What book are you currently reading? I'm about to get an Agatha Christie Novel tomorrow but nothing right now.
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Anonymous2009-09-15 11:22
Just started The End of Alice by A.M. Homes.
Before that I was reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.
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Anonymous2009-09-15 11:33
1984, about half way through.
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Anonymous2009-09-15 12:30
Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy
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Anonymous2009-09-15 14:23
Billy Dead, by Lisa Reardon.
Have American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis next on my to-read list.
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Anonymous2009-09-15 15:13
Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way
If Chins Could Kill
The Fairtax Book
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Anonymous2009-09-15 15:56
Count of Monte Cristo and after that I'm torn between Hyperion, Ender's Shadow or Otherland vol3: Mountain of Black Glass.
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Anonymous2009-09-16 9:49
I'm currently reading Songs of the Dying Earth, which is a short story collection set in Jack Vance's Dying Earth setting. Not all of them have been great, but most have that little something in them. I love the imagination in Dying Earth stories and I delight in the ones which succeed in imitating Vance's style.
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Anonymous2009-09-16 10:17
>>7
maybe you should follow up count of monte cristo with something that doesn't suck, just a thought
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Anonymous2009-09-17 9:21
2 here.
Just finished The End of Alice. What a great read(if a little similar to Lolita).
Gonna start An Artist of The Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro next.
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Anonymous2009-09-17 18:13
Going to go and get some Dashiell Hammett books in a bit.
Hopefully Red Harvest, though I may have to get The Maltese Falcon instead.
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Anonymous2009-09-17 23:43
Reading Watership Down, and probably Hyperion after.
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Anonymous2009-09-18 5:30
Just After Sunset by Stephen King and finishing up the last of Lovecraft's stuff
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Anonymous2009-09-18 17:47
Started What is Art by Tolstoy two weeks ago, but haven't picked up a book since.
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Anonymous2009-09-19 11:32
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Slooooooowly reading through this book.
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Anonymous2009-09-19 13:56
Just started "A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts" by Andrew Chaikin.
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Anonymous2009-09-19 16:02
Cryptonomicon. Neal Stephenson knows how to please a nerd.
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Anonymous2009-09-19 18:32
Lord of The Rings
Been meaning to read it for awhile, and I'm finally getting around to it.
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Anonymous2009-09-20 17:33
Vertical Run - Joseph Garber
Dread Brass Shadows - Glen Cook
I wish there were more Fantasy/Detective novels out there.
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Anonymous2009-09-26 19:50
On the third book within The Once and Future King. Lancelot is such a noble badass. I'm ashamed I didn't read it when I was a little kid!
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Anonymous2009-09-26 20:00
The Sound Of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Also part one of Lord Of The Rings.
And A Portrait of The Artist as A Young Man.
I seem to have a problem focusing on one book right now.
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Anonymous2009-09-26 22:06
The Chopper series (Australian Criminal Celeb)
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Anonymous2009-09-26 23:28
the road
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Anonymous2009-09-27 18:38
I just finished the hunt for red october, have not chosen something else to read yet.
Just finished Anathem. Think I'll pick up The Graveyard Book next time I'm around Powell's.
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Anonymous2009-09-27 23:31
Lolita
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Anonymous2009-09-28 22:27
A collection of Franz Kafka's short stories. So far I've read Description of a Conflict, Metamorphosis, The Judgment,and In the Penal Colony. The first of which made no sense whatsoever.
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Anonymous2009-09-29 2:43
A delightful book called Hot Stripping Coeds
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Anonymous2009-09-29 9:44
Otherland.
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Anonymous2009-09-29 11:57
Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids, by Kenzaburo Oe, as suggested in the Japanese Literature thread. I'm around 80 pages in, and it's a pretty good story so far. It's only now getting to the actual "plot".
I'm also intent on picking up Pale Blue Dot by Sagan and trying that again-- first time it bored me.
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Anonymous2009-09-29 14:01
>>33
Don't bother trying to read Sagan. He's not that interesting
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Anonymous2009-09-29 18:14
I'm reading UnLunDun by China Mieville.
Has it's flaws, but also has quite a bit of hilarious stuff and makes really intelligent use of the language. The only actual flaw about it is that it kinda feels amateurish, somehow, especially in how characters aren't always characters - sometimes they're just story vehicles, which is definitely not good. But author also has great imagination, writes otherwise quality prose and is good overall.
One part of the book, towards the beginning, was actually great and inspirational, at least it definitely proved so to me. (I'm talking about the grossbottle fight on the flying bus.)
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Anonymous2009-09-29 18:45
History of Western Philosophy By Russell
Then all of Nietzsche's work.
Then probably the Stand.
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Anonymous2009-09-29 20:30
So I've been reading A Portrait of The Artist as A Young Man.
I have to say, it's... odd? The way it's written seems to disregard most rules of grammar. Did Joyce have something against the comma?
It's definitely interesting, it's just a little cumbersome to read at times. Maybe it's just a little over my head.
I always hated her in a special sort of way ever since the whole, "Jon, it should have been you," thing.
At least her chapters tend to have something interesting in them. Like that battle at the end of the first one or the Red Wedding.
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Anonymous2009-10-07 21:28
Robinson Crusoe. Required reading for my English literature degree. We're starting in the 1700's, next year is the 1800's, last year 1900's to present day.
I could feel an aura emanating from it when I picked it up and sho' nough a group of people I don't normally speak to came and told me I made a good choice. I'm in their circle now, I guess.
halfway through life, the universe, and everything. so far enjoying it more than restaurant but not as much as the first novel.
plan on reading neverwhere by neil gaiman afterwards
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Anonymous2009-10-08 20:51
JUST finished "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Marquez.
Moving on to some Roald Dahl next
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Anonymous2009-10-08 21:59
I finished Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi today. It was a great book, and a unique take on the first contact situation.
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Anonymous2009-10-08 22:43
Watership Down and Toll the Hounds. A little disappointed with both.
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Anonymous2009-10-08 23:56
>>67
well let's see, a children's book, and a fantasy book. What, exactly, were you expecting?
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Anonymous2009-10-09 0:40
How about "Lies My Teacher Told Me", by James Loewen?
I'm reading it for my Composition class... It's disgustingly well-researched and rips on a LOT of basic American conventions and confronts a lot of topics, such as the educational system, racism and sexism, heroification, social programming, and the ethnocentric viewpoint of American history textbooks.
I'm trying to write a paper on it right now.
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Anonymous2009-10-11 19:53
I just finished Dune for the third time. It had been years since i read it last
If you haven't read it, jesus christ, you need to.
Just started Unintended Consequences by John Ross. Fuck yeah gun culture and literature!
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Anonymous2009-10-14 19:11
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
cool shit. i like it. people die and so it goes.
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Anonymous2009-10-14 23:01
Reading the Hitchhiker's Guide(whole thing), going to continue The Man Who Was Thursday, might reread Roadside Picnic.
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Anonymous2009-10-15 0:52
About to read Warlock by Oakley Hall. We'll see how it is. Just finished Fresh Fields.
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Anonymous2009-10-16 5:03
>>69
To date, I've "lost" 3 copies of "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by loaning it to people who like it so much they "forget" to give it back until they move out of town.
>>70
Eh, took me 3 times to make it through the first chapter of Dune. Once I read it all the way through, I never had any desire to read it, or any of the other Dune books, ever again.
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Anonymous2009-10-16 17:21
>>74 Eh, took me 3 times to make it through the first chapter of Dune.
Seriously? How slow do you read?
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Anonymous2009-10-16 21:16
1984
I'm tired of people making weird faces when I tell them I haven't read it.
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Anonymous2009-10-16 22:01
>>76
Anon is laudably honest. It's apparently high on the list of books people lie that they HAVE read - why is beyond me: it's good and iconic, but hardly something that is really impressive to have read (like, say Thucydides in the original Greek); and it's neither so long nor so difficult that anyone who wanted to say they'd read it couldn't.
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Anonymous2009-10-17 6:49
>>77 (like, say Thucydides in the original Greek)
that's the kind of thing you save to impress harcore interlecturals & academic types. regular people actually know about Orwell
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Anonymous2009-10-17 10:35
>>78
Yeah, but anyone who actually knows Orwell knows that 1984 is not a hard read; therefore not really that impressive a thing to have read. One of the defining novels of the late twentieth century, yes; but not a major achievement to read.
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Anonymous2009-10-17 10:41
>>78
BTW, if "interlecturals" isn't a word, it certainly ought to be.
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Anonymous2009-10-18 7:32
>>79
People lie about having read it because it is one of the defining novels of the late twentieth century, but most people can't be bothered reading any book, defining or not.
>>79
Books that are so shittily written that reading them to the end is a major acheivement should not be read by anyone, period.
Meanwhile, I haven't read 1984, but I bet my socks it's bullshit that written really poorly. Of course I may be mistaken, but, all in all, looks like it's one of those concept over artistic merit kind of things that impress stupid people and thus become popular.
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Anonymous2009-10-18 17:58
>>83
Actually, it's well written with a strong, interesting flowing plot to it with a strong message behind it.
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Anonymous2009-10-18 18:22
There are many possible reasons for which a book might be difficult to read - length, difficulty or complexity of subject or treatment, emotional power, literary style. Some books are hard to read now for no reason other than having been written at an earlier point of linguistic or cultural history, so that language or references are obscure now that were not to contemporary readers. To dismiss a book simply because it's popular and well regarded and known, or one can't be bothered to read it, is unwarranted. Orwell in particular, btw, had well developed ideas on style and the use of language, based on his experiences of politics, journalism, publishers' censorship, and life in general, and this ideas influence both the style and the subject matter of 1984, which appeared shortly before his death. It's also worth remembering that, though it's less often the case now, Orwell was writing in a time when it was not especially uncommon for well written literary novels, that have gone on to retain or enhance their reputations, also to be commercial successes.
just finished so long and thanks for all the fish. it was alright, probably my least favorite of the hitchhikers guide books i've read so far though.
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Anonymous2009-10-22 0:50
I just started the Sten series and am on the 3rd book court of a thousand suns.
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Anonymous2009-10-22 16:35
Brawe New World by Aldous Huxley
sex and drugs, fuck yeah!
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Anonymous2009-10-24 13:03
Moral Panic by Philip Jenkins is like a drop of sanity in a vast ocean of hysteria!
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Anonymous2009-10-24 13:08
Finally finished The Man Who Was Thursday, pretty damn good, but the ending went over my head because I know next to nothing about Christianity.
Moving on to finally finishing Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? And then the Count of Monte Cristo
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Anonymous2009-10-25 10:06
just started reading Catcher in the Rye. so far so good.
>>102
Shit, yeah. See also: Green Mars, Blue Mars.
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Anonymous2009-11-03 20:18
Just finished Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie, by Hunter S. Thompson.
Probably gonna take a break from real shit with LOTR: The Two Towers next.
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Anonymous2009-11-03 23:19
The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke
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Anonymous2009-11-04 10:36
Finished reading His Dark Materials trilogy. I really liked The Golden Compass but fuck, the other two books turned to lolwat and super religion bashing pretty quickly.
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Anonymous2009-11-09 1:37
Picked up the first Dragon Age novel because of the game. Surprisingly good for a first novel of an author, though he's been writing since Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights.
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Anonymous2009-11-09 3:09
I've been catching up on Steven Brust's last few Dragearean novels. Issola and Dzur were both pretty good but Jhegaala was a bit disappointing.
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Anonymous2009-11-09 13:43
Finished Stephen King's Dark Tower I and just got a few chapters of Dark Tower II done. A bit excited to see how it goes but I have yet to lose my mind and be fanatical about it like some people.
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Anonymous2009-11-09 16:46
you must be talking about the gunslinger. roland crops up in a lot of king's earlier and later works. if nothing else, the inclusion of his other universes into the dark tower series (allegedly a composite of every universe ever) is an interesting decision
Oh shit there are novels for it? I'll be all over that, the game was pretty awesome.
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Anonymous2009-11-10 15:19
>>111
Yeah, written by the head writer for the game. The first one, The Stolen Throne, is set over 20years before the game. Follows the story of King Maric and Loghain. The second novel just came out a couple of weeks ago I believe, haven't had a chance to read it yet.
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Anonymous2009-11-10 18:33
Reading Hesse's "Strange News From Another Star," Nietzsche's "The Antichrist" and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," and "A Game of Thrones" by George R R Martin.
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Anonymous2009-11-10 18:36
In the middle of RANT by Palahniuk, very entertaining
I really enjoyed Rant. Of all the books of his I've read it's probably one of my favourites.
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Anonymous2009-11-10 19:06
Halfway through Anna Karenina. Tolstoy's author-insert Levin is mucking about with peasants and agricultural methodology. No-one warned me about that!
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Anonymous2009-11-10 19:10
I'm reading through all of Palahniuk's stuff right now for a project. I've read everything except Invisible Monsters and Diary, and am about halfway through Haunted.
All the comments on the back claim how "disgusting" Haunted is. but asides from Guts, and maybe Exodus, there's nothing really gross in it. I do like the constant thoughts of "how will this play out in the movie?" though.
I thought Pygmy was alright, but the characters were pretty hollow.
I loved Rant
Fight Club was good
Choke was alright too
I loved Survivor.
I enjoyed Lullaby more than Choke.
For the all the gripe it seems to get I enjoyed Snuff as well. Perhaps that's from being 19 and having watched the subject matter of snuff all through high school.
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Anonymous2009-11-10 19:27
I am reading around three books one is Red Emma Speaks: Selected Speeches and writings. So far loving it I rarely read political books ,but this was a great book. I am also reading Dune I have hundred more pages to go and I started Dracula.
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Anonymous2009-11-11 17:11
>>117
Finished Haunted today. I liked it a lot better than I did when I started.
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Anonymous2009-11-12 21:04
I'm reading Atlas Shrugged for the 36th time and The Fountainhead for the 24th time.
Just finished the first book in L.E. Modesitt JR.'s Imager Portfolio. I've got the next book in the series on order at the library, but there's only one copy in the whole county library system, so it'll be a while.
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Anonymous2009-11-15 6:25
I'm reading two books at once right now, those being Watership Down and a complete collection of all of Kafka's short stories. After those I'll go on to Dune, then I'll have to go get Gravity's Rainbow and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, both of which I'm really looking forward to reading.
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Anonymous2009-11-15 9:00
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is awesome. I haven't read Gravity's Rainbow, but I am actually reading V. at the moment.
Reading 3 books actually. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole and, of course, V.
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Anonymous2009-11-15 17:30
I know plenty of people that do it, but i never eally understood reading 2+ books at once. Do you get the same out of all of them as if you just went one at a time? I've read Confederacy of Dunces and V, and I couldn't imagine reading them at the same time. It's like watching 2 movies at once.
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Anonymous2009-11-15 17:45
Papillon.
Shit is cash. Though a bit slow, and too descriptive. While the latter wouldn't be an annoyance if it were properly done.
Um, to be honest, it's actually just a bad habit I got. I tend to buy a lot of books and then I want to read them immediately.
What usually happens, though, is I bookmark two of them and then read the third all the way to the end and then go back to the others.
Or I have a book in each room of the house.
I'm not always reading like three books, though, it really depends on the time. And, of course, sometimes I put a book on hold and forget it. Then I have to start again from the beginning. Too many books and too little time.
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Anonymous2009-11-15 21:44
I'm currently reading The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories.
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Anonymous2009-11-19 3:29
>>126
I'm usually reading three or four books at a time. Easier to keep track of if they're all different genres. Occasionally reading "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" and "Kavalier and Clay", halfway through "Red Mars", just finished "The Forever War" and just starting Sanderson's "Well Of Ascension". It all depends on what I'm feeling like reading at any given time.
Also, when I really get into it, I tend to run out of books when I'm away at work, so I start buying more series and waiting on authors, which leads to more series. Plan on getting the Prince of Nothing sequel and some collections soon.
Damn you Martin, Rothfuss and Lynch! Well, mainly Martin, since I KNOW he isn't writing, he's traveling the world.
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Anonymous2009-11-20 23:40
just started reading altered carbon by richard k. morgan. seems good so far.
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Anonymous2009-11-21 1:39
reading Lamplighter, as I enjoyed the first.
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Anonymous2009-11-21 1:43
i just finished the lost symbol.
very surprised at how fast paced it was. i enjoyed da vinci code, but it didn't really pull me in until about half way through. With this one i could hardly put it down (except there might have been 2 or 3 parts where i found myself bored)
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Anonymous2009-11-21 2:30
Decided to start reading some Hemingway and probably started off with the worst book possible, The Sun Also Rises. I understand what he's trying to do but this is just awful and is one of the most irritating book to read. Are his other books like this because I wanted to read The Old Man and The Sea.
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Anonymous2009-11-21 14:55
The Lottery and Other Stories, War and Peace, and The Binary Revolution, about the history of computing. Just finished Under Compulsion by Thomas M. Disch, some brilliant short stories.
I hated Old Man and the Sea. I had to read it in high school and it only took me a day or two but Jesus, it was the most boring book I've ever fucking read.
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Anonymous2009-11-21 17:06
Dune (series) by Frank Herbert, amazing series of books, i cant believe i have not read it before. But people do say his son's books are shit, especially the prequels.
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Anonymous2009-11-21 23:31
I read Death on the Nile a couple of years ago and had it figured out about halfway through. Last of that shit I'll read
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Anonymous2009-11-23 19:15
I'm about halfway through A Scanner Darkly.
Pretty good so far.
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Anonymous2009-11-23 21:44
Just started Slaughterhouse-Five I like the way Vonnegut writes and I can see the way Chuck Palahniuk is like him.
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Anonymous2009-11-24 4:40
Currently in the process of reading Lolita.
After that I'll go for 1984 or Bend Sinister.
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Anonymous2009-11-24 6:19
Hawk of May by Gillian Bradshaw, a retelling of the Arthurian legends.
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Anonymous2009-11-24 7:42
Just finished
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee.
Going on to
Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey.
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Anonymous2009-11-24 13:43
Just finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, onto 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez now.
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Anonymous2009-11-24 21:59
>>Don't bother with Bend Sinister, it's Nabokov looking in a mirror and jerking it.
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Anonymous2009-11-25 21:38
Reading the "The Ghost King" right now. I always liked R.A. Salvatore, but this it just feels different for some reason.
I'm not sure what I'll read after. I'm getting some books for Christmas, but I'll need something to keep me over till then. I'm considering reading some Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler, or looking through some top books of the "00's list to find somehting.
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Anonymous2009-11-26 0:59
Just finished "The Cloud of Unknowing" and Rosemary Brown's "Unfinished Symphonies." Next up: "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" by Marquez and "Pale Fire" by Nabokov, as I enjoyed "100 Years of Solitude" and "Lolita." I just hope Nabokov's asshole-ness doesn't ruin Pale Fire like it did Bend Sinister.
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Anonymous2009-11-26 13:31
Currently reading The Darkness that Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker.
Going to finish out his trilogy, read the Judging Eye, and then finally get around to picking up the new Wheel of Time book.
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Anonymous2009-11-26 14:09
Well crap, I've been looking forward to Bend Sinister for quite a while now.
Is it really that bad?
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Anonymous2009-11-26 17:09
>>149
Despite the 20-page introduction of N. bragging about his use of wordplay, I managed to get a little further before I was so pissed I threw the book against the wall. The main character is a "hulking Beethoven type," but it's clear that N. never read a Beethoven biography - he wasn't the lurching misanthrope pop culture has made him out to be.
Bend Sinister is a lamer version of 1984, despite the author's protests to the contrary.
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Anonymous2009-11-27 17:17
I haven't really read a book for some years, just getting back into it now, because videogames are shit tier in terms of entertainment.
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Anonymous2009-11-27 20:28
>>148
Those books are great and maddening in equal measure. The guy's clearly a decent author so it's weird that his inner 14-yr old's Tolkien hard-on survives into the final draft. Definitely good fantasy, if not quite worth the lavish praise the Geeknights podcast gives them.
Sorry, both actually now I think of it, but I was talking about Bakker.
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Anonymous2009-11-29 1:21
>>83
1984 is actually good, despite the people who read it. Keep in mind it was written in the 40s.
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Anonymous2009-12-01 21:17
Just started reading Steppenwolf by Hermane Hesse.
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Anonymous2009-12-01 22:13
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy.
I got a few Tolstoy essays awhile back, but have only started on this one recently. It's not the most engaging work, but I enjoy Tolstoy's opinions enough to continue reading.
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Anonymous2009-12-02 0:35
The Age Of Wonder by Richard Holmes
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Anonymous2009-12-02 2:32
Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein and Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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Anonymous2009-12-02 2:35
"Unto This Last" by John Ruskin. The book is dense enough that I really don't have time to read much else.
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Anonymous2009-12-02 2:37
>>30
What is the collection called? I have been looking for one.
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Anonymous2009-12-03 22:56
>>37
The narrative style develops with the character. Think of the book as a pendulum swinging back and forth. Stephen reaches an epiphany, then moves in the other direction. Also it's pretty autobiographical.
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Anonymous2009-12-04 13:36
The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick
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Anonymous2009-12-04 23:26
My Camp
-Adolf Hiller
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Anonymous2009-12-05 7:56
Evasion by CrimethInc.
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Anonymous2009-12-08 19:19
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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Anonymous2009-12-09 0:27
I've been reading the novelizations of the Star Trek Series by James Blish.
I'm currently on the Second volume of 12, and find his novelizations of scripts he had never seen the productions of really entertaining. The giant bookstore in my area (Smith Family Bookstore, they have 2 buildings, both 2 stories, and MASSIVE) and picked up each novel for a dollar each.
Richard III: what can you tell me about Shakespeare specifically from your reading of this book/play
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Anonymous2009-12-11 22:25
Childeren of Dune, the third book in the Dune set. booring...same with the second book.
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Anonymous2009-12-12 0:57
>>37
I've been reading it took, but actually I'm LOVING the way it's written. I find it amazingly easy to read, somehow. Before, I'd given Ulysses a try... talk about cumbersome to read. I'm trying it again next, though. I'm also about to finish Ada or Ardor. (or is it "Ada, or Ardor"? My book has it with no comma, but online I see both)
>>168
Maybe he had an agenda? Real-life Richard wasn't nearly as bad as Shakespeare portrayed him.
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Anonymous2009-12-13 21:06
Erewhon by Samuel Butler. A sort of very toned-down Swiftian satire set in Wen Dnalaez. Blitzed through a handful of old Forgotten Realms novels last week. Dunno how half of them got published.
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Anonymous2009-12-13 21:44
Animal Farm by Orwell. I liked 1984 and I've heard this one is good too, so I bought it. Still at the beginning though.
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Anonymous2009-12-18 23:11
Just finished City of Glass and started Man in the Dark by Paul Auster.
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Anonymous2009-12-19 0:36
The Children of Dynmouth
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Anonymous2009-12-19 6:05
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Anonymous2009-12-19 6:39
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Better than I thought it would be.
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Anonymous2009-12-19 6:43
>>179
You must have had, like, insanely low expectations.
>>190
How was it? It didn't sound terribly interesting.
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Anonymous2009-12-21 23:58
Finishing Les Miserables. I had to buy it abridged; I just couldn't finish it unabridged. Hugo's editor = officially the worst editor in French History.
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Anonymous2009-12-22 4:02
>>192
It was OK, finished it yesterday. Almost every chapter raises new questions but in the final chapter everything becomes clear, which was clearly what he was going for. If you're a big Laurie fan like me you'll buy it anyway.
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Anonymous2009-12-22 12:29
>>193
My dad has a really old version and it is so fucking annoying.
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Anonymous2009-12-22 14:18
Just finished Camus- The Plague
about to start Heller- Catch 22 and Achebe- Things Fall Apart
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Anonymous2009-12-22 18:16
Finally got a hold of the second book in the dark tower series by stephen king which had mystically eluded me for a few years. Trying to stave the urge to become a hermit over the holiday.
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Anonymous2009-12-22 18:35
Love in the Times of Cholera
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Anonymous2009-12-22 20:07
About halfway through Brave New World. S'good.
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Anonymous2009-12-22 23:07
Just finished A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (shit was SO cash); haven't decided what comes next, but probably something scifi.
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Anonymous2009-12-23 20:33
>>200
I'm just about to read A Fire Upon the deep. Never read any Vinge before.
Finished The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. What an excellent read. Going to continue the Nabokov and start Bend Sinister later today.
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Anonymous2009-12-27 14:30
Taking a second run at Anathem. SFBRP and a friend's recommendation gave me the urge.
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Anonymous2009-12-27 16:11
Im reading the afterblight chronicles at the moment, the setting is alright but the main character is FFFFFFFFFF
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Anonymous2009-12-29 23:40
Reading This Side of Paradise and Something Happened right now. I'm about halfway through both. I plan on reading Everything is Illuminated and Dharma Bums next.
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Anonymous2010-01-19 19:30
Just finished 'Do androids dream of electric sheep', the ending felt kind of rushed.
Up next: For whom the bell tolls.
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Anonymous2010-01-19 19:42
I just finished Robert Holdstock's Lavondyss. Everything fit together so nicely but I'm depressed. It was such a bitter sweet ending, the kind to make you want to cry but you also know that there is no reason to.
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Anonymous2010-01-19 23:15
I have just started Brisinger of the Eragon series. I have just purchased Fahrenheit 451 (red it and LOVED it), The Time Machine, and Bill Maher's "New Rules."
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Anonymous2010-02-06 12:07
Of mice and men
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Anonymous2010-02-06 21:08
im currently reading for whom the bell tolls youlle like it
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Anonymous2010-02-09 5:10
A History of God
stupid, but meh, it's college. What can ya do? :/
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Anonymous2010-02-09 6:18
>>218
What do you find stupid about the book? I'm very curious as I personally quite like Karen Armstrong