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by Mikhail Bulgakov - thoroughly enjoying it. A rip-roaring read and very unusual. |
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i'm reading your post right now |
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My high school suggested reading. |
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nothing atm, but im about to start |
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but i read some dostoievsky those days |
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this is what i'm reading, donated kindly by an english friend before he went back home for the summer.. |
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I`ve read sanskrit medieval texts for the past 6 months. (Paramasamhita, Pancatantra and other). Enough reading for me. |
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Great book, Redrum - have you read any of his other collexions of articles? If you like that, have you tried early Tom Wolfe? |
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Die Trying by Lee Child |
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Nope, not at all! This is my first thompson. Although.. after reading the third or fourth (in my own order) article, I was suitably impressed and curious to find out what his writings on the bush administration and war on terror were like and looked them up.. Apart from that, haven't read any of his other stuff. It's really very cool stuff though. You can feel the speed in his brain keeping him ticking over at the typewriter.. I only wish I knew more about 70s American Politics, especially who the people involved were, as there are more names dropped than I can handle. |
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Just started this, interesting stuff about the nature of power and revolution and all that etc etc. |
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oh, and yes, Tom Wolfe is my next planned reading :) |
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Right now I'm reading Sam Keen - Fire in the Belly (on being a man) and Alice Miller - The Drama of a Gifted Child. |
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Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker It's dark and disturbing post-apocalyptic stuff, but such beautiful language. |
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'The Wasp Factory' by Iain Banks, so far so excellent! so macabre and brilliant :D |
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"The Bridge" by Ian Banks |
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snap! :) |
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I wonder where you got the idea for Ian Banks from........ Are you actually reading it? Where abouts are you? and in what way is it macabre? |
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it's macabre as in it revolves around a transexual, 'Frank', who has murdered 3 relatives already by the time the book starts and throughout much of what I've read so far (s)he enjoys mutilating animals and sticking the heads of carreon onto sacrificial poles. I'm up to the bit just before her lunatic brother Eric arrives home. It's really good. |
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She is not a transexual, you have totally missed the point on the romantacism behind the murders. What did you think of chapter 9? |
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some roald dahl short stories |
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Advanced Stick Fighting by Hatsumi Masaaki - trippy stuff |
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"The Puzzle of Evil" by Peter Vardy, and a commentry of Neitzsche from the perspective of a Christian philosopher called Van Reissen. Nice stuff. |
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I see little point in reading as my brain feeds me with enough entertainment to last a lifetime. |
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Nearly finnished this |
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the case of the stabbed dog in the night orr whateverr it's called by someone who i don't know off the top of my head. |
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Mark Haddon I'm reading Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by Joyce. It's hard and good. |
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magister ludi by hermann hesse |
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I enjoyed The Hiram Key -- how are you liking it ? If you like that, the Marian Conspiracy is also worth a read. |
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Thanks I will read that one next! |
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I could not get past 100 pages of that book, Jeroen - how are you finding it ? |
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It is better than the Da Vinci Code although I did get sick of the... "They opened the box and could not belive their eyes. Meanwhile at the Vatican...." |
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well i've never been a fast or very focused reader, but i find myself completely lost in this book and flipping pages faster than ever before. I love the scientific details and the way they are presented. 010101 is right about the ever occurring cliffhangers though. A trick played right to makes this book 'unputdownable'. But i guess you didn't fall for it ;) The hype surrounding the Davinci code is really rather annoying and off putting but i suppose that one is next on my list anyway. Thanks to this book i have sufficient confidence in mr brown's skill. by the way, last night in a dream i had, you phoned me up and we had a chat about life and stuff or something. ha. |
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Excellant..... Where are you now in it? What do you think of it? |
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Well keep an ear open for a phone call :p I was lucky in that I read The Da Vinci Code before it became a humungous event and so escaped the hype and enjoyed it quietly. |
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Der Obbit. Till Friday, when I shall start the Half Blood Prince. |
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glamorama, bret easton ellis, it's messy but great |
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Friday? But it's not out til Saturday! I downloaded an Ebook pertaining to be The Half Blood Prince - it is interesting to note that Rowling uses American spelling and words like 'mom' :D |
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Yeh I just found out - fucking Saturday release dates, hate 'em. Most of the slang is changed for the US releases anyway - I kept wondering what 'bangs' were in the ebooks I read (fringe, apparently). Glamorama is awesome Horse, enjoy. |
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Finishing up "Mostly Harmless" in the Hitchhikers Guide series. |
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The great wall of China and other short works by Franz kafka. |
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I'm reading "Cities of The Red Night" by Burroughs. It's the first book in a trilogy, written towards the last few years of his life. So far, it's amazing........an opium crazed bunch of pirates, homosexuals, private investigators, and transvestites fight back against the powers of the world (america) that are trying to control people with a virus, named B-23, that morphes people into insane sex slaves. At least that's what i gather so far. |
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I've read that particular Burroughs book - very peculiar it is, too! :D |
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My mate recommends that HST book. It's one of his best in his opinion. I'm reading Jacques Derrida's LIMITED INC at the moment. Not because I want to but because I fucking have to. It's really doing my head in. :( |
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it is macabre! and no, I haven't read as far as chapter 9 yet, it's just that the friend of mine who suggested I should read it gave away the plot twist -_- |
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te exploding rabbits is macabre :S |
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if you haven't read the whole book and have only the regurgitated view of sombody else to base your opinions on, then i'm sorry but I can't really take your opinions seriously. Read it, then tell me it's macabre (the rabbits don't count). |
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why don't they count as macabre? I find it extremely twisted that the character of Frank finds it amusing to put explosives in rabbits dens and then mutilate the dead carcasses for no particular reason. I think you'll find that up until this point the book is macabre, and to prove it I quote dictionary.com : MACABRE (mah-käbr) adj. "Suggesting the horror of death and decay; gruesome: macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle Ages. See Synonyms at ghastly. Constituting or including a representation of death." |
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