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Post by Maidli on Jan 7, 2012 18:05:13 GMT -5
millenium
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Post by elanor on Jan 8, 2012 12:18:08 GMT -5
I'd like to read "Millennium". I always forget about this book.  I can recommend "The Master and Margarita" of course ;D. I like very much “Crime and punishment” by Dostoyevsky, “1984” and “Animal farm” by Orwell. I'm reading Henning Mankell's books. He is a great crime writer. |
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Post by silence on Jan 8, 2012 13:06:33 GMT -5
As an aside, this lot do some great literary T-Shirts (I have the Master & Matgarita and Animal Farm ones!) www.the-affair.com/They do very short print runs though  |
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Post by elanor on Jan 8, 2012 13:31:32 GMT -5
Wow, cool T-Shirts. There's "The Raven"!  I love E. A. Poe. |
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Post by Maidli on Jan 8, 2012 18:35:17 GMT -5
Poe is funtastic. And grim. So I m happy if you enjoy. And for millennium I m end of the 2nd actually (somwtimes i should get some rest) and surprisingly I first didn't want to get inside. But intrigued and... I fell. With no regret. Maybe the world described too industrial and not pure enough for me, but its  . ...a pity Larsson leaved this world as Vangogh did... i mean not famous |
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Post by Maidli on Jan 9, 2012 3:09:23 GMT -5
I have the Master & Matgarita (  ;D Great site !! |
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Post by mire on Jan 14, 2012 18:20:15 GMT -5
Love Millennium, I'm just gonna start the third one tonight :-)
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Post by Psychotropic Snake on Jan 15, 2012 9:12:50 GMT -5
A girlfriend of mine will borrow me Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart. She's been waxing poetic about how great Murakami is so my interest is piqued.
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Post by frauleinkül on Feb 9, 2012 11:30:17 GMT -5
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Post by Shoesh on Feb 9, 2012 13:18:36 GMT -5
A girlfriend of mine will borrow me Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart. She's been waxing poetic about how great Murakami is so my interest is piqued. Huge fan but have not read that one yet. Let me know! |
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Post by Psychotropic Snake on Feb 10, 2012 6:20:49 GMT -5
A girlfriend of mine will borrow me Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart. She's been waxing poetic about how great Murakami is so my interest is piqued. Huge fan but have not read that one yet. Let me know! I will! I will have to wait some more to get the book but I'm definitely looking forward to it. My friend has been telling me insane things about Murakami. She also told me that there are lots of suicidal people in Murakami's books LOL. Not a problem, though. Right now I'm reading "Metallica and Philosophy", by various authors. It's a series of essays that draw parallels between the themes in Metallica's lyrics and the ideas of philosophers such as Socrates, Nietzsche, Mill, Kierkegaard and others. Haven't finished it yet but it's a good read. |
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Post by solitude on Feb 10, 2012 7:08:19 GMT -5
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Very interesting and she has an awesome sense of humor.
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Post by siner on Feb 10, 2012 13:12:20 GMT -5
Religion for Atheists - Alain De Botton
Its nice to read something on the subject without the author being militant or Richard Dawkins
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Post by elanor on Feb 10, 2012 14:09:21 GMT -5
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
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Post by Psychotropic Snake on Mar 31, 2012 2:52:09 GMT -5
Ok... so I read Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart at last. I liked it very much... very intense, introverted characters, very Japanese in a way. It shows that he's read quite a few books and listened to a good deal of classical music. His style is never too heavy handed or "purple". I'm somewhat of a sucker for books like this one so my judgement might be biased, but well... I recommend it.
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Post by elanor on Apr 4, 2012 12:09:37 GMT -5
Stephen King-The Dark Tower; combination of fantasy, horror, western. I love this series.
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Post by Shoesh on Apr 4, 2012 16:11:59 GMT -5
Man, I loved reading the dark tower books!
Hopefully they get the mini-series or movie?? sorted.
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Post by elanor on Apr 5, 2012 9:07:14 GMT -5
I heard that they want to make a film (directed by Ron Howard?), but they're high costs of production, or something. Anyway, I'm afraid, because some of adaptations of his books are shitty. But it would be very interesting to see Roland and my favorite character, Blaine the Mono in the movie. |
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Post by ohthewater on Apr 5, 2012 18:59:11 GMT -5
Just Kids-Patti Smith about her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. It was really beautiful how they were able to remain so close. She really brought the NY art world in the late 1960's early 1970's to life.
and her love for him and support for his very controversial work really came through.
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Post by barriers on Apr 18, 2012 16:43:31 GMT -5
I've been on a lovely reading binge since finishing off Ulysses. I've finished a few that were backing up my queue, mostly American South/Southern Gothic stuff like 'Light in August' by Faulkner which I'm reading now. After that I hope to dive into 'Wise Blood' by O'Connor and 'Blood Meridian' by McCarthy but in between all those books I'd like a throw in something different so I need peoples help.
Should I read Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. or Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury?
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Post by elanor on Apr 18, 2012 17:05:21 GMT -5
Should I read Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. or Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury? I've finished Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-five, Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions. And I can say that I love Vonnegut. science-fiction, specific sense of humor, satire |
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Post by barriers on Apr 18, 2012 17:41:06 GMT -5
I'm sold. Thank you very much.
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Post by beyondthepale on Apr 18, 2012 21:41:35 GMT -5
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Post by solitude on Apr 20, 2012 6:21:41 GMT -5
I've been on a lovely reading binge since finishing off Ulysses. I've finished a few that were backing up my queue, mostly American South/Southern Gothic stuff like 'Light in August' by Faulkner which I'm reading now. After that I hope to dive into 'Wise Blood' by O'Connor and 'Blood Meridian' by McCarthy but in between all those books I'd like a throw in something different so I need peoples help. Should I read Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. or Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury? Definitely make time for Bradbury too. He started me on my sci-fi journey. I just read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (such a classic!) to my son, and this weekend we are starting Mars by Ben Bova. ;D |
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Post by frauleinkül on Apr 21, 2012 2:30:52 GMT -5
Should I read Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. or Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury? I haven't read of these (ye!t) but I'll suggest Arkady & Boris Strugatsky's "Roadside Picnic". It's a strange and sombre book. And one of my favourite films (Tarkovsky's "Stalker") was loosely based on it. I recently finished China Mielville's "Perdido Street Station" - this fantasy/new weird thing. It's a really good read, well written, an interesting (and weird!) world that really comes to life, robots are a peculiar existence, and moths are scary! |
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I love E. A. Poe.
. ...a pity Larsson leaved this world as Vangogh did... i mean not famous
;D
