| I've been slowly re-reading the book, Talismans of Shannara. I've been wondering whether I should finish the book or start a new one. I just found an interesting article discussing re-reading books (as well as re-watching shows and movies). http://www.themarysue.com/reading-books-twice/?utm_source=crowdignite.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=crowdignite.com |
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| I have just finished Jane Eyre from Charlotte Bronté. Now I am about to begin Vanity Fair from William Thackeray. |
| We (Мы) by Yevgenii Zamyatin. Shit is weeeeiiiiiird, yo |
| -------------------- Meus Inscripio Animeus delenda est. |
| I've been switching off series. Read this book called Guilty Pleasures, a series about a female necromancer detective named Anita Blake. Then I switched to The Hunger Games, then back to the next Anita Blake book, now im on Catching Fire and have the third Anita Blake book ready when im done with Catching Fire. |
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| thanks for bumping, bill, otherwise I wouldn't have spotted this thread :3 Well, I'm into some pretty deep type of literature (afterall I do have a lit major)... Bur I have to say, I'm a prose girl through and through. I hardly ever read poetry :/ Some of my fave authors are José Saramago, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Charles Bukowski, Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Camus, Jorge Luis Borges... well, I could go on but I don't want bombard you guys with authors names ^^; Just like gilas, I like reading my books in English too, to broaden my vocabulary. Speaking a second language is so much fun in that sense :D |
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lillith_ said: Some of my fave authors are José Saramago, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Charles Bukowski, Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Camus, Jorge Luis Borges... *.* Great taste! I'm about to start reading "The prague cemetery" by Umberto Eco |
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Hii-chan said: *.* Great taste! I'm about to start reading "The prague cemetery" by Umberto Eco oh that's so cool :D I got that book from my brother on my birthday and I'm about to start it too! What a coincidence :3 |
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| just bought the first Hunger Games in English. yay ^.^ |
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| I haven't been reading much recently, but I recently heard a poem about reading: "A bug crawls over the page. Leave him be. We need all the readers we can get." |
| i picked up a few books over the weekend, including a pirate book :p....i just couldn't not get it when i saw it P-)....yarr |
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| I'm reading Game of Thrones now. I thought I wouldn't read it but after I completed season 2 of TV-show, I just wanted more. And I glad I'm reading it. The book has many interesting details and my opinion on some of the characters and events has changed because of it. |
| A few days ago I just finished The oerfum, the story of a murder. Now I will dedicate time to finish Dorian Gray |
| I just finished The Four Agreements. The four agreements are these: Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best. I found it interesting although I had heard most of the stuff before in one shape or another. Even though much of the material wasn't new to me I still found it useful because I have yet to fully internalize all the teachings and practice them consistently in my daily life. One thing that I don't agree with was in the section about "be impeccable with your word" where he said that if you tell someone that some spots on his face look like cancer then within a year he will have cancer. This isn't the first time I've heard something like this. There are many prominent people within the self development/new age spiritual world such as Tony Robbins and Wayne Dyer who think that one can manifest things in their life simply by the power of their beliefs. Here's a longer description of the book (not written by me): |
| That sounds like an interesting read. I'm even tempted to check it out, but I really shouldn't start anything new until I finish three books I've been reading since...forever - The Book Thief, 1Q84 and The mystery of the yellow room. Actually, there are four, I forgot Les Fleurs du mal. The last thing I actually finished was The Book of Sand several days ago, but I shouldn't even mention that since it's a short story. |
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marika_cole said: I'm reading Game of Thrones now. I thought I wouldn't read it but after I completed season 2 of TV-show, I just wanted more. And I glad I'm reading it. The book has many interesting details and my opinion on some of the characters and events has changed because of it. My friend did that. He watched Game of Thrones all the way through and just had to have more, so he bought a book online about it. Maybe ill get into it since it seems to be very addictive. |
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| I found a new favourite author of me, Bernard Cornwelll. He is really the King of historical novels. I especially liked his Gral-Trilogy and his Uthred Saga consisting of 6 novels so long. Now I am reading his Arthur-Trilogy. |
| I'm reading Stephen Buhner's Healing Lyme book because I have Lyme disease. I don't read much anymore except stuff online because I have pain in my hands and neck. |
| I'm currently reading "And the mountains echoed" by Khaled Hosseini, so far is pretty good. |
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| Double posting I've Finished "and the mountains echoed", beautifully written and heart-wrenching, as usual. I love all the three books Hosseini has written (the kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns and this one), I recommend it. Right now, I'm about to start "Rebecca" by Daphne Du Maurier (one of the few Alfred Hitchcock movie adaptations I haven't seen yet) |
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| Haha, don't worry about double posting. I'm surprised there aren't more readers in this club. |
| well, i am reading the third book of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. |
| oh I think there's definitely readers here...I think it's just not as much conversation about it...for whatever reason. Hii-chan said: Right now, I'm about to start "Rebecca" by Daphne Du Maurier (one of the few Alfred Hitchcock movie adaptations I haven't seen yet) this is rather surprising knowing you!! the not watching the movie part btw :P right now i'm re-reading 1776 by David McCullough and 1632 by Eric Flint (good idea..not so great writing, awful dialogue)...and also reading this pretty awesome graphic novel!! |
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billmurderface said: oh I think there's definitely readers here...I think it's just not as much conversation about it...for whatever reason. Our members don't seem like posting in the forums in general and this thread is just one example of many dead threads. I recommended a book to Meta a few weeks ago about time management or as they put it "energy management". It's called The Power of Full Engagement and I'd highly recommend it to everyone even though I haven't read it myself |
| I have a whole bunch of books stacked up to read, but there's other hobbies I'm currently occupying myself with. Sometimes even with the very few interests I have the amount I'd like to get through is still overwhelming, plus I need to be in a certain mood for things. That being said I really enjoy a lot of older fantasy such as Conan, The Gormenghast series, Lud-in-the-Mist for example. Also, to note the thing about Conan is to really go for the Del Rey editions if you want to read them to get Howard's actual scripts/stories, lots of people have wrote their own or they're in butchered forms. If anyone is interested I wrote a bit on the other books here - http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=624923 I've only read two books from him so far but Haruki Murakami I've enjoyed. I love how he blends dream and reality together "magical realism" as I believe it's called. I'm a pretty big fan of surreal stuff in general. I also have some other Japanese literature to get through such as Kokoro and No Longer Human on my shelf. Woman in the Dunes I also want to read after liking the movie a lot. |
| I love Robert E. Howard!!! The Cimmerian is a fucking bad ass mofo, but I only read Conan comics........ I should probably check out the books |
Kirie_Himuro said: I've only read two books from him so far but Haruki Murakami I've enjoyed. I love how he blends dream and reality together "magical realism" as I believe it's called. I'm a pretty big fan of surreal stuff in general. I've read two of his works as well, wind up bird and norwegian wood. I am intrigued to buy his newer works, IQ84. I love the way he's writing though he can be confusing sometimes. You really don't know whether it's a dream or a reality. But I once I started reading I knew I couldn't stop :3 |
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| I'm not too huge on books, but I like Michael Crichton's works and Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series. I have a few random horror/thriller books from Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells etc. as well as the Harry Potter series, which was a gift years back(lol). I guess I'm just more into fictional fantasy stories. |
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| Not a big reader but just picked up A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, which was recommended by my brother It's really interesting. |
| REVIVED Sir Terry Pratchett died recently T_T so i started rereading through all the Discworld books. They're awesome, but makes me sad T_T |
humblechili said: What is a book? a tool of Satan !! |
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| :( reading is fun |
| I havent read anything in a while :( |
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| lets all stop watching anime and read instead! ^_^ |
| I have an illustrated novel scrapped princess I still havent read hmm |
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| I'm still going through a biography on Constantine the Great...just haven't had enough time to do more than 10-12 pages at a time :S |
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| Don't know if anyone here knows it, but I read The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers. It was great and i rec it to anyone who likes books ^^ At the moment i am reading Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Diderot and Cemetery in prague (?) from Eco. Both are hard reading :p In the last days I ordered many books from Terry Pratchett, i love his books and they may get expensive soon because of his death :( |
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EmileNoir said: In the last days I ordered many books from Terry Pratchett, i love his books and they may get expensive soon because of his death :( Yeah i rushed to buy the last few Discworld books i was missing : / |
| GRAPHIC NOVEL HIPSTER HERE! I've read an exert of Skim in this showcase indie comic series, always meant to get around to reading the full thing. The Tamaki cousins have a new gn out called This One Summer that has received a lot of critical acclaim. It probably reminded you have manga because they are Japanese Canadian and i think their style has manga influences. |
| For self contained graphic novels i recommend Blankets by Craig Thompson and for collected comic series graphic novels i recommend checking out Y the Last Man by Brian K Vaughan, both are great books/series and good ones to start off with if you're new to this stuff |
mike_197 said: Ooh I looked up Blankets and that sounds exactly like my kind of thing. Will have to get on that. I also read that the Sandman series is apparently outstanding, all I know is that Neil Gaiman wrote it I love Sandman but i would say Sandman can be a little off putting to newcommers of western comics, i think Y the Last Man is a better series to start with |
| It's been more than a year last I read a book, I cried a lot back then. I read it the whole day. A weekend like this. It's also raining that day. I'm also thinking about home that time. That rainy weekend I was reading One more day by mitch albom. Err.. Nostalgic. |
 Flames slowly die. Embers turns to ash. Heat turns cold. As I close my eyes, visions of past flash before me. I open my eyes; all I see is black, white, and gray. |
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