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.