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I'm re-reading the Stand by Steven King |
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I recently Re-read Holy Blood Holy Grail -- you're right -- interesting stuff. |
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I just choose reading over watching television, playing video games, spending too much time on the internet and watching bad movies. Also, I don't have a job right now. |
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I finished the Family Reunion by T. S. Eliot today, which I enjoyed far more than his Murder in the Cathedral, and I strongly recommend it to those who enjoy philosophical plays such as Six Characters in Search of an Author. I've begun the Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera and so far the first three chapters have been utterly breathtaking. It's a very fine mixture of philosophical prose and sensual storytelling. |
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A few more comments on One Hundred Years of Solitude: The cyclical presentation of time reminds me of Finnegans Wake, which makes sense since Joyce is one of Marquez's influences. I thought that one of the recurring themes of the book was the inherent loneliness of human beings, but then I quickly realised that it's actually a self-imposed loneliness: well, obviously, solitude. The advent of twins was a clever example in order to disprove my early theories pertaining to the book. In terms of the Unbearable Lightness of Being, I find I can somewhat relate to the autodidactic and anachronistic Tereza. |
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I recently downloaded an audiobook called The Pleasure Of My Company, written and read by Steve Martin. I started listening to it today and it is pretty awesome stuff -- about someone with a compulsive disorder based on symmetry. Really great so far. |
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I finished the Unbearable Lightness of Being tonight (recommended) and have begun Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov. |
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I finished Ada. My brain feels fuzzy. It's really quite hard to put into words how the book makes me feel, which shows how invalid a writer I am. The poetry, the sex, the history have all rewired my conscious thoughts. I don't think I'll be able to read another book for a little bit because of it. When I do read, though, I'll be starting The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre, the Marxist founder of French existentialism. |
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I got bored when they tied him to a tree. |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling; I am little late but I'm eagerly anticipating it, I love these books. |
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The book is written entirely in exposition and is thus inherently boring. I think it's meant to be an oral tale. |
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now reading the dark tower series by Stephen King.... started it years ago, but never finished now picking up books 1-7 all over again |
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i finished the age of reason and have begun dubliners !! that's right, i had yet to read it. but now it's on. |
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i finished dubliners which was pretty dublintastic. my favourite shorts are an encounter for its nostalgia and the dead for the sheer detail and allegory. i started the cocktail party by t. s. eliot and so far it's my favourite play of his, with potential to be my favourite play altogether. |
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just started slaughterhouse five |
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player piano by the same author is passable if you enjoy that one. Currently nearing the end of The Murder Room, by P.D. James: I'm a big fan of her work. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy... first book i try to read in english. it's pretty damn excellent. |
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I've been meaning to pick that up... |
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WARNING: It has a few spoilers, perhaps you should read it when you are done!!! |
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That is a great book, if you havn't already read it read Hocus Pokus next. Vonnagut is a god!!! |
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i finished the cocktail party by t. s. eliot and hamlet by william shakespeare, and so far i'd say my top three favourite plays are currently: 1) hamlet 2) six characters in search of an author by luigi pirandello 3) the cocktail party i also read peter pan by j. m. barrie which was fun and almost as funny as alice. and i also read the selected poems of lord byron, which contains some of my favourite works of metafiction. right now i'm reading the canterbury tales by geoffrey chaucer. |
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right now i am re-reading 'the god of small things' by arundhati roy, and also reading 'stasiland' by anna funder. |
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p.s. hamlet is hilarious. |
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I'm now reading 1984, about half way through, it's pretty damn good. |
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Being and Time by Martin Heidegger. I'm not trying to sound like a smart arse. I just have to read it for my course. He sounds like a really nasty piece of work to be honest. |
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Now reading the spy who came in from the cold by le carré... enjoying it so far & interested to see how it develops! |
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i just finished alice's adventures under ground by lewis carroll, which i would only recommend to the most hardcore alice fans as it basically contains some of the exact same material published as alice's adventures in wonderland. |
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i finished the canterbury tales, which was pretty good, but not something i'd go out of my way to read. it might contain the greatest fart jokes of any book, however. i've just begun reading the introduction to the odyssey by homer, the robert fagles translation. |
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I just started The Kangchenjunga Adventure, a hardback book from 1932 about a 1930 attempt to peak ... Kangchenjunga, the world's 3 highest mountain... I love mountaineering books ! |
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i read the odyssey, then pale fire by nabokov, then metamorphoses by ovid (this one is the most recommended). right now i'm reading madame bovary by flaubert, which is exceptionally good after camus and sartre lowered my expectations for french literature. huysmans and flaubert are where it's at. |
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i know i'm a cunt, but i just finished reading Harry Potter and the half-Blood Prince. The books have been getting progressively darker, and i like the route they are heading towards. at this rate, the seventh book is going to be madness... |
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The Yoga of Power - Julius Evola |
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just a quick a new translation of war and peace to go with anna karenina. i'm going to read it next if i can find it in the shoppes. |
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A fairly recent Leonardo Da Vinci biography called The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl... I never realised how sordid the Florentine scene was in the late 1400s/early 1500s.. he had been accused of sleeping with rent boys (although he was quite obviously gay) which could have even ended his career had he not such powerful connections through his art. I also never realised what a genius he was - inventing the first programmable analogue robot, flying machines and parachutes, and not to mention the detail and beauty of his sculptures and paintings - including his famous technque for blending light and shadow... its also interesting to see what went into the famous paintings like the last supper and the mona lisa - all the studies of compositions, different positions of limbs, etc. etc. recommended. |
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Being ashamed of reading harry potter is ridiculous. All of those books are wonderful. I still have to read that one. |
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Im reading On The Road by Jack Kerouac, its very good. |
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nice. i know someone who's reading it soon for university, so i'm going to borrow it when she's done. |
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i picked this up today. very, very slick penguin hardcover with a beautiful jacket, also includes its own special bookmark of quality stock and great design that lists all of the characters in the novel. i can't wait to start this. |
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I just finished reading this: It was just too weird. You got to read it. I mean it. It was weird but very entertaining. |
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AN INTRODUCING TO MARXISM |
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Neil Strauss: The Game i won't be posting anymore in the near future. i'll be too busy having a sexlife ;d |
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Weaveworld by Clive Barker, great book |
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quantitive theory of insanity - will self found a copy of getting it in the head - mike mccormick. good reads, that and multiple books for school |
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John Ajvide Lindqvist - Hanteringen av odöda and Donna Tartt - The Little Friend |
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'Switch Bitch' by Roald Dahl, really great short stories which are basically graphically sexual but with a macabre yet realistic twist at the end. (not particularly well written though) |
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arthur miller! |
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much ado about nothing at work and war & peace at home. |
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Just finished Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by Le Carré. Now reading Buddhist Scriptures, published by Penguin Classics. |
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