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Yeah, I found that once I was used to drawl of the characters, the pages flew by. And it was a powerful ending indeed.
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Yeah, I found that once I was used to drawl of the characters, the pages flew by. And it was a powerful ending indeed.
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The bolded seems completely incongruous with a book of only 100 pages. In fact, in a funny kind of way, your post reads like an epic struggle of perserverance that ultimately falls short. And by funny, I mean that this epic lasted a whole 60 minutes
To be fair, if you didn't like it you didn't like it. Your post just reads humorously in the context of such a small book.
The bolded seems completely incongruous with a book of only 100 pages. In fact, in a funny kind of way, your post reads like an epic struggle of perserverance that ultimately falls short. And by funny, I mean that this epic lasted a whole 60 minutes
To be fair, if you didn't like it you didn't like it. Your post just reads humorously in the context of such a small book.
Fair enough.
It may have something to do with reading it literally straight after the Pearl whilst reading it in class with a bunch of douchebags around. It was rather hard to concentrate at the time. Maybe I'll give it another read at some stage.
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That's not a bad idea... I'm shocking at concentrating when not perfectly relaxed, and have found some stuff downright impossible to read at certain times and much easier at others.
Yeah I'll give it a go again at some stage but I have to get through a fair bit of other stuff first.
But yes, I'm the same, I can't concentrate when not relaxed.
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Sophie's world...a book about the history of philosophy. Bloody incredible! the storyline as well is very entertaining.
Recomend it to everyone
Recomend it to everyone
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"Moneyball" by Michael Lewis. In a nutshell, its about how the Oakland A's (a relatively poor professional baseball team) became successful through relying heavily on statistics to analyse the performance of its players. An interesting read, and I don't follow baseball.
Recently finished War and Peace, it was a fair tome, but I enjoyed the blend of history and fiction.
Then carried the momentum over to some smaller titles:
The Inheritors - William Golding (what a great book!)
The Old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway (more of a story than a book, but a nice tale, and so well told)
On the road - Jack Keroauc (interesting style, I seem to have read a lot of books about people crossing America lately - In Cold Blood, The Road, Grapes of Wrath)
Am now starting on Sons & Lovers by D.H.Lawrence.
Then carried the momentum over to some smaller titles:
The Inheritors - William Golding (what a great book!)
The Old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway (more of a story than a book, but a nice tale, and so well told)
On the road - Jack Keroauc (interesting style, I seem to have read a lot of books about people crossing America lately - In Cold Blood, The Road, Grapes of Wrath)
Am now starting on Sons & Lovers by D.H.Lawrence.
And all the banning of it did was make it become ridiculously popular once the ban was lifted. Ironic hah?
Let me know if you think it would be a classic in it's own right, or if it was driven to this status by the hype/populatity raised by the ban.
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did you enjoy on the road? I loved it personally - mainly I think because Dean M reminded me of one of my friends and I became very immersed in it.
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Reading Hannibal at the moment.
Finally took the time to finish the book. Great read and really gets you thinking about what your doing and why.
I've just started reading "How to win every arguement, The use and abuse of logic". by Madsen Pirie.
Only into the first couple of pages its basically gives examples of Fallacious logic and or arguements - how to debunk or how to utilise.
The book caught my eye due to the large hammer and small walnut not sure why
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I read that people on this thread enjoyed freakonomics so I'm reading that and the New Martin Bryant biography
I did enjoy it. It's hard to imagine living such a carefree lifestyle, particularly straight after WWII. Parents must have been turning in their graves to see conservative lifestyles being turned on their heads by this 'Beat' generation who were so apathatic and care free.
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Great to hear that you enjoyed it too. I've changed some of my shopping habits because of the book
Just as there were copious copies of religion-based murder mysteries after the success of The Da Vinci Code, I've seen a slew of (mostly rubbish) books on behavioural psychology flood the market recently.I am currently reading two books:
- Godel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golden Brain by Douglas Hofstader
and to balance it out
- Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
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I am 15 pages into War and Peace, so about 0.013%. Pretty good so far!
Great to hear that you enjoyed it too. I've changed some of my shopping habits because of the book
I am currently reading two books:
- Godel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golden Brain by Douglas Hofstader
and to balance it out
- Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
I just did a google search on the Eternal Golden Brain book. Is it difficult to read? It looks interesting but seems to delve into areas I am fairly unfamiliar with.
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"A Game of Thrones," by George R.R. Martin
A friend of mine has been pestering me for about three years to read it. So I am, and loving it.
A friend of mine has been pestering me for about three years to read it. So I am, and loving it.
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'The Clayton Account' by Bill Vidal. It's a real piece of shit.
Next up is 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' by Lawrence of Arabia.
Next up is 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' by Lawrence of Arabia.
don't read the series too quickly, the author still hasn't finished it
