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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #90 on: January 30, 2010, 07:48:39 PM »
Taking a break from intelligent books and reading "Nightlight." Its a parody of Twilight, and it is absolutely hilarious.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #91 on: February 03, 2010, 02:47:39 PM »
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I was reading The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality by Andre Comte-Sponville, but it wasn't really holding my attention. I might move on to Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World next.

I tried to get that a little while ago but no shop in the Midlands stocked it. I think I might read Cosmos before that though, I'm about halfway through the TV series and it's amazing.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #92 on: February 13, 2010, 03:44:26 PM »
I have picked up The Anatomy of Melancholy AGAIN.  I hope to do better this time except I have a somewhat cheap edition and wish I had one that translated all the Latin.   
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #93 on: February 14, 2010, 05:57:30 AM »
I started War and Peace not so long ago, I'm almost ten pages in now. Woo...

*cries because it's so long and dense*
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #94 on: February 14, 2010, 06:31:51 AM »
I've finished The Golden Notebook, and I've since read a couple of plays, The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter, and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (which was brilliant). I'm now reading a couple of plays by Joe Orton, namely Loot and What the Butler Saw.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #95 on: February 14, 2010, 10:14:00 AM »
Quote from: Lord Wilmore on February 14, 2010, 06:31:51 AM
...and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (which was brilliant). ...

I saw that on Broadway on my very first trip to New York long ago and now I can't remember too much of the plot.


Quote from: General Douchebag on February 14, 2010, 05:57:30 AM
I started War and Peace not so long ago, I'm almost ten pages in now. Woo...

*cries because it's so long and dense*

I ploughed my way through forty-five and one-half inches of Walter Scott mainly because I found a 1892 leather bound set in somewhat poor shape except that the pages were for the most part uncut.  I got a distinct pleasure reading with paper knife in hand.  Lesson: My likelihood of finishing something is proportional to what I paid for it.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #96 on: February 14, 2010, 10:49:51 AM »
Quote from: General Douchebag on February 14, 2010, 05:57:30 AM
I started War and Peace not so long ago, I'm almost ten pages in now. Woo...

*cries because it's so long and dense*

It is a very good read, you don't notice how long it is once you start to get into it.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #97 on: February 14, 2010, 02:25:21 PM »
War and Peace is wonderful, but the parts about Tolstoy's theory of cyclical history were very boring. The story is brilliant, but those sections were a real slog.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #98 on: February 15, 2010, 09:20:58 AM »
Thats true, some parts were hard to get through
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #99 on: February 16, 2010, 09:11:52 AM »
Sorta like the whale blubber chapters in Moby Dick.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #100 on: February 16, 2010, 01:12:45 PM »
I started Moby Dick but never finished it
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #101 on: February 16, 2010, 01:18:22 PM »
I finished it but that was back when I thought there was a rule in place about finishing a book.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #102 on: February 16, 2010, 01:41:12 PM »
There is such a rule but sometimes you have to make exceptions.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #103 on: February 16, 2010, 02:00:55 PM »
Quote from: Mrs. Peach on February 16, 2010, 01:18:22 PM
I finished it but that was back when I thought there was a rule in place about finishing a book.


THERE IS  >:(
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #104 on: February 18, 2010, 11:24:50 AM »
Im reading Frankie Boyles autobiography.

So funny
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #105 on: February 19, 2010, 05:53:58 AM »
I've only ever had two books I couldn't read to the end. Well, three if you count the one which got blown up by the bomb squad...

Just Finished 'Unseen Academicals' by Terry Pratchett. Very good,and a return to form after a couple of iffy ones.

Now reading 'Bad Science' by Ben Goldcare.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #106 on: February 19, 2010, 11:32:41 AM »
I've finished those plays by Joe Orton, and I've since read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. I'm now reading The Waterfall by Margaret Drabble.


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Quote from: Lord Wilmore on February 14, 2010, 06:31:51 AM
...and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (which was brilliant). ...

I saw that on Broadway on my very first trip to New York long ago and now I can't remember too much of the plot.


Didn't see this post until now, but reading it, I found Arcadia one of the most affecting plays I've ever read. Witty, philosophical and above all beautiful, I think that on the page at least it's a masterpiece.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #107 on: February 26, 2010, 09:34:56 PM »
night side series again. a really fun world. although the later books seem to get a little religious for my taste.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #108 on: February 27, 2010, 01:31:31 PM »
I've finished The Waterfall, and I've since read The Gunslinger by Stephen King. I'm now reading The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #109 on: February 27, 2010, 02:41:01 PM »
I'm almost through my rereading of the whole Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #110 on: February 28, 2010, 04:43:12 PM »
We should have had a DT reading group.  I love that series, it's probably been long enough since I read them that I could read them again.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #111 on: March 01, 2010, 07:56:59 AM »
I just heard so many people talking about it on here that I thought I should give it a read. Also, I somehow managed to pick up the 4th book in the series (Wizard and Glass) about 9 years ago, not realising that it was, you know, the 4th book in a series. Always said I'd eventually read the series to justify buying that book =)
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #112 on: March 01, 2010, 08:02:17 AM »
Quote from: Lord Wilmore on March 01, 2010, 07:56:59 AM
Always said I'd eventually read the series to justify buying that book =)

Yup, that's the second rule of the bibliophile; purchases must be justified.  :)
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #113 on: March 06, 2010, 01:53:36 PM »
I've finished The Drawing of the Three, and I'm now reading The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #114 on: March 06, 2010, 08:44:23 PM »
I'm reading Moomin comic strips, volume 1
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #115 on: March 07, 2010, 11:37:09 PM »
Alice in Wonderland. I have it on my iPhone from Classics, along with Through the Looking Glass.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #116 on: March 08, 2010, 02:55:51 PM »
Right now I'm reading The Stranger by Albert Camus, but it's such a quick read I'll probably be done tonight.

Quote from: Space Cowgirl on February 28, 2010, 04:43:12 PM
We should have had a DT reading group.  I love that series, it's probably been long enough since I read them that I could read them again.

I'd totally read it all again if we were to have a reading group.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #117 on: March 09, 2010, 08:26:35 AM »
Cool! We should try to get one going.  People who just read it all wouldn't need to read it again to participate, since it should still be fresh in their memory.  

I'll start a thread and see if there's any interest.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #118 on: March 09, 2010, 03:32:04 PM »
I've finished The Remains of the Day, and I'm now reading Possession by A.S. Byatt.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #119 on: March 12, 2010, 06:38:41 PM »
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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