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Recently picked up and am half way through Innocent Mage by Karen Miller. Picked it up pretty much at random, like it pretty well so far.
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City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer. Just starting it tonight!
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Nov 6, 2009 05:53
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Currently reading We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Just picked up and next on plate is: Empress of Mars by Kage Baker Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar Just discovered Baker for myself and absolutely love the Company novels. Completely jealous of the library's copy signed by the author and artist.
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Nov 6, 2009 06:47
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Last night I ordered Wildlife, to add to my Richard Ford collection, and Humboldt's Gift, to begin a Saul Bellow one. I read Herzog a few years ago and loved the style so much that I knew I would eventually have to read everything Bellow'd written. Looking forward to them arriving in the mail in about a week. I'll be starting Lolita as soon as I finish Infinite Jest, of which I have only twenty pages left to read.
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Nov 6, 2009 08:14
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Kerafyrm posted:City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer. Just starting it tonight! You are in for a treat! I just got Finch by him. It's set in the same place as City of Saints and Madmen, but hundreds of years later. I don't even doubt that it'll be a fantastic read.
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Nov 6, 2009 09:30
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Picked up THE INHUMAN CONDITION by CLive Barker. I've been looking for this book for a few years now, I know amazon would have been fastest but dammnit I enjoy serendipity!
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Nov 6, 2009 20:16
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The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes you a Happy Birthday by Neil MacFarquhar besides having an amazingly inflammatory title it's proving to be a good read so far covering his 20 some odd years of encounters as a middle east correspondent for the AP and NY times. Next will probably be Byzantium Endures by Moorcock.
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Nov 9, 2009 14:23
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About a quarter of the way into War & Peace. gently caress Dolokhov!
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Nov 11, 2009 05:38
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Mein Eyes! posted:About a quarter of the way into War & Peace. gently caress Dolokhov! I envy a person for whom a quarter of the way into War and Peace is 'just begun'  To contribute, I've just started Lolita. The prose is quite different from the poetic style I'd been led to expect by the famous opening sentences - much more formal, but still full of puns and jokes. I'm also a little worried that my lack of French is going to cause problems, but apart from that I'm really enjoying it.
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Nov 11, 2009 07:17
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Currently simultaneously reading Gallipoli by Les Carlyon, East and West by Chris Patten and The Living and the Dead by Patrick White. The first two are pretty mediocre, but they've been sitting on my shelves for awhile and I'm trying to get through everything I currently own before I buy any new books.
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Nov 11, 2009 09:53
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Started Shohei Ooka's Fires on the Plain about a Japanese soldier in an American prison camp. Good so far. Also reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. Loved Everything is Illuminated, but ELIC seems to be trying a little TOO hard to be quirky.
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Nov 11, 2009 20:29
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The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. It's a good read so far. Heard her interviewed on NPR a week or two back and figured, why not?
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Nov 12, 2009 00:07
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Chamberk posted:Started Shohei Ooka's Fires on the Plain about a Japanese soldier in an American prison camp. Good so far. I felt the same way about Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - the quirky stuff was fun in Everything is Illuminated, but it gets old pretty quickly. The writing about Trachimbrod in EII was by far my favourite part, because Foer was able to let his imagination loose without playing too many technical games. ELIC didn't have quite the same spark for me, but I'd be interested to hear what you think of it. I just bought Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, trying to collect some more David Foster Wallace after finishing Infinite Jest. I'm not sure if the movie will be released over here, but I'll definitely check it out if the book's good.
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Nov 12, 2009 00:21
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After failing to finish Cosmos, I have just picked up One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest for school, all I know is that it HAS to be better than Jane Eyre. I don't really know what the literary worlds consensus is on the Bronte sisters, but I really can't stand their work. I understand the importance to the treatment of women in literature, but I (and most of my classmates) truly hated some parts.
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Nov 12, 2009 01:23
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I posted a couple of days ago about what I'm reading. This is what I just less than an hour ago bought: That's the first edition of Burrough's first book. Nobody was home, so I had to show it off somewhere.
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Beaters posted:I posted a couple of days ago about what I'm reading. This is what I just less than an hour ago bought: That is loving radical.
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Nov 14, 2009 00:37
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Beaters posted:The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. It's a good read so far. Heard her interviewed on NPR a week or two back and figured, why not? Just picked up Atwood's Handmaid's Tale almost by accident. Needed change for the bus and the oxfam store was right there, my sister had been recommending Atwood so thought why not? Several chapters in, and wow. I hope the quality remains this high. Atwoods seems to have an amazing facility for allowing you a glimpse of protagonist, her past, her current situation, without ever saying it outright. I'm transfixed.
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Nov 15, 2009 19:02
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Was just given this today for my birthday.
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Nov 16, 2009 22:29
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Went looking for Freakonomics (Steven Levitt & Steven Dubner), came away (also) with More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics (Steven E. Landsburg). Started MSiSS first, feelings so far: 
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Nov 17, 2009 08:19
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A Certain Ratio posted:I just started A Confederacy of Dunces. Someone was giving it away and I had heard about it before so I figured why not. I'm about 90 pages in and nothing really interesting has happened at all. I'm pretty disappointed with it so far considering how much praise it seems to have gotten for being funny. I actually came in here to post this book and let me just say the last half is much better than the the first and ties it all together in a really amazing way. I just finished The wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami and liked it almost as much as Hard Boiled wonderland and the End of the World but still enjoyed it greatly. I've just started reading Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee about a professor in South Africa. Really engaging style great subject matter but it's not in my top 15 books so far. I find most anything well-written about South Africa to be fascinating so I'd be interested to hear another goon's opinion on the book.
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Nov 17, 2009 11:02
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Just bought Jeff VanderMeer's latest novel Finch. If I didn't have a huge pile of library books to wade through, I'd definitely be digging into this. The laudatory jacket quotes from Richard K. Morgan and Ken Bruen alone, not to mention the other quotes likening it to Raymond Chandler on acid would have me sold on it even if I wasn't a huge VanderMeer fan already.
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Dec 1, 2009 04:37
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Just bought Umberto Eco's Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism and The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. Also The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace. While I should have read Turning Back the Clock when it came out I suppose it's better late than never. Just started Chesterton's The Club of Queer Trades. robomechatronsaurus fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Dec 1, 2009 |
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Dec 1, 2009 08:54
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I just bought The Katurran Odyssey (on Book Depository), a children's illustrated fantasy novel in the vein of Dinotopia. It's by some of the artists who did creatures on the Star Wars prequels. The artwork is absolutely beautiful. You can view a lot of it and read about the book at the official website: http://www.katurranodyssey.com/ I can't wait for it to arrive.
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Dec 1, 2009 09:57
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Ironweed by William Kennedy. Very interesting stuff about a drunk bum who accidentally killed his baby.
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Dec 1, 2009 16:17
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Book of Lost Things by Jonn Connolly. About 100 pages in; seems interesting so far.
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Dec 2, 2009 01:52
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Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played With Fire. It is the second book on the "Millenium" series, I am liking it, but it is a bit sad because the author is dead. 
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Dec 4, 2009 21:20
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Parildo posted:Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played With Fire. I thought it wasn't as good as Dragon Tattoo. Gets a bit Kill Bill towards the end. Anyway, I just started a book about the history of English cookery. The introductory chapters are interesting and so are the recipes but I find it annoying that the author has provided "translations" of 12th C. English that "modernize" ingredients and methods. Why assume I'm enterprising enough to stew up a porpoise but at the same time too lazy to read dated English?
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Just started Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye, and it's cool and all, but goddamit does Harold Bloom write the shittiest foreward I've ever seen and one of the worst things I've ever read by him. He pretty much just complains how much of a dick Frye was and how he never appreciated his own theory of poetic anxiety. Pssh.
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ONE TWO THREE TIMES TWO TO THE SIX/JONESING FOR YOUR FIX OF THAT LIMP BIZKIT MIX
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7 y.o. bitch posted:Just started Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye, and it's cool and all, but goddamit does Harold Bloom write the shittiest foreward I've ever seen and one of the worst things I've ever read by him. He pretty much just complains how much of a dick Frye was and how he never appreciated his own theory of poetic anxiety. Pssh. Frye is a really good writer. A lot of theory is hard to get through, but for whatever reason I really enjoyed Frye when I read him. For myself, I have read a few dozen Garcia Marquez short stories, and I'm working through 100 years of solitude right now. I'm not sure yet if I like seeing all the little connections to the short stories, or of I would have rather read this stuff in reverse order and seen the more detailed accounts of the parts that get glazed over in the novel come to life that way. The March Hare fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Dec 6, 2009 |
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I just finished Stephen King's Dark Tower series  and needed some good splatterpunk, so I picked up a copy of Jack Ketchum's Cover that my boyfriend had laying around. I loved Red, The Lost and The Girl Next Door, so I expect this will be much the same. I've met the author twice and am always taken aback at how super-sweet he is for someone who writes what he does.Ketchum had a non-horror book that nobody seems to talk about but which I've heard was really good - can anyone clue me in as to what it's called?
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Just ordered The Quincunx: The Inheritance of John Huffam by Charles Palliser and Smarra and Trilby by Charles Nodier  Gives me some reading over Christmas, when I should really be studying 
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Dec 7, 2009 17:13
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Charles Bukowski's Ham on Rye, I've only read Post Office and I craved more Bukowski. The writing isn't up to much but the story and ideas throughout the book so far have been brilliant and entertaining.
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Just started Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union the other day. So far it's pretty cool, kind of like a cross between Mordecai Richler and Raymond Chandler.
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Dec 8, 2009 18:17
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Fifty or so pages into Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, it seemed like the logical thing to do having read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich earlier this year and enjoyed it. So far its quite similar in tone to One Day in the Life and is giving me the problem many seem to have with remembering who's who when it comes to Russian names (the 2 names per person issue). Also bought these today to get me through winter  Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia, Gore Vidal The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Ron Hansen A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth Tokyo Year Zero, David Peace
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Facial Fracture posted:I thought it wasn't as good as Dragon Tattoo. Gets a bit Kill Bill towards the end. Since you posted this I was not able to read even one further page of the book and started to read Wit'ch Fire by james Clemens that I've got for free on Kindle. Hopefully will get back to Larsson's work as soon as the Kill Bill image leaves my brain. Not that I hated Kill Bill, but it just not seems to fit on the book right now.
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I got John Dies At The End as an early Christmas gift from one of my students. It actually looks kind of entertaining. I understand it was some sort of internet thing before it was a book, I guess. I have high hopes, however.
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wickles posted:..the problem many seem to have with remembering who's who when it comes to Russian names (the 2 names per person issue).
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robomechatronsaurus posted:Hopefully this doesn't mean you give up on it. Could you try printing out a character list from, say, the Cancer Ward's wiki and sticking it inside the front cover of your book?
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Gay4BluRayz posted:I got John Dies At The End as an early Christmas gift from one of my students. It actually looks kind of entertaining. I understand it was some sort of internet thing before it was a book, I guess. I have high hopes, however. I just started reading this myself (got it from the library) and so far I'm enjoying it. It's certainly an easy read.
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