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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #1922
    eclectichoney
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    FruitLover wrote: »
    Currently on Murakami's 'Noruē no Mori' ('Norwegian Wood').

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    Loved Norwegian Wood, after all these years I think it's still my favourite Murakami.


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    #1923
    AJG
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    randomguy wrote: »
    Any good? I really liked The Sheltering Sky, but haven't read anything else by him.

    Just started it. I'm only 20 or so pages in (too many distractions this weekend). Its basically a book of travel writing. If you want to read something else by Bowles I'd recommend the Ecco edition of 'The Stories of Paul Bowles'.


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    #1924
    andrewie
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    Just started 4th of July - James Patterson.


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    #1925
    AJG
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    'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' - Friedrich Nietzsche.


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    #1926
    Kold
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    Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut


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    #1927
    zenmonk
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    Dark Trade - Donald Mc Rae

    At night the salmon move - Raymond Carver


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    #1928
    Joe Cool
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by FruitLover viewpost.gif
    Currently on Murakami's 'Noruē no Mori' ('Norwegian Wood').

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    Loved Norwegian Wood, after all these years I think it's still my favourite Murakami.
    I really enjoyed 'Dance, Dance, Dance' but reckon 'Kafka on the Shore' would be a close second.
    I got a copy of his first book 'Pinball' from a mate in a word doc format but haven't had a chance to print if off as yet. As far as I know he's not a big fan of it and doesn't want it published at all.


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    #1929
    AJG
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    'Leaves of Grass' The First (1855) Edition - Walt Whitman.


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    #1930
    Delirium
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    Michael Palin Diaries 1969-1979. The Phyton years.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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    #1931
    Kold
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    Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut


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    #1932
    AJG
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    'Rebellion' - Joseph Roth.


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    #1933
    AJG
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    'Cities Of The Red Night' - William S. Burroughs.


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    #1934
    theCzar
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    Just finished Ghostwritten, Reading Making Money by Pratchett.


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    #1935
    theCzar
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    that didn't take long. Making Money was pretty mediocre. Moist Von Lipwig is a good character, but rest of the cast wasn't up to it in this one.

    Reading Fahrenheit 451, now. This won't take long either


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    #1936
    MooseJam
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    skeleton crew - Stephen King


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    #1937
    nesf
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    "Power and Prosperity" - Mancur Olson


    Finished "The Logic of Life" by Tim Harford last week, a very enjoyable read if you're into that kind of thing (ie you enjoyed "The Undercover Economist").


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    #1938
    FruitLover
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    Getting stuck into Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment


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    #1939
    Quality
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    Just finished reading Martha Long, Ma he sold me for a few cigarettes.
    Horrifying story. Going to hit something light after that... The Island by Victoria Hislop


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    #1940
    johnnyskeleton
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    theCzar wrote: »
    Reading Making Money by Pratchett.

    So am I. Read Going Postal last week and finished it in about 3 days. Making Money is going a lot slower, and just doesn't have the same punch to it.


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    #1941
    rejkin
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    The Atrocity Archives by Chriss stross


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    #1942
    theCzar
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    Slaughterhouse 5


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    #1943
    Red Hand
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    theCzar wrote: »
    Slaughterhouse 5

    Great choice! I love that book!:cool:

    A sight for sore eyes by Ruth Rendell


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    #1944
    BaZmO*
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    EVENTUALLY finished "The Man That Mistook His Wife For A Hat" by Oliver Sacks. Took a while to get through, although I was only reading it during my lunch break and it does lend itself to that type or reading as it's a collection of stories rather than a novel. Fascinating read nonetheless.

    Started "Vernon God Little" by DBC Pierre today.


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    #1945
    DublinWriter
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    theCzar wrote: »
    Slaughterhouse 5
    ...and so it goes.

    Just doing star-jumps here in preparation for getting into Stephen Pinker's "How the Brain Works".


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    #1946
    AJG
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    'The Place Of Dead Roads' - William S. Burroughs.


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    #1947
    Silent Partner
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    At the moment I am reading "Made in America" by Bill Bryson. It's excellent and is full of useful/useless information (depending on your point of view).

    Before that I read Slash's autobiography. I like biographies normally but this was more just a list of here's what I drank/snorted/injected/screwed. I don't doubt the guy is genuine but it was more a list of old war stories than anything else. Due to on going legal battles, he couldn't talk about the real reason I wanted to read this, i.e. his long standing feud with Axl Rose.


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    #1948
    Darondo
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    'The Invention of Solitude' by Paul Auster.


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    #1949
    YogiBear
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    BaZmO* wrote: »

    Started "Vernon God Little" by DBC Pierre today.
    Love that book. Hope you enjoy it. :)


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    #1950
    YogiBear
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    I bought a lot of books recently, photography & photoshop, webdesign books.. all of which I'm reading bits of.

    Picked up lots of random books in Chapters and also on L. Camden Street, there are lots of charity shops there that I'm usually lucky to find something of interest! :) Charity shop book browsing is becoming one of my hobbies! :p
    To give an example: "1000 Great Lives" Men and women who shaped the modern world, it's like a dictionary with a paragraph each on people like Confucius, Karl Marx, Socrates, Marx brothers, Mao Tse-Tung etc.

    I'm just starting a book called "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle... Hopefully it will help me to stop saying "I'll quit cigarettes tomorrow" and give me the positivity to just quit. :rolleyes:


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    #1951
    theCzar
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    Bill Bryson's Notes From a Big Country.

    Modern day, less serious but just as inciteful as "Letters from America" by Alistair Cook


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