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General Category => Entertainment => Topic started by: underclass on April 07, 2010, 02:54:12 AM
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Would recommend them all....
Fiction
1. Neuromancer
2. Wolf Hall
3. Feet Of Clay
4. The Disposessed
Non-Fiction
1. Rework
2. The four hour working week
3. Banker to the poor
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I read a bunch of Dick Francis, a Bryson, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a couple Grishams, and some various other crime fiction stuff. A lot of these were re-reads. I tend to read for comfort since I have limited time.
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1. Neuromancer
The sequel is even better, and the third book has been on my wishlist for the last 4 years.
As for me, I get shit to read these days. All textbooks. Nonstop. Last book I read for pleasure was The Medusa and the Snail. I'm kind of in love with Lewis Thomas.
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I got the 3rd one... bought it accidentally before getting the sequel. It's on my bookshelf taunting me.
Wolf Hall is amazing, I reckon you should read it Si, given who's in your list of authors.
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Sarum by Edward Rutherford
Excellent book about Salisbury over the last 50,000 years.
The Wolf And The Raven
and
Dragons Of The Rhine both by Diana L. Paxson
Novelized version of The Ring saga. Not that ring, nerds, Sigfrid and Brunhilde.
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Books I read for the first time in the last six months...
Non-fiction
Monty Python Speaks
Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
It's Always Something by Gilda Radner
and fiction (or is it?)
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
as well as a few regulars that I like to reread.
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I have gotten back to the point where I am reading so many books at once that I don't even remember what they all are. There's just a pile in my messenger bag/car. I am definitely currently reading Neuromancer, Frankenstein, a book on experimental statistics, a couple of anarcho-primitivist books, and I just finished a book about the problems with American-style capitalism. I know I'm forgetting a couple.
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Read a lot of Greek tragedy plays for classics, and since when I buy the book it has other plays with it I read them too. Also read, although not properly. The frogs which is a comedy since we acted that and the odyssey.
Also read pongwiffy and the important announcement and the great pasta disaster. That book was free as part of world book day. Im so cool.
Read nightlight as well, a parody of twilight. It was hilarious.
All (mainly) short stories, I tried to read a book my friend lent me but it was a bit too... Dirty. O.o
Edit: also textbooks if they count.
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3. Feet Of Clay
Hah, I just realized this was Pratchett. I'd been thinking of Chaim Potok's I Am the Clay which is on shelf of books I'm going to read as soon as school is done.
My next book in line, though, will be The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. I read Tom Wolfe as I find him in the $1 bin at Barnes and Noble, so it took me a while to run across this. Apparently people like to keep their Tom Wolfe.
On a similar note, I'm really interested in reading some Chuck Palahniuk but I refuse to buy his books as long as they're not in the $1 bin. And I have yet to see one make it there. It's surprising to me since from what I get from the internet he's way overrated and his stuff is mainly dross. You'd think I'd run across his shit eventually.
Novelized version of The Ring saga. Not that ring, nerds, Sigfrid and Brunhilde.
This reminds me I have Wagner's version sitting on my "to-read" shelf as well. If I recall correctly it's called "Ring of the Nibelungen" or some such.
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I read The People of the Wolf, The People of the Fire, The People of the Earth, The Other Queen, Royal Affairs, The Birth of Venus, The Road, We Can Build You, The Clans of the Alphane Moon, Madam Bovery, The Tipping Point, The Girl on the Fridge, The Elvis and Marilyn Affair, and The Lincoln Lawyer... I have probably read more but I forget!
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BUMP
Since I'm an avid reader I thought I would bring this thread back to the fore.
Read:
Rosencrants and Guildenstern are Dead
The Iceman Cometh
Cosmopolis
The Jungle
Currently reading:
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
re-reading Blood Meridian
and some other books and articles on Linguistics.
4. The Disposessed
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed? That was a pretty good read.
a couple of anarcho-primitivist books
Have you ever read any John Zerzan or Derrick Jensen?