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A log, of reading

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  • 17-07-2008 2:12pm
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    cautioner
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    Read so far this year:

    A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
    The Cider House Rules - John Irving
    Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
    Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
    Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
    No Country for Old Men - Corman McCarthy
    The Night Watch Trilogy - Sergei Lukyanenko

    Thoughts:

    I'm really liking John Irving; Owen Meany is well up there for me in my top books, and Cider House was a very good read too.

    Catch-22 is possibly my favourite book ever, having read it for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

    Less Than Zero was interesting, but disturbing. I should've known - I only realised Bret Easton Ellis was also the author of American Psycho when I was about halfway through. This book inspired a Bloc Party song which I'm quite partial to so that was cool.

    I'll admit it now;I did not "get" The Catcher in the Rye. The brilliance of it evaded me completely. Some day I may re-read and find a new level of literary genius. Hopefully.

    I found No Country for Old Men relatively boring and slightly frustrating. The manner in which dialogue was expressed was f*cking annoying - no quotation marks, commas, apostrophes, and no indication of who's just spoken. It all got a bit confusing for my feeble brain. The ending didn't move me one bit.

    The Night Watch Trilogy is standard, enjoyable sci-fi shlock. These were the first books I read this year and they made me resolve to try and buy more books that will make me think and not just entertain me briefly.

    Currently reading:

    The World According to Garp, another John Irving. I've tried to pace myself Irving-wise as apparently if his books are read too soon after one another they can become repetitive. I think I've done ok; the only major similarity I've spotted is the common use of Garp's and Dr. Larch's (from Cider House) writings as a sort of narrative from the characters.


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    cautioner
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    I've seriously slowed down - partially due to increased school work, more because I now have less moneyz to fuel my habit.

    Read since 17-07-08:

    The World According to Garp - John Irving
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (First 4 books) - Douglas Adams
    I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
    Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    Other stuff too embarrassing/not worthy to be mentioned - Various

    Must improve :(


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