^^^ i haven't read that one, but it's on the list!
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^^^ i haven't read that one, but it's on the list!
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Read two fantastic books this week. First was Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase. It was quite gripping, but it surely wasn't Murakami's best (nothing can top Kafka on the Shore for me). I highly recommend reading it though; it goes into some very original territory that I think is eerily similar to the chief plot in Twin Peaks.
The second was a Christmas present from a friend called First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. It was my first foray into Canadian literature, and I must say, I was quite impressed. It was touching and it was beautiful, and I definitely recommend it.
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Currently reading this, about a future world with no men. It's not very good...
possibly maybe
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Small World - Matt Beaumont
One Day - David Nicholls
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
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And...it's sucking me in
So my book was missing pages 85-117. I thought this one of the book's many visual tricks, but no. Have to wait for a new copy now.
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Another book about gender in the future:
Pretty awful, this one.
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More.
This one's a bit better.
Now I am reading this, and it's brilliant:
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Yes! Got this book from the library !
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I am a hardened horror book reader and this book is scaring me!Originally Posted by miss k bee
Yes! Got this book from the library !
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Just finished the latest Houellebecq:
Not bad, a somewhat more "mature" offering than usual. And no sex...tres etrange.
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Giving this a shot: a bird wordy so far
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So far, so good. I like the main characters, and it's a human story with college baseball as a backdrop.
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After Colson Whitehead's drab vagaries, it's nice to read a writer with real talent:
Excellent, very involving book. A page-turner. I think he wraps up the ending a little too nicely, and there are a couple of questionable steps at the end, but on the whole this is fantastic fiction writing. Franzen has a real knack for giving you the big picture in a few paragraphs, whilst never losing track of the details that make you want to keep reading. I kind of wish this was double the length and went into more detail about all the secondary characters.
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Reading this now.After Colson Whitehead's drab vagaries, it's nice to read a writer with real talent:
Excellent, very involving book. A page-turner. I think he wraps up the ending a little too nicely, and there are a couple of questionable steps at the end, but on the whole this is fantastic fiction writing. Franzen has a real knack for giving you the big picture in a few paragraphs, whilst never losing track of the details that make you want to keep reading. I kind of wish this was double the length and went into more detail about all the secondary characters.
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As soon as I finish Eugenides' latest, I'm starting that book ^^ - it's been sitting on my shelves since its publication.
Hurry and read the latest Eugenides book, okay, so you can tell me what you think? It's about English Lit majors, hahaha.
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OK, but I generally think Eugenides is overrated. I enjoyed The Virgin Suicides, and I also liked Middlesex (but a bit less), though it was too long. He has a Nabokov thing going on (especially with regards to teenage sexuality), but to me he's in the "good but not great" category. I also read a review that said that prior to his death he was negative towards David Foster Wallace, but in The Marriage Plot he sort of apologizes.
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I had those same feelings about Franzen's "The Corrections" until I *finally* finished it (having put it down to read something else, several times). This Eugenides book, so far, is way fucking too long, too.
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Figured I'd try another Scandinavian murder-mystery author. I loved Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy so I might as well take a shot at Jo Nesbø's first Harry Hole novel.
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Just finished this and highly recommend it!
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Just finishing this up, kinda reminds me of some of the books I had to read in my animal behavior classes but easier to read than some of them.
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G was reading this, was reading parts of it aloud to me. I wasn't buying all of it.Just finishing this up, kinda reminds me of some of the books I had to read in my animal behavior classes but easier to read than some of them.
This is sitting on my shelves, in paperback, as it was highly recommended to me, too, by a coworker who gave me the scoop on the funniest parts, including why Jews go to Chinese restaurants on Christmas. Hoping to start on it, soon. I really need it just about now.Just finished this and highly recommend it!
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Currently reading:
It's taking a while to get going.
Edit: Awesome awesome book. But Mieville really does need a better editor. There's chunks of this that should have gone, and a lot of writing where the meaning is really hard to parse. Perhaps it's intentional (the book is after all about the difficulties of language), but it's sometimes really frustrating.
Last edited by aggroculture; 01-30-2012 at 11:20 PM.
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I just finished "The Trial" by Kafka. Jesus fucking bleakness!
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"the castle" is bleaknes factorial
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Post "American Psycho" I looked at my bookshelf to figure out what to read next. I fancied something a bit more uplifting.
On the to-read pile is a pile of Iain Banks; The Trial *and* the Castle; The Outsider (Camus); some Ballard…
I've settled for a non-fiction book instead.
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wow, some nasty, grim (and awesome) pile you've gathered yourself there... i'm not surprised you're chosen something different to read, especially since you've just finished american psycho, but when you feel like you're again ready to explore some dark corners of your mind:
i'm pretty sure you've got the wasp factory in your pile - 'cause that's the book by banks that majority of his readers would recommend, but hopefully "walking on glass" is also on the list - i highly recommend it - it's 3 stories that seem to be separate but in the end interwine in such an amazing way it just blows your mind...
throw "and the ass saw the angel" on top of your pile and you're set to go.
into the abyss, hehe
p.s. so, what non-fiction did you choose?
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Giving this a spin
This began well, but ended up disappointing. Adds little or nothing to the robot uprising genre.
Last edited by aggroculture; 02-02-2012 at 04:56 PM.
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LOVED white teeth, expecting another awesome ride
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Found this in the closet in my room when I was 10. Read it then, and while I enjoyed it, I sure as hell didn't get it. Now? This is one weird fucking book. And I still like it.
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