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Doburu Rakki
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 Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:10 am Post subject: What have you all been reading recently? |
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for classes, fun, works suggested to you etc.
i have recently finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and am still steadily working my way through Murakami in his entirety, soon to be augmented by original language texts, 多分。
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shdwlink13
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| I'm currently in the middle of The God Delusion by Dawkins. It's been an good read so far, as expected, but it's definitely a conversation piece when I read it in public, especially on the bus. |
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Karzan
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:09 pm Post subject: blarg |
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understand that when i give this list, i have this habit of starting a book, and then starting another book, and then starting another book, and then finishing that one, and then finishing the one i started before that one, etc., usually having to reread the beginning of the first books, so it's not like i'm reading these in parallel, but more like [1[2[3[4]3]2]1]. So...
The Sheep Look Up* by John Brunner
The Scott Pilgrim~ series by Bryan Lee O'Malley
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
Slam by Nick Hornby
Cadillac Desert* by Marc Reisner
Love in the Time of Cholera* by Gabrial Garcia Marquez
The Fifth Elephant~ by Terry Pratchett
Night Watch~ by Terry Pratchett
The Plot Thickens by Noah Lukeman
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Lamb~ by Christopher Moore
* means i've been attempting to finish this for >1 years, but either other books keep getting in the way or it's just really hard.
~ means i've read it before and i'm just rereading it for fun.
This list doesn't include books that i've reread so many times and am reading so often that i'm basically just in a constant state of rereading (Barry Hughart's Bridge of Birds springs to mind) nor does it include books that have gotten pushed so far back on the currently reading timetable by other books that i haven't even opened it in more than six months. It also doesn't includes some books i just forgot i'm reading. Which there are. |
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Doburu Rakki
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| scott, i would suggest World War Z to you if you haven't read it yet. It's in the vein of Zombie Survival Guide but written like a historical fiction or historical account piece. I hear there may be a movie in the works as well. |
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