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Hatters ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: May 06 2006 Status: Offline Points: 466 |
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Currently reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. This book is crazy and scary. Check out the wiki for a description, I couldn't do it justice here. Needless to say it is brilliant and I have nearly finished it in about 2 1/2 weeks (it is 700 pages long).
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Dreamer ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: March 13 2005 Location: Amsterdam Status: Offline Points: 297 |
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Wuthering Height I could tolerate, a book I detested is Pride and Prejudice. Aggh just the thought... maybe I'll give it a go in ten years or so..
I'm close to finishing Hesse's Steppenwolf. |
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Finished Patti Boyd's "Wonderful Tonight" autobiography yesterday. It's a good look at the rock star life from the point of view of the wife/girlfriend angle. No big insights to relate but an enjoyable read with some cool photos to gander at all the same. Still pales in comparison to Eric Clapton's book, though.
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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Mikerinos ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: August 11 2005 Location: Planet Gong Status: Offline Points: 8890 |
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Finished Aldous Huxley's "The Doors of Perception" & "Heaven and Hell". Each about 100 pages, but despite the diminutive length, two of the most insightful books I've ever read. They both deal with exploring uncharted territories of the enigmatic mind. In the former, Huxley visits them on a spiritual mescalin trip, and the latter, how these unknown areas are expressed and explored by means of art, color, and symbolism. Highly recommended, I finished each in day or so and learned more from the two books collectively than in the last month of school.
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Philéas ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: June 14 2006 Status: Offline Points: 6419 |
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Currently reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. Very highly recommended. Also be sure to check out The Satanic Verses by the same author.
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VanderGraafKommandöh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Malaria Status: Offline Points: 89372 |
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I don't have either of those, Philéas, but I do have Shalimar the Clown to read though.
I've finally finished all my R.A. Salvatore Dark Elf books (about 12 all together, I believe), that I have (there's only one left to read, but two further books are also due for release over the next few years), so now I plan to read his The Cleric Quintet, which is 5 books about a different set of characters. Edited by Geck0 - January 26 2008 at 22:57 |
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VanderGraafKommandöh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Malaria Status: Offline Points: 89372 |
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I'm about to start Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. I've read the intro already and I'm looking very much forward to reading the actual novel.
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GoldenSpiral ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 27 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3839 |
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Just finished Storm of Swords, now on to Feast for Crows... which I haven't heard too many good things about, particularly because most of the POV characters are new... and I'm not terribly excited about waiting God knows how long for the next book once I finish this one!
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GoldenSpiral ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 27 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3839 |
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Hell yeah! that book is nuts, man. When I read it, people kept asking me why I was reading a book upside-down
![]() I've tried 3 times so far to pick up his 2nd book Only Revolutions, but I just can't get into it, sadly.
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Jimbo ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 28 2005 Location: Helsinki Status: Offline Points: 2818 |
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I second that; Salman Rushdie is an excellent writer. ![]() |
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sleeper ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449 |
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I've got to admit, I wasnt that impressed with A Feast for Crows, it was twice as long as it needed to be and Cersie and Brienne made for dull main charecters IMO, a disappointment after the excellent Storm of Swords. Martin is also taking his sweet time in writing A Dance of Dragons, considering he started it at the same time as AFfC. |
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KoS ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 17 2005 Location: Los Angeles Status: Offline Points: 16310 |
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Yes, it's an Economics textbook. ![]() Took an Econ class dealing with macroeconomics(first half of the book) this winter session. All I can say is that it is an eye opener, considering that almost every news story this pass week has been on something dealing with macroeconomics. Edited by king of Siam - February 02 2008 at 04:04 |
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Forgotten Son ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: March 13 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1355 |
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Ursula K. LeGuin - The Dispossessed.
I don't usually read science fiction, but I'm glad I read this. I can't remember the last time a fictional book made me think so much. |
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VanderGraafKommandöh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Malaria Status: Offline Points: 89372 |
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She's an author I want to investigate further, actually, because she's said to be one of the best SF/Fantasy writers around.
I'm not sure where to start with her, mind you. I have many more books to read before even attempting any LeGuin though. |
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Jimbo ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 28 2005 Location: Helsinki Status: Offline Points: 2818 |
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I'd start with The Left Hand of Darkness. It's a fascinating story that bears little resemblance to conventional sci-fi. It's more of a social study dressed in sci-fi clothing. ![]() |
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Neil Gaiman's American Gods really good
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VanderGraafKommandöh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Malaria Status: Offline Points: 89372 |
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I'm now halfway through Yvgeny Zamyatin's We and it's extraordinarily good. Now, I thought Huxley's Brave New World was excellent, but so far I think We could be even better than that epic dystopia!
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GoldenSpiral ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 27 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3839 |
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Yeah that's a challenging book. I read it for an english class during my first semester of college. We had to write a paper on the book's use of daoist imagery and metaphor, and show how the concepts of yin and yang evolve through the book. good times. |
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VanderGraafKommandöh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Malaria Status: Offline Points: 89372 |
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I've just finished:
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We It is a fantastic dystopian novel and the end was not what I was expecting. Thoroughly recommended! It was a big influence on George Orwell too. |
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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Picked up Iain M Banks' Matter a couple of days ago - it's okay so far - it's supposed to be his most complex Culture novel yet ... time will tell
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