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not-so-furry discussion => general non-furry discussion => Topic started by: Arbutus on November 30, 2008, 03:20:04 am
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Like the "What are you listening to right now?" (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php/topic,22533.0.html) thread, except hopefully slower and more contemplative so people have a chance to discuss their answers. :)
So! What are you reading? What books, textbooks, short stories, poetry collections, graphic novels, particularly fascinating articles, etc. do you have your nose buried in at the moment? If it's leisure reading, it'd be cool if you told us all why you sought these books out and how you're liking them so far. Feel free to have discussions, respond to other furs' posts, and make recommendations if there are books you think we'll really like. :)
Okay! Someone else go first!
(PS: "this thread" is not a correct answer :D)
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White Line Fever - Lemmy Kilmister
Brilliant, funny, well written book by Motorhead's founder. Very good indeed, full of wonderful little bits you will remember forever, and a good tale of life in Rock n Roll.
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(PS: "this thread" is not a correct answer :D)
Another thread. :)
Okay okay Seriously. I'm re-re-re-reading the few volumes of a manga called 'Yubisaki Milk Tea' that I have.
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Re-reading Volume 1 of the in-print compilation of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show web magazine. Really quite an impressive anthology.
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Unfortunately, lately I haven't found anything that I consider interesting to read. Last thing I read was the "Rhapsody" trilogy set of fantasy novels. I forget the author, but those were really good books. That was.... 3-4 years ago. Also good is the Wayfarer Redemption series of fantasy novels by Sara Douglass. Those would have to be my favorite.
Other than that, their's the occassional Dog Fancy and Game Informer magazines, and my Dungeons and Dragons books.
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Right now I'm re-reading The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (http://scriptures.lds.org/en/bm/contents). ^.^
I've also been reading Ying Chang Competine's Revolution is not a Dinner Party (http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Dinner-Party-Chang-Compestine/dp/0805082077/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228054333&sr=8-1), YA fiction about China's Cultural Revolution. And online I've been reading about Nova Scotia thanks to this silly website: http://www.pomegranatephone.com/ (http://www.pomegranatephone.com/)
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Right now I'm re-reading The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (http://scriptures.lds.org/en/bm/contents). ^.^
I've also been reading Ying Chang Competine's Revolution is not a Dinner Party (http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Dinner-Party-Chang-Compestine/dp/0805082077/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228054333&sr=8-1), YA fiction about China's Cultural Revolution. And online I've been reading about Nova Scotia thanks to this silly website: http://www.pomegranatephone.com/ (http://www.pomegranatephone.com/)
Not to derail this entirely, but what is it about naming portable communications devices after foods? Blackberry, Chocolate, Pomegranate... I'm sure there are more.
I've also been reading: waaaaaay too many chemical papers.
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Mossflower and Mattimeo (both from the wonderful Redwall series by Brian Jacques :))
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Fark (http://www.fark.com)
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Haha, I admit that I was totally taken in by that Pomegranate site until I got to the "Coffee Brewer" function. :D
Me? I haven't been reading as many books as I used to, mostly because I got a subscription to The Economist (http://www.economist.com/), which is the most amazing publication ever created by man (bar none!) but which also slaps me with ~100-150 pages of reading per week. But I'm trying to work through a few in my spare time:
-Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges. It's a collection of philosophical and surreal short stories that require a lot of thought to work your way through. The story I'm currently reading is about an infinite library in which every book contains a different random ordering of letters. Every book ever written is in there somewhere, but so is every slightly incorrect permutation of every book ever written, along with a whole lot of gibberish. All the information you could ever want is within its walls, but it's all totally useless, because with such a glut of information, who can know what's wrong and what's right?
-The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway. A classic I never got around to reading. I despised Hemingway's writing style in high school, but I've been trying to get into him again because I've noticed my own writing trending towards his "less is more" philosophy.
-Imagined Communities, by Benedict Anderson. I sort of stalled out on this book in August, but I fully intend to finish it soon. It's more or less the founding text of modern nationalism studies; it argues that the nations that people identify with, the nations people live and fight and die for, are nothing more than arbitrarily-defined communities held together by common consent.
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-Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges. It's a collection of philosophical and surreal short stories that require a lot of thought to work your way through. The story I'm currently reading is about an infinite library in which every book contains a different random ordering of letters. Every book ever written is in there somewhere, but so is every slightly incorrect permutation of every book ever written, along with a whole lot of gibberish. All the information you could ever want is within its walls, but it's all totally useless, because with such a glut of information, who can know what's wrong and what's right?
Ooooh, that one sounds really interesting! I might take that up this coming break. :)
As for right now, due to my English class, I'm reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and it's pretty good, I'm not completely into absolute futuristic stories, but this one works very well! A few weeks ago I was reading The Alchemist and it proved to be an extremely amazing book.
Essentially, for those two books we've read and discussed in my English class, the meanings behind and inside of them relate to my life in so many different, odd, and intriguing ways that I couldn't believe this was truly happening. Call me crazy, but I honestly felt as though this were a sign showing me not really how to live my life, but what to look forward to in the future, and how far away it should be about. It helped answer a lot of personal questions. There were times in class where I thought I was in some sort of fantasy because the discussion and meanings could relate to my life so well!
Anyway, I'm also looking forward to re-reading Myst Reader. Which is a compilation of the three books based off of the game Myst.
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Horus Rising by Dan Abnett
It's a Warhammer 40k novel, I love the WH40K lore and reading novels based around that lore is pretty groovy :)
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"Black Light", by Stephen Hunter. Its the sequel to "Point of Impact", the novel that the movie "Shooter" was based on. I'm also reading Stephen King's "Cell" and Larry Niven's "Lucifer's Hammer"
I like post-apolyptic literature alot, provided its based in reality. No zombie stories for me :P I'm also a fan of good Sci-Fi. if you want to recomend something to me, feel free.
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Not to derail this entirely, but what is it about naming portable communications devices after foods? Blackberry, Chocolate, Pomegranate... I'm sure there are more.
The "Pomegranate (http://www.pomegranatephone.com)" is a spoof, created as a marketing device by the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It includes such must-have features as an electric razor and a coffeemaker. ^.^
I despised Hemingway's writing style in high school, but I've been trying to get into him again because I've noticed my own writing trending towards his "less is more" philosophy.
Less is more? I had a friend who called him "Run-On Sentence Hemingway." Of course, I haven't read him myself ...
-Imagined Communities, by Benedict Anderson. I sort of stalled out on this book in August, but I fully intend to finish it soon. It's more or less the founding text of modern nationalism studies; it argues that the nations that people identify with, the nations people live and fight and die for, are nothing more than arbitrarily-defined communities held together by common consent.
Which helps explain why I'm now "recreationally" reading about Canadian culture and immigration procedures!
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White Line Fever - Lemmy Kilmister
Brilliant, funny, well written book by Motorhead's founder. Very good indeed, full of wonderful little bits you will remember forever, and a good tale of life in Rock n Roll.
That's also a song title. A beautiful song btw. about a trucker and his life in it.
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I despised Hemingway's writing style in high school, but I've been trying to get into him again because I've noticed my own writing trending towards his "less is more" philosophy.
Less is more? I had a friend who called him "Run-On Sentence Hemingway." Of course, I haven't read him myself ...
Yeah, I also don't know what you're talking about, Arbutus. Hemmingway is verbose as hell.
For my the class I'm in right now, we read 4-8 short stories a week. It's pretty grueling. Somehow, though, I've found the time to read for recreation. Right now it's "Pnin" by Vladimir Nabokov. What can I say it's about? A Russian professor living in America. There's no description that makes it sound interesting, but it really is.
Next on my list is "Venus in Furs." I've already read the graphic novel version =^_^=
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Yeah, I also don't know what you're talking about, Arbutus. Hemmingway is verbose as hell.
"He left home at the age of 17 to become a journalist. His first job was a reporter for the Kansas City Star, where it is said he adopted a main tenet of his literary style from the publication's style guide: 'Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.' "
http://www.literarytraveler.com/authors/hemingway_ernest.aspx
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I'm reading, "The Art of War,"..... Again....
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I'm reading the book of rive rings. It's a very good book on Japanese samurai mindset and fighting philosophy.
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The words "Trans-Atlantic" Right before I get hit by a train.
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"Black Light", by Stephen Hunter. Its the sequel to "Point of Impact", the novel that the movie "Shooter" was based on. I'm also reading Stephen King's "Cell" and Larry Niven's "Lucifer's Hammer"
Good choice, I like that one (liked the first one a bit more, though). I really need to get started on reading the third book of the Swagger series, I keep putting it off.
Right now I'm thumbing through Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life, looking for quotes to use in my essay on said book.
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I'm reading a few books a the moment, firstly "Lost souls" by Neil White which is a crime novel, i'm almost finished it though, and i have finally managed to track down a copy of "The Architect of sleep" by Steven Boyett (£2 from ebay :D) so I've just started that, I should really wait until i finish one novel before starting another but i always seem to have two on the go at once (:
I'm also reading a couple of non fiction books, firstly teach yourself UNIX which is a computing textbook, plus a few engineering textbooks i need for college.
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White Line Fever - Lemmy Kilmister
Brilliant, funny, well written book by Motorhead's founder. Very good indeed, full of wonderful little bits you will remember forever, and a good tale of life in Rock n Roll.
That's also a song title. A beautiful song btw. about a trucker and his life in it.
Merle Haggard isn't it? Also a song on Motorheads first album of the same name, different song though. (I kinda expected a cover, tbh). And a film.
Life as a trucker is also part of another song I love, Born to Run.
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Alright. Here's the list:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain. I was supposed to have read them earlier this semester, but I got a bit behind (though I have read bits of each). I've been reading several of his short stories as well, and, though they are very political, Twain's writing is hilarious (if you can read it, check out "The Story of the Good Little Boy"). All of his books are fantastic.
I'm also reading several articles about Twain for the same class. I think I've read more things about his writing than what he actually wrote. :o
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. Technically I've been reading this book for fun since last spring, but I lost it on a plane. I recently bought it (again), and I'll read it over Christmas break. It's extremely hard to understand, but I love Faulkner's convoluted use of language. The story is depressing, but it really grips me; I can't wait to find out what happens. :)
And that's basically what I'm reading.
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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. Technically I've been reading this book for fun since last spring, but I lost it on a plane. I recently bought it (again), and I'll read it over Christmas break. It's extremely hard to understand, but I love Faulkner's convoluted use of language. The story is depressing, but it really grips me; I can't wait to find out what happens. :)
Rock on! Faulkner is one of my favorite authors ever, and that's my favorite book by him. :) Good thing you lost the book the first time around, lol, because I feel like you need to read anything by Faulkner twice in order to get the most out of it; he likes just dropping you into the middle of incredibly complex and emotional situations in which nobody says anything straight out, and his writing style can be very hard to comprehend at first. So the first time around, you start out unsure how to even read the book and you're mystified as to who all these characters are and how they're related to each other and why they all hate everyone else, until some point close to the end where it all clicks and you're like whoa.
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Rock on! Faulkner is one of my favorite authors ever, and that's my favorite book by him. :) Good thing you lost the book the first time around, lol, because I feel like you need to read anything by Faulkner twice in order to get the most out of it; he likes just dropping you into the middle of incredibly complex and emotional situations in which nobody says anything straight out, and his writing style can be very hard to comprehend at first. So the first time around, you start out unsure how to even read the book and you're mystified as to who all these characters are and how they're related to each other and why they all hate everyone else, until some point close to the end where it all clicks and you're like whoa.
I have to agree. Faulkner is awesome, but he left me confused. Finally, I realized, "Wait... there's an appendix to the book. I'll read that." I read it, and I finally understood who everyone was. That wasn't until I finished the first chapter, though, so I need to re-read Benjy's story (Faulkner even stated that he probably should have written the appendix for the first version of his book; he thought it would have prevented people from getting as lost as they did).
It might be a good thing I lost the book, then. :)
I think I'll be reading John Steinbeck over the break; I've already read several of his books, and I might write my thesis on his work (though I'm still deciding). I loved The Pastures of Heaven and Of Mice and Men, and I have several I want to read. :)
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i am reading metal gear solid right now and it is mindbogglingly awesome. and i am reading my socialolagy, Spanish and literature textbooks. all are pretty cool. i find sociology fascinating
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Personally it has come to that time of year again when I once more embark on my favorite series, to be honest I must have read it 20 times (earlier books at least each book I have read one less time then the book before it) and so I have started in on the Drizzt Saga by R.A. Salvatore. I am currently on the book Sojourn, the last one in the Dark Elf Trilogy. This book is one of the first time I cried while reading.
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At the moment I have just finished reading Alice in wonderland and have just started Through the Looking Glass.
It had popped into my head one day that I had never read any of the classics. So I've decided to go out and see what I'm missing. In fact I was thinking of reading one of Mark Twain's books next, though I've yet to decide which. In fact I'm not really sure what he wrote other than Huckleberry Finn. I'll have to look that up.
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Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
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Right now I'm reading Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
It's four short story's written by him.
By the way does anyone know any other good writers like Stephen King, like a horror/action book would be great...
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Freezer Manual
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The Tommyknockers, by Stephen King. It's pretty good. I am a King junkie.
Just finished:
Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger - excellent book. The most emo thing I've ever read.
Watership Down, by Richard Adams - Very good. An amazing story. I would recommend it for all furries and not furries.
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Right now I'm reading Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
It's four short story's written by him.
By the way does anyone know any other good writers like Stephen King, like a horror/action book would be great...
Four past midnight was pretty good, and look at some Robert McCammon, especially Swan Song. It's really good.
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Mostly harmless -douglas adams-
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Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama. :P
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
Another fan of post-apocalyptic and science fiction
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Lord of the flies by william golding.
It has to be one of the worst books out there. We just finished it today in class. The classroom novels always fail.
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Lord of the flies by william golding.
It has to be one of the worst books out there. We just finished it today in class. The classroom novels always fail.
Really? That was my favourite out of the books I read in high school, I really liked it. Out of curiosity, what didn't you like about it?
Anyway, a few I've been reading lately;
- "American Gods", by Neil Gaiman
- "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", by Douglas Adams
- "The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower", by Stephen King
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Yeah, I also don't know what you're talking about, Arbutus. Hemmingway is verbose as hell.
"He left home at the age of 17 to become a journalist. His first job was a reporter for the Kansas City Star, where it is said he adopted a main tenet of his literary style from the publication's style guide: 'Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.' "
http://www.literarytraveler.com/authors/hemingway_ernest.aspx
I forgot to respond to this. Yes, you're right, he does use short sentences and positive language. Verbose was the wrong word. What I don't like is how he goes on and on about the setting and little irrelevant details. But I know, I know, he wouldn't be considered great if the details really were irrelevant. I guess I like my fiction with a bit more glamor.
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Lord of the flies by william golding.
It has to be one of the worst books out there. We just finished it today in class. The classroom novels always fail.
that i do agree on. that book was freaken screwed up. the did things to a dead pig. *shudders*
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Really? That was my favourite out of the books I read in high school, I really liked it. Out of curiosity, what didn't you like about it?
probably due to the fact that it's required reading.
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I actually liked "Lord of the Flies". I hated reading it in class because we had an english teacher that had the mind set of "If it's not what I think, it's wrong", and that kinda screwed it up, but I still liked it. It really delved into human emotion and instinct, though I don't believe that humanity is that far gone. (yet)
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Lord of Chaos, the Wheel of time book 6 by robert jordan
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I'm currently reading "The Sight", its a wonderful book -grins-
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Lord of Chaos, the Wheel of time book 6 by robert jordan
Oh, I love the Wheel of Time books. I'm just finishing rereading The Great Hunt book 2. It's sad that Robert Jordan died. :'( He didn't even get to finish the series he spent so much time working on. I feel even more awful because I used to joke about how he would die before he ever finished. :P
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Just started Let the Right One In. The movie was phenomenal, so naturally I had to check out the source material (that's usually how I go in these situations, I see the movie first and then read the book). Only a couple chapters in, but it's really good so far. A tad creepy, solid characters, an actual vampire (suck it Twilight!)... good stuff :)
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Currently re-re-reading The Art of Voice Acting to polish my technique. I learn new things every time I open that book.
Just started Let the Right One In. The movie was phenomenal, so naturally I had to check out the source material (that's usually how I go in these situations, I see the movie first and then read the book). Only a couple chapters in, but it's really good so far. A tad creepy, solid characters, an actual vampire (suck it Twilight!)... good stuff :)
That's what I did after I saw I am Legend; I just had to read the book, since the movie was so striking.
Also, full agreement from me on the Twilight rage. I've never read but a few excerpts of them, but my morbid curiosity got the better of me, and I tried reading a bit of it while out Christmas shopping today.
...yeeeeeeah... Lord Dracula needs to teach some sparkly, angsty teen brats who think they're vampires a lesson.
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Atlas Shrugged, By Ayn Rand, still...
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I haven't actually read much in a while. I read the first half of Eye of the World in the Wheel of Time series about 4 times, and had to stop each time due to other schoolwork getting in the way. Now that we're on Christmas break, I'll probably read through all of it. The first half is definitely fantastic though! :p
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Dow these mean streets by piri thomas
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Batman: Inferno by Alex Irvine
Saw it in Barnes and Noble and it looked interesting so I picked it up. It was a nice change to see Batman written in novel form, and it's fairly well done with POVs between Bruce, Joker and this arsonist, created by the author, named Enfer.
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the hitch-hikers guide to the galexy,
a trilogy in five parts:
book three: so long and thanks for all the fish: chapter eleven
by Douglas Adams
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Some stuff by Stephen King, and some stuff by Thomas Hunter. Also considering reading Farenheit 451 again.
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Fahrenheit 451 is such a good book. :)
I just reread Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut... I think the next book I read is going to be The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.
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I just reread Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
It's my favorite by him. I like it better than Cat's Cradle.
Now reading: Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Also: Buddha, a graphic novel by Osamu Tezuka
I can read two at once only if one is a comic. Otherwise, no.
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Taking a brief pause on Let The Right On In (note: it's fabulous! Read it if you can) to dive into a book I got for Christmas: I'm a Lebowski, you're a Lebowski.
It's all about The Big Lebowski :)
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I need to finish, Michael Crichton's Prey :D
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1984 By George Orwell. Simply, my favorite book. :)
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I just reread Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
It's my favorite by him. I like it better than Cat's Cradle.
Same here, I couldn't get into Cat's Cradle that much. Actually, Slaughterhouse-Five was the only book of his I enjoyed, really... I guess I'm just not a fan, but I can't figure out why not. Also, is Venus in Furs good?
Also also, um, I deleted your double post. Consider this your official mod notification. :D
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Just finished: Science Fair by Dave Barry and another author whose name escapes me at the moment.
Midway Through: The Gunslinger: Part I of The Dark Tower by Stephen King
About to Start: House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
To be read in the not-too-distant future: Lotsa chemical papers
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the last 20 pages of the hitchhikers guide tot the galaxy, mostly harmless: part5 in a trilogy of 5! (i wonder how it's gonna end!) *explodes with anticipation*
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I just reread Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
It's my favorite by him. I like it better than Cat's Cradle.
Same here, I couldn't get into Cat's Cradle that much. Actually, Slaughterhouse-Five was the only book of his I enjoyed, really... I guess I'm just not a fan, but I can't figure out why not. Also, is Venus in Furs good?
Kurt Vonnegut has neat ideas, but I think his characters are sorta flat. And sometimes it feels like he's trying to jam his ideas down your esophagus...but I still like him.
Actually, I'm really enjoying Venus in Furs. It's good in a different way than most "Great Books." The book is 90% the two main characters talking about their philosophies of love or acting them out. Sacher-Masoch doesn't write as smoothly and isn't as technically skilled as others, but there's a raw honesty in it that makes the characters come alive.
Just for comparison, I like it better than "Lady Chatterly's Lover," if you've read that one.
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i'm also trying to finish
Bill Bryson's: a short history of nearly everything
it's fantastic. all the things i wanted to know about how the universe works and how it was agonisingly discovered step by step
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Im about halfway through the final book in the twilight. The series is AWESOME, as theres a good bit of romance in each novel, but at the same time a good chunk of action (usually at the end). It took me about 3 weeks to read the first 3 books, (im a fast reader) and it would have took me 2 but i had to wait a week to get the third one.
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http://www.elainemariealphin.com/Alphin_Simon_Says.html
Made me cry like a little girl.
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I'm reading The Case of the Missing H-Bomb. and yes this is a true story, on the night of 2/5/58 the US Air Force lost a Hydrogen bomb off the coast of Savannah Georgia and is still missing too this day... :o
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I'm probably going to read The God Delusion or The End of Faith next, i'll see what one I can get sooner thru my library, I'm leaning towards Sam Harris' book.
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The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul
its good and really messed up so far.
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Just finished, "Our Town," the play by thornton wilder.... Didn't like it much, though it had an interesting theme.
Now on the fourth chapter of "Guliver's Travels," by Jonathan Swift. This one i am actualy enjoying.
Also... On the note of Jonathan Swift... I just read, "A Modest Proposal," :o ............ :o Lol. Awesome satire... But it was... Morbid...
So many school books to read, so soon... ;)
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Finished the Batman story...now reading two:
The Essential Iron Man Volume 1 (a collection of a bunch of the original Iron Man comics)
and The Warcraft Archives by Richard A. Knaak
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I just finished "The Long Walk" by Stephen King. (writing as Richard Bachman.) It was weird, to say the least, but I really liked it. It was pretty sad, too, at the end.
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Rise of the Horde, by like Christie Goldman I think...
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The Wee Free Men (A story of Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
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The Sight by David Clement-Davies
It's basically the life of a wolf pack and involves their own "bible references." It's quite an interesting book.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
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Just finished "Forever Rage". Starting "Blindsight" and "The Potter of Bones"
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
I purchased it on the cheap for a dollar, and am enjoying the thorough British-ness of the story immensely.
Also reading: lots of textbooks.
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The Tao Te Ching, and the details of the request that I need to work on!
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The Tao Te Ching, and the details of the request that I need to work on!
Holy Sh..crap that's my favorite book. I have a copy right next to me on my desk that I read whenever I get confused in life.
Who's translation are you reading?
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Still reading 'Mostly Harmless', 4 pages left to go.
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I am reading twilight right know and i am surprised but it's really good
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Two new books, both about music:
- The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross, one of my favorite music bloggers. Wonderfully well-written history of classical music from the beginning to the end of the 20th century.
- The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz. It's, um, it's a guide to jazz. By NPR. For curious listeners.
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- The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz. It's, um, it's a guide to jazz. By NPR. For curious listeners.
Thought you weren't into jazz?
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Sincwe I'm back in school, I pretty much only have time for my textbooks, but I have managed to picvk aup a few paperback's to kill time between classes here and there. I'm presently reading For The Emperor, the first book in the Ciaphas Cain series of Warhammer 40,000 books by Sandy Mitchell.
Sure, it's brain candy, but it's good brain candy. ;)
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Just finished up Let The Right One In. Fantastic book, a very sweet little love story surrounded by some very grim events. Fully recommended for fans of Vampire stuff (or general horror, since it's got some walking dead in there as well).
Moving onto something a little lighter in tone next, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor. The life and times of Bruce Campbell... groovy 8)
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- The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz. It's, um, it's a guide to jazz. By NPR. For curious listeners.
Thought you weren't into jazz?
I'm a curious listener. 8)
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the night buffalo- Guillermo Arriaga
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Manufacturing Consent, by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman.
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Hamlet. (: I didn't think i would enjoy it, but Hamlet is a total... hehe... we... only one way i can think of to describe his character but i can't say it here. :D
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Lost Christianites by Bart D. Ehrman
Definitely an interesting read so far... For the record, it's about the non canonical books of the bible and the sects of Christianity that used them.
Next, I might move onto to some Carl Jung or another one of Ehrman's. Not sure yet.
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Honestly... not much, aside from chemical papers and my university texts. They do keep us busy here. However, I did download a slew of furry-related texts and classic British novels from Project Gutenberg recently, which I'll certainly get to... someday. *le sigh*
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I'm reading "Robotech The End Of The Circle..." by Jack McKinny...
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I'm reading "Robotech The End Of The Circle..." by Jack McKinny...
Whoo! I used to love the old Robotech books. ^.^
Honestly... not much, aside from chemical papers and my university texts. They do keep us busy here. However, I did download a slew of furry-related texts and classic British novels from Project Gutenberg recently, which I'll certainly get to... someday. *le sigh*
There are furry-related texts on Project Gutenberg? o.o Where?
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There are furry-related texts on Project Gutenberg? o.o Where?
I tend to use "furry" sometimes as just a shorthand for "anthropomorphic." Sorry; I didn't mean anything pertaining to our fandom specifically, but rather I download a lot of texts involving anthropomorphized animals, mostly children's tales and fables.
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Just finished reading "The appeal" by John Grisham, not my usual choice of novel (its political/law) but it is good, the ending made me :goldpissed: though (thats the intention).
Just started reading "One step behind" by Henning Mankell now, from the inspector Wallander series. i Wanted to read the books after watching the british TV series based on it.
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I'm re-reading American Psycho right now. It's one of my favorite books, a really good satire of Yuppie culture and the decadence of the 80s. It's also incredibly violent. Like... seriously, wow :o ( it's definitely not a book for cubs).
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Besides the usual textbooks and readings for my classes... lately, I've been into the Paradise universe (it's a transformation one). I'll occasionally go to www.shifti.org and just read one of the random stories on the front page (which often leads to me pulling up all author's stories and reading some of their other stories).
I'm a total ebook nut -- I have piles of furry and transformation ebooks in my ebook library (as well as some scifi, classic literature, etc).
-- J.P.
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Itico and I have been listening to The Audacity of Hope on tape. Other than that, I have been reading a back log of Layers magazines. I even found out about a new furry artist in the September/October 2008 issue. Seeing the art submissions of a fellow furry artist in a magazine like Layers was pretty surreal!
Here is a link to her Deviant Art page:
http://combustication.deviantart.com/ (http://combustication.deviantart.com/)
Some pretty cool stuff.
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Currently I'm reading "The Indigo King" It's the 3rd book in the "Imaginarium Geographica" series by James Owen.
Very good series IMO. It's a "young adult/teen" series but those are usually my favorite type of fantasy books.
First Book; "Here There Be Dragons" (http://www.amazon.com/There-Dragons-Chronicles-Imaginarium-Geographica/dp/1416912282/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233770056&sr=1-2)
Second Book; "The Search for the Red Dragon" (http://www.amazon.com/Search-Dragon-Chronicles-Imaginarium-Geographica/dp/1416948511/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233770056&sr=1-3)
Third Book, the one I'm reading; "The Indigo King" (http://www.amazon.com/Indigo-King-Chronicles-Imaginarium-Geographica/dp/1416951075/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233770056&sr=1-1)
Very good; I highly suggest if you like trips to Imaginary Worlds with Magic, dragons, talking animals and lots of hints and mentioning of actual myths and old stories check it out.
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I'm searching for the book "The Stupidest Angel", by Christopher Moore. Its the only book of his that I haven't read. I love absurdist fiction! :D
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Now I'm reading "Dracula" by Bram Stoker.
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Right now I'm reading Dead in Dallas the 2nd book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. They start out Dead until Dark, then Dead in Dallas, Club Dead, Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, Definitely Dead, and All Together Dead. The series was written by Charlaine Harris and its super funny. These books are about a waitress who is Telepathic, and ends up dating a vampire, and working with several vampires.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Southern_Vampire_Mysteries
Book links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Until_Dark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Dead_in_Dallas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_to_the_World_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_as_a_Doornail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitely_Dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Together_Dead
From Dead to Worse (May 2008)
Dead and Gone (May 2009)
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Currently, I'm reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, for English class. I really like it though.
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I'm reading 'Picking up the brass' by Eddy Nugent. It's very funny, though it can't go more than a page with out a swear word.
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i am reading "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer
it is a good book and i like it so far
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For Lit. I am reading 'The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria' by Mary Wollstonecraft.
For pleasure, I am reading, when I get the opportunity, my new Complete and Unabridged volume of Edgar Allan Poe! Yay!!!
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'Into the Storm' by Taylor Anderson.
Sci fi; first of the 'Destroyermen' series. An old US destroyer gets sucked through a 'squall' into an alternate Earth where dinosaurs never went extinct. There they meet friendly lemur people and really nasty reptile people.
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I just finished Spiegelman's "Maus 2" It's such a moving book. :o
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"Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol
His prose is as thick as an oatmeal milkshake. But it's Gogol so it's funny, too.
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No Cause for Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark, by Ronald Porambo
A furious account of corruption and police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Newark, NJ. It is not a pretty story.
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Finally finished reading "Lost Christianities". Good book, but his writing style is really really dry, at least to me.
Moving on to "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. Is it sad that I haven't read this yet? I needed something a little lighter from the philosophy and psychology books i'd like to be reading.
Next I might do Arthur Koestler's "Act of Creation" or "The ghost in the machine". Haven't made up my mind yet though.
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Just finished "Native Tongue" by Carl Hiaasen. I'm now re-reading "Skin Tight" by Carl Hiaasen.
I need to get some new books. :)
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just finished 'HEX' , by some dutch guy...
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Just about done with "Fire and Ice" the second book in the Warriors series. My friend Joy has ALL the books so I'm borrowing them 2 or 3 at a time.
It's a good series so far(for those who like young reader fantasy books). The books are short, only around 300 pages each, so they're a quick read. There are six books in series one, 6 in series 2 and I think 5 in the 3rd series.
So I have a lot of reading to do.
http://www.warriorcats.com
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Moving on to "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. Is it sad that I haven't read this yet? I needed something a little lighter from the philosophy and psychology books i'd like to be reading.
Well, it's a good read. You will be able to tell right off hat Disney changed.
Tim Burton is supposed to be doing the movie with more accuracy too the book which I'm excited about.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014759/
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Well, it's a good read. You will be able to tell right off hat Disney changed.
Tim Burton is supposed to be doing the movie with more accuracy too the book which I'm excited about.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014759/
I can't wait for this, I really am so excited.
Might even come out timing-wise near this, which would be epic and amazing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466663/
:D I'd watch both back to back at the Cinema, then be oh-so-very disturbed.
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Reading Fahrenheit 451, just started it today... LOL, I am reminded of the TF2 Pyro :P
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Reading Fahrenheit 451, just started it today... LOL, I am reminded of the TF2 Pyro :P
Kudos for reading an awesome book!
Right now I'm re-reading my favorite book, 1984.
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I haven't finished "Dead Souls" yet...God it's so long! I think maybe I like Gogol's short stories better.
But in the meantime I just finished "From Bauhaus to Our House" by Tom Wolfe. It's a history of Modern architecture and goes a long way to explain why we're stuck in such ugly buildings here in America.
Reading Fahrenheit 451,
Right now I'm re-reading my favorite book, 1984.
Since we're on the topic of dystopias...I'm curious what everyone's favorite dystopian novel is. Here's the ones I can think of off the top of my head:
We
Brave New World
1984
Fahrenheit 451
The Handmaid's Tale
Or something I haven't listed?
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began reading a book by the name of *The Divine Comedy* also known as *Dante's Inferno* in my english class.
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
one of those banned books back when it first came out but a very good read. I have a habit of enjoying books people read and hated in high school >_>
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"Fool" by Christopher Moore. <3 <3 :) <3 <3 (:
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"When you are engulfed in flames" - David Sedaris
I was hoping to read a bit of philosophy for this semester, but for the sake of my sanity, i'm going to stick to poetry, fiction or comedic essays...
Sedaris is a cool author though. Not necessarily family friendly, but oh well :P
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Recently finished The Pine Barrens, by John McPhee. Because New Jersey isn't all cities and highways. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Pine_Barrens)
Next up: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.
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"Culture Warrior" by Bill O'Reilly, but I don't think I can stomach more of it.
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No Cause for Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark, by Ronald Porambo
A furious account of corruption and police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Newark, NJ. It is not a pretty story.
My uncle was there. I've heard some stories about how terrible it all was.
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Just finished the 5th book in the Warriors series. I will start the 6th book tomorrow. This series is captivating.
http://www.warriorcats.com/
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"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Coleridge.
Gonna be writing a paper on it~ Which should be fun.
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No Cause for Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark, by Ronald Porambo
A furious account of corruption and police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Newark, NJ. It is not a pretty story.
My uncle was there. I've heard some stories about how terrible it all was.
So was my mom's family, actually, though not in the thick of things; they lived all the way in the western part of Newark. They had the National Guard patrolling their neighborhood, though. x_x
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Currently I am reading Starfish by Peter Watts. It's a sci-fi, pretty good so far.
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To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
It's part of some school thing. I think a lot of places do it. No idea why, though. I don't think it's that good of a read.
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To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
It's part of some school thing. I think a lot of places do it. No idea why, though. I don't think it's that good of a read.
I remember that one, I really liked it. Had a nice innocent feel to it.
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I'm reading "Live from New York", a history of Saturday Night Live. I'm not a particularly big SNL fan (I generally prefer the earlier years), but it's interesting to see how it all works. The "story" is told almost entirely in quotes from people involved in the show (cast members, guest stars, NBC executives) so you get all these different perspectives.
Before this, I read "The Perfect American", a fictionalized novel about Walt Disney, told partly from the perspective of a fictitious disgruntled animator. It had some very interesting ideas, but some scenes were a little stilted (it was translated, and in this case, you could tell from the way it read).
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"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Coleridge.
Gonna be writing a paper on it~ Which should be fun.
Yeah, that's a good poem. My husband loves it and quotes it whenever appropriate.
I just finished reading "Gilgamesh." I became interested when it was mentioned during my art history class last summer, and I had a chance to snag the book for free, so I did. It was great. I was a little afraid it would be like Beowulf, which I hated, but it was nothing like that at all. Much more human.
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I'm currently enjoying Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. It's not often a book has me actually laughing out loud, but this one has succeeded. Something I should try to remember next time I read it in public. :-[
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David Sedaris "When you are engulfed in flames" is a bit mature, but it's a hilarious read...
I'm on to Kurt Vonnegut at this point, reading "Bluebeard".
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"Replay", by Ken Grimwood.
It's pretty good, so far.
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"At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft
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I started and finished "Fight Club" by Chuck Palaniuk in a couple days ago.
Next on my list: Watership Down.
After that; Rant by Chuck Palaniuk and The Regulators by Richard Bachman.
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Finished "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hoping to get my copy of "Candide" by Voltaire and "White Fang" and "Call Of The Wild" by Jack London soon...
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Gunsmith Cats: Vol. 1, Revised Edition.
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America: True Stories of Life on the Road.
It's part of a series of Travelers' Tales Guides, which are basically essay collections about life (good and bad) in a bunch of different countries, cities, and regions of the world.
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Slowly wading my way through Master and Commander, the first book in the Jack Aubrey series (I'm growing more and more in love with the movie, so naturally I had to check out the book series). I'm really liking it. It can be a bit tricky to read (it tries to be as authentic as possible, and that includes all the nautical slang in usage. It's not 'Clockwork-Orange-consult-a-nadsat-dictionary-every-few-lines', but it's still pretty rough), but I'm slowly getting used to all that and it's really sucking me in. I really can't wait to read more, actually, it's shaping up to be an awesome book.
Recently finished up A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey by Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo from MST3K). It was an account of him seeing a movie in some kind of theater every day for the year of 2001, and it was very good. Funny, poignant, and with a lot of general observations on films, filmmaking, and filmgoing today. Definitely something I recommend to cinema fans out there.
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Finished Sea Of Trolls by Nancy Farmer for what must be the 8th time after deciding to use it for my outside reading requirement in English, good book, good story, cool characters.
Now im reading Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan, the eleventh book in the wheel of time series. Long, tedious for some people, but depth like you wouldn't believe. well written and laid out as well.
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Firstborn, by Arthur C. Clarke. I'm so happy that they published this, even after his death. It's turning to be an intresting read, and hopefully, a fitting end to the Time's Eye series.
I hear that he has one more book working its way through publishing too.
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Just finished "Sirens of Titan", by Kurt Vonnegut. Definitely one of my favorite books of all time now, at times hilarious, at others pretty depressing.
Also finished a non-fiction book called "Year Million", in which 14 scientists and cultural experts write essays about what life will be like in 1,000,000 A.D. The full range of optimism to pessimism is expressed, but they all have interesting ideas.
I also recently listened to an audiobook called "Brave Men Run" which the author, Matthew Wayne Selznick released for free off iTunes. Slightly cliched plot in which a nerdy teenager gets, or, rather, gets the courage to use, superpowers, but the book might be of interest to furries since his powers are explicitly feline. Do humans acting animal-like count as furry or is it just the other way around? I have no idea.
Also working my way through Scott Sigler's "Infected", which was released as a free podcast novel just like "Brave Men Run". It's one of the most disgusting, bloody, gory, and just overall creepy things I've read/heard in a long time. My only complaint is that there's an ad for the book's sequel, "Contagious" in the beginning of each episode which contains some rather large spoilers for "Infected". I learned the hard way that you have to set each episode to start at 1:41 to skip the ads.
Just bought "Of Mice and Men", which I read a free preview of on Google Books and loved immediately. It's really short, only about 100 pages, so I should be done by the end of the school day tomorrow.
That's probably enough books for now.
EDIT: How could I forget? Yesterday I finished Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray". Thank you, Wikisource (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray).
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Just bought "Of Mice and Men", which I read a free preview of on Google Books and loved immediately. It's really short, only about 100 pages, so I should be done by the end of the school day tomorrow.
Hey, I just read that recently too. It was fantastic. Surprised me, because I had really disliked Grapes of Wrath when I read it years ago. But I think I'm about ready to give Grapes another chance.
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Just bought "Of Mice and Men", which I read a free preview of on Google Books and loved immediately. It's really short, only about 100 pages, so I should be done by the end of the school day tomorrow.
Hey, I just read that recently too. It was fantastic. Surprised me, because I had really disliked Grapes of Wrath when I read it years ago. But I think I'm about ready to give Grapes another chance.
I wanted to like Grapes when I read it (especially since I'd just come off Mice and Men and absolutely adored it), but it just didn't click with me (especially the ending, that was more than a little odd).
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Christine By Stephen King
and The Twelfth Card By Jeffery Deaver
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Redwall by I forget the author's name.
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Of Mice and Men
:'( @ the ending.
I'm glad that it wasn't It was his Sled-ified (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItWasHisSled) before I read the book.
Never tried Grapes of Wrath, but I plan to read it before Senior year where I'll be forced to. I never really like books that I have to read for English as much as regular books.
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Stephen King - Pet Semetary. (:
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Stephen King - Pet Semetary. (:
I got into it but my book got torn to hell.So I might get a new copy from the libarary.I got to page 300 and something.It was getting good to :(.
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Stephen King - Pet Semetary. (:
Nice, I like that one. That was one of the first books of his that I read.
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Stephen King - Pet Semetary. (:
Since everyone's quoting this and responding to it, lol:
That was one of only two Stephen King books that freaked me out too much to finish it. (The other was Cujo.) I don't even know why... there are much more disturbing scenes in It, which was just about my favorite book at the time. Go figure.
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(PS: "this thread" is not a correct answer :D)
But that is *technically* the right answer.
At any rate, I'm reading "La pierre de Lumière. Paneb l'Ardent." which translates into -The Stone of Light. Paned the Ardent.-
Is a very nice tetralogy of another egyptian novel. Quite well written.
At the same time, I'm reading the third novel of the golden compass, called "The Amber Spyglass". The author is good but his originality not that much.
And I kinda am reading some theater scripts like "the king dies" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" which actually take just half an hour to read but I like reading them over and over. Both are excellent.
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Stephen King - Pet Semetary. (:
Since everyone's quoting this and responding to it, lol:
That was one of only two Stephen King books that freaked me out too much to finish it. (The other was Cujo.) I don't even know why... there are much more disturbing scenes in It, which was just about my favorite book at the time. Go figure.
The closet scene at the beginning scared the hell out of me.I even still check my closet.But you should finish it.It was awesome :)
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In my reading time I have been studying mythology; both online and off. Online I read various websites on mythology from various cultures. The best sites are mythology archives where you can get direct translations of entire ancient mythology texts, but truthfully a lot of the time I have to read whatever I happen to find.
Offline I'm reading Celtic Mythology by David Bellingham. I checked it out from the library. I also checked out and plan to read Norse Mythology A to Z by Kathleen N. Daly but I haven't started it yet.
Why? Well, one of my spirit guides said I should study mythology. I guess you could say it's a spiritual pursuit.
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I just finished Waking Walt in one day. The premise of the book is that the urban legend about Walt Disney not actually dying, but instead being cryogenically frozen until a cure for his lung cancer could be found is true. The story is somewhat of a King Arthur-esque messianic return to save the company that he built that inept managing has allowed to slip into a pack of corporate wolves hungry for a piece of the Disney entertainment empire.
...I sound like I'm writing the inside of a book jacket. But it was a very good read, and one of the most unique thriller novels I've seen in a long time.
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Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann. It's only about fifty pages long, so I should be done with it soon.
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It's awesome, but it's almost 1000 pages. If you haven't seen the movie Man of La Mancha (a film that was based on this book), watch it; it's simply amazing. :)
But it'll take me a while to finish this book. :o
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Finished up Master and Commander (which was excellent, great intro to the series), moving onto the second book Post Captain now.
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just finished of mice and men the ending was really sad :'(
and i'm soon going to be starting the Da vinci code
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Death in Venice was a very fast read. :D I started The Castle by Franz Kafka immediately afterwards, because I wasn't yet out of my angsty turn-of-the-century German mood. I love Kafka. Everything by him has this creepy dark logic to it.
I also just started Arnold Schoenberg's Journey by Allen Shawn, a biography of the composer whose theories about music shaped the twentieth century. As you can probably tell from my signature, I've also been listening to a lot of his music. ;)
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Forgot to mention I'm reading "High Society," the second book in Dave Sim's 6000+ page Cerebus series. It drags on. I'm not sure if I'll read the next book or not.
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The novelisation for the new Star Trek film. ;)
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Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. Great read so far.
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Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. Great read so far.
Excellant book! :) I've read it twice. I wish there was a movie of it.
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maxamem ride-manga. it was sweet.
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I just started a book of H.P. Lovecraft stories.
I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient stone idols and carving their own detestable likenesses on submarine obelisks of water-soaked granite. I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankine-- of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium.
Seriously, how can you not love something this over-the-top? :D
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Arbutus, that just rocks! :)
I'll have to read some of Lovecraft's stories some time.
Ooh! I just started reading the graphic novel Bone by Jeff Smith. It's awesome. :D
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Black Angel - Graham Masterton
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I thought I was gonna faint when Kayle bought me the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe. That book is amazing!!! :D
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While we're on the subject of HP Lovecraft...
I just finished the first volume of Hellboy, and even if Mike Mignola hadn't credited HP Lovecraft as an inspiration on the first page, it would still be obvious. Great story and I'm looking forward to reading the next one.
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I just finished Pet Sematary by Stephen King(man that was one freaky book!).I am now currently reading The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver.
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I thought I was gonna faint when Kayle bought me the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe. That book is amazing!!! :D
Hey, I just started a book of Poe stories too. :) I was in the mood after I finished my Lovecraft book, so I just ran with it.
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the salmon of doubt
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Now reading Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre. Just finished The Stranger by Albert Camus. I'm on an existentialist kick at the moment. :P
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--shurgs-- just typeing and profreeding the latest chapter for my own story ^_^.
its reading cause i have it written down on paper ATM. :D
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Naruto Shippuden 44
It came with stickers. So I got it. :D
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Now reading Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre. Just finished The Stranger by Albert Camus. I'm on an existentialist kick at the moment. :P
So you gotta tell me, what'd you think of "The Stranger"?
I had mixed feelings when I read it. It was interesting on a basic plot-and-characters level but the whole existentialist philosophy, well, I guess I find it unconvincing.
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So you gotta tell me, what'd you think of "The Stranger"?
I had mixed feelings when I read it. It was interesting on a basic plot-and-characters level but the whole existentialist philosophy, well, I guess I find it unconvincing.
You know, part of the reason I'm reading all this stuff is that I'm trying to figure out what I think of existentialism myself. There are passages in these books that I completely agree with, and other passages that just baffle me because they seem so illogical. Like, for example, the main idea in existentialism is that because there is no higher power, nothing in the world inherently "means" anything, and we must imbue them with our own meaning in order to live. Me, I find that intriguing, and even a little exciting, because it opens up so many possibilities and so many different ways of creating "meaning," of leading a life that actually matters to you instead of being confined to other people's ideas of what matters. But somehow, these philosophers manage to inject SO MUCH ANGST into it, lol. It's like, they ignore all the positive aspects of philosophical freedom, they're all just like "God is dead and objects have no essence only naked existence and God isn't handing me the meaning of life on a silver platter wah wah wah wah wah." SHUT UP, SARTRE.
This is especially bothering me in Nausea, where the whole premise is basically there's an author who gets all angsty because he comes to realize that nothing in the world has meaning beyond the fact of its own existence. I kind of want to slap him, lol. Stop complaining! Go create your own meaning! That's what life is all about!
I also think Meursault (the main dude in The Stranger) has serious social and moral problems that go well beyond any philosophical statement the author is trying to make. But that's just my take.
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Yeah, yeah, I think you just summed up perfectly what bothers me about existentialism.
If you didn't grow up believing in God, it loses a lot of its punch, I think.
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I am currently engulfed in the world of the amazing H.P Lovecraft. I'm reading: The Road to Madness
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Hannibal Rising, by Thoma Harris. Hoorah!
My favorite , however, is still Ayn Rand's Anthom
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Just finished Bone by Jeff Smith and Blankets by Craig Thompson. Both are amazing graphic novels; I cried during Blankets, really.
I'm starting the Manga Azumanga Daioh and the graphic novel Maus right now. I also meant to start Watership Down, but I accidentally borrowed Tales of Watership Down instead. I'll find the right book later. :)
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Yeah... Tales from Watership Down is nowhere near as good as the original. It's not a fully-fledged sequel... actually, it reads more like a collection of fanfic stories. I'd say only read it if you like Watership Down as much as I do. ;)
I just finished the play No Exit by Sartre, and have moved on to The Flies. His plays are a lot better than Nausea was, I think (see above). I'm in kind of a drama mood right now, so I'm probably going to read Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf after this.
Pooka: WORD. :) Lovecraft is awesome! I admit that I only started reading him so I could mock his overblown writing style, but it turns out his stories are SO GOOD.
Xevelous: Have you read anything else by Ayn Rand except for Anthem? I'm curious to know what people think of her.
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Yeah... Tales from Watership Down is nowhere near as good as the original. It's not a fully-fledged sequel... actually, it reads more like a collection of fanfic stories. I'd say only read it if you like Watership Down as much as I do. ;)
I just finished the play No Exit by Sartre, and have moved on to The Flies. His plays are a lot better than Nausea was, I think (see above). I'm in kind of a drama mood right now, so I'm probably going to read Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf after this.
Pooka: WORD. :) Lovecraft is awesome! I admit that I only started reading him so I could mock his overblown writing style, but it turns out his stories are SO GOOD.
Xevelous: Have you read anything else by Ayn Rand except for Anthem? I'm curious to know what people think of her.
LOL! At first i was all "theres no way I'm going to like this!" Then i really started reading his work and was amazed! Even his story "Memory" was amazing and it was only half a page long!
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I reading a book on learning TCP/IP. Totally geeky stuff, but I love it. :)
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I am in the midst of reading Summer of the Red Wolf by Morris West. :)
And I have, from the library, Redwall on CD [Behind the times...I still want to call it "book on tape" rather] to listen to in the next couple weeks. :D
Plus...I have a stack of other books I am yet to read...even though I have them. x_x
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Plus...I have a stack of other books I am yet to read...even though I have them. x_x
Welcome to my life. :)
And I also want to read Redwall! I just need to finish all my other books.
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Plus...I have a stack of other books I am yet to read...even though I have them. x_x
Welcome to my life. :)
And I also want to read Redwall! I just need to finish all my other books.
I still need to read Redwall as well (it seems like one of those books I should really get around to and see what all the fuss is about).
Post Captain is done, on to book 3, H.M.S. Surprise
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I'm reading Lolita for an assignment.
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Just some of the old books.
I read "Nemisis" It was quite good for 5 stories
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Plus...I have a stack of other books I am yet to read...even though I have them. x_x
Welcome to my life. :)
And I also want to read Redwall! I just need to finish all my other books.
I still need to read Redwall as well (it seems like one of those books I should really get around to and see what all the fuss is about).
I saw the Redwall books on CD on the shelf at the library when looking through the kids section with my little sister...couldn't pass it up since its summer, and pretty much all I am doing lately is reading.
My mom gets so annoyed at my massive collection of books. My family just reads a lot, except for her. So we have several packed shelves...and more in boxes... x_x
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Xevelous: Have you read anything else by Ayn Rand except for Anthem? I'm curious to know what people think of her.
Well...her things, a lot like George Orwell's or the books of many other dystpoic writers of the day, are pretty inflated. However, at the time, they spoke about truths in the ruling systems that people honestly didn't want to hear. Anthom is my very favorite just because it is so absurd. But another really good read by her is Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Overall, what I can gather about her is that she writes to oppose the "do it not for yourself, but for your country" motto.
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I'm reading Lolita for an assignment.
Hey what coincidence. I started "Lolita" today.
It just kills me that English is Nabokov's second (or third?) language. When will I be able to write like that???
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I'm reading Lolita for an assignment.
Hey what coincidence. I started "Lolita" today.
It just kills me that English is Nabokov's second (or third?) language. When will I be able to write like that???
Oh, I know. It makes me feel absolutely dreadful in comparison. But I have a theory. If I continue reading books as good as Lolita, my writing will improve.
Hopefully that will work x3
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I'm reading Lolita for an assignment.
Hey what coincidence. I started "Lolita" today.
It just kills me that English is Nabokov's second (or third?) language. When will I be able to write like that???
Oh, I know. It makes me feel absolutely dreadful in comparison. But I have a theory. If I continue reading books as good as Lolita, my writing will improve.
Hopefully that will work x3
Oh, it will! I say this in complete seriousness: Reading good books will improve your writing.
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So you gotta tell me, what'd you think of "The Stranger"?
I had mixed feelings when I read it. It was interesting on a basic plot-and-characters level but the whole existentialist philosophy, well, I guess I find it unconvincing.
You know, part of the reason I'm reading all this stuff is that I'm trying to figure out what I think of existentialism myself. There are passages in these books that I completely agree with, and other passages that just baffle me because they seem so illogical. Like, for example, the main idea in existentialism is that because there is no higher power, nothing in the world inherently "means" anything, and we must imbue them with our own meaning in order to live. Me, I find that intriguing, and even a little exciting, because it opens up so many possibilities and so many different ways of creating "meaning," of leading a life that actually matters to you instead of being confined to other people's ideas of what matters. But somehow, these philosophers manage to inject SO MUCH ANGST into it, lol. It's like, they ignore all the positive aspects of philosophical freedom, they're all just like "God is dead and objects have no essence only naked existence and God isn't handing me the meaning of life on a silver platter wah wah wah wah wah." SHUT UP, SARTRE.
This is especially bothering me in Nausea, where the whole premise is basically there's an author who gets all angsty because he comes to realize that nothing in the world has meaning beyond the fact of its own existence. I kind of want to slap him, lol. Stop complaining! Go create your own meaning! That's what life is all about!
I also think Meursault (the main dude in The Stranger) has serious social and moral problems that go well beyond any philosophical statement the author is trying to make. But that's just my take.
My thoughts on the angsty existentialist authours... If they've got so much time to actually write books on how nothing has any meaning other than its own exsistance, then they have too much free time on their hands. Having to work hard to earn a living gives meaning to nearly everything. At face value, I can understand some of the existential arguments, but I cant help but feel that the the arguments themselves are a product of an aristocratic society who never learned the value of things because they never had to strive to get them.
I would like to read some of these writings myself, but I think I'd only feel bitter towards the authors afterwards.
What does a meal mean when you're starving? It could mean life itself :) I actually think this would be an excelent topic for the debate club forum. What say you?
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Reading "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. So far it is a really good read, never come across anything like it.
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Currently reading "G.I. Joe: Above and Beyond", the prequel novel to this summer's blockbuster movie "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra".
Yo, Joe!
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That is good to know, Kobuk. And knowing is half the battle.
On topic, I recently picked up a cool book called Moon Called, by Patricia Briggs. The main character is a shapeshifter, her neighbor is a werewolf, and she is fixing a van belonging to a local vampire. Needless to say, I'm enjoying it so far.
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I just started reading another book of H.P. Lovecraft stories. It is a library book, and inside the front cover, somebody has written the letters "H.P. LOVECRAFT" in what appears to be blood.
Is this creepy y/n?
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I'm rearing "Full Circle" by Kirsten Beyer...
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I'm reading Eragon and I am finding Saphira (The Dragon) hawt. Is that creepy?
Are you seriously asking a bunch of furries if we think it's creepy to have the hots for a talking dragon?
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Finished Barchester Towers, now taking a break from 19th cent lit.
Now reading Eragon. Awesome so far. :p
BTW, I know its OLD so plz no spoilies.
I'm already waiting for the last book:p(I have all three book's on my bookcase and I have read them all).And I hope you like gore and some extreme violence(By the way DON'T watch the the movie).
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Finishing up The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson,
Then I'm on to Great Gatsby...
Also sporadically reading Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski and Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig...
I have a habit of reading multiple books at once >__<
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Well... I'm reading Stephen King's Misery. It's much better than the movie (which was awesome, too). :)
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Dies the Fire (and its sequels) by S.M. Stirling
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Well, I have not finished Lolita yet. I got distracted reading Diary of a Madman and other stories by he-who-is-quickly-becoming-my-favorite-author, Nicolai Gogol. Maybe I'll give Dead Souls another shot. Reading these two authors side-by-side, it's easy to see how Nabokov was influenced by Gogol. Both of their prose styles are loose, almost stream-of-conscious, but also very colorful. And both of them write totally whacked-out characters who fixate on the most trivial things.
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Wheel of Time series. Book one. What a fantastic story it is. Much too complex to tell in words. JUST READ IT. xD
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lol Same here Guilleum. I'm on the fourth book of the Wheel of Time Series. Robert Jordan really had outdone himself.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs. Having just moved to a Great American CityTM, I'm starting to get really interested in city planning and urban studies and stuff again. And dude, this book is so fascinating. It's far more interesting than any book with a chapter called "The Uses of Sidewalks" has any right to be.
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lol Same here Guilleum. I'm on the fourth book of the Wheel of Time Series. Robert Jordan really had outdone himself.
This. I actually just finished the fourth book last night, and when school starts in again, I'll be borrowing the next three installments from a friend.
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Currently reading Leonard Nimoy's I Am Spock.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs. Having just moved to a Great American CityTM, I'm starting to get really interested in city planning and urban studies and stuff again. And dude, this book is so fascinating. It's far more interesting than any book with a chapter called "The Uses of Sidewalks" has any right to be.
That is probly the best chapter name. Ever. :D
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Currently reading Leonard Nimoy's I Am Spock.
Excellent book.
Currently reading The Omnivore's Dillemma.
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Currently Reading A Long Way Gone Very chilling.
My birthday is coming up, and I'm probably going to get 3 or so computer technical manuals, so I'll be absorbing myself in those soon. :)
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The complete works of Lewis Carroll (or Charles Dodgson if you prefer). Good stuff.
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Finished up H.M.S. Surprise, moving on to The Mauritius Command now.
Also finally got the last few issues of 100 Bullets, so I've read all of that series now. Excellent stuff, possibly my favorite graphic novel series ever. For those who are interested in modern crime/noir stuff (fictional, that is), check it out. You won't be disappointed.
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lol Same here Guilleum. I'm on the fourth book of the Wheel of Time Series. Robert Jordan really had outdone himself.
This. I actually just finished the fourth book last night, and when school starts in again, I'll be borrowing the next three installments from a friend.
Ah! Another Wheel of Time fan! Tell me, what would you the best book is so far?
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A Clockwork Orange. Fascinating stuff...very different from the movie. It's no wonder Anthony Burgess, the author, lamblasted the film--the book makes far more commentary on the human animal than Kubrick's version.
I saw the movie first, for the record.
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'My Family & Other Animals' by Gerald Durrell
it's a very funny book XD
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The Planning of Center City Philadelphia: From William Penn to the Present. It's part of my ongoing project to get to know my new city a little better. :)
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I just finished Lolita. Wow what a book. Maybe the best book in English. Who else has read it? I was thinking of making a separate thread about it because there's SO much to discuss.
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I just finished Lolita. Wow what a book. Maybe the best book in English. Who else has read it? I was thinking of making a separate thread about it because there's SO much to discuss.
Oh man, I so wish I could discuss this with you, but alas I have not read it yet. It's been on my Books to Someday Get Around To shelf for like three years now. :( You're not the first person I've heard say that it's the best book in the English language, though. What's so good about it? NO SPOILERS
Currently reading: A History of Russia, by Nicholas Riasanovsky. It's pretty much the standard one-volume Russian history survey. I crapped out somewhere in the middle of it while I was in St. Petersburg, but I figure I'll give it another shot.
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What's so good about it? NO SPOILERS
Nabokov said about Lolita that his point was not to affect hearts or even minds, but to produce in the reader a little sob at the base of the spine.
It's like the best music. It doesn't mean anything, it's...pure experience.
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Wuthering Heights for the second time. I read it once about four years ago, but couldn't quite get the language. I'm finding out I didn't really read it, and that there are things that happened in the story that I missed completely. That's what you get when you read 18th century romance novels as an eighth grader. That was my first one, then I read Pride & Prejudice, and got about halfway through Sense & Sensibility. Then I discovered Twilight, and I zipped through all those books. I'm thinking of rereading Sense & Sensibility, and finishing it.
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Wuthering Heights is an amazing book... it used to be one of my favorites, although I haven't read it in years so I'm not sure anymore. I was never able to get into Jane Austen, though.
But my friend did just get me Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
(http://www.eeriebooks.com/horror/book-club/pride-prejudice-zombies.jpg)
So maybe that will change my mind about Jane Austen. ;)
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies...
:D :D :D
My brother just got me that book. Epic read! It's even better if you read the real one first. Austin is interesting, but some think her books are all basically the same story. I've seen the Pride and Prejudice movie like... too many times. Around 40 times total. I had to read the book, because movies always skip the most incredible parts of the book.
I remember when I read The Thorn Birds it was like that. The movies were alright, but the book was spectacular.
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Speaking of Jane Austin parodies...
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Austen-Create-Your-Adventure/dp/1594482586/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1250701312&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Austen-Create-Your-Adventure/dp/1594482586/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1250701312&sr=1-1)
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Lets see:
MAX by James Patterson
The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver
Night Prey by John Sanford
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I'm rearing, Star Trek, Ships of the Line...
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Kevin Richardson - Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa
An incredible book about an incredible person. :o
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But my friend did just get me Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
(http://www.eeriebooks.com/horror/book-club/pride-prejudice-zombies.jpg)
So maybe that will change my mind about Jane Austen. ;)
I forgot about this book! I heard about it a while ago and was really interested. Let me know if it's any good!
Right now I'm reading "John Dies at the End" it's my absolute favorite book, I think I've read it over 15 times by now, lol. I'm also re-reading Watership Down, I had lost my copy many years ago and only recently replaced it. <3
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I was just reading a scientific american magazine.
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City Planning in America: Between Promise and Despair, by Mary Hommann. I've got to be honest, it's not that good... it's more of a sustained rant than a well-researched and well-argued study. But I don't know, I'm in a weird mood lately, and it's really gotten me thinking deeply about my political beliefs.
I'm also about to start a giant book of stories by the Soviet author Isaac Babel.
I'm also re-reading Watership Down, I had lost my copy many years ago and only recently replaced it. <3
Now that is something I'm happy to hear. (: I've been through that book roughly 20 times... I used to keep track of exactly how many it was, but then I lost track. :D
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I just finished Oathbreaker by Michelle Paver.
I'm itching to start reading Warrior Cats: The New Prophecy, but I only have books two and three. Aparently my local book store never has the first book in stock x.=.x
Also I haven't read Brisingr yet. The book is so thick that I don't want to start reading whilst I have work to do ^.=.^;
Does anyone else here have twice as many books as they have space? My bookcase is overflowing quite drastically >.>
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I am re'reading' Katawa Shoujo: act 1 atm. It's like a drug O.o
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Mosby's CNA,
Biology 3,
Mathmatics made easy,
The affected provincials companion,
The Poetic Edda (Norse Mythology),
Roverandom,
Random nonsense on the internet.
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forums.
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No one's posted here in a while.
I'm reading "The Government Inspector," a play by Gogol. Very funny.
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I just finished A Drifting Life and Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (thanks for the suggestion, Sskessa). They were absolutely amazing. :)
I'm reading Bone by Fae M. Ng and Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. I'd recommend both. :D
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I just finished A Drifting Life and Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (thanks for the suggestion, Sskessa). They were absolutely amazing. :)
Heeeehehehe (:
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I'm currently halfway through that giant book of stories by Isaac Babel I mentioned above! (: Holy moly, I think Babel is becoming one of my favorite authors... both his images and metaphors are endlessly surprising. I highly recommend his Odessa Stories to anyone who hasn't read him before.
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A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. It's complicated but cool.
Also a whole bunch of graphic novels if that counts.
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I am reading Roverandom Again.
Yeah I know its a childrens book. But I love it dearly. (:
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I am reading Roverandom Again.
Yeah I know its a childrens book. But I love it dearly. (:
My friend is reading that :D
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I am reading Roverandom Again.
Yeah I know its a childrens book. But I love it dearly. (:
My friend is reading that :D
Its really good. It's my favorite book ^_^
I highly recomend it.
It a cute adventure of a puppy name Rover. One day he insults a wizard. And for his punishment, is turned into a small toy dog! Seeking to be turned back, he is lead on a host of strange adventures. Its great.
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I'm about 231 pages into The Lord of Chaos. I love me some Robert Jordan. I've been reading this series ever since my freshman year of high school, and it never fails to interest me. Oh! I'm also reading Lord of the Flies for my English course. I've read it before, but I'm able to understand it better now that we're actually discussing it within class. Very good books, indeed.
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The Book of Useless Information,By The Uselesss Information Society.
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Sweeney Todd-The String of Pearls: A Romance
The unabridged penny dreadful as written in 1846 mind you, not the new musical version ;)
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"my life and other animals"
i'm very very very slowly reading it, but i'm really enjoying it at the same time... tis an autobiographical thing about a ten year old living in greece and sharing his life with insects... the descriptions and observations of insect life are fantastic
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I'm reading The Monster Makers Mask Makers Handbook to learn how to make latex costume masks, I'm half way through,.
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Finished String of Pearls, now reading (appropriate for Halloween):
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft :D
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Finished String of Pearls, now reading (appropriate for Halloween):
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft :D
Good read! You should get the complete collection of his stories that Barnes & Noble are selling. It has pretty much everything released by him and is awesome.
Personally I am finishing Count Of Monte Cristo right now...
Well, I do also have At the Mountains of Madness and The Dunwich Horror collections as well, so I have a fair amount of his works ;)
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I'm currently in the process of reading, The Lovely Bones. It's an absolutely fantastic book, but a rather hard book to read in the sense that's it's very intense and sad. I'm enjoying it alot and I recommend it to you all. (: excited for the movie coming out in December!
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I am currently reading " The Affected Provincial's Companion Vol.1 ". This book is authored by a famouse fasion designer in Britain. It explains the philisophical meaning of dandyism . And the need for refinement in todays culture. I enjoy the fact that he teaches fasion in this book. And all while aserting Naughty Absurdities. ^_^
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So addicted to the Southern Vampire novels by Charlaine Harris... and the series True Blood is nearly as good as the books :)
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Read the first two Dexter morgan novels.I love'em. Right now reading Dexter In The Dark.
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I'm reading two new books at the moment:
-The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan by John Ehrman. I felt like I needed to know more about the Reagan years, so I went to the library and got out the most crazy conservative and the most crazy liberal book I could find about his tenure, and I am now reading them back to back. WHO WILL WIN??!?
-A Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorstein Veblen. A classic economics book, so sarcastic that it borders on satire, which argues that education and the consumption of goods both basically evolved as ways for the upper class to show off about the fact that they didn't have to work.
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The Eighties
Read Bonfire of the Vanities and you will understand the essence of the eighties.
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While I wait for my next Master and Commander book to arrive (yeesh, Border's shipping suddenly got a lot longer than it used to be), I picked up And Another Thing, which I didn't realize was out yet. Being another entry into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy after Adams has died leaves me a bit nervous about it being able to live up to the rest of the series. But I'm liking what I'm reading so far. Seems a good style like what Adams had, and has already made me laugh a couple times. Good sign.
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I'm reading two new books at the moment:
-The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan by John Ehrman. I felt like I needed to know more about the Reagan years, so I went to the library and got out the most crazy conservative and the most crazy liberal book I could find about his tenure, and I am now reading them back to back. WHO WILL WIN??!?
-A Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorstein Veblen. A classic economics book, so sarcastic that it borders on satire, which argues that education and the consumption of goods both basically evolved as ways for the upper class to show off about the fact that they didn't have to work.
My father and his family practically worshipped Reagan.
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Well, I just got finished reading Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums, so I'm just now starting on Barry Lopez's Light Action in the Caribbean. Yay for ecocriticism reading! :)
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The Human Brain by Richard Gilling and Robin Brightwell.
It's a pretty decent read, although it's considerably outdated (Published 1985). I also wish it would review more the anatomy of the brain, rather than focus on disabilities, diseases, or causes for dysfunction. :I
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Dark Force Rising, by Timothy Zahn. I'm technically re-reading it, but I had forgotten how good he is, and how much I liked Thrawn as a Star Wars baddie.
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Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War by Alice Wexler
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Military Issue E2 Booklet. I am currently studying it to advance my pay grade. If I pass my P.Q.S. :P
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Military Issue E2 Booklet. I am currently studying it to advance my pay grade. If I pass my P.Q.S. :P
Oh good luck!! My family has *quite* a bit of experience with those... my dad failed his Master Sergeant test by three points. He retired about seven years ago with 22 years in the Air Force though, so we're still proud. ^^
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Dusted off my tattered and well worn copy of The Hobbit today and began re-re-re-re-re-re-re-reading it :D
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Military Issue E2 Booklet. I am currently studying it to advance my pay grade. If I pass my P.Q.S. :P
Oh good luck!! My family has *quite* a bit of experience with those... my dad failed his Master Sergeant test by three points. He retired about seven years ago with 22 years in the Air Force though, so we're still proud. ^^
The Navy is my life. Its all I got left. So I will pass that test and I will succed.
Lol another military kid like me. Nice to meet you? ^_^
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
from "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov. This story...it's a fictional poem surrounded by the commentary of a fictional demented scholar, who I dare say disturbs me more than Humbert Humbert. Wait -- you haven't read "Lolita" yet? Put down whatever you're reading, IT SUCKS go read Lolita now.
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Myst: The Book of Atrus
If you've ever played the adventure game series, you would know what I'm talking about.
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"Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov. This story...it's a fictional poem surrounded by the commentary of a fictional demented scholar, who I dare say disturbs me more than Humbert Humbert. Wait -- you haven't read "Lolita" yet? Put down whatever you're reading, IT SUCKS go read Lolita now.
Hah, yeah, I've been told that Pale Fire is a close second to Lolita, in terms of... what? Best books in the English language? Amazing twentieth-century literature? Nabokov being generically amazing? I don't remember, but then I wouldn't know anyway because I still haven't read Nabokov. I keep trying, but all these other books keep getting in the way. So much history and Russian lit and Faulkner to read! Kess there are too many books in the world what are we supposed to do with ourselves??
Myst: The Book of Atrus
Word. Oddly enough, I wasn't really a fan of the Myst games when they came out (too weirdly quiet and impenetrable for me at the time... I wonder what I'd think of them now), but I remember loving the books, especially the Book of Atrus. :)
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Word. Oddly enough, I wasn't really a fan of the Myst games when they came out (too weirdly quiet and impenetrable for me at the time... I wonder what I'd think of them now), but I remember loving the books, especially the Book of Atrus. :)
I wasn't really a fan at first either. But that was only because I was too young to understand and solve the puzzles. But, now that I can understand puzzles, the games are a bit more enjoyable. Still, I couldn't really understand the storyline behind it until I started reading the books.
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The Science of Discworld II: The Globe - Terry Pratchett
The novel isn't really a companion book to the Discworld series, sort of a... spin off? It's entertaining like a conversation you would have with a young-at-heart grandparent. Always getting sidetracked and comment on various things while telling a story that really tickles the humor out. I even tried reading it while cycling back to some avail! ;)
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Kess there are too many books in the world what are we supposed to do with ourselves??
Um...er...read faster! *nods*
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I just finished Third and Indiana, by Steve Lopez. It's a pretty chilling novel about a kid who gets caught up in the Philadelphia drug trade. The corner of Third and Indiana in North Philly is still a notorious open-air drug market... if you're bored, try looking it up on Google Street View, and marvel at the sheer number of young men hanging out on that block who clearly have no legitimate reason to be there.
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At the moment, I'm reading Stephen King's (or Richard Bachman's, if you want to go off the pen name he used when he wrote it in '73) Blaze, as well as Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Lord of Chaos from the Wheel of Time series, and a book recommended to me by a friend, Dune.
have a pretty hefty bookload ahead of me for the next couple of days. :D
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I am reading Dante's Inferno. Wow I love this book, its so rich. I savoure each page like fine wine and preprocessed packed double fudge chewy brownies. Mmmm (:
"Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Such characters in colour dim I mark'd
Over a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd:
Whereat I thus: Master, these words import." - Phrases .org
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The Puppet Masters, by Robert Heinlein
The invaders are taking over!! :o
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As in books, I've been reading the final book of the Harry Potter series. Also a book called "Gift-wrapped by God" for my girls bible study that I go to. :)
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The Great Hunt: Robert Jordan.
Second book of the Wheel of Time~
And The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. <--- Objectivism ideals. CRAZY AWESOME.
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Just finished reading: "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" and "Art and Fear: observations on the perils and rewards of artmaking"
Still reading :"Experiencing the world's religions" by Molloy "The Principles of Comparative Animal Behavior" "Essential statistics for the behavioral sciences" by Gary Heiman and an American Literature anthology.
Grabbed a book on learning to draw too. I should really just focus on class, but that's no fun, now is it?
(Disclaimer: My advice sucks) XD
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I am thinking about writing a book about how to draw. :D
I find that allot of people read these "How to draw" books and cant get a grip. I wanna create one that will help the reader start from the base level, where I can expose all my drawing secrets. An impart the tricks of the trade. but sadly I am always too bussy. :P
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For about two months I have read nothing but Stephen King books. This is my ongoing reading "project": to read all books written by King in original publishing order. I just finished "Dark half" next book will be "Four past midnight".
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The Heart of Darkness.
Joseph Conrad.
Imperialism. Yum. =3
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S.G brownes breather its about zombies and love and death and love after death and it s really good
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I started reading Redwall again! (:
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I just got done reading Chirs Elliot's The Shroud of the Thwacker. It was a real good laugh for me.
I'm start reading the Discworld seris next.
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The Heart of Darkness.
Joseph Conrad.
I'm not sure I care to read the book since I've seen Apocalypse Now. There's a few rare movies so good they outshine their source material, and I'm guessing this is one of them. Let us know what you think!
Right now I'm reading Love and Rockets by the Hernandez brothers. I like it so far.
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The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver. And soon I'll be reading the Dresden series by Jim Butcher.
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My MySpace Mail.
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I, Alex Cross by James Patterson and Storm Front by Jim Butcher.
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Finally finish Book of Atrus. Now I'm reading Book of Ti'ana.
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The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe. An incredibly awesome scifi series set thousands of years in the future on a dying earth. And by dying I mean that the sun, giver of life, is being eaten away from the inside out by a black hole, placed there as punishment thousands of years before the series began for the sins of an ancient Earth-centered empire. The book series follows Severian of Nessus, a journeyman of the guild of torturers, through his wanderings around the ancient continent of South America, which is now home to a kind of Monarchy-like empire called The Commonwealth. Incredibly cool, dense and allusive. It is rather slow reading because of the denseness and the allusiveness of the prose, but it makes it all the more enjoyable in my opinion.
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Going over my Drawing Notes and am prepairing to write a begginers guid to drawing. 8)
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Now I'm having to read "Night" (Elie Wiesel) for my English class along with "The Book of Ti'ana".
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Cross by James Patterson,8th Confession by James Patterson,and Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton.
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The enclosed instruction booklet for Hotel Mario.
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I had picked up Franz Kafka's "Amerika" and was trying to read through that, but the school library wouldn't let me take it over break.
So now, i'm trying to read "The Music Lesson" by Victor Wooten and the Dhammapada.
Fun stuff though. Hopefully i'll get back to Kafka.
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I had picked up Franz Kafka's "Amerika" and was trying to read through that, but the school library wouldn't let me take it over break.
That's the only one of his novels I haven't read yet. How do you like it?
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From what I did get through, it was a pretty fun story. At first I was a little bored because it seemed to center on tedious, mundane things. (Could've also been end of semester stress) It picked up a bit though, and has me quite hooked. First experience with Kafka, so i'd say i'm impressed so far. I might pick it up over break from the town library, but i'm not sure. It may have to wait :(
It's an interesting story by far. Some intriguing social commentary and the story itself seems to pull you in fairly well in the first 2 chapters.
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Man, I'm glad Kafka's making a good first impression on you so far. Dude is awesome. :D
Like I said, I haven't read Amerika yet, but my understanding is that it's his most light-hearted work, almost comedic in a few places. This is totally the opposite of most other things Kafka wrote. ;) If you're still in a Kafka mood after you finish Amerika (i.e. if you're not completely exhausted by his page-long paragraphs), you should pick up The Trial... it's surreal, claustrophobic, creepy, and creates its own field of dark logic in which anything can be twisted to make sense. I love it.
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4 books at once.
The Fountainhead <-- Shakes your views of life
The Great Hunt <-- Not one boring page yet
Alice in Wonderland <-- Wanted to read since last year
I Am Legend <-- Re-reading. Original story too. Way better than movie. Seriously.
Two for pleasure, two for English class. xD
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Just finished reading "The Music Lesson". It's a great book. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in music. Even has some fun life lesson stuff.
Now i'm on to the Dhammapada. Either that or Voltaire's "Candide".
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I'm about to read Cell by Stephen King and Fool Moon by Jim Butcher.
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Since I have no other books to read, I finally have to live up to my friends promise and read Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind.
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Finished the Dhammapada, now reading "Shambhala: the sacred path of the warrior" and "Promethean: The Created".
Dhammapada was fun. Amazingly a simple read, which was kind of refreshing.
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I'll admit I'm not a huge reader... But for Christmas my sister got me Andre Agassi's autobiography, Open. I had it done by New Year's. For those who don't know, Agassi was one of the best American tennis players ever. Turned pro at like 16 or 17 years old, retired in 2006 at age 36. One of the forced-child-prodigy types.
Anyhow, I loved it. I'll probably actually re-read this one years from now, which is unheard of for me. And I don't even think you'd have to be all into tennis to enjoy it. He had such an interesting life regardless of interest in the sport itself.
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Currently I'm reading G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who was Thursday.
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Finished Cell. It was great. Loads of gore and a very interesting storyline;it also kinda scared me. Now onto Dexter By Design by Jeff Lindsay,Fool Moon by Jim Butcher and Hell's Aquarium by Steve Alten.
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I just recently started Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov, a collection of short stories about life and death in the Soviet gulag.
I also recently read Life of Pi by Yann Martel, which was just plain awesome. For those who haven't read it (it was pretty trendy a few years ago), it's about a kid who gets stuck on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger as his only company.
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1984
One of my all time favorite books, reading it again is like chatting with an old friend. :)
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I'm on the verge of starting At The Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft. I need a little inspiration for my story. =3
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Since I have no other books to read, I finally have to live up to my friends promise and read Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind.
*HISS*
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Reading Dexter By Design by Jeff Lindsay and Meg: Hell's Aquarium by Steve Alten.
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The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver
Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton
Double Cross by James Patterson
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Re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (:
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Re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (:
I use to like Harry Potter,but now that I look back on them I despise them for some reason .
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Currently I am reading City of Ashes. the 2nd book in "the mortal instruments" series written by Cassandra Clare. I'm highly enjoying this series, the suspense between 2 of the characters is very tense. I would recommend it to anyone who really loves to be hooked into a book. the first one is called "city of bones".
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Well... it's time for school again. While I'm not reading all my books at once, I have a few I'm going through:
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. It's actually a play, and it's not quite as strange as some of his shows (one I read called Not I completely blew my mind).
The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick is a book that mostly talks about techniques for writing. It's for my creative non-fiction writing class. :)
I'll be reading a lot of nature-writing as well. I'll post the ones I like once I'm reading them. ^_^
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Currently I am reading City of Ashes. the 2nd book in "the mortal instruments" series written by Cassandra Clare. I'm highly enjoying this series, the suspense between 2 of the characters is very tense. I would recommend it to anyone who really loves to be hooked into a book. the first one is called "city of bones".
Is this Series a part of the Mystery Genre?
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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. It's actually a play, and it's not quite as strange as some of his shows (one I read called Not I completely blew my mind).
Oh man, thanks for reminding me that I need to read some more Beckett! And see some more Beckett, for that matter. I've read Godot, but I missed my chance to see it this fall. :( I have seen Footfalls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footfalls), which was short, creepy, and also totally blew my mind.
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Currently I am reading City of Ashes. the 2nd book in "the mortal instruments" series written by Cassandra Clare. I'm highly enjoying this series, the suspense between 2 of the characters is very tense. I would recommend it to anyone who really loves to be hooked into a book. the first one is called "city of bones".
Is this Series a part of the Mystery Genre?
I read City of Bones as well. Nah, it's young adult fiction. I mean I guess there's a bit of mystery, but it's just the same amount as any other book in that genre. It's modern day, but also mythological creatures like vampires and demons. I really liked it. I recommend it too!:)
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Oh man, thanks for reminding me that I need to read some more Beckett! And see some more Beckett, for that matter. I've read Godot, but I missed my chance to see it this fall. :( I have seen Footfalls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footfalls), which was short, creepy, and also totally blew my mind.
It'd definitely be worth watching Godot. I'll finish it by tomorrow morning, but it's being amazing. If you do get a chance, take a look at Not I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otjKETciw2c); the video's not 100% accurate, but Beckett worked quite a bit with this actress on the video. It's only about 12 minutes long, and you probably won't understand anything unless you're uber-awesome (which is possible).
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The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Loved the movie,so the book should be a lot better.
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Oh man, thanks for reminding me that I need to read some more Beckett! And see some more Beckett, for that matter. I've read Godot, but I missed my chance to see it this fall. :( I have seen Footfalls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footfalls), which was short, creepy, and also totally blew my mind.
It'd definitely be worth watching Godot. I'll finish it by tomorrow morning, but it's being amazing. If you do get a chance, take a look at Not I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otjKETciw2c); the video's not 100% accurate, but Beckett worked quite a bit with this actress on the video. It's only about 12 minutes long, and you probably won't understand anything unless you're uber-awesome (which is possible).
Are you guys seriously talking about Samuel Beckett? I thought literature was past that -_____-
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Currently I am reading City of Ashes. the 2nd book in "the mortal instruments" series written by Cassandra Clare. I'm highly enjoying this series, the suspense between 2 of the characters is very tense. I would recommend it to anyone who really loves to be hooked into a book. the first one is called "city of bones".
Is this Series a part of the Mystery Genre?
I read City of Bones as well. Nah, it's young adult fiction. I mean I guess there's a bit of mystery, but it's just the same amount as any other book in that genre. It's modern day, but also mythological creatures like vampires and demons. I really liked it. I recommend it too!:)
Im over half way into it and it has a little mystery, a little romance, a little this and that. but a lot of different points of views that are really nice. not to mention that the characters are easy to connect to. im at a REALLY great part... dont think i can get to it with it being finals week tho XD but maybe LOL
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
I never get tired of that book.
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Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain.
I have to do a project at School on a book,so I'm dropping Bourne(Might be to hard to do a project on).For now I'm going to Sweetheart for now(I hope it won't bomb,the first one was good).
Anyone read the book called The Night?My school is going to make us read it,and of course it's going to be horrible(Just like every book they make us read).
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Are you guys seriously talking about Samuel Beckett? I thought literature was past that -_____-
Past Beckett? Aww, come on! He only died in 1989! We still have decades to go before we stop talking about him. :)
Well... here's what I'm reading now (it'll pretty much change weekly):
Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Beyond the Hundreth Meridian by Wallace Stegner
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The Biography of Poe (Edger Allen Poe encase u didn't guess =P)
yes its for a class, BUT i picked it out. so its gonna be an interesting read
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The Road: A post apocalyptic novel about a father & son trying to survive.
It's excellent~
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The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver
Sweetheart by Chelsea Caine
Apparently Hannibal Lector is a pretty popular character(In the leagues of Dexter Morgan and Patrick Bateman),I might need to check the book out that he is in,since he was compared to Gretchen Lowell.I can't find the book in my library though!!!
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I, Robot
by: Isaac Asimov
The movie is not based off this just the ideals in the book
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I, Robot
by: Isaac Asimov
Ah, one of my favorites in high school.
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I, Robot
by: Isaac Asimov
Ah, one of my favorites in high school.
So far I really like it.
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Donald is reading me The Lord of the Rings. We just got to the Prancing Pony.
On my own, I'm reading a book about lizards. It's just called Lizards.
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The Martian Way by Isaac Asimov. I'm also reading some "The Question" comics from the 80's I recently picked up.
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Donald is reading me The Lord of the Rings. We just got to the Prancing Pony.
On my own, I'm reading a book about lizards. It's just called Lizards.
Awesome, and coincidental...I'm in the process of reading Lord of the Rings again meself, but I'm currently beginning my adventures in Rohan with the Three Hunters :)
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Decided to do a little lite-reading, so I'm re-reading Blankets by Craig Thompson. I'll probably buy Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware to read, as well. :)
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The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix. I recommend it highly, its a great fantasy story. Also, there are a couple of anthro animal characters. A dog and a cat, to be exact. Namely, Mogget the cat and The Disreputable Dog.
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Decided to do a little lite-reading, so I'm re-reading Blankets by Craig Thompson. I'll probably buy Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware to read, as well. :)
Oh, that reminds me. I wanted to recommend a book to you. Check out MW by Osamu Tezuka. I think you'll like it =^_^=
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Just finished Heartsick. It was decent.
I'm now reading Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
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The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger.
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I'm currently reading One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, translated by H.T. Willetts.
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I'm currently reading One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, translated by H.T. Willetts.
Nice! If you like that, you might consider Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov - it's a short-story collection about life in a labor camp in the far northeast of Siberia.
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Just starting Digital Fortress, by Dan Brown.
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Hmm, Well Inothing at the moment, but about one hour ago I fin ished reading a book called Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Im a very advide reader, I have a differnt book every day.
Just yesterday I was reading The Book Theif, I forgot who it was by, but I was heart breaker I cryed in my classes o.o
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Kolyma Tales
I'm reading a book called Going Postal by Mark Aimes, and he actually cites Kolyma Tales as a more realistic account of Soviet reality. I think maybe I'll read that one next.
Going Postal is a history and analysis of workplace and school shootings. Extremely interesting. I haven't read a book this fast in a long time.
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I recently finished 'The Sight' by david clemant-davies.
I was so gobsmacked at the end. I was just like.. :o
I'm buying 'Fell' for when I go on holiday.
I want to read watership down again.. I wonder if I can find.
But I'm not reading anything at the moment.
Oh, exept for a few goosebumps books.
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I want to read watership down again.. I wonder if I can find.
Do it
Dooo ittt
Dooooooo ittttt
:D
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"Harmony" by Walter Piston
It's a hardcore music theory textbook, and I'm absolutely loving it!
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The Sight - David Clement-Davies
The best Anthropomorphic writer I have seen yet.
Yeah, I'm not just saying that either, he is an acclaimed and very well written Anthropomorphic writer.
I accidentally read Fell first which is actually the second book but I'm still just getting started on The Sight
Yes, it's about wolves. <.< >.> What?! >.< I like wolves. n.n
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S.M. Stirling's Change novels, im on Meeting @ corvallis...awesome series...
and for the fifth time, im reading Out of Position by Kyell Gold, i just luv the storeh...i mean im not much into football...but, the story is good
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S.M. Stirling's Change novels, im on Meeting @ corvallis...awesome series...
I live in the Willamette Valley, coincidentally. Those books are very popular here.
As for me, I'm done with Fellowship and am now on Two Towers. I also started reading Kolyma Tales, but after the first two stories, I find it hard to get in the right mindset to read. It's so depressing :(
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I'm thinking to read 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Finished Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. Great book! Tons of twists and turns and pretty funny dialogue. Definitely my 2nd favorite book I have ever read. I am now reading {i]American Psycho[/I] by Bret Easton Ellis. It's pretty graphic so far,and and the descriptions of the murders are described in extreme first person detail.
I am also reading Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver.Which involves a detective who reads body language. The detective, Kathryn Dance, is tracking down a teen boy who is a murderer. The teen uses the Internet to track down his victims,and uses MMO skills to avoid detection.
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The Lonely Planet Travel Guide to Russia and Belarus. (: :) (:
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Just finished Catcher in the Rye and All my sons, Im probably not reading much until Scott Pilgrim 6 comes out.
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Books on Python, since I'm trying to relearn it to a degree at which I can quickly program/port over TMU.
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Nickle and Dimed, for my Social Sciences class.
Man, I really can't wait for this semester to be over so I can go back to reading books for fun.
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Summer Knight by Jim Butcher, and The Black Echo by Michael Conally.
Normally I hate to read a fantasy novel, but Summer Knight is a part of my favorite fantasy series. Anybody who wants a good laugh and a protagonist that kicks butt and takes names, Read the first book of The Dresden Files
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Alright, here's my list.
Just finished Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (heh) and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. Definitely must reads if you want to know about slavery in the US.
Here's what I'm reading now:
With Malice Towards None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates
MW by Osamu Tezuka (thanks for the suggestion, Sskessa).
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.
Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West by Chip Ward.
That's a basic list. I'm reading a lot of other things for research and other projects, but those are the most prominent at the moment. :)
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Just finished Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (heh) and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. Definitely must reads if you want to know about slavery in the US.
Is that for a class? The first history class I ever took in college was History of the Old South, and we read those two. :)
That was actually one of the more amazing classes I took in college. Honestly, when I first started that class, I mostly wanted to hear about Southern political history and thought I would be kinda bored with the slavery thing, but the incredibly eye-opening books we read changed my mind about that real quick.
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Is that for a class? The first history class I ever took in college was History of the Old South, and we read those two. :)
That was actually one of the more amazing classes I took in college. Honestly, when I first started that class, I mostly wanted to hear about Southern political history and thought I would be kinda bored with the slavery thing, but the incredibly eye-opening books we read changed my mind about that real quick.
It is for a class about the Civil War and reconstruction. I absolutely love the class, even if the professor is a bit melodramatic (his Boston accent helps me not to care, though ^_^). We're going to read a pretty shocking book called This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust. I think it's going to be disturbing, but I'm okay with that.
I can honestly say that most of my college classes have been amazing. This is one of them that's further down on the scale, but even so it's awesome. I've gotten very lucky with my professors. :)
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I've been trying to read The Lord of the Rings series for quite a few months now, but school keeps getting in the way.
I absolutely loved The Hobbit.
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I've been trying to read The Lord of the Rings series for quite a few months now, but school keeps getting in the way.
I absolutely loved The Hobbit.
Lord of the Rings is definitely a hefty read, but I'm sure you'll find more time during the summer ;) The Hobbit is probably my favorite book of all time.
Right now I'm listening to an audiobook of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Does that count?
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I better really get reading, I have a pile of books to read. :D
-Volume 2 and 3 of .Hack
-Volume 1 and 2 of D.N.Angel (read these before, but I borrowed them from a friend to read again (: )
-The Perfect Couple by Brenda Novak (my grandmother thought I might like it, she is big on thrillers and murder mysteries)
-Have to finish the Tim Allen book I am in the middle of
-Plus I would like to dig into this book of Bernard Shaw plays I got a while back
-and I still have the Red Wall audio saved to my comp to listen to...
So...lot of stuff to read. And that barely scratches the surface of the books I have gotten but never get around to reading. (:
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Right now I'm listening to an audiobook of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Does that count?
Ooh! Very good book, and I'll count it. I'm actually working on a thesis about Mark Twain right now. Fascinating stuff. :)
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I've got Dragon Rule by E. E. Knight sitting on my desk. Been meaning to read it since it came out in December. Maybe I'll get around to it this weekend.
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Antigone, for english :3
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I've been trying to read The Lord of the Rings series for quite a few months now, but school keeps getting in the way.
I absolutely loved The Hobbit.
I tried to read The Hobbit. I found it incredibly boring. It seemed as if the character's just walked and there was too much filler pages in it. I am currently reading The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Conelly.
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I have a Battle of the Books competition a week from Monday, and I've read all the books except one. So tonight, in preparation for that 1st place I'm going to win, I am readingggggg,
Suck It Up by Brian Meehl
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I tried to read The Hobbit. I found it incredibly boring. It seemed as if the character's just walked and there was too much filler pages in it.
I have to admit, I was really bored the first time I tried to read Lord of the Rings. They do walk around a lot. After I saw the movies, though, something clicked. It's not like other books where the focus is on the plot or the characters. Tolkien's books are about the world of Middle-Earth, first and foremost. He crafted that world down to the most minute details, making a history for each and every place. When I approached it from that angle I was able to enjoy the slow pace.
Anyway, what am I reading? Still reading Kolyma Tales at one or two stories a day.
Also this ridiculous manga about Japanese cuisine called Oishinbo. What to say about this series? I love it. I've never seen characters so passionate about food. And you get to learn about the disgusting things Japanese people eat! Like fish sperm!
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I just finished The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling. Honestly, this has to be the cutest book I've read in years. It takes the usual "children-raised-by-wolves-and-integrated-into-society" trope that's been around since Romulus and Remus and just presents it in such a humourous and tightly-constructed fashion that one can't help but fall in love with it. The illustrations are simply adorable, and it seems to be the first in a series that I greatly look forward to reading. Definitely recommended for furries who are fans of young adult/children's literature!
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A little while ago, I discovered that I was in the middle of eight books at once and wasn't making progress on any of them. This was a problem, lol. So for the past two months or so, I've been focusing on finishing all those and haven't been able to start anything new.
Now, though, I'm down to being in the middle of only five books at once, so I figured I was within my rights to pick up another. ;) I'm now reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks. I've been meaning to read this for quite a while. It's a book of case histories of patients with strange neurological disorders, and it's moving and disturbing to think that the spectacular brain malfunctions in the book could happen to anyone at any time.
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A friend just loaned me his copy of book 12 of the Wheel of Time series: The Gathering Storm. Too bad Jordan went and kicked the bucket, but I'll give the new author a chance.
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A friend just loaned me his copy of book 12 of the Wheel of Time series: The Gathering Storm. Too bad Jordan went and kicked the bucket, but I'll give the new author a chance.
It's supposed to be the last one, right?
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Warriors: Omen of the Stars: Fading Echoes.
i just love the names & all the crazy plot twists in one of the biggest series known to cats. XD;
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a while ago, i went to a contemporary beat-poetry gig, and i remember this woman getting to the stand and reading a suite of four poems all about tigers (with music composed by my teacher). that must have been back in november (cause i remember a halloween party happening next door), and about a month ago i started actually getting into tigers and reading about them, then i bought this book by one ruth padel, a woman who wrote poems about tigers while in india helping to conserve them.
i just found out about a week ago that they're the same person! purely coincidental.
so... the book i'm reading is Tigers In Red Weather by ruth padel ... it's really good, talking a lot about how much of a difficult business it is to conserve these magnificent creatures.
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Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courier
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Rereading a story that my little brother (Lyron) wrote awhile back. It s about wolves that can make themselves look human. It is really good, just hope he finishes it some time XDDD (hint, hint, hint)
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A friend just loaned me his copy of book 12 of the Wheel of Time series: The Gathering Storm. Too bad Jordan went and kicked the bucket, but I'll give the new author a chance.
It's supposed to be the last one, right?
It was, but in the foreword the current author says the text got prohibitively large for a single volume, so they split it up into three. If a book of THIS size is only a third of the material, then yeah, it was better to split it up.
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Reading Death Masks by Jim Butcher.
I love The Dresden Files. Definitely my favorite fantasy series.
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Dracula, and dear do I love 'ol Renfeld (I think that is how it is spelled)
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Dracula, and dear do I love 'ol Renfeld (I think that is how it is spelled)
Forgive me the meme, but...
Best. Novel. Ever.
(It's Renfield, by the by.)
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Currently re-reading Lord of the Flies due to the fact I have my English literature GCSE exam coming up in a month or two. ._.
Despite the whole exam thing though, it's an excellent read and I reccomend it :) The author actually taught at a school very close to mine, which is pretty awesome :D
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Reading the monthly model club newsletter that came in the mail.
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This thread!
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This thread!
*whaps you on the muzzle*
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D:, fine, fine
Re-reading Lolita >.< -runs away before getting banned-
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Lolita
Amazing book.
I've just started reading His Master's Voice by Stanislav Lem. It's so good!!! It's a "first contact" story, as in first contact with extraterrestrial life, but grounded in a disturbing realism with juicy, fully fleshed out characters. There are no alien characters at all, rather, it's about human reactions to a message from another life form. It's told in first person, so it has a chance to become very philosophic and wandering, as well as getting into the meat of the main character, who is just fascinating. An idea-driven book, I'd say. High recommendation to sci-fi readers.
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Wow, that sounds like good stuff Sskessa. I might look in to that.
Right now I'm reading comic books :D
Y: The Last Man is an amazing series.
As the title implies, it's about every male in the world dying from a mysterious plague except for one man (and his male monkey). It sounds a bit silly, and it does have its humorous moments, but it also looks realistically into what society might be like if it was thrown into chaos and controlled by women in an almost post-apocalyptic setting.
It's one of my favorites.
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Wow, that sounds like good stuff Sskessa. I might look in to that.
Right now I'm reading comic books :D
Y: The Last Man is an amazing series.
Did you read it to the end?
I liked it until they explained why it happened. I'm sure others didn't! And no spoilers here, but I personally thought it was a stupid reason D:
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Yeah, the explanation did fall a bit short. But, then again, it's something that had been hyped up since the comic started, so I suppose it's not surprising for it to be a bit disappointing, eh? Besides, I think the adventure getting to the end makes up for the end itself.
But I still really enjoyed how the epilogue wrapped it up.
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Was NOT a fan of the ending. That little epilogue thing was nice though
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Poor 355 :'(
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I'm just finishing up a book called Late Night Thoughts On Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony by Dr. Lewis Thomas, a collection of essays about medicine, science, nuclear war, and other such topics. I clearly got it for the name, as anyone who knows my musical tastes will realize, lol. The rest of it has been interesting, though.
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Reading an article on "converting and painting" flying Nazgul in this months White Dwarf magazine (by "converting and painting" I mean it's just a lot of pretty glossy pictures with a few unhelpful "tips" :P )
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Soulforge, followed by three other Dragonlance books. On my list after those, Something by lovecraft. I've had it up to here with people telling me I need to read them. Also my "Read" comes in spurts of one day where I'll sit down and read like 400 pages in one or two sittings... So... stop and go.
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2 things.
1. When the Emperor was Divine, for English
2. Husky(Working title), a work in progress by yours truly, based on ideas formed during innocent RP sessions in Shims basement about 4 years ago. Its has Human/Animal/Angel mixed species characters and its currently about 30 pages written down. I have a feeling that you guys will like it, and Im gonna put It up as I fix it from version 1.0 (Im reading it as I work on it)
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The Rest is noise; Listening to the 20th Century - Alex Ross
This book is in the process of changing my life...or at least how harshly I judge the fin de siècle Teutonic musical canon. :P
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I started reading "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" by David Sedaris. I found it in a car at work, and its pretty entertaining.
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Just started reading the "Scott Pilgrim" comic series. I'm all excited for the movie!
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hmmm, Jurrasic park: the lost world.. woot!
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hmmm, Jurrasic park: the lost world.. woot!
One of my favorite books!!!
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Just started reading the "Scott Pilgrim" comic series. I'm all excited for the movie!
When I first heard about a "Live Action Scott Pilgrim", I couldn't possibly imagine how they would try to make it realistic. It looks like they didn't even bother, which means it'll be totally awesome!
That, and, if just LOOKING at Michael Cera makes me want to punch him in the face, he'll be the best Scott ever!
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Just started reading the "Scott Pilgrim" comic series. I'm all excited for the movie!
When I first heard about a "Live Action Scott Pilgrim", I couldn't possibly imagine how they would try to make it realistic. It looks like they didn't even bother, which means it'll be totally awesome!
That, and, if just LOOKING at Michael Cera makes me want to punch him in the face, he'll be the best Scott ever!
It's crazy how much he looks like Scott. When I first saw the trailer my mind was blown at how awesome the movie looks!!!
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Reading Michael Pollan's Botany of Desire
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I'm wading through the pile of comic books I got from a recent comic con, and 'Free Comic Book Day'. Currently reading a "The Black Coat" limited series I picked up.
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I am in New Orleans right now, and I just started in on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. The crazy heat down here makes it seem somewhat appropriate.
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As I Lay Dying is one of my all-time favorite books.
I'm actually selling a lot of my books right now in preparation for moving to China. We still reading Lord of the Rings outloud. We're almost done with The Two Towers.
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I'm reading The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie. It's crude, crazy, and overall funny. :)
I should read some Faulkner this summer... I still haven't read As I Lay Dying. :o
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As I Lay Dying is one of my favorite Faulkner books too (though I liked The Sound and the Fury even better - absolutely mindblowing, that one). The last time I read it was about four or five years ago, and I've been meaning to return to it ever since.
Alex, this
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven
is the greatest book title ever. :D
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Now I am in the middle of three new books:
- The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption. Self-explanatory.
- The Reivers by William Faulkner.
- The Rough Guide to Moscow, where I will be in only ten days' time. ^_^
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I'm reading Exhibitionism For the Shy by Carol Queen. I mainly picked it up for the index of *ahem* romantic terminology to assist with my writing.
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Right now I'm reading the "Indianas Drivers Manual" As I have to pass the test next week to switch my license over. I also have to pay an outrageuos (in my opinion) amount to make this happen. It beats walken though. Ive been driving for a long time, and the technical stuff is forgotten... how many feet from the railroad tracks are you supposed to stop when a train is crossing... how many seconds to stop at a stop sign etc...
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole series because they're making a movie... that and it's about owls. <3
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The Commodore, book 17 of the Aubrey/Maturin series. Almost done with this one, and since I've got a lot more free reading time this summer I should spin through the next three fairly quickly. At long last, I'm just about done with this awesome series.
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H.P Lovecraft Blood Curdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. I geek out over Lovecraft.
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The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. :)
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Jennifer Government by Max Barry. Yes, Relaxing Dragon, I'm finally reading the book you sent me. Thanks. :)
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"Singularity Sky" by Charles Stross; "Tailchaser's Song" by Tad Williams; and "The Cat Who Came to Breakfast" by Lilian Jackson Braun. I tend to read several books at a time...
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"Tailchaser's Song" by Tad Williams
Yes! Nice! That's one of my favorite furry books! (: Is this your first trip through it?
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I'm in the middle of the Seekers series by Erin Hunter. ...Don't get me wrong, Seekers is amazing, but apparently my parents don't know I like cats better than bears.
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I'm in the middle of the Seekers series by Erin Hunter. ...Don't get me wrong, Seekers is amazing, but apparently my parents don't know I like cats better than bears.
I didn't like Seekers as much...I might re-read them though, because I read them originally with the expectations of being as good as warriors.
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Currently reading "The Flamingo Rising" for summer reading :P
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"Tailchaser's Song" by Tad Williams
Yes! Nice! That's one of my favorite furry books! (: Is this your first trip through it?
Indeed it is. Which is kind of strange, really, given how much I love talking cats and how long I've owned this particular paperback.
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Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" Truly, an amazing work.
Starting very soon on Chuck Phalaniuk's "Fight Club" to see how it compares to the film.
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I just started reading through this:
(http://www.collider.com/wp-content/image-base/Clubhouse/S/Strain_The_Book/The%20Strain%20book%20cover.jpg)
I heard it was pretty good.
I'm not far enough to say anything, though.
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Starting very soon on Chuck Phalaniuk's "Fight Club" to see how it compares to the film.
The movie is pretty accurate for an adaptation. The real problem with the movie is that Fight Club is a work of fiction espousing a weird philosophy.
You don't really get to see and experience that philosophy in the movie, even though it is there some. You get to see it a lot more in the book, which is awesome.
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I'm in the middle of the Seekers series by Erin Hunter. ...Don't get me wrong, Seekers is amazing, but apparently my parents don't know I like cats better than bears.
I tried to make myself read those books I really did. Warriors is so much better :x.
Also reading The Flamingo Rising, also for summer reading, having a hard time getting into it.
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Just finished the Lord of the Rings trilogy last night.
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Finally got around to Reading Dan Browns "The Lost Symbol." Its only been on my stack of books for 8 months... Im a bit behind in my reading, I guess. Anyway, Its really good so far... Im about 1/2 way through. I've read all of his books, but never seen the movie, or movies, as I think there are two now, maybe?
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On a bit of a whim, I picked up Lies My Teacher Told Me. Only about a chapter in and already learning some fascinating stuff. I do love me some history, especially the true kind (tends to be more interesting).
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I'm reading Robin Cook's Godplayer, a medical thriller, at the time being.
At the moment I'm taking a break from my tradition of reading trash novels. :3
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I started reading the travel guide Montana Off the Beaten Path, because I am so totally driving there at the end of the week. (:
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Blasted through Flamino Rising in 5 hours, by no means my greatest reading feat, which happens to be Harry Potter 7 in 5 hours.
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Currently reading The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo.
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Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH.
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Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH.
Oh, awesome choice. I still have a warm fuzzy spot in my heart for that book. :)
You should check out the two sequels, too... they're written by Robert O'Brien's daughter and have a slightly different take on the Rats of NIMH universe, but in a really good way. They make that world even richer.
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I started reading the travel guide Montana Off the Beaten Path, because I am so totally driving there at the end of the week. (:
Hey! You should also totally swing down to Utah! :o
Oh, and I finally decided to start reading The Lord of the Rings.
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Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH.
*stops dead* Wait, The Secret of NIMH was originally a book? *Shock*
I'm reading The Classic Guitar Collection - Volume 1 as of the last few weeks.
A music book is the same as any other book, right? Just less letters in the alphabet, that's all. :D
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I started reading the travel guide Montana Off the Beaten Path, because I am so totally driving there at the end of the week. (:
Im reading "The Eyewitness Travel Guide - The Pacific Northwest." As I'll be right behind you!
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I'm just finishing up World War Z by Max Brooks right now, and then it's off to read The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul by Douglas Adams.
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The secret life of bees.
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Right now, Arabian Nights, the most original version possible. It's about 3000 pages long each tome, for a total of two tomes. I started it yesterday and this run will be fun :3
It's not the first time I read it, though, but I love a good book :3
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I;m reading 'Half A Wing, Three Engines and A Prayer.' B-17s over Germay by Brian D O'Neill...
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard. I'm on a drama kick.
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Finished the entire Guardian's of Ga'hoole series and read the first 2 books in the series "sequel" called Wolves of the Beyond.
Debating on reading Jekyll and Hyde or a book called Westley the Owl which is written by a biologist who raised a barn owl from hatching and studied him his entire life.
Not sure which one I'll do next lol. We'll see.
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Just picked up some new reading material!
Colorado CDL Drivers Handbook for obtaining a commercial driver's license. A skunk has got to do what a skunk has to do. :D
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i just got Eragon :D
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Finally got around to reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. I've had it for ages and made it about a third of the way through when I got it, but then put it down until now for whatever reason. Excellent book, if one that got fairly surreal after a while (even by Adam's standards). I do think I prefer the sequel, The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, though. That one is funnier and has just the right level of coherency in its weirdness.
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Why, this forum thread!
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Why, this forum thread!
I've been whapped on the muzzle by Sir Bunny Face for that x_x...
Atlas Shrugged, at the moment.
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I do think I prefer the sequel, The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, though. That one is funnier and has just the right level of coherency in its weirdness.
I prefer that one too. It's a bit more obscure but it's balanced nicely. I'm about 3/4 through it right now, it's amazing. Adams RIP.
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Why, this forum thread!
I've been whapped on the muzzle by Sir Bunny Face for that x_x...
Shhhh.... I have nothing better to read right now.
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Gripping read!
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The January issue of FineScale Modeler magazine.
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History documents for the final x_x
*hates studying, but this is the one class where it is necessary*
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Gripping read!
Yeah, isn't it? But I only got halfway through because the book was second-hand (or twenty-second-hand) and it just plain fell apart.
Right now I'm reading Through the Looking Glass. Before that I read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I love Alice. She's so crazy, yet so proper. I love the Disney movie, but I gotta say, it didn't capture her personality very well.
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Currently switching back and forth between The Burnished Blade and Crime and Punishment.
Made the mistake of reading a bit into each and now I can't put either of them down.
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The December 2010 issue of Linux Journal magazine, specifically the article, "Parallel Programming with NVIDIA CUDA" by Alejandro Segovia.
I have a strong interest in the field of High-Performance Computing, and since the fastest supercomputer in the world right now owes its petaFLOPS-range performance to the fact that it uses a combination of both CPU's and GPU's for it computations, I decided it would be wise of me to begin to learn more about how GPU's are used for these massively parallel computing tasks.
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Currently at the beginning of The Plague by Camus.
As well as a bunch of poems and short stories by Iranian authors for a comp lit class.
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Crime and Punishment.
GOOD. CHOICE. :) I reread Brothers K earlier this year, and it was so good that I went out and bought copies of every one of his major novels.
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Crime and Punishment.
GOOD. CHOICE. :) I reread Brothers K earlier this year, and it was so good that I went out and bought copies of every one of his major novels.
I've heard Brothers Karamazov is really really good, but that Crime and Punishment gets repetitive. What do you think of Notes from the Underground?
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What do you think of Notes from the Underground?
That is one of my favorite books in the world. Dostoevsky's a master of psychology, and that book is purely Dostoevsky rooting around in one tortured guy's head. The main character acts despicably, but somehow I recognize myself in him. (I think we all do, either that or I'm just an awful person. :P)
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Hmm...I'm pretty sure I'm an awful person, too, just in a different way, haha.
I ask about Notes from the Underground because I loved the book for 2/3, and then felt completely betrayed by the ending. Dostoevsky fleshed out the main character so well, so realistically, so nuanced and then....BAM in comes the Hooker with a Heart of Gold. That was my first experience with that trope so I didn't have a name for it. It made me really mad at the time. I hate it when an author uses a secondary character to teach the main character a Life Lesson, especially when the secondary character's problems are more numerous and serious than the main character's. And I mean come on. The girl has probably seen the Underground Man type of guy a hundred times, why is she suddenly getting all mushy over this Underground Man. The ending just broke the illusion for me, because of how unbelievable it was compared to the realism of earlier.
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Hmm...I'm pretty sure I'm an awful person, too, just in a different way, haha.
I ask about Notes from the Underground because I loved the book for 2/3, and then felt completely betrayed by the ending. Dostoevsky fleshed out the main character so well, so realistically, so nuanced and then....BAM in comes the Hooker with a Heart of Gold. That was my first experience with that trope so I didn't have a name for it. It made me really mad at the time. I hate it when an author uses a secondary character to teach the main character a Life Lesson, especially when the secondary character's problems are more numerous and serious than the main character's. And I mean come on. The girl has probably seen the Underground Man type of guy a hundred times, why is she suddenly getting all mushy over this Underground Man. The ending just broke the illusion for me, because of how unbelievable it was compared to the realism of earlier.
TROPERS!!! YAY!
*is reading tvtropes*
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Modern Biology (textbook) Have to have an outline of a chapter done by tomorrow :D
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I'm reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. It's real case studies of brain-damaged patients. I got halfway through the book in only one day, it's so good.
Also, Donald is reading The Vampire Lestat to me. It's fun.
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I have no books left to re-read. Any suggestions for a science fiction lover?
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I'm reading a book about the Beethoven String Quartets and another about Chechnya, which my coworker described as "the most depressing thing you could ever read about."
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Just bought RIFTS: Lone Star, World Book # 13 RPG. Will be reading it tonight. :)
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I've been reading Stephen King's It lately. It's not what I typically like to read but it isn't bad at all.
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Currently reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett. About halfway done so far and I love it.
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At the moment i'm reading:
"Blissful Brain: Neuroscience and proof of the power of meditation" by Shanida Nataraja
"Cultural Anthropology: A problem based approach"
And "Psychological Testing: Principles Applications and Issues"
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I finished reading The Tale of the Body Thief last week. I'm trying to start reading Eden, by Stanislaw Lem, but I keep being lazy and going online instead...
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I'm reading a datasheet for an LCD. It is truly a riveting document :P
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Just bought, and am currently reading: "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base" by Annie Jacobsen.
I've read the Amazon.com reviews on this book and they aren't good. So why am I reading it? Just curiosity since my other hobby/interest is stealth aircraft and black projects. I'm only on Page 14 and I can already tell this author has not done her research very well. :P
I remember hearing long ago that a story is only as good as the person writing it and/or the research put into it. That doesn't appear to be the case with this book. :P :P :P :P :P
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Right now, I'm reading a book called The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, about the world's first microfinance institution - a type of bank that distributes tiny loans to the world's poorest people to help lift them out of poverty. Microfinance is something I've been getting more and more into lately.
Also, I'm slowly reading through my giant Janson art history textbook from college. At a rate of ten pages per day, it'll only take like four months to finish!
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my physics textbook.
Ended up getting a head start (vs. totally procrastinating) on my assignment due tomorrow)
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Still meandering my way leisurely through Proust. This is going to take forever. :P
And now reading "The Velveteen Father" by Jesse Green.
Come a few weeks time, I will be furiously trying to work my way through an Organic Chem text. x_x
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Still meandering my way leisurely through Proust. This is going to take forever. :P
Oh man, you're tackling Proust? As in Remembrance of Things Past? Wow, I'm impressed... good luck, haha. How many thousands of pages is that altogether? And how is it?
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Oh man, you're tackling Proust? As in Remembrance of Things Past? Wow, I'm impressed... good luck, haha. How many thousands of pages is that altogether? And how is it?
Yep, all glorious 3000 or so pages in three volumes [two or three of the original books per volume] (in the publication I have been able to get, yay for relatively small typeset ;) ).
So far, in the small amount i have been able to work through, it has been good reading. A little tedious reading at certain points, mostly due his rather long and drawn out narrative style (but then, so do I, when I write); it is also quite interesting to read his descriptions.
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Currently reading Christopher Moore's Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff. It's typical Christopher Moore, so it's quite enjoyable.
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Going to start Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass today, I've always wanted to read them.
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The October 1989 issue of Run magazine.
For those not familiar with Run, it was a computer magazine that promoted itself as "The Commodore 64/128 User's Guide." I just picked up this issue, along with a lot of other old original Commodore and Amiga magazines, last weekend at the ECCC Commodore Convention (http://starbase.globalpc.net/eccc/). These old computer magazines were absolutely great because they offered such amazing features as the source code for BASIC and assembly applications and games that you could type into your computer yourself, a column of "hints and tips for performing Commodore computing wizardry," reviews of new Commodore hardware and games being released, an overview of Commodore-related product announcements from the 1989 Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, and an article on "Telecomputing." Wunderbar!
Speaking of the magazine's program source code listings, this particular issue has the BASIC source code for a program that creates an animated Jack-o'-lantern on the Commodore 64. How timely! I will have to type it into my own C64, save it to a 5.25" floppy disk on my 1541 disk drive, and run it on a Commodore computer monitor placed in my window during this year's Halloween! :)
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Anne McCafferey's "Pern" series. Starting with the first and working my way through.
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"Patton, Montgomery, Rommel" by Terry Brighton. I love how it's sort of a mini-biography about each commander; not only is it a very nice read about their military histories, it goes into detail about their lives before either world war without becoming boring or less "readable".
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A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
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An old Battletech book. I'm an old school mechwarrior. 8) Reminds me, I need to make a few Battletech anthro drawings...
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Some MLP fan fiction.
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Python programming x_x
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983
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This week I read "The First Book of Lapism" by Phil Geusz and "Smiley and the Hero" by Ryan Campbell. They're both furry books -- the first is science-fiction exploring a future where people can choose to be genetically engineered into rabbits for religious reasons and the second is a re-imagining of Jack and the Beanstalk starring a plucky young rabbit who's up against a gigantic, bulletproof, gangster wolf.
Now I'm reading "Save the Day" by D.J. Fahl -- a furry superhero novel. (Yes, I came back from Rainfurrest with a whole armload of furry books to read. It's a lot of fun.)
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VBScript in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference by Paul Lomax, Matt Childs, and Ron Petrusha.
The primordial computer programming gods have conspired against me, and I find myself having to write a VBScript program for the Windows Script Host because it turned out that I couldn't do what I wanted to accomplish with a MS-DOS 7.1-environment batch file. *sigh* Oh well, I knew that all of those VBScript programming books that I have been buying out of computer store bargain bins over the years would eventually prove to be useful for something! :D
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Taking a break from Pern to read "Bones of Contention - The Archaeopteryx Scandals" by Paul Chambers.
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Alex Rider: Scorpia (pleasure)
The Pigman (school)
Wolves of the Beyond: Lone Wolf (pleasure)
Reading's not my favorite activity, and most people my age can't stand it unless it's something we WANT to read, in which my case has a 1 in 3 billion chance of happening.
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I'm reading Corsairs over Rabaul...
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I am reading this thread :P
But, I am reading the last in the Eragon series.
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I am reading this thread :P
But, I am reading the last in the Eragon series.
D: I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT GET OUT OF MY BRAIN. nah jk
umm ive been reading, at an incredibly slow rate Guards, Guards by terry pratch.
good to see the powers of literacy are alive and well still :3
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manga anything really
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I'm reading a novel called Aztec by Gary Jennings. Absolutely beautiful book. The story is a historical fiction, about the Mexica of South America, told from the point of view of an old Mexica man who lived during the last years of reign by the native people. He is being interviewed by Christian scribes for the interest of the Spanish king, and he describes what he learned about his world before and after the conquests began. The sexual, religious, and cultural themes are fantastic, and the depth of character is astonishing, as well as the imagery of the magnificent cities and lands of South America. I highly recommend it!!
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The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy. Pretty good from what I've read so far when I had the chance when I had Finals the other day. 'Probably going to drop it for Red Storm Rising, though.
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I'm reading the once and future king for school. I can't get "into it" though :(
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Comics, currently reading The Walking Dead, Chew, Super Dinosaur, Locke and Key
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Oh I did read Scott Pilgrim! That was awesome!
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I am reading this thread :P
But, I am reading the last in the Eragon series.
i finished Inheretance last week
now im doing a little light reading in a physics textbook for fun
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Alex rider- Skeleton key
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A school book.
Understanding Nutrition by Whitney/Rolfes
...Yea! o.o
*goes back to reading...*
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"Assassin's Apprentice" by Robin Hobb.
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I just started reading a non-fiction Natural History book called Serengeti Shall Not Die. It was published in 1960 and is about the early days of the Serengeti National Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serengeti_National_Park) in what was then the British Colony of the Tanganyika Territory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_Territory). The book was written by Michael and Dr. Bernhard Grzimek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Grzimek), who also made an Academy Award-winning documentary about the park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serengeti_Shall_Not_Die) by the same name. Sadly, Michael Grzimek died while filming the documentary on location when a Griffon Vulture collided with the small Dornier Do 27 airplane that he used to film aerial footage from, causing the plane to crash.
While I haven't read a vintage Natural History book like this one in a few years now, I have a long-time love of them and I have half of a large book case filled with 85 of them. I don't know what it is, but it seemed like the world of Natural History and Zoology was so much more adventurous and exciting during the "Johnny Quest" years of the 1960's than it is now, and some of the books make for fantastic reading.
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"Resisting Arrest" by Phil Geusz
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starfarer's java and json files, trying to figure out how to get the station inventory to work the way I want it for my mod. :P
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Dreamkeepers vol. 2, by David Lillie and Liz Thomas. Wonderful series!
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Doing some background reading for uni, so I'm working my way through 1,000 pages of "Evolution: A biological and palaeontological approach"
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My mom wants me to read George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones series. So, she gave me copies, and I've started reading the first one.
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The Vulgar Tongue: Buckish Slang and Pickpocket Eloquence
Learning me some words~
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"Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
I bought the book yesterday. I've been wanting to read it for a long time ever since it came out. ;)
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I'm finishing up the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins....... For the second time! :D I love that series. she is definitely one of my favorite author if not my favorite. She's the reason i started writing. :) If you haven't read it yet, Hunger Games is a great post-apocalyptic world in which a cruel Capitol rules mercilessly over Twelve Districts of separated people. the children (ages 10 through 18 i believe) are forced to fight to the death for entertainment. One boy and one girl from each district. I love this book! :goldhowl:
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I'm half way through A Dance With Dragons and about to start on Die unendliche Geschichte. I have this weird thing about reading half a book in one day then finishing it weeks later. I'm not quite sure why.
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"The Charcoal Foundry" by David Gingery
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Pretty much started and finished The Hunger Games series this week. I'm still in the post-series crying mode. Much better than I expected.
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Pretty much started and finished The Hunger Games series this week. I'm still in the post-series crying mode. Much better than I expected.
Meh x_x! I'm not a fan. I don't think Collins is that good of an author. Also, I read Battle Royale, so I'd already seen everything that The Hunger Games had to offer.
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Pretty much started and finished The Hunger Games series this week. I'm still in the post-series crying mode. Much better than I expected.
Meh x_x! I'm not a fan. I don't think Collins is that good of an author. Also, I read Battle Royale, so I'd already seen everything that The Hunger Games had to offer.
Honestly, Collins doesn't have my favorite writing style, but I honestly felt it had a compelling story and realistic characters. The dialog was kinda cheesy at times, but I forgave them :D
I could talk a lot more about the series, but I don't want to give anything away. I would happily discuss my thoughts with people via PM, though :)
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No Impact Man, for school. :)
Fairly interesting. Don't agree on every point but it's very well written.
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i just finished reading 2001 a space odyssey, and now i've re-picked up bill bryson's home... a very bizarre history book that darts too and from topics, going through each of the rooms of the standard home.
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Bought myself a copy of Game of Thrones today, to see what everyone was making such a fuss about.
I'm now rather hooked.
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I just finished the first Hunger Games book. It was alright. I enjoyed what I read, even though I found that particular dystopian future to be a little unbelievable. I'll be starting the second one tonight. I'm glad I borrowed them instead of buying though, as I don't think it's a series I'll ever reread unless the next two end up being amazingly good- that and I blew through the first book in just a few hours.
Also working on The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson, Spandau by Albert Speer, and Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card.
Anyone on here also on Shelfari? I'd love to find some new Shelfari friends! :D
~~Brunn~~
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I'm reading a very, very long document on a video compression standard.
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Having finished the natural history book that I was reading last week, I am now gong back and forth between reading the March 2012 issue of Software Development Times magazine and the February 2012 issue of Linux Pro Magazine. While I realize that those may not sound like the most engaging reads, my Furtopia Avatar is of a computer after all, so they appeal to me! :)
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im being totaly old school and enjoying the work of Aldous Huxley, his book Island in particular... its interesting, i also have H.G.Wells The Time Machine waiting for me :3 that and i really wanna read a series called MistWalker or something along those lines, sounds really cool.
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Finishing up Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind either tonight or tomorrow morning. It's been fantastic and I look forward to reading the next book.
Picked up Anne Rice's The Wolf Gift and Paula Brackston's The Witch's Daughter today from the library. Wolf Gift will be my first Anne Rice book besides my abortive attempt to read Interview with a Vampire. (Junior high, very first horror, the sexualized little girl vampire was a bit much at the time!) As I'm far more interested in werewolves than I am in vampires, I hope to enjoy it!
~~Brunn~~
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Re-reading the lord of the rings. Quite enjoying it.
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Paolini's inheritance cycle....again again again :P
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman, as recommended by Kaloth.
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Just picked up at B&N today: "RED EAGLES: America's Secret MiGs" by Steve Davies.
It's about the history of how the US Air Force secretly reverse engineered, evaluated, tested, and flew captured Soviet MiG fighters from the 1960's to the 1980's in the U.S. at a secret military base.
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Picked up yesterday on the book rack at a hobby store: "Hitler's Secret Weapons, 1933-1945, The Essential Facts and Figures for Germany's Secret Weapons Program" by David Porter. Lots of interesting history and specifications for secret projects that were on the drawing board and never built, or were built as prototypes only: Huge battleship designs, Massive railway guns, Super large heavy tanks, etc., etc.
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Yesterday I started reading the book, The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3 (http://www.amazon.com/The-Race-New-Game-Machine/dp/0806531010/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335172035&sr=8-1), by David Shippy and Mickie Phipps.
The book is a behind-the-scenes first-hand account of the work done by people from IBM, Sony, Toshiba, and Microsoft to design the special microprocessor chips that ended up powering both the Sony Playstation 3 and the XBox 360 and the grueling technical challenges and deadlines that they had to endure to make it happen, as written by two of the chip designers that actually worked on the project. The book is supposed to be written in the same vein as another book that I recently read and really enjoyed, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of A New Machine (http://www.amazon.com/The-Soul-A-New-Machine/dp/0316491977/ref=pd_sim_b_3) by Tracy Kidder, and as a result I have very high hopes for it.
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I'm reading various comics books but besides those I picked up The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor. I really want to find out the back story to this character from the comics.
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I'm reading George R. R. Martin's "A Game of Thrones." My mom gave me a box set of the series for Khristmas. I was reluctant at first... but, I must admit, now that I'm most of the way through the first book, it is quite absorbing.
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The Course of Empire, by Eric Flint and K.D Wentworth.
Another really nice 'furry' alien design by K.D Wentworth. (Short on clear descriptions, but I keep getting the sense of the aliens being otter based.)
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Due to masses of work, it took me a lot longer than usual to finish game of thrones. But now I have, and I've started on the second book, clash of kings.
Still sad my favourite character died :(
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Due to masses of work, it took me a lot longer than usual to finish game of thrones. But now I have, and I've started on the second book, clash of kings.
Still sad my favourite character died :(
I finished Game of Thrones yesterday. I'd heard that it was a brutal series, so I tried not to get overly attached to any of the characters. It mostly worked. (I'd put in the one exception, but I can't figure out how to create one of those hidden spoiler box thingies -- it was something in the first half of the book though.)
I'm taking a break before reading A Clash of Kings. So, I've started reading Duncton Wood. It's about moles.
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Reading "A Clockwork Orange" By: Anthony Burgess for an English thesis paper. Great book and it also got made into a great movie. ^^
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I took a break in the middle of Duncton Wood to read Gateway by Frederik Pohl. It was a neat piece of science fiction. Now, back to Duncton Wood.
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Just finished The Sight for probably the 20th time. I highly recommend it for almost anyone who like fantasy and wolves
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I just finished "When The Wind Blows" by James Patterson, I finished that in two days! Now I'm reading "The Lake House" by James Patterson.
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Now that I'm done with "The Hunger Games" trilogy, I'm reading "A Mountain of Crumbs" by Elena Gorokhova so that I can get a better understanding of the Soviet life during the 60's. The reason for this is that I'm planning to write a post-apocalyptic alternate-history novel. It's going to be called "The Iron Sky".
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Just got done with The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind myself. I love his books so much, I spent every moment of my free time for two days to read it XD
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Just now im reading Nightmares And Dreamscapes by Stephen King. Then i will probably move on to The Eyes of the Dragon- again by Stephen King
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I recently read Communion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_%28book%29) by Whitley Strieber. The concept of extra terrestrial visitors has always intrigued me, in an innocent way. This book downright terrified me. Grey aliens coming in the night and rendering you completely helpless, taking you back to their ship where horrible experiments were to be conducted.
Bleck! Now I think it's time to read Bhagavad Gita again.
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Having finished the last book that I was reading, The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3, by David Shippy and Mickie Phipps, a few days ago I started reading a new book that I recently got for my birthday called, 200 Meters & Down: The Story of Amateur Radio by Clinton B. DeSoto (http://www.arrl.org/shop/200-Meters-and-Down/).
200 Meters & Down was billed as being a detailed history of the beginnings of amateur radio, from its origin until about the mid-1930's. Because of that, I mistakenly assumed that this was a recently-written book where the author only went that far through amateur radio's history due to his personal choice of when he felt that he should stop. However, that is not the case. The book stops detailing the history of amateur radio at around the time of the mid-1930's because it was actually written and first-published in 1936! That was not what I had expected at all, and it almost threw me off from reading it since the author does make some assumptions that I would be at least somewhat familiar with what the everyday amateur radio scene was like during the time when the book was written. However, as it turns out the author has a fairly pleasant writing style, so I was still able to become engaged with the book anyway. I also love how wondrous the author makes long-range radio communication sound, as he makes statements about how radio's miraculous invisible waves travel through the aether out into the Milky Way, and cross "roaring oceans and trackless lands." That kind of romantic view of the technology sounds kind of cheesy in this day and age, but then you have to remember the time period that this book was written in. Back then the world truly was a much larger and more mysterious place, and if you wanted to travel to distant lands that were across the Atlantic you had to do it either by ship or by Zeppelin. As a result, talking to people from around the world through a telegraph straight key, a home-built spark gap transmitter, a 100-feet of wire, and 100-Watts of power must have truly seemed almost miraculous back then! In any case, I think that this book is going to turn out to be a pretty good read!
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Going by tastes that most 15 year old's don't follow in my school. I am reading a collection of short stories by Stephen King. The book is called Full Dark No Stars
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I've just started the third "Song of Ice and Fire" book. Only a few pages in but loving it already.
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U-Boat at War by Timothy J. Kutta...
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Keep re-visiting "Speaker of the Dead" by Orson Scott Card... Need to bug my step to lend me the next book in the series
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All sorts of Wikipedia articles
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I've just started the Song of Ice and Fire series, having bought myself the whole set on the weekend. It's good stuff :D
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Currently I am reading The Color of Magic from Terry Pratchett. Good stuff. :)
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A Pearl in the Storm by Toni Murden McClure. She's the first woman to row across the Atlantic solo, and she wrote an awesome book about it. I'm only four chapters in, though.
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I actually found a book worth reading!
Elie Wiesel's Night (version 2)
Elie is a holocaust survivor, and in this book he writes about his experience living in a death camp.
(Also won the Nobel Peace award for this book)
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Until I can buy the next book in the "Song of Ice and Fire" series, I'm reading "The Picture of Dorian Grey".
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Well I'm finished with Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast Of Champions now. (That's an amazing book FYI)
It's got 302 pages, so to sum the story up, the book is about an under appreciated writer who gets discovered and invited to an arts festival, where a car salesman who is going mad ends up reading on of his books and it causes him to go into a violent frenzy.
It's quite interesting because there are two main characters rather than one, they're equally important, and for the whole of the book they don't know each other. Kurt Vonnegut's writing style is also quite different in contrast to any other writer, you should definitely check him out!
Now I has this book called A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah.
Ishmael was a child who was drafted into the army in Sierra Leone. I find this book quite intriguing, just like I did with Night.
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I'm currently finishing the last book of the Mistborn trilogy "The Hero of Ages". I've got my shiny new copy of "Shadow of Night" that just came out, but I'm hearing mixed reviews on it so far. I'm tempted to put it off and buy a copy of the new Mistborn book "Alloy of Law" instead... But it takes places like, 200 years after the trilogy so all the characters will be different... Ugh, decisions, decisions!
~~Brunn~~
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The complete works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, who is one of my favorite poets at the moment. I could spend an hour on The Windhover alone.
The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins
I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
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I found one of my bumper books of Lovecraft, so I'm not reading through that until I can get hold of a copy of the next Song of Ice and Fire book.
I'm currently on "Herbert West - Reanimator". One of my favourites :)
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I'm now reading "The Vampire Diaries, The Awakening and The Struggle"
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I've been reading this year's Writers Of The Future anthology. It has some pretty good short stories in it.
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I'm reading the Lily Bard series by Charlaine Harris. I love good strong female characters!
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Just started The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
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I'm about halfway through my Lovecraft book, and I've reached "Call of Cthulu".
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I've been reading the Dune series lately, and listening to the Battle of Corrin as well. I'm about halfway through the Butlerian Jihad- And by God, it is one of the best reads I've ever had so far. Personally I'm a bit of the fan of how the author(s), really paint the antagonists to be real... well, I can't say the word I'd like to say, so I'll settle with jerks, and leave it at that.
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Finished Jon Krakaur's Into the Wild A few days ago. A good read, but I'll more than likely have to skim through it again. xD
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Finished Jon Krakaur's Into the Wild A few days ago. A good read, but I'll more than likely have to skim through it again. xD
Ohhh what a good book that is. I've never seen the movie, so I have no idea if it was as good, but the book is one of my favorites. :)
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"Marriage In Free Society" by Edward Carpenter.
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I'm back to the Song of Ice and Fire series, after my trip to Lovecraftland.
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I've been thinking of reading Fire by Kristin Cashore again... But the last things I read were the Witch & Wizard books by James Patterson.
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at the moment im reading a book called "the lost hero" for book club. in a few days i i get money, 'll be able to buy a book on my kindle. its the third book in a serices. its called heaven. the serices are about angels. the books(in order)are Halo, Hades, Heaven. i cant wait to read it. then of corse an MAZING serices ive read twice is Hunger Games <3. cant wait til i get the movie.
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I'm Currently reading Tad William's "Otherland" series and also Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged". I am thoroughly enjoying both.
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I'm reading one of the Magic: the Gathering novels, "The Thran". It's all about how one of the big enemies of the game starts out.
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In the middle of a few different ones right now... alternating between the Bhagavad-gita As it Is as translated by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Sure Ways to Self-Realization by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, and the Jewish Publication Society's 1985 translation of the Tanakh.
Enough to keep me fairly busy for quite a while... :)