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Post by lastgoodbye on Jul 8, 2007 16:03:17 GMT
I realised I was going to have to read the most recent Harry Potter again before the new one came out, so I started that yesterday and I'm almost done (which is good considering I didn't finish all the other books I'm reading beforehand). I also want to go out and buy a new book soon, because I have some money and never enough books. Any recommendations?
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Post by abolishconfusion on Jul 8, 2007 22:34:59 GMT
I like reading the backs of cereal boxes.
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Post by enfantterrible on Jul 8, 2007 22:42:35 GMT
i'm reading the french lieutenant's women - its ok i suppose but i hate the way that the author always interjects to comment and assumes complete rubbish
next is james joyce ulysses - sound pretensious but i can only take 1 book for a whole month travelling so hopefully i'll get through it x
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Post by fabbit on Jul 9, 2007 2:32:53 GMT
I like reading the backs of cereal boxes. sometimes they have puzzles! i have missed the bus several times because of these.
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Post by ardorsandarbors on Jul 9, 2007 15:01:38 GMT
I really loved Joyce;s Portrait of the Artist, very "soul-searching" Also proud to have read Ulysses a couple of months ago, and surprised to have enjoyed most of it
Just finished Alexander McCall Smith - last one in the n1 ladies detective agency series, and the last one of the other series of 44 scotland St, they are always great reads without too much effort Currently started Faulkner - The Sound and the fury- early days, I have to get myself into it, seems promising.
My favourite book may be: The book of disquiet by Fernando Pessoa ( a novel written by a poet)
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Post by josemutiny on Jul 12, 2007 11:01:23 GMT
I'm reading Bomb Culture by Jeff Nuttall.
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Post by allison on Jul 12, 2007 12:28:22 GMT
I realised I was going to have to read the most recent Harry Potter again before the new one came out, so I started that yesterday and I'm almost done (which is good considering I didn't finish all the other books I'm reading beforehand). I also want to go out and buy a new book soon, because I have some money and never enough books. Any recommendations? Thomas Pynchon's V. Favorite book I've read this year. Basically it follows two guys, Benny Profane, a sailor and a schleml (i forget how he spells it, its yiddish, like am unlucky/fool/sucker/sort of), and Stencil who is searching for a person called "V." It alternates between stuff happening in New York in present day (the 50s) and random places at random times (really random) and it all ties together, or maybe it doesn't but it seems like it does. I absolutely loved it (and I learned a ton). I'm reading the Crying of Lot 49 right now (I'm sort of anal and try to go through authors' works in chronological order)
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Post by donna on Jul 15, 2007 17:40:03 GMT
My favourite book may be: The book of disquiet by Fernando Pessoa ( a novel written by a poet) i'm reading that at the moment.. in short bursts. right now i'm reading the castle by kafka, but fitting some pessoa in between. i think my favourite book of all time is ocean sea by alessandro baricco. or invisible cities by italo calvino. i can't decide. calvino and baricco are constantly fighting each other in my head.
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Post by Clare on Jul 15, 2007 17:56:05 GMT
I also want to go out and buy a new book soon, because I have some money and never enough books. Any recommendations? Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer. It'll make you laugh, make you cry, change your life, etc. It's very good.
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Post by sarah on Jul 15, 2007 18:02:24 GMT
I also want to go out and buy a new book soon, because I have some money and never enough books. Any recommendations? The Seven Days of Peter Crumb by Jonny Glynn it's very odd, but good also, if you have lots of money and lots of patience, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is absolutely amazing it's a bit of a beast, but it's so worth it, well at least it was to me
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Post by Rhiflect on Jul 15, 2007 19:04:40 GMT
Angel Blood by Someone
It's really really good.
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Post by Lauren on Jul 16, 2007 3:06:57 GMT
I also want to go out and buy a new book soon, because I have some money and never enough books. Any recommendations? Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer. It'll make you laugh, make you cry, change your life, etc. It's very good. This is one of my favorite books, for all the reasons Clare gives. Has anyone read Foer's other book?
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Post by margot on Jul 17, 2007 13:22:50 GMT
I finished 1984, which made me sad. Then I read Stephen Chbosky's 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' in the space of three hours, which made me sad in a weirdly contented way. I AM Charlie, man. Now I'm reading 'Cider With Rosie', by Laurie Lee, which confuses me. Nothing really happens, but the way he phrases certain things are really beautiful. It's quite a warm book. Recommend. And after that, I think I shall have to finish Golden's 'Memoirs of a Geisha', and then Kafka's 'The Trial'. Then maybe... MAYBE, I'll start War and Peace.
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Post by bridgetbegins on Jul 17, 2007 13:29:55 GMT
The Best American Non-Required Reading (an advanced reader copy I received a long time ago and still have yet to read. Except... it's already published, so now it's just Book-With-Grammar-Oopsies-That-Didn't-Cost-Me-Anything), edited by Dave Eggers.
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Post by Clare on Jul 17, 2007 13:47:25 GMT
I am currently reading Nabokov's Ada or Ardor, which I think I might be doing for my English dissertation, along with Lolita. Anyone read either or both of these books and formed an opinion?
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Post by Mellifluous Poetry on Jul 19, 2007 22:37:08 GMT
I read Lolita for the first time when I was 12. I did it in secret on summer holidays when we were staying at a family friends house - I would sneak to their library and take it out of the shelf and read it lying on the couples double bed with my heart beating, scared of my mom finding me. I wasn't permitted to read such things, you see It intrigued me. Hell of a lot. I think I've read it for a second time since then, but can't gather where and when. I've been thinking about re-reading too. All I have is pleasant memories! I like Nabokov's style. Can't be really elaborative though. Erm.
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Post by birdwhistle on Jul 19, 2007 22:49:17 GMT
The Best American Non-Required Reading (an advanced reader copy I received a long time ago and still have yet to read. Except... it's already published, so now it's just Book-With-Grammar-Oopsies-That-Didn't-Cost-Me-Anything), edited by Dave Eggers. EGGERS! I still need to read that. (Why have I tried about seven different bookshops and still not found his latest?) I'm almost through Palahniuk's newie, Rant. Man that guy is a master of gross-out. But s'okay.
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Post by abolishconfusion on Jul 19, 2007 22:53:13 GMT
I read Lolita for the first time when I was 12. I did it in secret on summer holidays when we were staying at a family friends house - I would sneak to their library and take it out of the shelf and read it lying on the couples double bed with my heart beating, scared of my mom finding me. I wasn't permitted to read such things, you see It intrigued me. Hell of a lot. I think I've read it for a second time since then, but can't gather where and when. I've been thinking about re-reading too. All I have is pleasant memories! I like Nabokov's style. Can't be really elaborative though. Erm. Awwwww. Lolita is probably my favourite book.. although there's always ANYTHING WRITTEN BY CHUCK PALAHNIUK.
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Post by hark on Jul 20, 2007 0:01:39 GMT
I remember reading Lolita when I was 13 or 14 and not having a clue what was going on.
I recommend watching Kubrick's Lolita. Besides being an amazing movie, I think it makes parts of the book clearer. I can't remember exactly, but it seemed to stay true to the book...
ps. I just finished the last harry potter book in time for the new one. Much excitement.
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Post by Lauren on Jul 21, 2007 20:25:12 GMT
Last night while I was keeping a frind company at the Harry Potter chaos at Borders, I read the first half of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Foer, which I have been wanting to read for awhile.
I went to another book store today to buy it. It is wonderful, and in some ways tops Everything Is Illuminated.
I hope everyone is having fun with their Harry Potters. =)
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