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Post by hark on Jul 2, 2007 17:12:11 GMT
YEAH, YOU BETTER BE READING A BOOK. I'm serious. If you're not, I will shoot you. Metaphorically, telepathically, possibly.
I just finished "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami. It was really good. A bit slow at first, but it totally grew on me. I prefer his more surreal stuff usually, but he can write a straight up love story well, too. I love his style so much.
I read most 'The Little Prince' on Saturday, as well. The little prince annoys me. I don't care if that makes me a grown up. He has no grasp of context. What a c-unit.
So, tell us about the book you're reading. DISCUSSION IS MANDATORY. I'm sick of some people talking about themselves and not engaging anyone else. It's quite ridiculous and really, really dull.
But please, no spoilers.
Hitler out.
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Post by lazy poet on Jul 2, 2007 17:14:44 GMT
HARRY POTTER new book out in less than 3 weeks ooooeee
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Post by tombland on Jul 2, 2007 17:15:39 GMT
Ha.... Errrm I'm reading Lord Foul's Bane again. Need to get through the whole series in await for the new book in October. (I speak of the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson. My favourite fantasy series evar)
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Post by hark on Jul 2, 2007 17:16:04 GMT
I SHOULD READ HARRY POTTER TOO.
I have absolutely no recollection whatsoever happened in the last book.
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Post by Lauren on Jul 2, 2007 17:29:50 GMT
I'm reading Dante's Divine Comedy. It had been sitting on my shelf for far too long and looked sad.
I have no recollection of what happened in any of the Harry Potter books. I have failed my childhood.
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Post by resurrectart on Jul 2, 2007 17:30:43 GMT
Stephen King's It. I am taking much too long because I have been getting distracted by other things.
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Post by hark on Jul 2, 2007 17:36:36 GMT
I'm reading Dante's Divine Comedy. It had been sitting on my shelf for far too long and looked sad. I have no recollection of what happened in any of the Harry Potter books. I have failed my childhood. I think it may be because you read them in one day - two or three at a stretch - and don't really bother to take them in properly. You just want to know what the big ending is. Well, that's what I do, anyway.
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Post by Xteenuh on Jul 2, 2007 17:46:32 GMT
I always take forever to finish a Harry Potter book. Like, all summer.
But this year I am FORCED to finish in one day, in a secluded room, starting right after I get home from the midnight party, because I CANNOT have this ending ruined for me.
Anyways I started reading Night by Elie Wiesel, you know, one of them depressing Holocaust stories. It's 'aight so far. So is Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys, which I kind of stopped reading, but I shall continue soon because I haven't read much of it and I'm certain it is going to get way awesome as I go on.
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Post by admin on Jul 2, 2007 17:48:32 GMT
Having read the Harry Potter series backwards over the last few weeks (as in, starting with book six, rather than the last chapter, because even I'm not that interested in pointing out the 'uh' references to later books to whoever's in the room at the time), I'm now reading The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, by John Boyne. It's not grabbing me so far, though.
Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Post by cheshire on Jul 2, 2007 17:50:35 GMT
I just finished the Picture Of Dorian Grey (finallyyyyy) I finished Anansi Boys yesterday (Neil Gaiman is a god, really)
And I now must finish/find catcher in the rye. Dammit. I was so bored between both classics that I had them fight each other.
Dorian: I'm a classic for my contorversial views and quick wit! Catcher: I'm a classic because I contain swear words, and my charecters are pissed off teenagers! Dorian: All of my charecters are rich pompous art people! Catcher: Noooo! Rich people! *Catcher in the Rye is eaten by Dorian Grey*
Dorian: omnomnomnom..
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Post by Clare on Jul 2, 2007 18:20:02 GMT
LAURA. You are my hero. I just finished Norwegian Wood too. How great was that ending, by the way? I'm in the middle of reading a bunch of stuff. I just started Foreign Bodies by Hwee Hwee Tan; I've got The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare going; James Joyce's Dubliners lies under my pillow until I can work up the strength to keep reading; Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka - I'm on that story about the dog; One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest has a bookmark resting at page three; and a smattering of others rest by my bed to be worked through. Headache. Cheshire - you are the greatest person ever for making your classics fight.
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Post by mimicry on Jul 2, 2007 18:30:15 GMT
I'm reading Dante's Divine Comedy. It had been sitting on my shelf for far too long and looked sad. Inferno is fantastic. Paradise is boring. I haven't read Purgatory because the library didn't have it but I suspect that it is not as entertaining as Inferno. I read most 'The Little Prince' on Saturday, as well. The little prince annoys me. I don't care if that makes me a grown up. He has no grasp of context. What a c-unit. The part in The Little Prince with the fox is the only thing in print that has consistently made me cry. "You have tamed me" indeed. I am currently rereading Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
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Post by cheshire on Jul 2, 2007 18:33:45 GMT
Cheshire - you are the greatest person ever for making your classics fight. ;D Why thank yous.
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Post by amy on Jul 2, 2007 18:41:50 GMT
'We need to talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. I'm using it for my coursework next school year and it's all about American culture e.g gun laws and how it effects individuals. (I am having to research past massacres carried out by teenagers in American high schools, not exactly an uplifting subject) I'm only about 100 pages in but it's turning out to be a good read.
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Post by Rebekah on Jul 2, 2007 18:45:21 GMT
I am on the last few chapters of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I am going SO SLOW. Eurgh. I'm going to dedicate more time to reading them. The next three are quite long, and I want to finish them before the 7th comes outtt. And I wanted to finish the 5th before the movie, but it does not seem all that plausible now.
Sigh.
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Post by hark on Jul 2, 2007 18:46:19 GMT
I just finished the Picture Of Dorian Grey (finallyyyyy) I finished Anansi Boys yesterday (Neil Gaiman is a god, really) And I now must finish/find catcher in the rye. Dammit. I was so bored between both classics that I had them fight each other. Dorian: I'm a classic for my contorversial views and quick wit! Catcher: I'm a classic because I contain swear words, and my charecters are pissed off teenagers! Dorian: All of my charecters are rich pompous art people! Catcher: Noooo! Rich people! *Catcher in the Rye is eaten by Dorian Grey* Dorian: omnomnomnom.. yay Dorian ALWAYS WINS! Dorian Gray is roughly a billion times better than catcher in the Rye. I DESPISE Catcher in the Rye. He's a moany c-unit too. Literary Characters I Hate: The Little Prince Holden Caufield Harry Potter Sir Thomas More (not strictly fictional) OH MY GOD IT WAS GREAT. LET'S DISCUSS IT ON MSN AND BE ALL LIKE 'WOAH'. The Big Question: Toru Watanabe: Man Whore or just a Lover?
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Post by Debs on Jul 2, 2007 18:53:27 GMT
This book is responsible for me exacting revenge on my little brother for years of sly kicks, tale telling and the famous night where I awoke from my drunken slumber to find him and six of his mates dancing round the end of my bed with my underwear over their clothes... He was terrified of this book. Scared silly. He used to put the chickens away at dusk and run up the field afterwards, scared that Pennywise would come out of the stream and get him. One night I waited til he was sound asleep, tied a couple of half wilted balloons to the end of his bed and scattered a few home made orange pom poms on his bedroom floor. He woke the whole house screaming. I'm currently reading Kurt Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus. To start with I thought the very short paragraphs would drive me nuts (apparently Vonnegut wrote the book on a series of scraps of paper) but they're actually really charming. The whole tale of an Vietnam Vet turned teacher in a school for the stupid, turned tutor to convicts turned jailbird with stories of adultery, the insanity of his family and his friendship with a prison governer who survived Hiroshima picking a football out of a ditch is enthralling, with occasional bursts of total hilarity.
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Post by Debs on Jul 2, 2007 18:55:21 GMT
'We need to talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. I hated this book. If anyone wants my copy (yes, it was that bad) then let me know.
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Post by allison on Jul 2, 2007 19:29:23 GMT
I love the way Kurt Vonnegut writes. He's such an amazing guy. So it goes.
I'm reading: - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. I like it so far (only about 1/3 of the way through) but I don't like Jellybean cause she stole my name (I once wrote a story about a girl named Jelly and her triplet friends Lovely, Timid, and Mean). - Peter Pan and Wendy. I'm always reading some "children's" book. Peter Pan is one of my favorites.
I'm tired of Harry Potter. I start reading one of the books but get bored. I've only read the 6th one once though, I should probably read it again before number seven comes out. This whole HP mania thing is amazing, I wonder what will happen when there are no more books, can/will this ever happen again?
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Post by Sorrow By Nature on Jul 2, 2007 19:48:29 GMT
I'm reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell... a strange, living and breathing, beautifully written piece of art, (sometimes a bit too human for its own good). Which I never seem to finish, unfortunately.
Recently finished London Fields by Martin Amis and The Buddha Of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi... all recommended reading!
/t
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