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ive been rummaging through my parents books and taken what ive wanted and acquired literally like 75 new books from our house and from used bookshops etc. ive just gotten more books by dostoevsky, tolstoy, camus, orwell, huxley, golding and so many others that would take a while to type....anyways what are you reading now, whats your favorite author and book. I am reading George Orwell's Coming Up for Air which is veryy good and I only have 30 pages left. After that I'll probably read some short stories by Dostoevsky. by the way is anyone familiar with Russell Banks or know if he's writing anything at the moment? |
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I realize there have been quite a few book threads but it felt appropriate to create this new one for some reason. |
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i'm reading The Wind-up Brird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, it's really good so far. Neil Gaiman is my fave author at the mo and my fave book is could possibly be the one i'm reading now :) |
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im not familiar with either of those, ill look into them. what did Neil Gaiman write that you like the best so I could try one out. |
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"The Wind-up Brird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami" I was planning on rreading that ages ago, but neverr got rround to buying it. I don't have a fav authorr orr book. I am generrally rreally into the authorr and the book i am rreading at the time. I set up a book group a couple of weeks ago so i would be forrced almost to rread what i wouldent pick myself. We arre rreading The Shining (i say we, i leant the book to someone in the grroup, so i'm in limbo) |
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I havent read that or seen the film yet but I'll probably end up just seeing the film and not reading it since im not that interested in it. |
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the book is much betterr storry wise comparred to the film. |
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i'd reccomend Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, best book of his i've read so far. Anus_presley, you should, its excelent! |
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i like kubrick but im not really into horror type books at all or films that much either. |
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ok thanks, ill try Neverwhere out(sometime, I have so much books to read as it is). |
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i like horrrrorr books, but not films, i would class the shining as chillerr. |
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lovecraft is teh best old writer :( |
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I just started a book - Jennifer Government - by Max Barry It's great so far. Imagine a future society where corporations like McDonalds, Ford, the NRA, and Microsoft rule the world? Consumers and employees don't have last names anymore. Rather, you take the name of the company you work for. (imagine having to go by Julie Dunkin Donuts) The way we're heading... this actually isn't a hard future to imagine at all. |
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hahaha sounds grreat. |
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I'll just chuck a random recommendation into the ring, a book called Scepticism Inc. by Bo Fowler. Basically, it's about a guy who sets up a chain of metaphysical betting shops where people place bets on things that can't be proven, which are effectively matters of faith. Leads to such madness as the Pope betting the entire catholic church on the belief that god is good etc. The whole thing is told from the perspective of a sentient supermarket trolley. Very good. |
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i'm rreading (on and off) Rain Days now by William Trevor, which is a book of shorrt storrys. But they all leave me wanting morre like i have just scrrached the surrface. I like his style so i might pick a novel of his up, like The Story of Lucy Gault. |
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is it easy to rread? |
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I guess depends on how good you are at reading. The style of writing is different, but I don't think it's difficult. |
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yeah Dan that sounds interesting but heavy to sort through. I'm still reading Chuck Palhniuk books over and over, they just don't get old. |
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I keep meaning to read some of his stuff, but I'm on a mission to catch up on the 3 Carl Hiaasen novels I haven't had a chance to read yet. That said, at the rate I'm reading these days that could take me to 2010. Until last September I had a job that required I spend about 2 hours a day on a bus, so I read a lot. Since then all I've managed to get through is the last Tom Clancy novel and that took months. |
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*cuts and pastes* "The Bell Jar" - Sylvia Plath "Prozac Nation" - Elizabeth Wurtzel "Girl, Interrupted" - Susanna Kaysen I bought The Bell Jar because my book grroup might be rreading it, and amazon kinda rroped me into getting the otherrs. Anyone rread any of them? |
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I ought to check out those books by Berry and Fowler. Anyone read "Good Omens" by Gaiman and Pratchett? |
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Speaking of "older" authors, I'm reading "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco right now. I know he has a reputation for being a heavy writer, but I'm really enjoying it. At heart, it's really just a big mystery story. |
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i just finished american gods by gaiman. good, but bogged down in too much detail. just overly long. i'm picking up some lewis carrol now. |
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michel houellebeucq(sp) - Atomised kurt vonnegut - slaughterhosue five william burroughs - junky matthew lewis - the monk salman rushdie - shame |
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i do recommend the cool russian/soviet writes, such as nikolai gogol and mihail bulgakov. i'm a big fan of gaiman but i can't even get started in american gods - it's just too slowly starting. |
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i didn't really like the last book i read by him.....Choke, it was OK, but not mind blowing. i think maybe he's been overhyped or something, cos i expected SO MUCH MORE, and was disappointed. i'll prolly read another to see if maybe it was just the story i didn't care for, or his writing style. |
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I'm on a HPL/Solzhenytsin obsession, Solzhenitsyn was a writer sent to ccamps by Soviet government, he wrote about his stay there a lot, now getting a nobel prize for it... |
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Not reading any fiction at the moment. I haven't read many books, eventough I do enjoy reading, but some of my fav (fiction) books of thoose I've read are: "The process" (is this the english title? not sure) -Franz Kafka "American Psycho" -Brett Easton Ellis "Fight Club" -Chuck Palashniuk ... and more... I'm in a rush now... Lots of good books out there, almost too many ;) |
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Man, I'm getting in a slump... I'm close to not finishing the last three or four books I started: 'Chopper' 'The Bonfire Of The Vanities' 'LA Confidential' ... all boring, dull shit... I need a book to come along and really stimulate my brain, but I dunno what to look for anymore... |
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Neetta, what do you recommend by Gogol? I finished "The Heart of a Dog" by Bulgakov recently. I read American Gods and felt a little let down by the ending... |
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I just finished Coming up for air which is very good. I reccomend it to people who have only read animal farm or 1984 to see his other style of writing, its got a bit of comic lines in it, great book just find out for yourself. some new things I just picked up: Point Counter Point - aldous huxley cat and mouse - gunter grasse franz kafka - metamorphosis and other stories dostoevsky - poor folk (which I am reading next) I also just finished a short book called Wipe Your Face You Just Swallowed my Soul by Hugh Prather which was very interesting...I dont really know how to describe it with any other words. |
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ohhhhhhhh you're gonna like franz kafka dostoevsky good stuff!! |
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'the dead souls' is very nice, also i like his novels which are probably published there in different editions than here :< have you read bulgakovs 'master and margarita'? i also loved 'the theatre novel' by him. (the title translations might be a tad false now) |
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I didn't know if I should dive into "Dead Souls" right away or not. Haven't read "The Master & Margarita" yet. |
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heh, I already have like 100 books on my shelf that ill eventually read and now all these good suggestions, Ive gotta start to read quicker or something :P |
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i just read two collections of short stories by AM Homes...Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects...they were pretty off the wall, but entertaining and easy reads. |
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elaborate... i read 'music for torching' and loved it, she's soooo naughty! ;) |
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things you should know's "title story" (i haven't been into short stories for very long, i'm not down with the lingo or something..) is about this woman who stayed home sick in fourth grade and missed the passing out of a list of the things everyone ought to know but probably didn't because they are stupid. she agonizes over missing this list to this day.... homes's writing is just imaginative. i thought her most striking story was about nancy reagan (called "The Former First Lady and the Football Hero"). it didn't really seem as much like her other stories however. i'm terrible with describing books...you'd be better off reading reviews off amazon.com :) |
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that was a good book! 'the ice storm' was also really good, it enriched the film for me AFTER i read the book! |
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Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow. That guy is the most crazy fucked encyclopedic genius writer the 20th century produced. And Don DeLillo. |
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You're not enjoying Bonfire of the Vanities Yavo? That's a damn shame, I thought it was a good book :| I'm reading "Dombey and Son" by Charlie Dickens |
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My best writer is Alan Moore. er.. do comic book count in this thread? :) |
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if so then spawn is the best comic ever! |
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i finally picked up naked lunch (burroughs) the other day along with venus drive by sam lypsite, anyone read that(or the subject steve)? im on the fourth short story, lots of strange sexual references but its well written and he puts images across very well. i reccomend it and the following. also, ive read recently: tolstoy - the cossacks\the raid yevgeny zamyatin - we huxley - crome yellow hesse - siddhartha salinger - franny and zooey lightman - einsteins dreams kesey - 1 flew over the cuckoo's nest right now: anne tyle - dinner at the homesick restaurant(its for school but its surprisingly good too) up next: 1)one day in the life of ivan denisovich - aleksandr solzhenitsyn 2)the inheritors - william golding 3)fast food nation - eric schlosser 4)europa europa - solomon perel (theyre all for school but two of them were books of choice) |
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Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass arre rreally grreat even now. |
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yes, HP LOVECRAFT is great. primaly the dreamland stories. because there his view on the world, which is similiar to mine is shown best. that's the reason i like him. about the horror blah i don't care too much. franz kafka, dostojewski, houellebecq, vonnegut, orwell, nikolaj gogol, eta hoffmann, strugatki are other writers i like. whom i hate is hermann hesse. |
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ooh yes, i'm reading gogol's 'diary of a madman and other stories' right now he has such an odd sense of humor, its great. as for favorite authors, i think bruno schulz is right up there, i spent the first half of this summer reading all of his stories. i think my favorite books would inlclude 'the hitchhikers guide...' and 'solaris'. |
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We have the same taste in books. Gravity's Rainbow is imponderable, but I would recommend The Crying of Lot 49 for an excellent introduction to Pynchon. Don DeLillo's White Noise is great as well. |
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ive been meaning to get white noise, ill look into it. gravitys rainbow and crying lot of 49 are also on my list of books to get eventually. why do you hate hesse? ive only read siddhartha which is unbelievably good, i have steppenwolf, demian, journey to the east, narcissus and goldmund and the glass bead game(magister ludi) on my shelf too. |
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