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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #1832
    Valmont
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    Serpentine wrote: »
    Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

    I loved this book but strangely enough I can't figure out why. It's the sort of story that usually wrecks my head! A great read though


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    #1833
    Valmont
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    AJG wrote: »
    'Walden and Civil Disobedience' - Henry David Thoreau.

    Sitting in my pile, I'm looking forward to it.


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    #1834
    AJG
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    Walden was a really good read and I'm now reading 'Kappa' by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.


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    #1835
    Chinafoot
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    monkey9 wrote: »
    I've got this at home but haven't begun it yet. Judging by your comment, it sounds like a sequel. If so, would i need to read previous books to get what's going on or is it just a stand alone book that happens to use the same character as before?

    While there isn't a huge amount of back story, I would recommend reading them from the beginning.
    -Every dead thing
    -Dark Hollow
    -The Killing Kind
    -The White Road
    -The Black Angel
    -The Unquiet

    Think there's another Charlie Parker one this summer, which is great :)

    Anyway, back on-topic, just finished The Gathering by Anne Enright and it was painful. Not in the "oh its so moving and emotional and tragic" way but in the "oh dear god if I could get her I'd kill her and caring at all is proving very difficult" kind of way.


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    #1836
    AngryHippie
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    The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein


    Well Researched, Well written and one of the scariest books I've ever read, an I'm nowhere near finished it.....:eek:


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    #1837
    Blush_01
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    I have that on the list, but I'm a bit scared to read it.

    Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood.


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    #1838
    Serpentine
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    Valmont wrote: »
    I loved this book but strangely enough I can't figure out why. It's the sort of story that usually wrecks my head! A great read though


    Yep I know the feeling! :D I love the elements of religious fanaticism & how dangerous it is! Just finished it so this week/next week I'll be reading the Biog of Lucia Joyce (daughter of James who's been written out of history) by Carol Schloss


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    #1839
    John
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    Serpentine wrote: »
    daughter of James who's been written out of history

    Eh? She's a fairly central point in most Joyce biographies and criticisms, especially those focusing on Finnegans Wake.


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    #1840
    Serpentine
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    John, I kinda meant to the masses like I don't think she is reecognised but of course to fans of Joyce/anyone who's studied English we recognise her significance. They should make a movie about her/them, maybe they have already :D


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    #1841
    John
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    Serpentine wrote: »
    John, I kinda meant to the masses like I don't think she is reecognised but of course to fans of Joyce/anyone who's studied English we recognise her significance. They should make a movie about her/them, maybe they have already :D

    I get you now, I thought you meant that no one paid her any attention. Never mind, wires and crossing and all that.


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    #1842
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Piestess of the White - Trudi Canavan. Thursday
    The Last of the Wilds - Trudi Canavan. Yesterday
    Voice of the Gods - Trudi Canavan. Today


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    #1843
    AJG
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    'Metamorphosis and other stories' - Franz Kafka.


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    #1844
    thusspakeblixa
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    AJG wrote: »
    'Metamorphosis and other stories' - Franz Kafka.
    +1 actually


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    #1845
    rejkin
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    Precious Blood - Jonathan Hayes

    Finished it this morning, great book :D


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    #1846
    buck65
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    Finally splashed out on the Granta book of American short stories edited by Richard Ford.


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    #1847
    Joe Cool
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    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe


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    #1848
    AJG
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    'Spring Night' - Tarjei Vesaas.


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    #1849
    monkey9
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    I just finished I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Really enjoyed it. Anyone seen the film? What's better, the book or film. From what i've heard i'd say it's the book


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    #1850
    mcgovern
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    monkey9 wrote: »
    I just finished I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Really enjoyed it. Anyone seen the film? What's better, the book or film. From what i've heard i'd say it's the book

    The book is much better.


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    #1851
    ShagNastii
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    The Game- By Neil Struss
    The Dirt (Motley Crue AutoBio)- MC And Neil Struss
    Filth- Irvine Walsh


    A really great trio of books all good


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    #1852
    AJG
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    In the middle of reading Vesaas' 'Spring Night' I also managed to squeeze in John B. Keane's 'The Field'. It was really good, I haven't seen the movie in years but it was quite different from what I remember.

    Just starting 'Love In The Time Of Cholera' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.


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    Mr. Bones
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    'Youth' by J.M. Coetzee


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    #1854
    monkey9
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    Mr. Bones wrote: »
    'Youth' by J.M. Coetzee

    Any good? I've never read any of his stuff though i've heard a bit about him.


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    #1855
    biZrb
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    Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse


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    buck65
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    Disgrace by Coetzee is a good read.


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    #1857
    Closing Doors
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    The Singing Neanderthals by Stephen Mithen.


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    #1858
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Reaper's Gale - Steven Erikson


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    #1859
    Imhof Tank
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    Was in Paris for the rugby last weekend, so on return read "A Moveable Feast", Ernest Hemmingway.


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    #1860
    purplegeko
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    A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (so far so good)


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    #1861
    Chinafoot
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    "Library, an Unquiet History" by Matthew Battles.

    Very interesting.


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