| Just finished Breaking Dawn. It's a nice read. I'm re-reading: Twilight- Stephenie Meyer New Moon- Stephenie Meyer Eclipse- Stephenie Meyer Reading: Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte Vampire Academy- Mead Richelle |
| Dune by Frank Herbert as loads of places say its the best sci-fi novel ever |
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| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Can't remember the author's name. And Earth X (Marvel) |
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| Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert |
| ummm.... im reding about 6 books at the same time but the one i can remember is harry potter deathly hollows. |
| the WHOLE twilight saga i finished breaking dawn the other day and it was just... 0__o but in a good way XD |
| The House of nights novels: Marked, Betrayed, Chosen. By P.C and Kristin Cast. (those are three different books) |
 -Love is but a binding without the shackles- |
| The Woman in the Dunes from Kōbō Abe....little unusal, but typical Japan |
| It's a strange day No colours or shapes No sound in my head I forget who I am |
| The Star Wars commando series |
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InfernoChaos said: Tom Clancys EndWar lemme kno how that is after u finish it i found it at my library an im skeptical about reading it as for me, i just started World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War |
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| Well okay, I got around to reading Twilight since my friend wanted to lend me hers. It's disappointing though. While I found it good enough that I didn't put the book down and read it through straight in a day, finishing the book I was left with a kind of empty feeling like it's totally lacking something. And a lot of the dialogues/plot felt unrealistic and a little cheesy, like something out of a well-written fanfiction. My friend also gave me a spoiler for the last book, which made up my mind not to bother to continue with the series. Ah well. Hope I didn't offend any Twilight fans with my comment, it's just my opinion. |
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Currently reading Vonda N. McIntyre's "The Moon and the Sun" I just started it yesterday, and man is it good. 17th century has always fascinated me, all those huge wigs and dresses, parties in Versailles.. This book's just for me. ♥ |
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| I'm reading Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. It's a bit strange, but still a very good book. |
| Working my way through Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom series. I just finished Mister Monday (the first one). I had previously read his Sabriel-Lirael-Abhorsen trilogy, and so far I like Keys to the Kingdom almost as much. A mystery novel called Dolled Up for Murder by Deb Baker. Not sure what I think yet, but it's well-written. A weird Japanese kid's book called 王さまレストラン (The King's Restaurant). Not sure if I really like it, and the morals are very strange, but at least it's easy to read. I'm also in the middle of a couple French books: Sido by Colette and Les Huit Coups de l'Horloge (The Eight Strikes of the Clock) by Maurice Leblanc - it's one of the Arsène Lupin books, on which the Lupin III series were very loosely based. But honestly I haven't touched either of these books much recently. |
| Re-reading Breaking Dawn. |
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| Just picked up and started reading A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. I finished Dance Dance Dance by the same author earlier today only to find out it was a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase, though it wasn't confusing in the least (except for the end and the sixth skeleton; people who read it will know what I'm talking about). Murakami's endings always seem to leave me confused in some way. Whatever, though; that book was fucking amazing. Anyway, I'm about 1/3 through A Wild Sheep Chase. Going to finish that tomorrow and then probably start on Battle Royale. I've got so many unread books it's ridiculous (most of them being Murakami, surprise surprise). |
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| I just picked up Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter (dutch name: Yakuzadochter) the other day and am about 1/3 trought it. It's a biography off a Japanese girl who grew up as the daughter off a Yakuza and the hardships she went trough in the Japanese countersociety in the Japan off the 80's and 90's. It's really interesting to see the flaws off the Japanese society, the parts we don't see in the west and to have a little idea off how the Yakuza act towards their own and other people. I would suggest it to anyone who would like to learn a little bit more about Japanese society. |
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Neverender said: Just picked up and started reading A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. I finished Dance Dance Dance by the same author earlier today only to find out it was a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase, though it wasn't confusing in the least (except for the end and the sixth skeleton; people who read it will know what I'm talking about). Murakami's endings always seem to leave me confused in some way. Whatever, though; that book was fucking amazing. Anyway, I'm about 1/3 through A Wild Sheep Chase. Going to finish that tomorrow and then probably start on Battle Royale. I've got so many unread books it's ridiculous (most of them being Murakami, surprise surprise). I just bought The Wind up Bird Chronicles... so far I've only read a chapter or so, but I really like the writing style. |
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restivesilence said: I just bought The Wind up Bird Chronicles... so far I've only read a chapter or so, but I really like the writing style. I bought that a while back but haven't read it yet. Probably won't get to it for a while, but yeah, Murakami is amazing. |
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| Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte... In fact, it is my first novel... ^_^ |
| Though I`m not currently reading it, I`ve been wanting to read Watchmen ever since I saw the movie trailer.... |
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| Mass Effect Ascension (lol video game book) and Japanese in Mangaland. |
| I have this weird affliction of rather starting a new book than finishing the ones I am already reading, so this is just a small snippet of my rather large (too large, it's a rather unweildy and confusing reading-habit I wouldn't recommend in too large doses) currently-reading list (which features remarkably few bad ones and many AWESOME ones): An introduction to Philosophical Analysis by John Hospers - freaking WONDERFUL. One of the clearest basic-level books I have read on the subject. Recommended for everyone. Explaining the Universe. The New Age of Physics by John M. Charap. Nothing new which isn't explained more beautifully and more in-depth by others (Simon Singhs Big Bang and Bill Brysons wonderful and wider-reaching A Short History of Nearly Everything), but maybe a good introductory book to modern physics for us laymen and a good memory jog. Siddharta by Herman Hesse. It will make you love life. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. As of yet one of the very best fantasy novels I've read. Well-written, colourful, and steampunk. With communistic birds. Philosophy of Mind by Ian Ravenscroft. I was bound to be biased positively against this one - cognitive sciences are one of my major penchants - but yeah, informative. Argumentationsteori, språk och vetenskapsfilosofi (Theory of Argumentation, Languages and Philosophy of Science by Dagfinn Föllesdal, Lars Wallöe, Jon Elster (damn my keyboard for not having a Norwegian/Danish ö). I like its excursions into totally different fields of research and thought to prove its point and the necessity of a basic knowledge of, well, the topic they so clearly put in the title. I swear, analystical philsosophy need to learn using more cool titles, like its continental twin. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Not as unsettling and postmodern I thought it'd be, but wow. It's awesome nonetheless. And then I am reading from a collection of original texts by various thinkers of the 17th-18th centuries - Blaise Pascal's far more agreeable than his Wager led me to think, for one. In short - my university has good taste in course literature. |
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Kaiserpingvin said: Siddharta by Herman Hesse. It will make you love life. Siddahartha is an awesome book. |
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bubblehead said: Assuming you're reading for fun and don't mind classic fiction, I recommend Moliere's Misanthrope. Witty and amusing and there's some great irony in there. Reminds me somewhat of Wilde.I'm also in the middle of a couple French books: Sido by Colette and Les Huit Coups de l'Horloge (The Eight Strikes of the Clock) by Maurice Leblanc - it's one of the Arsène Lupin books, on which the Lupin III series were very loosely based. But honestly I haven't touched either of these books much recently. Reading the T'en trilogy by Cory Daniells because, dagnabit, she ended on a cliffhanger, lol. And I'm wondering why very few books from the UK and AU make it to the US. *grumbles* |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. It's about a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's Syndrome, a specific kind of autism, who tries to solve the mystery of the murder of his neighbor's dog. The book is a novel within a novel, meaning that the novel is actually a written assignment that the boy, Christopher, has to complete for school. |
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| Clockwork Orange I need to finish it but I am to lazy lol |
| Stay thirsty, my friends. |
BlindFighter said: Clockwork Orange I need to finish it but I am to lazy lol THAT BOOK IS AMAZING! 1- Why White Kids Love Hip Hop - Badass book. |
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| The Demonata by Darren Shan |
| Sophie's World ... I can't read to much in one day... there's so much to think about *_* |
| Actually I'm not reading anything now (just read "Achaja"), but today i'm going to start "2586 kroków" |
| I just read Oscar Wildes Soul of Man Under Socialism. Wow. As always, his way of looking at things is weirdly fresh even a hundred years after his death. And as always, he treats his words so carefully yet with such frantic flair. More than recommended for anyone, if not for the anarcho-socialistic individualist message (which I agree a lot with), then for his views on art and aesthetics expressed so clearly in it. And yes, I know it's not a book, but I read it in a book so it counts. Also finished House of Leaves recently, which was sort of a letdown. Wonderfully writ, Truants psychological pain is felt trhough his mechanic font, the experiments, while not incredibly interesting, are used to some pretty fine effect, but I expected horror and got none, so my initial expectations were wrong (I should have read Wildes thoughts on the correct temprament of subjecting oneself to art first, I guess). Started reading Pynchons Gravitys Rainbow too. So far, great stuff. |
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| currently reading 'The Alchemyst' by Michael Scott.... again. I'm such a geek xD |
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| We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion The Crown of Silence by Storm Constantine |
HaD said: Just finished 'Kafka on the Shore' by Haruki Murakami I started that few days ago. Seems to be good so far. |
| Eh, I had to read that because of grade 10 education forced me to. Reading Fool Moon (Book II of the Dresden Files) - Jim Butcher The Well of Ascension (Book II of Mistborn) - Brandon Sanderson |
| The song of Albion (did I write it good in english? I only know the dutch title) - Stephen Lawhead |
| Reading "the host" by Stephanie Meyer. |
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| The 2nd Ringu book. |
| Tales of Otori #2: Grass for His Pillow by Lian Hearn |
BlackRubie said: Tales of Otori #2: Grass for His Pillow by Lian Hearn An excellent selection. I still need to finish up The Harsh Cry of the Heron eventually and get Heaven's Net is Wide although I don't like THCotH nearly as much as the trilogy so hopefully HNiW is better. Also currently reading The Trial by Franz Kafka which has been great thus far. |
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