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2011 - What are you Reading? - Page 42
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Harrad
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Ilikestarcraft
Korea (South)17743 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/eaYN7.jpg) For class ^^. | ||
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Tryon2
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xccam
Great Britain1154 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.stress-problems.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/insomnia_stephen_king_audiobook-1059.jpg) Really enjoyed and moving onto this next ![[image loading]](http://yankeeandfriends.blogia.com/upload/20101128190213-stephen-king-it.jpg) | ||
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ZapRoffo
United States5544 Posts
On August 29 2011 15:17 Probe1 wrote: Haven't been reading too heavily lately. Just kinda rereading through ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/f2DzZ.jpg) edit: resized no need to have a huge ass image. Two more of my favorite books. I had The Things They Carried for summer reading my senior year of HS, and it really affected me despite being for school (though I suppose summer reading is better than in class). It's a brilliant book. And the copy of Nine Stories that I inherited is so beat up from many readings by my sister and me. Finished: Dubliners by Joyce On second reading of "The Dead" it blew me away and struck at my heart. The Abortion: An Historical Romance by Richard Brautigan It's amazing how languidly told this story is, not hurrying to say anything but flowing along, it felt like reading a stream. Currently Reading: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/trw5i.jpg) Artfully written young adult-ish fantasy I'm rereading cause I don't remember it very well; I read it when I was young. The concepts of the world of islands and it's magic are especially absorbing, and it's among the best fantasy I've read. Next: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin The second of the Earthsea series, I remember it to be the most compelling but don't remember the story details. | ||
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HyperionDreamer
Canada1528 Posts
On September 01 2011 08:18 ZapRoffo wrote: Dubliners by Joyce On second reading of "The Dead" it blew me away and struck at my heart. This. So hard. I can't even believe how much this describes my feelings when I was reading the end of it. I'm currently re-reading LotR. I first read them when I was 14 years old, and haven't gone back through them since now. Just finished The Fellowship of the Ring, real good book so far. I'm riveted, I can honestly say even more than watching the movie. | ||
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Sceptor87
Canada266 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Contact_Sagan.jpg) Ehhh... I was going to read Count of Monte Cristo again but decided to give this one a go. It's good, just I'm kind of sci-fi'd out. Mostly been putting my nose in it during lunch breaks though so it's taken some time. | ||
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dark14cs
143 Posts
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Caesarion
Australia8332 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/ZU9QN.jpg) This book is seriously amazing, though it can get a little pretentious. I've never seen an author use typography(?) in such a creative way, or at all. Next on my list would be The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi which I hear is good. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/jQOdO.jpg) | ||
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suxN
Finland1167 Posts
![[image loading]](http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6380681-L.jpg) Im about to read anything and everything from jose saramango this year  | ||
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jon arbuckle
Canada443 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljoeqm9OQ21qac7z9.jpg) Chiefly, entertaining; the essays on wrestling, strippers, and children's toys are masterful. His thoughts on wine are the most telling of where Barthes is coming from and where he's going. The whole work, especially the "Myth Today" chapter, is a clarion call of sorts I think for what sparks the best po-mo lit: an idealism that waned once the estranged mythologist enterprise rotted away, was recouped, and prostrated toward the economy of cultural capital exchange. The "connection with the world... of the order of sarcasm" giving away to the last twenty-plus years. It's hard to be serious about anything anymore. Deconstructed. Fuck Paul Auster. Spring and All by William Carlos Williams + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://www.ndpublishing.com/IMAGES/images/WilliamsWCSpringandAll.jpg) "the rose is obsolete" is one of the first poems I ever read to stop me, make me read it out, make me read it again, and call me the day after to do it again. The title is some wordplay that never registered before; the moral rants, especially the Marianne Moore passages, are revelatory. 2) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i43.tower.com/images/mm100698509/midnights-children-novel-salman-rushdie-paperback-cover-art.jpg) Less prolix than The Satanic Verses (which was one of the books that beckoned a teenage me into the world of the printed word and all its secrets), dotted with references to Indian history, some I'm not entirely getting without the internet (cf. references to Islam in The Satanic Verses), but you know it's still great, the narrative winding, its voice captivating. I'm just wouldn't be comfortable publishing a review of it. 3) Dunno | ||
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DKo
United States187 Posts
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Horiz0n
Sweden364 Posts
On September 01 2011 07:05 xccam wrote: and moving onto this next I would love to read this for the first time again v.v Been talked into the Ice and Fire thing, ![[image loading]](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jrNpE35jeNA/TcBsiYl-ojI/AAAAAAAAAcI/5mpAQwafZik/s1600/game.jpg) -> ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uB90%2BxrSL._SL500_AA300_.jpg) Moved on to A Storm of Swords but got bored about halfway through and jumped ship! ![[image loading]](http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1278878105l/7519866.jpg) Loved it! (My second book by Bret Easton Ellis, the first one being American Psycho) Up Next: ![[image loading]](http://www.culturevulture.net/graphics/glamorama.gif) | ||
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
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redFF
United States3910 Posts
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
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ghrur
United States3786 Posts
On September 01 2011 08:18 ZapRoffo wrote: Two more of my favorite books. I had The Things I Carried for summer reading my senior year of HS, and it really affected me despite being for school (though I suppose summer reading is better than in class). It's a brilliant book. And the copy of Nine Stories that I inherited is so beat up from many readings by my sister and me. I couldn't agree more. I really enjoyed The Things They Carried, and I'll pull it out every so often just to re-read some stories. Nine Stories was amazing. I mean, I liked Salinger from Catcher in the Rye, but I just picked him up again last year due to Nine Stories. Since then, I've taken a lot from that book. Writing style, use of quotes, themes, analogies, etc. I remember being really affected by Dedaumier Smith's Blue Period, Esme with Love and Squalor, and Bananafish. Made me read the rest of Salinger's writings. Really an enjoyable book. Highly recommended. | ||
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ZaplinG
United States3818 Posts
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lozarian
United Kingdom1043 Posts
All but the most recent song of fire and ice books (waiting for paperback) american gods kraken Un Lun Dun Carpe Jugulum (again) All of which I would recommend, Un Lun Dun less so than the other's it's far more childish than I'd hoped from china mieville. I know it was supposed to be a sort of children's book from him, but I remember reading perdido street station when it came out and I was.. *quick google* 13 - so I was probably expecting something more of that ilk. It was good, but nowhere near as good as his other stuff. So as a break from the childishness I decided to read.. ![[image loading]](http://www.bestscifibooklist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dune_frank_herbert.jpg) and I am honestly captivated. I tend to read on the tube home from work, and usually have some music in my ears as I read, just to drown out the underground noise, but I've turned the music right down so I can concentrate more. I've already listened to an audiobook of it at work via grooveshark, but actually having the book and concentrating on it is wonderful. | ||
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ZapRoffo
United States5544 Posts
On September 01 2011 13:04 ghrur wrote: I couldn't agree more. I really enjoyed The Things They Carried, and I'll pull it out every so often just to re-read some stories. Nine Stories was amazing. I mean, I liked Salinger from Catcher in the Rye, but I just picked him up again last year due to Nine Stories. Since then, I've taken a lot from that book. Writing style, use of quotes, themes, analogies, etc. I remember being really affected by Dedaumier Smith's Blue Period, Esme with Love and Squalor, and Bananafish. Made me read the rest of Salinger's writings. Really an enjoyable book. Highly recommended. Oops I'm embarrassed that I wrote the wrong title. | ||
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