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This week, I are mostly reading....

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,689 BossArky
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    The Third Police Man - Flann O'Brien.

    Recently finished these:
    • The Dice Man - George Cockcroft
    • The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 jackbhoy
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    Caligula and other plays (Cross Purpose, The Just & The Possessed) by
    Albert Camus.

    3 acts through Claligula and excellent so far!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 John
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    Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima. Stunning.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 buck65
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    Bukowski - tales of ordinary madness


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 markw999
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    Then We Came To An End - Joshua Ferris

    The first decent book I've read in aaagessss....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 AJG
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    'Poor Folk and Other Stories' - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,010 GhostInTheRuins
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    Collected Short Stories - James Plunkett


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 BaZmO*
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    Finished "The Sea" by John Banville yesterday. Beautiful read but took a while.

    Started on "Th Game" by Neil Strauss now. Talk about polar opposites! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 BurnsCarpenter
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    About 1/3 of the way through The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, very enjoyable so far.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 mcgovern
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    A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,337 monkey9
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    Nearly finished A Hero Of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 237 nerdysal
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    Size Doesn't Matter: A Heather Wells Mystery- Meg Cabot


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,010 GhostInTheRuins
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    Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,770 shockwave
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    The Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett, a bit on the slow side but not too bad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,234 Malteaser!
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    The World According to Garp - John Irving.

    Good book though not nearly as good a read as A Prayer for Owen Meaney.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,181 Jim
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    Look To Winward - Iain M. Banks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,611 Sconsey
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    The End of Mr. Y, Scarlett Thomas......mehh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 mcgovern
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    Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 John
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    Milton by William Blake and The Sea by John Banville.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 The_Minister
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    "A brief history of Time" by Stephen Hawking.


    Turns out the singularity did it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 kraggy
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    The Shadow of the Wind


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 Darondo


    'There are Little Kingdoms' by Kevin Barry


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44 skybluejay


    Just finished The Bell Jar (and erm.. My Booky Wook by Russell Brand).

    Now reading The Sea by John Banville. A fair few people are reading it at the moment - might they have been prompted to buy it by the recent documentary on Banville, as I was? It's brilliant anyway.

    I'm also reading Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, which I'm not loving all that much yet, but I suppose I've 600 odd pages to warm to it. And Rebecca and Rowena by W.M. Thackeray. It's pretty poor, in my opinion, but perhaps it was a mistake to buy a book which is a parody of 'Ivanhoe', never having read 'Ivanhoe'. Ah well.

    Oh, and Henry James' Portrait of a Lady, but that's kind of on the back burner at the moment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 AJG
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    'Master and Man and Other Stories' - Leo Tolstoy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 263 rowlandbrowner
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    How it Ended by Jay McInerney

    collection of short stories


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 emkey
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    Robin Hobb "Assassin's Quest" - third instalment of the Farseer Trilogy. good one!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 BaZmO*
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    Just finished "The Game" by Neil Strauss. Good read but are some people really that socially retarded? Could of done with taken out about 100 pages from the middle section though as it dragged a bit.

    Starting on "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,978 Capt'n Midnight
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    Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
    Always have problems with the characters, but the SciFi is excellent. Might have to go and re-read the others again


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 148 landmonster
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    The order of the Phoenix park - Twenty Major


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 817 YogiBear
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    "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" Milan Kundera


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