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What Are You Reading, Again?
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Just fininshed the first book of Thrawn Triology, Heir to the Empire, now reading the second, Dark Force Rising.
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John Grisham - The King Of Torts.
Rambuchan
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John Grisham IMO is a bit 
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Am now reading a book called Golden Islands. It's a history of Japanese mapping. Now I'm sure someone would find that a bit
. Am now reading a book called Golden Islands. It's a history of Japanese mapping. Now I'm sure someone would find that a bit
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Rambuchan said:John Grisham IMO is a bit
Sleep is for the weak.
Rambuchan
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I used to joke in my english literature classes that "Jane Eyre" (one of the set texts) was perhaps the greatest cure for insomnia ever invented.thetrooper said:
Btw - I thought sleep was for when you're dead(?) In which case, why are you reading John Grisham?
@ Varwnos: Can you recommend a good Lovecraft starting point?
Rambuchan said:
Imo the best story by H.P.Lovecraft is "the music of Erick Zahn". H.P.L. himself regarded it as his "only good story" and i tend to agree with that
But i also liked some parts of other works by him, for example you could read "The Danwich horror" or "The colour out of space". The beginning of the Danwich horror in particular, and the isolation of Wilbour Whitley, the central character, i found very interesting, and nicely written, although i haven't read it in the original english.
Bartleby
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Charles Fort's Book of the Damned (still; 
I said that last time this thread surfaced)
And 1984, and Moby Dick
And Being and Nothingness and The Rebel (both in translation).
I said that last time this thread surfaced)And 1984, and Moby Dick
And Being and Nothingness and The Rebel (both in translation).
Rambuchan
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Being and Nothingness.... is that Milan Kundera? He is an excellent writer!!!!
@ Varwnos: Thanks.
@ Varwnos: Thanks.
Reno
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Holes (Translated indirectly as Paahde in Finnish), - Louis Sachar
Bartleby
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Jean-Paul Sartre.
Rambuchan
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'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' is the Milan Kundera book I confused it with 
. I can really recommend this guy's work.
. I can really recommend this guy's work.Being and nothingness is jpsartre yes 
i have only read "no exit" by him though. And i dislike kundera (havent really read him, but someone from school liked him, so i decided to dislike him) 
(well that and some sexual metaphors, which i found distastefull)
i have only read "no exit" by him though. And i dislike kundera (havent really read him, but someone from school liked him, so i decided to dislike him) (well that and some sexual metaphors, which i found distastefull)slip79
Princess
HAHAHA... am being a fantasy geek at the moment and am reading Book eleven of The Wheel of Time, Knife of Dreams, by Robert Jordan.
Thought it was time we had something a bit less intellectual on here.
Thought it was time we had something a bit less intellectual on here.
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I tend to have several books on the go at once. I've just finished Shogun (James Clavell), and at the moment I am reading Good Omens (Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman); Snare (Katherine Kerr); Eats, Shoots and Leaves (Lynne Truss); I, Houdini (Lynne Reid Banks) and A Hat Full of Sky (Terry Pratchett). Yes, reading all of these intermittently at once.
I am also researching my dissertation with innumerable papers, but the books I'm quite enjoying include Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry (Lippard and Berg), The Biological Chemistry of the Elements (da Silva and Williams), Bio-Inorganic Chemistry (R Hay) and Calcium and the Cell (Ciba Foundation Symposium 122).
on finals!
I am also researching my dissertation with innumerable papers, but the books I'm quite enjoying include Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry (Lippard and Berg), The Biological Chemistry of the Elements (da Silva and Williams), Bio-Inorganic Chemistry (R Hay) and Calcium and the Cell (Ciba Foundation Symposium 122).
on finals!
Fifty
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bought a book where a bunch of the famous edge.org scientists try and predict the next 50yrs. It's a collection of essays.
Some are more boring than others... honestly I'm getting a bit bored with reading about "mind/machine interfaces".
The only interesting ones really for me were the ones by Richard Dawkins, and then another by some guy talking about the future of math.
I was a bit dissappointed by it considering how much I loved the last essay collection from the Edge scientists that I read.
Some are more boring than others... honestly I'm getting a bit bored with reading about "mind/machine interfaces".
The only interesting ones really for me were the ones by Richard Dawkins, and then another by some guy talking about the future of math.
I was a bit dissappointed by it considering how much I loved the last essay collection from the Edge scientists that I read.
Just finished The Stainless Steel Rat is Born, with The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted up next. Amusing little no brainers. Had to take a break off the Honor Harrington series, couldn't stay focused on it. Also have some other books at home, but don't remember what they are now.
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K Rowling.
Ooh! I've read it twice. Want me to tell you how it ends?
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