I saw A Confederacy of Dunces when I glanced at /book/ at one point, and I just finished reading it a while. Ago. Thanks for recommending it by the way, fuckers.
Now I move onto finishing Atlas Shrugged, The Tempest, and then The Last Wish by that Polish guy.
what are you reading currently
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Anonymous2008-06-27 12:58
Chain Mail by Hiroshi Ishizaki. Surprisingly good for a young adult light novel.
Don't have time to read anything substantial atm.
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Anonymous2008-06-27 16:50
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett.
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Anonymous2008-06-27 17:06
>>Now I move onto finishing Atlas Shrugged
Don't bother.
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Anonymous2008-06-27 18:11
House f Chains by Steven Erikson, then after Malazan I'll probably try to reread Ice and Fire for Dance.
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Anonymous2008-06-28 2:06
Moby Dick
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Anonymous2008-06-28 15:19
About to start on The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.
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Anonymous2008-06-28 19:48
>>7
What a coincidence, I just read the sleeve of that book!
>>12 >>14
GTFO with your phony and shitty "languages"
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Anonymous2008-07-03 1:50
>>17
If you had written that post in Lojban, I would not be scratching my head over whether you want me to leave with my phony and with my shitty "language" or if you want me to leave with my "language" which are both phony and shitty. Lojban: 1; glico: 0.
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Anonymous2008-07-03 10:27
>>18
Why is lojban names so horribly? What's wrong with words in it? They're ugly.
>>18
"If you had written that post in Lojban, I would not be scratching my head over whether you want me to leave with my phony and with my shitty "language" or if you want me to leave with my "language" which are both phony and shitty. Lojban: 1; glico: 0."
Idiot.
Also, learn English.
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Anonymous2008-07-03 23:09
>>12
Don't bother with Esperanto, go with Ido. It's simply better and because of the internet also has a fairly large community.
So, you're underlining because I'm an idiot? How about you explain your real reasons right away.
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Anonymous2008-07-04 18:33
>>27
I wish you were just playing dumb. But I'm sure you aren't.
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Anonymous2008-07-04 18:54
House of Leaves
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Anonymous2008-07-04 19:51
>>27
I'm underlining because I'm just better than you. I mean, look at this word, it's bold or something. You, you probably don't even know what BOLD is.
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Anonymous2008-07-04 23:51
>>30
Lawd, look at you thinking you're a BBCODE EXPERT.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe
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Anonymous2008-07-05 19:49
/prog/ is spreading.
This is the end, my friend.
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Anonymous2008-07-07 1:07
Since I got out of college for the summer I've been reading the Suzumiya Haruhi light novels. They're actually a lot better than the anime, and they make for good mindless entertainment, which is just what I need after spending every waking hour reading literary classics for class. Although I would say there is a little more depth to them than most pulp fiction, so I wouldn't call it completely mindless. I'm on the latest volume right now, and after this I'm going to move on to something more "intellectual." I think I'll pick up As I Lay Dying again since I never got the chance to finish it last summer.
I just finished with Ten Thousand Seeds (shit), but I also read The Circle of Reason by Amitav Ghosh (awesome), and short novels by E.M. Forster and Mikhail Bulgakov.
I'm vacillating between Colonial Pathologies, The Unvanquished, and my studies. lol
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Anonymous2008-07-09 3:38
>>38
I'm sorry that I have failed to meet your undoubtedly highly refined tastes. Please forgive me.
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Anonymous2008-07-09 8:32
Just fınıshed the mıdnıght shıft by Stephen Kıng and am currently towards the end of the blood ravens omnıbus(shıt). Iam goıng to read Gaunts Ghosts next. I need more stuff to keep me occupıed.
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Anonymous2008-07-10 12:47
Beginning with iron council from China MIeville ,has some pretty cool ideas in it i heard
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Anonymous2008-07-10 16:41
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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Anonymous2008-07-11 3:45
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut. Not a bad book altogether, but a bit of a letdown after reading Breakfast of Champions.
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Anonymous2008-07-11 21:58
Right now, I'm reading the warrior series with these five books in them:
The Art of War
The Way of the Living Sword
The Five Rings
Code of the Warrior
Hagakure
All are worth reading, though the topics may slip by you.
moral: The simplest things are most commonly overlooked.
ie, buy glasses and take notes. :)
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Anonymous2008-07-17 15:37
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It's a good read.
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Anonymous2008-07-17 17:39
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. I'm really liking it so far. The constant switching between the poem within the book and it's annotator's (seemingly, at first) irrelevant ramblings makes for interesting reading.
Just finished Duma Key. Quite good I think, a bit of a departure from King's usual stuff. It wasn't overly bloody or gross or twisted. In fact it qas quite pleasant and heart-warming for the first 400 pages, and I really came to like the main characters. King must be getting soft in his old age, but Im not complaining.
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Anonymous2008-07-28 12:24
dacha mo ghaoil by some gaelic faggot
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Anonymous2008-07-31 15:20
All the President's Men by Woodward and Bernstein.
Pretty good so far.
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Anonymous2008-07-31 18:43
Un Lon Dun from China Mieville, but only cause i already read everything else he wrote.It`s not that great , some good ideas as everytime from mieville but not as good as perdido street station, Scar and Iron Council.
If i were you i wouldn`t read it unless you are a Mieville fan.
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Anonymous2008-08-14 2:55
I just started reading Stardust because I am a slowpoke.
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Anonymous2008-08-14 5:50
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.
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Anonymous2008-08-14 8:41
>>55
The movie was pretty shitty and quite tasteless. Report if the book is better.
I have become addicted to these Hard Case Crime books. I'm sucking them down. I've been averaging three a week.
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Anonymous2008-08-15 6:15
Iain M. Banks - Against a Dark Background
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Anonymous2008-08-15 13:39
Tad Williams - To Green Angel Tower part 1
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Anonymous2008-08-17 1:14
Misery - Stephen King
GOD DAMN ANNIE WILKES!
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Anonymous2008-08-18 1:00
Just finished R. Scott Bakker's The Thousandfold Thought, and GODDAMMIT I thought the whole story would be in a trilogy. There's going to be a second trilogy. Now I have TWO authors writing really long books that I'm champing at the bit to read.
Fuuuuuuuuck.
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Anonymous2008-08-18 1:07
Just finished , said the shotgun to the head
Holy shiiiit I love Saul Williams. I need to get a collection of his poetry that'll last me a little bit longer.
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Anonymous2008-08-18 3:00
Just finished Mother Night, which was awesome. Just started reading The Art of War, with which I'm making my way through the somewhat boring introduction. Been reading The Fountainhead, and despite how awesome it is, my attention has drifted elsewhere temporarily.
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Anonymous2008-08-18 12:11
I am now reading The Idiot by Dostoevsky. So far it's pretty good.
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Anonymous2008-08-19 0:33
Absolutely nothing. Gotta head to the bookstore.
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Anonymous2008-08-22 2:36
Mary Gentle - Ash
Only about 200 pages in, but so far I like it. Rather a lot.
Upsetting the Balance by Harry Turtledove. It's the third book in its series, which I've been reading back to back for the last month.
I got to this series nearly at random, but I like it better than many novels people recommended to me.
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Anonymous2008-08-29 17:32
>>1
Currently reading A Confederacy of Dunces, as well, because i saw this thread. haha. I love it a lot
It's one of the first examples of 'negative narration.' So far, so good.
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Anonymous2008-09-07 12:28
The System of the World: Volume 3 of the Baroque Cycle
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Anonymous2008-09-09 20:30
the wanting seed by burgess. its alright so far. he makes sure you understand that he hates gays though. not that im gay or anything but i see nothing wrong with gay people. on of my relatives is gay and shes the funniest person i know. there is one thing i hate about her though. whenever we talk about high gas prices and shit like that she bitches about bush like any other whiney liberal
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Anonymous2008-09-10 8:40
>>92
>whenever we talk about high gas prices and shit like that she bitches about bush like any other true american patriot
fix'd
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Anonymous2008-09-10 11:12
The Curse of Ignorance Vol II. You losers should read it. Get some history in you.
Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics. Get some FIZIKS in you.
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Anonymous2008-09-12 20:31
SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD. Is it just me or is every page after 30 just "HURR I'M ENDER I AM A GENIUS DURRR FLIP FLOP IMAGININ' HUMOGROUS GENIUS THINGS -copyright orson scott card (i did not write this)"?
Seriously now.
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Anonymous2008-09-13 2:24
baww im gonna read speaker of the dead next.
Finishing up The anubis gates by Tim powers first tho.
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Anonymous2008-09-14 12:26
Reading Lolita right now.
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Anonymous2008-09-15 2:27
I randomly started Infinite Jest, after putting it off for weeks, on the morning of the 12th. DFW killed himself later that night. wtf. It's amazing so far.