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I'm reading The Forsythe Saga by Galsworthy. It's absolutely great! The language is unique. Real English at the height of it's blossom.... It was The Man of Property that John Galsworthy was awarded Nobel Prize for. And what are you reading now?
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Outside of A WHOLE BUNCH OF SHIT for my degree, I've just finished re-reading White Noise by Don Delillo and Heavier than Heaven by Charles R. Cross. Both really really good books - the former particularly (don't like the way Cross hugs Courtney Love all the way through Heavier Than Heaven).
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And the previous one i have just finished reading was Lord of The Rings by Tolkien. It was really interesting, but sometimes his style seems too bookish...
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I just finished Notes From a Turkish Whorehouse by Philip Ó Ceallaigh. It's the bleakest collection of short stories I've read in a long ass time. Will Self wrote a short story a few years back called Chest (it was his book Grey Area) that has the same tone as a lot of the stories in Notes.... If you don't know what I mean than I'll just say that the stories are fucking suffocating. It's a great book if you're into that kind of writing but it's not something you'd want to spend the day reading on a leisurely Sunday.
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Vampire chronicles : The vampire Lestat
The best book I ever read. Great story through the 5 books but this one is the best. I got other books from the serie I didn't read yet like Armand the vampire, Pandora, blood canticles,... maybe later Dave Mustaine :"God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo." |
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East of Eden, John Steinbeck.
I'm only 50 pages in; excellent so far. Beautiful writing at times. |
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Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn. Just finished Term Limits by Vince Flynn. I just found out about him and decided to read hi series of Mitch Rapp books. The first one he wrote, Term Limits, isn't a Mitch Rapp one but it is fantastic in my opinion. Had me unable to put it down at times, which is not really helping with all my midterms this week.
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Just finished Michael Lewis' The Blind Side. If you like football, it is a must read. Great story and very funny.
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I'll begin Fight Club eventually. This will be the first book I'll read in english. Doesn't seems too tough and as I know the movie pretty well (english version too), it will help.
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Olympos by Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion Cantos.
Bringing the Trojan War into the age of nano. Was hard to get started on the first book, Ilium, but once you understand what's happening it's great fun. |
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A Brave New World. One of those that everyone seems to have to read.
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A walk in the woods - Bryson. (Bill Bryson )
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Ooh! I read A Short History of (nearly) Everything by Bryson. He is an excellent writer
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Wolves eat dogs by Martin Cruz Smith.
Mr. Smith visited Chernobyl to do research for this novel. It is the latest in a series featuring Russian Inspector Arkady Renko that began with Gorky Park (1981). |
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A short history of nearly everything is one of the best books of the decade in my opinion. It makes science so interesting and accessible and in a wonderfully easy and enjoyable way. A must read.
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I'm reading Stephen King's Pet Semetary, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, and Photoshop/Premiere instructional manuals.
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Yeah, I liked The Vampire Lestat quite a bit too. I thought Tales of the Body Thief was pretty good. But after that, I got burned out on the series and never went back. Nor have I sampled any of her other stuff. |
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I'm reading a massive George R.R. Martin anthology, which is pretty good. I just read Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson.
The best thing I've read recently was Cryptnomicon by Neal Stephenson. Which is odd, because I don't like any of his other books. Bizarre. And my user name is (indirectly) inspired by Mr Bill Bryson, in case you were wondering. Basically I named my cat after him, and then I took my username from my cat - because at least half of what was typed was typed by him, trying to sit on the keyboard. |
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That was the year I got hooked on British literature, and it all started because I saw the title Return of the Native on a reading list, and I thought it sounded like it might have sexy stuff in it. haha I had visions of tropical isles, scantily clad native peoples, and outrageous carryings-on. Boy, was 'that' ever a misleading title. But I proceeded to get hooked on Thomas Hardy, and ended up reading more of his stuff - Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, etc. Those books turned out to be instrumental when I was interviewing for the honors program just as I was getting ready to start university. I did get into that program, and it was an excellent series of courses indeed - with outstanding professors. All of which eventually culminated in my getting a master's degree in 19th century British Literature. I just finished reading Rumpole and the Primrose Path - about a crusty old defense lawyer at the Old Bailey in London. Honestly, I thought the tv series episodes (on DVD) were better than the book versions of the stories. Oh well. |
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I just finished reading Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Glass Empires.
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Yeah Tales of the Body Thief was pretty good as you said. I thought Queen of the Damned was awsome. I liked it a little bit more than TotBT with all the historical side and the egypt thing. But I got to add that the movie total suck. That is the worst movie out of a book I ever see.
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I loved his European vacation book, Neither Here Nor There. Based on everyones comments here I'll have to give A Short History of Nearly Everything a go.
As for what I'm currently reading, The Know it All: One Man's Humble Quest to become the Smartest Person in the World. Basically this guy read the Britanica and this is his collection of thoughts on the experience and some of the interesting things he learned. He comes across as a narcissistic jerk, but I can't tell if he's being sarcastic or honest. Either way, I'm in the M's and I'm loosing interest. |
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Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Photographers
The Sundance Reader And Understanding Electronics for a personal project I'm working on. It is a great reference for me. |
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The Narrow Road to Deep North
It's a bunch of Haiku written by a Japanese poet during the 1600s. It's for school, but it's pretty interesting |
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Simmons has a few others that are equally worth the hours. Now reading: Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut - 1959 Also worth curling up with. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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I'm reading Toni Morrison's "Beloved" at the moment. Required book for my lit class.
While I tend not to enjoy mandatory reading like this, simply due to the fact that I'm being forced into it, I rather like it so far. Morrison has a really interesting writing style and throws in some rather jarring (intentionally, I assume) transitions from flashbacks to current conversation. Very visual, I can almost picture someone getting lost in memory and then sort of coming to. We'll see how I enjoy it further down the line, though, especially once I have to start taking tests on it, haha. |
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