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28-07-2009, 09:07 | #48 |
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I'm reading "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol, for the book club. Love it so far, very funny.
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28-07-2009, 22:04 | #50 |
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Reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - really love the way she sees things.
Saw that they are making this into a film - I would hope it would be a lovely little quirky indie flick, but that's not gonna happen! ![]() |
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29-07-2009, 21:33 | #51 | |
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Also reading Dead Souls and Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness. |
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30-07-2009, 00:54 | #52 | |
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Just finished tonight - really loved it. Looking forward to seeing the film. Yeah with Peter Jackson behind it, might not be bad at all. The character Hal isn't in it, but usually characters get chopped from books. Really like the grandma character - Susan Sarandon is playing her |
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30-07-2009, 12:38 | #53 | |
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![]() Great book. Didn't like particularly like one part of the ending (Spoiler: the bit at the sink hole/garage where Susie comes inhabits Ruths body), but it really was a brilliant book. Started "Catcher In The Rye" by J.D. Sallinger now |
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30-07-2009, 17:19 | #54 | |
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re Catcher in the Rye - excellent book. A masterpiece! One of my favourites. |
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31-07-2009, 23:30 | #55 |
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Shantaram
Have just finished Shantaram
Australian author who has lived in the slums of Bombay, and you almost expect to be enriched by some sort of karmic philosophy. Philosophy and spiritual journey or not, this certainly is no karma in a bottle. The story of Shantaram is a story of adventure and daring, a fictionalized account of the life of author Gregory David Roberts who escaped an Australian prison and moved to Bombay to spend almost a decade of his life in the slums and underworld of this city. Richly recommend this but not to be taken too seriously I wondered if some of the pieces are the author ruuning riot from films he has seen. ![]() |
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31-07-2009, 23:42 | #56 |
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In the past week I have read Baudolino by Umberto Eco and Death and the Penguin for the book club. Currently half way through the (hilarious) 1889 novel, 'Three Men in a Boat' by Jerome K. Jerome.
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04-08-2009, 18:15 | #58 |
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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
It's... all right. |
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06-08-2009, 09:15 | #59 |
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"Act like a lady, think like a man" by Steve Harvey
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