Will be starting The Count of Monte Cristo (Buss translation) tonight. I've primarily only read fantasy/scifi novels (Artemis Fowl, LOTR, HP, WOT amongst others) and I'm looking forward to foraying into a new genre.
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I'm now reading Clock Work Orange by Anthony Burgess and Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Oh my, she must really be good in bed
LOL well I don't want to brag but ....
Going to the last Ess/Coll game was hell! lol Perhaps you are right, I am pretty sure it was written for adults but the books are much better suited to the young adult audience (mainly females but lots of guys have jumped on the bandwagon). Of what I know of the story it is a good one. It's the delivery that simply stinks. I don't know how Matthew Reilly has built up such a large audience. Scarecrow is trapped. He is surrounded by 100 bad guys with machine guns at every angle, but do not fret my friend. Scarecrow always finds a way out to kill our bad guys with no character development whatsoever!
Recently finished all 11 released Wheel of Time books after first beginning them in November of 07 (slow reader
Reading book six of the Artemis Fowl series which I was reading before starting WOT (back in year 12).
Have a few books on the shelf that I haven't read, including Frankenstein, A Song of Ice and Fire and The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Will probably read the Dumas books first.
Not very keen on reading ASOIAF at the moment due to being unsure if the series will ever be finished. Might go out and read the three Hobb trilogies instead.
Do yourself a favour and read both.
They are the premier fantasy writers going around IMHO.
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Seneca - Letters from a Stoic. Brilliant read.
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I rarely read fiction but I am thoroughly enjoying this
I rarely read fiction but I am thoroughly enjoying this
Pitch Invasion : Adidas,Puma. And the makings of modern sport.
Excellent. I knew that Puma had grown out of Adidas after the brothers had a huge falling out but you really have to read the book to get the full story. One word ? Fascinating.
Excellent. I knew that Puma had grown out of Adidas after the brothers had a huge falling out but you really have to read the book to get the full story. One word ? Fascinating.
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Lol, I had a lot of trouble with The Sound and the Fury, and can't say I've been champing at the bit to try anything else by Faulkner.
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Just finished War and Peace. I loved the vast majority of it, but halfway through the epilogue I was dismayed to flick ahead and discover I had bid farewell to the narrative of the story, and hence the characters, without realising it at the time, and had only Tolstoy's theorising in front of me. I hardly took in a word.
I've moved onto The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. That man sure can write.
As I Lay Dying is supposed to be his most accessible work, the easiest to understand. It's relatively short so I thought I'd give it a go. It was challenging, and I probably wouldn't read more Faulkner, but I'm glad I tried it.
Have you read Anna Karenina? This sounds like the end of that, with Levin going on about what he's learnt and a whole lot of religious philosophising. I didn't particularly enjoy it, one because I completely didn't agree with anything he was saying, and second because I don't think it made a difference to what the book had already explored.
As I Lay Dying is supposed to be his most accessible work, the easiest to understand. It's relatively short so I thought I'd give it a go. It was challenging, and I probably wouldn't read more Faulkner, but I'm glad I tried it.
Have you read Anna Karenina? This sounds like the end of that, with Levin going on about what he's learnt and a whole lot of religious philosophising. I didn't particularly enjoy it, one because I completely didn't agree with anything he was saying, and second because I don't think it made a difference to what the book had already explored.
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Good book, except for the bit somewhere in the middle where he unnecessarily goes on for pages about clothes and jewels and whatnot.
Reading that you'd almost think he was a queer.
Just bought the new Robin Hobb book, The Dragon Keeper.
Got another two books on the go, but struggling to find enough time to finish them off. First is David Copperfield by Dickens, second is Collapse by Jared Diamond.
Before that I re-read Shantaram... brilliant book.
Got another two books on the go, but struggling to find enough time to finish them off. First is David Copperfield by Dickens, second is Collapse by Jared Diamond.
Before that I re-read Shantaram... brilliant book.
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
Cracking reading so far, am struggling to put it down.
Cracking reading so far, am struggling to put it down.
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Gave up on hte Sword of Shannara and picked up the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
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Yeah I have. The difference is that when you reach the epilogue of War and Peace you have essentially finished the book as far as a narrative story goes. There is still a 30 or so pages concerning the characters, but the majority is Tolstoy himself (i.e as the Author, not a character) laying down his views of the concepts of war and history. I suppose it's a historical novel after all... it's just a bit deflating at the end of 1300 pages!
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'Flashman in the Great Game' by George Macdonald Fraser. It's the eighth book in his wonderful Flashman series.
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Given the great praise received in this thread and elsewhere for Shantaram, I took the plunge today and bought it. At the pace that I read though, I'll get back to you guys in 2011.
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Currently reading, "A portait of the artist as a young man" by James Joyce.
Been keen to read something of Joyce's since I read a bio of Anthony Burgess who was apparently heavily influenced by Joyce's work.
Been keen to read something of Joyce's since I read a bio of Anthony Burgess who was apparently heavily influenced by Joyce's work.
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Recently read:
American Psycho (4 times)
High Voltage Rock N' Roll
The Glory and The Fame
Reading:
The Wolf of Wall st
Inside the Reich
Rolling Stone's famous interview book
American Psycho (4 times)
High Voltage Rock N' Roll
The Glory and The Fame
Reading:
The Wolf of Wall st
Inside the Reich
Rolling Stone's famous interview book
Recently finished Rhett Bartlett's book. Must-read for any Tigers supporter worth their salt. Currently re-reading the Harry Potter series for about the five-millionth time. As for the future, I've just turned 21 and got plenty of b'day cash to burn, and I've had too many people recommend Chuck Palahniuk to me that I can't really ignore it anymore. So Fight Club's next.
Recently Completed:
The Mayor of Castorbridge
Darkness at Noon
Brideshead Revisited
Am now reading:
"A portrait of the artist as a young man" by James Joyce
The Mayor of Castorbridge
Darkness at Noon
Brideshead Revisited
Am now reading:
"A portrait of the artist as a young man" by James Joyce
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Finished "Chronicles of Amber". Looking for another book to take wiht me to Fiji. Suggestions?
