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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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