that, by the gods, isn't boring.
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Anonymous2006-04-18 11:49
I think all of Paulo Coelho's books suck. They're all very motivating, but the feeling dissappears right after the 4 or 5 hours you need to read the whole thing. What's the point of reading something that won't stick with you afterwards??
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Anonymous2006-04-24 12:51
VALIS - Philip K Dick
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Anonymous2006-04-25 1:54
ok- i need a new book reccommendation. need a stylish action sci-fi with lots of humour à la snow crash to kill time during commutes. thx
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Anonymous2006-04-25 4:08
Currently I'm reading the Discworld series. All of it. In order (as much as I can, although I did read Small Gods first.) I've gotten through Mort so far. Only another 20-odd books to go :(
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Anonymous2006-04-27 7:54
Anonymous Recommends: Charles Stross - Singularity Sky AND Iron Sunrise
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Anonymous2006-04-27 13:07
Just read Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka... what a book olol.
Now what... Thus Spoke ZantahahahahaahWRYYYstra or something my John Dickson Carrrrrrrrrr Matey (I haven't read anything by him yet).
I've narrowed my list down to a handful, so that I can finish them in a timely manner.
The Golden Bough - Sir James George Frazer
Alchemical Studies - Carl Jung
Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
Crowley's Diaries from Tunis, 1923 e.v., to help me get rid of stress from work
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Anonymous2006-05-01 21:06
<3 Kafka
Thus Spoke Zarathustra? That's by Nietzsche, idiot.
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Anonymous2006-05-03 23:35
Reading Shogun by James Clavell...
A book set in 1600 about a ship's pilot that is sent to find Japan.
Gets there, no doubt. I'm about half way through (it's 1200 pages long) and they want to use him to train men with guns that they stole from his ship.
Japan is werid, neh?
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Anonymous2006-05-05 0:36
Arabian Nights, The Federalist, and The Anti-Federalist
This book called Harry fucking Potter. All the little kids get together and chip in on a boobjob for Ginny Weasley. Her yams are then hexed to produce high-alcohol butterbeer and her uterus cursed to mother a troll. The funny part was when she gave birth to the troll but it was stillborn. On a triple-dog dare Ginny made out with the tiny cursed troll for like a minute.
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Anonymous2007-10-10 19:11
The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Very good debut, and he writes exactly like me so Im really jealous. Its kind of like reading Harry Potter while playing Oblivion while listening to Kamelot, only cooler and set in maybe 1600-1750s. The whole sympathy concept is really good too.
I'm reading Fifth Business by Robertson Davies.
I'm enraptured in the style of writing and the depths of which the author delves into the human psyche is astounding.
The story, which would otherwise be considered dull, is transformed into a tale that completely engrosses you in it's truth & thought provoking ideas.
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Anonymous2007-10-17 5:10
>>139 Hagrid would completely engross himself in an afternoon shit and wipe his giant half-retarded ass with Fifth Business by Robertson Davies. I'm sure if Hagrid stood before us he'd stretch your cinnamon ring so wide that you'de be back in huggies again. Your shit would be rendered completely incontinant.
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Anonymous2007-10-25 16:56
>>60
I'm reading Shadow of the Giant as well. HURR.
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Anonymous2007-10-25 17:18
Nightmares & Dreamscapes and Assassin's Apprentice
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Anonymous2007-10-25 18:36
Making Money by Pratchett and As For Me And My House by Sinclair Ross
I think the latter is desperately boring, but I'm told most books by Canadian authors are like that (quote E. Blodget, literature prof.) As for Pratchett, I've never been less motivated to read a Pratchett. His books have been getting worse and worse over the years. Guess he's made enough money not to care..
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Anonymous2007-10-25 23:13
wankers
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Anonymous2008-11-02 1:13
My Big Toe by Thomas Campbell. On book 1 of the trilogy, most of which is the author telling you to be open minded. Hopefully books 2 & 3 are better.
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Anonymous2008-11-02 1:47
>>144
I'm reading wankers as well. Didn't you think it was a bit overdone for the last half to be full of gay sex?
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Anonymous2008-11-05 14:14
I'm finishing the very imaginative The October Country by Ray Bradbury. I've always preferred short novellas over long novels and Bradbury is something of an expert in the field.
I just finished reading the first book in the Dexter series, I'm currently reading Lord of the Flies and I would like some book recommendations pl0x
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Anonymous2008-11-13 4:26
Star Marines, Ian Douglas
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Anonymous2008-11-13 19:13
>I just finished reading the first book in the Dexter series
Stop there, it will never get better.
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Anonymous2008-11-13 20:32
>>152
Maybe not, but the second book is still quite good. The third one one, though...
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Anonymous2008-11-14 0:24
Reading the Iliad, following by the Odyssey (I think).
And I still think it's fairly interesting, even if not always an easy read (obviously).
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Anonymous2009-02-04 9:50
magazines :(
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Anonymous2009-02-08 14:59
Ok 4chan,
I am re-readin a really disturbing book right now.
It's called The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum.
Had this book for ages and thought it would be nice to create a thread on the freakiest, nastiest, most graphic and disturbing books you ever read.
My list is the following:
The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum
Blindness - Jose Saramago
A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beal
The Consumer - Michael Gira
My Idea of Fun - Will Self
HAHAHAHAHAHA
You're gonna die an optimistic shithead.
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Anonymous2009-02-13 17:16
Utopia
I never got a chance to read it previously, and I noticed it in my library the other day. I thought "Why not?" The first part of the book is pretty hard to swallow, but the second part (where More describes Utopia) is great.
But it does equal a collection of people that don't read books. Sorry dude.
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Anonymous2009-02-15 12:46
>>169
no one on /v/ plays video games, no one on /a/ watches anime, no one in /m/ listens to music, no one in /tv/ watches movies or television, no one in /book/ read books
we all just post here to troll (crappily)
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Anonymous2009-02-24 17:00
I read Tom Friedman's The World is Flat and Hot, Flat, and Crowded and Tolstoy's A Confession over the past month.
I might read Nilekani's Imagining India. Currently thinking of what else to read next.
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Anonymous2009-02-24 18:28
Dante's Inferno.
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Anonymous2009-02-24 19:37
The first 3 Foundation books.
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Anonymous2009-02-24 19:44
I just read The Time Traveler's Wife and Spin.
TTTW was awesome if you like love stories in your novels. Spin was great at the beginning but lost a lot on me because it began with such a good emphasis on characters, then went too much into the science aspect.
I also read Fight Club, which, if you've seen the movie, you should avoid the book. Don't get me wrong, it was a good book, but for once, Hollywood followed the book almost to the T.
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Anonymous2009-02-25 23:14
Harry Turtledove, American Empire: Blood and Iron
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Anonymous2009-02-26 2:56
I'm reading Glamorama, with Lunar Park sitting on my coffee table for me when I finish. I've also just read The Mysteries of Pittsburgh(disappointment), Less than Zero(pleasant surprise), and Wonder Boys(needed more crab). And a biography of Albert Camus(tuberculosis).
I haven't been eating a lot lately, and when I don't eat, I get antsy and I guess I read a lot. I also bought a black light and have been reading with it. It's strange the way recycled paper lights up blotchy.
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Anonymous2009-03-16 15:33
'Diplomacy' by Kissinger, for school.
'Two or Three Graces' by Aldous Huxley, and 'L'Etranger' (again...) by Camus for the fun.
The Huxley's is quite good, quick to read, etc.
'L'Etranger' is just awesome.
'Diplomacy' is not as boring as expected.
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Anonymous2009-03-18 20:18
Ovid's Metamorphoses and Volume 3 of Copleston's History of Philosophy (Scholastics are boring as fuck)
just finished the 4th in the dexter series. it was terrible.
the first is the only one worth reading. just watch the show.
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Anonymous2009-03-21 19:01
Just read "AfterLife" by Simon Funk in one sitting.
It was satisfying and mildly mindfucking.
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Anonymous2009-03-21 20:01
On Thursday I re-read Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger.
Now I've started The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories, and Other Stories, by Gene Wolfe. I finished the first tale (The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories) which is a work of heartbreaking genius and madness -- and reminded me, actually, of Salinger. Not in the writing style, but in the way it fucks with your expectations and is really about a thousand things which are never mentioned in the story. I also read Seven American Nights, which is awesome.
Why the fuck don't people know about this guy? This is a man who should be a national icon.
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Anonymous2009-03-21 21:14
>>183
Probably because, like Salinger, he makes people realize things about themselves that they don't want to. So they ban him. I've not read Wolfe, personally, but that's what happened to Salinger for decades. I'll take a look at some Wolfe now, though.
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Anonymous2009-03-21 22:07
>>183
Are you saying that people don't know about Gene Wolfe? Because I know plenty who do.
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Anonymous2009-03-22 10:14
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
by Russell Hoban
>>165
I just finished Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand, quickly read brave new world- Aldous Huxley, now I'm reading the Fountainhead- Ayn Rand.
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Anonymous2009-03-25 14:34
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Anonymous2009-03-26 0:32
Aegypt by John Crowley
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Anonymous2009-03-26 9:37
>>194
FUCK I RAGED.
10/10.
This is the best troll ever
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Anonymous2009-03-26 10:10
>>195
you RAGED because, what, you don't approve of 194 posting the book he's currently reading? I don't get it. Are you an idiot or something?
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Anonymous2009-03-26 17:38
>>196
its a terrible book. he doesnt like it either hes just trying to get a rise from us.
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Anonymous2009-03-26 18:24
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
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Anonymous2009-03-26 20:28
Bought Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Nandan Nilekani's Imagining India today. Starting off with Solzhenitsyn.
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Anonymous2009-03-27 1:37
>>199
Have only read the first but would like to commend you on the excellent choice.
The second sounds good as well, although I'm rather interested in India...
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Anonymous2009-03-27 14:17
>>197
you are a very stupid and pathetic person and I feel very sorry for you
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Anonymous2009-04-03 20:47
Just finished Tropic of Cancer, now starting Brave New World.
Brave new world is weird and slow to start but good none the less, though a common story type of its time.
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Anonymous2009-04-04 10:02
To all the fags reading Lolita, how are you liking it? I read 57 pages and stopped because of the constant repeating of phrases in french. Plus the first 50 pages is just him fucking going on and on about how he likes to fuck some underage whore from paris.
Currently reading Confessions of a Yakuza
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Anonymous2009-04-04 10:28
>>204
Is it possible that the reason you didn't like it is because you are retarded?
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Anonymous2009-04-04 10:44
Ryu Murakami's Piercing. Coincidentally just finished Sputnik Sweetheart a couple of days ago.
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Anonymous2009-04-07 8:13
>>205
Maybe because it's just badly fucking written. There's no plot development in the first 70 pages of the book.
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Anonymous2009-04-07 15:34
>>207
you should go watch a soap opera if you want tons of easy to follow plot development, lolita is far more subtle in regards to its plot and you need to actually know how to read in order to understand why it's written the way it is
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Anonymous2009-04-08 20:18
I'm trying again to read The Bible. I think this is my third attempt. I've talked to people about it after failing twice, and I was told there's good and bad parts, which I find pretty funny. I think I'm gonna skip around it this time, but I'm definitely going to try to finish it all.
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Anonymous2009-04-09 2:21
Just finished Old Man's War by John Sclazi. Was fantastic, especially for how concise it was.
Reading the first six books is the most important. It makes people Atheist.
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Anonymous2009-04-09 14:19
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey and Eric Hagerman
Exercise is really freaken good for your brain. New science is now showing us cool things like BDNF which is a brain growth factor miracle grow for brain cells that is released when you do aerobic exercise. It's said in the book that intense cardio is like taking a little bit of Ritalin and a little bit of Prozac but having the right chemicals going where they need to go.
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Anonymous2011-02-26 17:25
>>226
I always have preferred lifting but I guess that gives me a reason to do more cardio
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Anonymous2011-02-26 20:00
Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story ^__^
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Anonymous2011-02-26 23:12
Hopes and Prospects - Noam Chomsky
viva la revolucion!
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Anonymous2011-02-28 8:11
Star Wars Republic Commando book #2-True collors
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Anonymous2011-03-02 23:03
Since late January:
The Jungle
A Brief History of Time
Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Faust (German and English versions)
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
Hamlet
Great Expectations
A Shropshire Lad
Candide
Heart of Darkness
Going to Read:
Paradise Lost
Dracula
Dante's Inferno
The End of Faith
Dead Souls
The Richness of Life
More to come...