New to this text board, and I'm sure this thread isn't an original concept, however, what books are you guys reading at the moment?
For me, it's In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami. Got it on a whim, but it has turned out to be a truly chilling (albeit slightly weaboo) book. Long story short, guy is giving tour to foreigner around sex district in Japan, he suspects latest customer to be the culprit of a rash of recent murders.
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Anonymous2009-02-19 18:48
Othello, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, John Irving's Until I Find You, a Photoshop CS3 book, and trying to finish listening to Dawkins' the God Delusion. I need to stop doing this and read one thing at a time.
I just finished Catcher in the Rye, and now I'm reading after the quake by Haruki Murakami. So far, the first two short stories have been fairly average.
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Anonymous2009-02-21 10:53
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite and Insomnia by Stephen King.
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Anonymous2009-02-21 10:57
I've read a few pages of Slaughterhouse 5. Have had it in my shelf for a while, so I though it'd be a quick read before I begin reading Lolita.
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Anonymous2009-02-21 12:08
87: Enjoy Lolita. It's my favorite book of all time.
Currently, I'm rereding Michael Ende's The Neverending Story. I felt it was time for some childhood nostalgia. (It's the Ralph Manheim translation, if you wondered.)
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Anonymous2009-02-21 17:23
Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission by Robinson
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Anonymous2009-02-21 23:02
Picked up two books and a graphic novel over the weekend. First is Children of Hurin by Tolkein, is awwwwite. Second is Asimov's Foundation and Empire, that series is pretty good. The comic book is Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, which was surprisingly good.
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Anonymous2009-02-22 19:04
I'm reading Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol at the moment.
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Anonymous2009-02-22 20:41
I just finished Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, about to start The Chronicles of Narnia series by i'm not so sure yet.
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Anonymous2009-02-22 21:38
Just finished Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books. What the fuck was up with Titus Alone? I know he was planning to do the rest of Titus' life, but that doesn't make the book seem any less of a what-the-fuck after the first two.
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Anonymous2009-02-23 0:46
>>93
I think Peake was already rather ill by the time he wrote Titus Alone.
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Anonymous2009-02-23 18:21
>>92
How did you like Atlas Shrugged? I've had it on my desk for awhile but I have yet to get the initiative to pick it up.
Not the best writer. But an excellent source if you're looking for new ways to vomit your ego on paper and make plenty o' mon-mon off it.
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Anonymous2009-02-23 18:46
>>95
You didn't ask me, but I'll throw in my 2 cents anyhow. Rand is disappointing. I've heard all my life about how amazing Atlas Shrugged is, but when I picked it up to read it, I was entirely nonplussed.
If you really want to read it, prepare for 1200 pages of being hit over the head with her narrow philosophy. By the end, you'll have no doubt as to the moral, that's for sure, but you'll also put it down wondering why you just read in 1200 pages what could have been said in 300. Who is John Galt indeed.
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Anonymous2009-02-25 1:42
Not >>97, but I share his/her views (only I read The Fountainhead).
If you like Objectivism, you'll like her books; if you don't, then you'll find them either boring or loathsome.
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Anonymous2009-02-28 13:47
>>96 >>97 >>98
This is close to what I expected, which is why I haven't begun to read it yet. I will put it off a little longer now.
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Anonymous2009-03-01 20:13
I just finished On The Road today and am about to start either American Psycho or Slaughterhouse Five. Any recommendation on which to read first?