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Reading Ringworld at the moment. Can't believe it's taken me this long to get round to reading it, it's so good.
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You just dropped about 25,000 books into your kindle?
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so crap about Ian Banks - I remember reading The Wasp Factory in one sitting and at one point realised my mouth was wide open and I was drooling a little - so wrapped up in the story. Complicity and The Crow Road too - didn't like The Bridge very much but maybe my mind was not ready for it!
fuck cancer
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Gravely I struggled to be grave no more, to live, to invent, I know what I mean. But at each fresh attempt I lost my head, fled to my shadows as to a sanctuary, to his lap who can niether live nor suffer the sight of others living. I say living without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying. Perhaps I have lived after all, without knowing. I wonder why I speak of all this. Ah yes, to relieve the tedium
Malone dies / Beckett
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Get hold of Borges's short story collection Fictions (the early Giovanni Trans.), if you can; *The Garden of Forking Paths section *holds an assemblage of inspiring short stories, with my personal pick of the bunch being the end story of the same title. [Edit. Just seen your input on this Tomasito - Sorry, I missed your post.]
Just finished Dino Buzzati's The Tartar Steppe, a somewhat abstract and enigmatic representation of self-examination and the unfathomable. If anyone else has read it I'd love to hear your opinion. Before that was Murakami's *South of the Border, West of the Sun *which I felt accommodates for a valued read just as much, if not more, than his more read titles.
Currently reading Frederic Raphael's The Glittering Prizes which was written for a BBC miniseries in the late seventies. It chronicles the lives of several cambridge students, namely Adam Morris: a satirically protrayed Jewish writer who iconoclastically characterises the sharp and witty intellect and pretensions of those from his generation. The first half of the book was enthralling but it only seems to be drifting further and deeper out from that point of high tide.
I'm regrettably dallying my way through the heavy likes of The Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Buglakov's The Master and Margerita, but I'm afraid they will remain shelfbound a jaunt longer because I really want to read Jean-paul Sartre's Nausea. What a mess.
Read the Master and Margarita, was really good. But I like surrealism as a form of art so i was bound to like it.
Read a couple of years back Nausea and it is so strong that it affected my day to day life. Suggestion, read it when you are in a good place... Same with Straw Dogs.
Reading "This Human season" now. Quite enjoying, light and easy read.
let me know what you think of Nausea if you ever get around reading it...
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I really enjoyed The Master and Margarita as well. It was a bit hard going at times, but it's so rich in imagery and possible meaning that I found it worth ploughing through. I saw a very good stage adaptation halfway through which actually did help me to visualise it quite well and which gave me a point of comparison which might have smoothed the way a bit.
Either way, it has made reading Great Expectations now an absolute breeze, and I'm really enjoying it. I'd only read Hard Times before, and I'd forgotten just how much wit and colour Dickens writes with, and how amazingly well he shapes his characters. I think he's done a disservice by the fact that everyone remembers the stereotypes of Fagin, Oliver, Scrooge and Gradgrind, even if they do remember them favourably, because Pip, Joe and Biddy in GE are so well realised.
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Finally getting around to reading Into the Wild - so far so great
I loved that as well. Fascinating counterpoint to the film, as Krakauer seems a lot less sympathetic than Penn was, and definitely shows more of the inconsistencies and flaws in his world view. Such an interesting story though, and the stories of others who did similar things were great as well.
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The 15th book of the Horus Heresy series, Prospero Burns
Which is the battle against the Thousand Sons of Prospero from the point of view of the Space Wolves
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i have only read 1Murakami book (DanceDanceDance i think it was called)
very odd, but wholey enjoyable.Is there any recommeded order to his stuff, or just grab what ever i see and read that?
I am quite surprised, no one is mentioning the wind up bird chronicle.
Has anyone read Eat and Run or Born to Run? Have been highly recommended to me. they any good?
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The Secret Of Light...Walter and Lao Russell...this is something that I have read about 4 times...and it's quite simply the most amazing thing you will ever read. It puts the Hardon Collusion to shame.
The Thiefs Journal...Jean Genet...This is really nice ...you can blam it in an few hours tho it's good to savour slowly.
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest...Ken Kesey. I must have read this about 60 times now (when ever I travel I take it with me), and it's still beautiful.