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.
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.