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Post by jellybean on Oct 18, 2009 12:22:43 GMT
however, whilst i look i'm reading the blind assassin by margaret atwood. haven't really got into it yet, but we'll see... I just read the Penelopiad by Atwood. I can't stand that woman. Penelopiad was ok at a push, but trying to justify the Odyssey in a modern setting just didn't work. It would have if they'd made it a modern story, but instead they just applied present day values on to an old story and so the same outcome raised new questions, whilst I was sat here thinking "so?" did not enjoy it! recently I have read the Odyssey, which was pretty good, re-read Much Ado About Nothing, which is one of the few Shakespeares I enjoy, also the Road by Cormac McCarthy, which is brilliant. Man and Son wander around a nondescript post apocolyptic locale, searching for... well, what? Very good style, and fully puts across the bleakness of their surroundings. Also loved it 'cause I've been playing Fallout 3 recently and it reminded me of that! now, i'm just about to go and finish Christopher Brookmyre - All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses an Eye. I've had it for years and thought I'd read it, but cracking on with it now it appears i'd just read the first bit and not got much further. As usual, bloody hilarious. mid forties Jane Fleming - typical repressed and bored housewife gets thrown in to the world of spies... and it's utterly convincing!
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Post by Chloe on Oct 25, 2009 20:15:55 GMT
finished les miserables was hard work but so worth it. now i'm on the look out for cheap(ish) theatre tickets. about to start Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin.
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Post by Claire on Oct 26, 2009 7:35:05 GMT
Just started Cross Country by James Patterson
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Post by Chloe on Nov 28, 2009 11:36:08 GMT
been reading the karen rose '...for me' series (die for me, scream for me and now kill for me), good crime/murder writer, the first 2 are better than the 3rd so far.
if you like those kind of books i can also recommend the chelsea cain series.
got 1 more john wyndham to read - the trouble with lichen', can't belive its taken me so long to discover him - awesome books! my fave i think is still 'midwich cuckoos', followed by 'day of the triffids' and 'the kraken wakes'. 'chocky' and 'the crysilids' are also good but not as good - the cysalids ends too abruptly.
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Post by Stacey on Nov 28, 2009 21:06:46 GMT
got 1 more john wyndham to read - the trouble with lichen', can't belive its taken me so long to discover him - awesome books! my fave i think is still 'midwich cuckoos', followed by 'day of the triffids' and 'the kraken wakes'. 'chocky' and 'the crysilids' are also good but not as good - the cysalids ends too abruptly. Yeah you are a bit slow But then i haven't read them all. Agree re midwich and then triffids. I didn't like chocky though...couldn't get into it. I've read loads since i last posted in here. Some good, some crap. Reading Salmon Fishing In The Yemen at the mo. Hit and miss, some bits are really good and other bits i'm skimming though because it's boring.
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Post by jellybean on Nov 30, 2009 22:36:18 GMT
just re-read the great gatsby, took about an hour cover to cover! i love the book and have read it a few times which is why i got through it so fast i guess.
recently read breakfast at tiffany's, another ace book! now i'm reading a collection of essays, most of them post-war american expository blah blah etc. some good, others terrible. very disappointed with Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up,' though there were some excellent phrases i might have to steal for future essays (full references of course!)
got a short way in to catcher in the rye (more american jazz?!) and should really finish it soon.
i realised a short while a go that i'm developing a taste for authors such as fitzgerald, steinbeck, capote, salinger, fussel etc. spent ten minutes shouting at my seminar tutor whilst he laughed at me 'cause i spent years refusing to read such books!
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Post by SanSiroBird on Nov 30, 2009 23:13:32 GMT
A film script
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Yesterday Went Too Soon
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Post by aliqua on Dec 1, 2009 4:58:25 GMT
got a short way in to catcher in the rye (more american jazz?!) and should really finish it soon. I really didn't like catcher in the rye, but the reason I picked it up was that I had really liked quotes from it someone posted. maybe I should read it again. ...along with a hundred other books.
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Post by Chloe on Dec 10, 2009 19:59:45 GMT
pride & prejudice & zombies
it's...... interesting
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Post by SanSiroBird on Dec 10, 2009 20:01:43 GMT
pride & prejudice & zombies it's...... interesting I wished to buy it last week!
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Post by nancepants on Dec 14, 2009 17:12:11 GMT
i'm now reading 'the end of mr y'. it's... kind of strange.
i'm not really sure where it's going or whether i should be paying more attention than i am to all the scientific details.
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Post by Stacey on Dec 17, 2009 17:34:50 GMT
Whaleboat House by Mark Mills...it's boring. Sticking it out at the mo because i enjoyed his other books but if it's not finished by xmas day i'll be giving up and reading one of my xmas pressies instead!
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Post by jellybean on Dec 21, 2009 1:13:27 GMT
nothing at the mo, taking a break and i left my lian hearn book at home :/
just holding out for christmas - i'm reasonably certain my sister has bought me a joey comeau book which is absolutely fucking incredible of her. fingers crossed!
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Post by Stacey on Jan 6, 2010 15:06:25 GMT
Whaleboat House by Mark Mills...it's boring. Sticking it out at the mo because i enjoyed his other books but if it's not finished by xmas day i'll be giving up and reading one of my xmas pressies instead! Finally finished. It did get a bit more intersting..but not much. Now: The Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. Won't take me long, i love these books.
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Post by Chloe on Jan 6, 2010 15:23:28 GMT
just read hound of the baskervilles by conan-doyle and 20,000 leagues under the sea by jules verne.
now reading 'the book of tomorrow' by cecelia ahern. better than her last couple so far
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Post by jellybean on Jan 8, 2010 19:50:24 GMT
Joey Comeau - Overqualified. Finished it in about half an hour, it's only 90 or so pages long. I absolutely loved it and have read sections of it over and over again. Cannot wait to get the A Softer World books, and Lockpick Pornography, though I have read that one and already know it's brilliant.
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Post by nancepants on Feb 1, 2010 11:25:03 GMT
I've just finished Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I officially love him, and this is now in my "Favourite Books Ever" list (which is in my head, but one day I will write it down!).
Now reading On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, although haven't really let myself get into it yet, need to finish writing an essay first!
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Post by Stacey on Feb 1, 2010 15:26:00 GMT
The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas...i'm hooked already.
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Post by Chloe on Feb 3, 2010 16:56:09 GMT
coming up for air by george orwell
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Post by Chloe on Feb 15, 2010 13:44:48 GMT
and now re-reaading 1984. not read it in years, Warren's just read it for the first time and been talking about it, i'd forgotten so much so re-reading it now, it's such an amazing book - should be compulsory reading! very scary how accurate some of Orwell's predictions have been, especially when you consider he wrote it as a warning of "don't go there" and how actually some has come true....
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