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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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...