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Post by Rebekah on Jul 3, 2007 17:23:09 GMT
Am I the only one who reads one book at a time...?
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Post by lastgoodbye on Jul 3, 2007 17:24:37 GMT
I just finished reading How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, which was the single most depressing book I have ever read, but it was amazing anyways. I read it in under two days, ‘twas one of those 'don't stop reading even if you want to' kind of books. I've started reading a different book now, but it isn't that good and I can't remember what it's called. I'm also reading... 3 other books at the same time, although quite often it's more. Agreed with everything you say here. How I Live Now = Depressing, Scary, Twisted and Odd but very very memorable and good. I am reading..*counts* 3 books at the moment, one main and two on the side. Yay, more scary coincidences between us. ;D The parts I found particularly harrowing were the descriptions of all the bodies... it was just... yeah. And I wish it didn't end so quickly either, but that might have just been because I read it too fast. And, I wish it had had a nicer ending, but books I read rarely do. You just really want it to work out well, and then it doesn’t… well, not really.
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Post by lastgoodbye on Jul 3, 2007 17:24:56 GMT
Am I the only one who reads one book at a time...? Maybe so.
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Post by mimicry on Jul 3, 2007 17:40:16 GMT
Am I the only one who reads one book at a time...? No. The only time I read more than one book at once is if I also have to read a book for school.
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Post by margot on Jul 3, 2007 18:49:13 GMT
Ever seen the movie Brazil? It's like 1984, only amazingly amazinger by a bit. The movie of 1984 is good too, though. I've seen neither, unfortunately. Might have to acquire them somehow. So people reccommend I get 'Curious Incident...'? Might have to add it to my ten-strong current open Amazon deliveries... I think.
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Post by hark on Jul 3, 2007 19:18:14 GMT
Cheshire, I love Dorian Grey, though I thought the ending was a bit too abrupt. 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. That's one of my recent cheap Amazon purchases, I can't wait! Yours is the fifth good review I've heard. So now I'm reading: The Trial, by Franz Kafka 1984, by George Orwell (I'm really sucked into this one) A Clockwork Orange, by Burgess A Clockwork Orange <3 I did my critical essay on that. It was fun. 'Cloud Atlas' is pretty alright. It's really interesting and everything, but i could never finish it ie. i didn't read the last two books/chapters. In fact, I would read the whole thing without reading one of the books in particular, if I could (it would leave a huge gap in the plot though). It' s a 6.5/10 book I'd say. PS: My ex-boyfriend lent me that book, and I've still go it, haha. Serves him right for being an annoying prick.
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Post by Matilde on Jul 3, 2007 20:32:52 GMT
Margot could you tell me a bit about Kafka's The Trial?
ive read metamorfosis, i liked it a lot, it reminded me of Gogol's the nose with all that surrealistic situation that somehow people would accept. I mean, have a gigantic bug at home and act still quite normally... or as in gogol's, a nose walking around in moscow as a normal human being and people perceivig that it was a walking nose indeed... i find it pretty hilarious!
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Post by fabbit on Jul 4, 2007 1:37:03 GMT
reading this book called: BLAST! Cape Breton's Coal Mine Disasters. Got it on vacation. Kinda weird. and scary.
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Post by plastikapples on Jul 4, 2007 11:16:43 GMT
the call of the weird by louis theroux
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Post by 0-0 on Jul 4, 2007 12:20:48 GMT
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. On Monday I read The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy and then Soul Music by Terry Pratchett. I had nothing else to do, except sit in Tchai Ovna until choir practice. I sat and drank tea by myself for six hours. I am so cool....... I used to read a lot more, but I rarely have the time these days.
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Post by joli on Jul 4, 2007 13:12:18 GMT
ooooh I love going to the Tchai Ovna when I'm in Glasgow! Just now I'm reading a most entertaining and informative journal, written by James Boswell (Samuel Johnson's biographer) during his stay in London in the years 1762-1763. He writes most honestly about his thoughts and feelings, besides the high and low life in a London without street-lighting! It's called "Boswell's London Journal" edited by F.A. Pottle. His family suppressed and neglected Boswell's papers in such a way, (because they were ashamed of its contents!), that they were only discovered a century and a half after his death by some American professor.
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Post by margot on Jul 4, 2007 13:24:36 GMT
Margot could you tell me a bit about Kafka's The Trial? ive read metamorfosis, i liked it a lot, it reminded me of Gogol's the nose with all that surrealistic situation that somehow people would accept. I mean, have a gigantic bug at home and act still quite normally... or as in gogol's, a nose walking around in moscow as a normal human being and people perceivig that it was a walking nose indeed... i find it pretty hilarious! I got Metamorposis at the same time as The Trial, am yet to read it though. I started reading 'The Trial' in the middle of my exam period, so I ended up leaving it, only reading a few chapters. However those few did grip me, so I'd say it's decent. Somewhat like Orwell's '1984' with the theme of political conspiracy and corruption. Apparently there's a massive twist nearing the end, but I have not got that far, and I'm still dug into my '1984'. 'The Nose' sounds pretty neat though. Might have to check that out. Has anyone read 'Ulysees', by James Joyce?
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Post by Lauren on Jul 4, 2007 15:10:13 GMT
I only made it through the first hundred pages of Ulysses before I switched to another book. Have fun with that.
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Post by Taxidermy on Jul 4, 2007 16:02:27 GMT
Baggage by Emily Barr. My sister liked it a lot, so I thought I'd give it a go. It's nothing special so far.
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Post by margot on Jul 4, 2007 19:26:52 GMT
I only made it through the first hundred pages of Ulysses before I switched to another book. Have fun with that. Did you stop because it was boring, or too stream-of-counsciousness Joyce stodginess?
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Post by oldgregg on Jul 4, 2007 20:03:57 GMT
Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik, which is a total mind-fuck but very very excellent indeed. I need new books and have a shitload of reading to do over the holidays so a trip to the library is in order, I think.
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Post by idrinkmascara on Jul 4, 2007 21:15:43 GMT
James Joyce's Dubliners lies under my pillow until I can work up the strength to keep reading The portrait of the artist as a young man just about killed me. I've kind of started reading a portrait (i'm such a book playaaa : and i'm really liking the book, although I've only gotten.....about.....4 pages into it. I think I need to read more before you can get my amazing opinion.
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Post by blake on Jul 4, 2007 22:53:42 GMT
I only made it through the first hundred pages of Ulysses before I switched to another book. Have fun with that. Ulysses is really worth making an effort and persevering with. It's both hilarious and endlessly fascinating.
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Post by alice in wonderland on Jul 4, 2007 23:12:53 GMT
im reading DRACULA
fun times xx
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Post by tesla on Jul 4, 2007 23:19:50 GMT
I'm reading, "The Way Things Work". It's a book on mechanics. Extremely dull.
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