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Post by katrick on Dec 10, 2009 16:25:15 GMT
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard but only cos they're making me read it. I do like it, though
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Post by newslang on Jan 7, 2010 20:43:58 GMT
The Lovely Bones
I saw a trailer for the movie (which someone told me is apparently getting very bad reviews?) and was intrigued. It's definitely a "don't want to put it down" book, but I will warn the beginning is quite disturbing. I'm only about 1/3 of the way through so I hope that was the worst part.
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Post by yvonne on Jan 7, 2010 20:48:02 GMT
Victoria, I started with The lovely bones as well cause I wanted to read it before the movie starts. But I am also re-reading The Hobbit <3 so it will take a while til I'm finished. But I like it so far.
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Post by wanderer on Jan 11, 2010 10:22:32 GMT
I decided to read 'Naked Lunch' by William S Burrows because I'd heard of it's connection to Allen Ginsberg/Kerouac/Other Beat Generation writers. I think I might understand it better once I've finished (optermistic statement - it's gobbeldigook) But just like 'Howl' I'm inspired by it's chaos, joy, thrill and lust for life.
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Post by 'm a fragment, but that's okay on Jan 12, 2010 12:27:11 GMT
at first there is "hallam Foe" by Peter Jinks which i like a lot! It's pretty differnt from the movie I also adore, but nevertheless very interesting and with such a lovely, unusual protagonist! and how i love and miss Ediunburgh...
then I also focus on "Tür an Tür mit einem anderen Leben" (next-door to another life) by Alexander Kluge, a man I so much admire, as honest as i ever could. it's amazing! 35o short stories which are not actually stories in a fictional sense as they are full of information and fact you'd have never thought of. it is so true - how we believe to live a life which is no more than an imagination of they real one. How can we not know about it, or otherwise how could we ever live on with such a knowledge? Kluge is amazing, purely amazing.
and then i also try to read "Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates. It#s indeed not any easy for me as i bought in in Swedish to get on with some additional vocabulary and especially get a better feeling for the way of the Swedish. I do only attempt swedish lessons since about 3,5 months now, so i'm extremly slow with reading that book... i actually wanted to get "Nils Holgerssons resa genom Sverige", but when i was in Sweden some time before christmas ('cause shipping from Sweden is horribly expensive) they told me it was out of print and I shall try again in summer. I can't believe...! But, well, just another reason to go back, hah.
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Post by newslang on Jan 12, 2010 14:48:51 GMT
I started Wuthering Heights last night! We'll see if I actually finish it. I feel like one day I should make it through one of these 'classics' that I always start and never seem to finish.
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Post by Jazzy Jeff on Jan 15, 2010 18:52:46 GMT
I read the Lovely Bones in the summer...so I was happy to come back and see they're making a film of it! But yeah, apparently not that good. The beginning part is pretty much the worst bit, by the way.
At the moment I'm reading Angela Carter's book of fairy tales, at the same time as re-reading seventh Harry Potter because I can't remember enough about it to win at mastermind. This is really bad. If I wasn't reading Harry Potter, I'm pretty sure I'd still be stuck on Angela Carter. Heroes and Villains is just THE BEST. Next on my list is The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman which I got halfway through and then was shaken by my lack of Harry Potter 7 knowledge.
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Post by newslang on Jan 15, 2010 18:57:26 GMT
I'm also reading The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. I'm not sure I really understand what's going on at the moment...I'm only about 50 pgs through.
p.s. I feel like I've posted a lot in this thread lately. I am actually reading a few books right now...I like to have a few on the go because I'm always in the mood for something different.
I finished The Lovely Bones... the first part was definitely the worst but the rest of it didn't make me very happy, either. I read some reviews for the movie today and they said it stuck too much to what happened in the book. Hmm. . .
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Post by victorinox on Jan 15, 2010 19:59:51 GMT
a moveable feast by ernest hemingway. and mind breaths by allen ginsburg, who i'm really not sure what to make of.
i'm also trying to read pygmy by chuck palahniuk. i'm not liking it that much so far. i love his older books, although it's been a while, but i'm not a fan of what he's written in the past few years. has there been a decline in quality, or are him and i just growing apart?
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Post by izzyplastic on Jan 16, 2010 0:11:55 GMT
i just finished Alice in Wonderland (i realised the other day that i never actually read it, though of course, i knew the story)
today i started Seize the Day by Saul Bellow. so far so good, but i find i can never read too much bellow in one go. the style is so similar through out all his books.
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Post by helixxy on Jan 16, 2010 16:27:11 GMT
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Enjoying it, like most of his books.
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Post by Ana on Jan 22, 2010 12:35:52 GMT
Im Not Scared by...the name escapes me but it was translated from italian. it was very very good, i read it in two nights!
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maya
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Post by maya on Jan 22, 2010 21:40:18 GMT
Anyone reading Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse collection??
The tv show True Blood is based on those books. I'm addicted to them.
And Murakami rules! I just finished The pillow book, from Sei Shônagon, classic japanese literature. Not bad, interesting.
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Post by naaaat on Jan 22, 2010 23:04:17 GMT
The Time Traveller's Wife, thought it was about time I started reading a few more grown-up books Enjoying it so far, unfortunately I saw the film first so I have a fairly good idea of how it's going to end but I like her writing style! Also I've been reading Muse's biography on and off, and over the holidays I decided to regress a bit and re-read a couple of Enid Blytons because I'm sad like that My mum brought up a load of books for me so now the shelf in my uni room looks all exciting, yaaay! ;D
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Post by jadeface on Jan 24, 2010 9:18:12 GMT
I've just realised I never really, or find it hard to read, novels. I've been reading Murakami's 'Dance dance dance' for about 3 months but I get angry at the way it's written. I have read other Murakami books but this one definitely grates on me the most. Stupid obnoxious main character. Ha. Anyway so I read a lot of theory books, weirdly, which I dip in and out of. I've set myself to read 'The Poetics of Space' but I might die before I understand it. I want to though.
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Post by izzyplastic on Jan 25, 2010 19:40:46 GMT
i've only just read a collection of short stories selected by murakami. his own one was at the end. it was odd. but i think i liked it.
i'm currently bouncing between a few books of poetry, mostly just collections:
C.P. Cavafy Sylvia Plath-Ariel W. B. Yeats Robert Frost Leonard Cohen.
they're all just left beside my bed. depends on what mood i'm in mostly.
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Jan 29, 2010 0:09:07 GMT
Just bought The Bell Jar today. I've read quotes, and I like them, so I think this will be a good old read.
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Post by izzyplastic on Jan 29, 2010 13:14:39 GMT
bell jar is a great read. not the most cheery, but still great.
i'm on to Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
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Post by yvonne on Jan 30, 2010 22:09:40 GMT
I have sort of a generel reading depression this month. Haven't read a single book yet. I started with "The Hobbit" and "The lovely bones" in December and had no time and peace to go on reading. Was a stressful month at work so my brain was just dead when I got home and I couldn't concentrate on reading. Will try to finish the Hobbit tomorrow and hope for a better month.
edit: I'm finished. Finally!
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Post by lastgoodbye on Jan 31, 2010 16:05:19 GMT
Just bought The Bell Jar today. I've read quotes, and I like them, so I think this will be a good old read. I was given a copy of The Bell Jar in with a big pile of other books last week, so I plan on reading it soon We can totally compare notes. At the moment I am reading Pride and Prejudice for my English course, and also Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and The Other Hand by Chris Cleave (which my mum told me is amazing, and I like a lot so far). I've also got to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as part of my annual 'must re-read Harry Potter because I can't remember anything about the last two books' thing. In my new English Lit class I've just joined, one of our teachers makes us sit in a circle each week and everyone has to say what book they're reading. I found this quite embarrassing, because most people aren't reading anything and I always read about six books at a time.
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