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.