07.01.2009, 11:16 PM | #1921 |
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"the island" by aldous huxley.
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07.03.2009, 07:19 AM | #1922 |
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anais nin's little birds. to feed my filthy mind and boredom.
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07.03.2009, 11:50 AM | #1923 |
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07.03.2009, 11:52 AM | #1924 | |
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07.03.2009, 01:52 PM | #1925 |
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07.03.2009, 05:31 PM | #1926 |
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Finished the collected Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories (1st & 2nd Book of Lankhmar) by Fritz Leiber.
I dunno what to read next, I buy too many books and then they pile up and then get forgotten about while reading something else and then I lose interest in them
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07.03.2009, 07:35 PM | #1927 | |
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i dont blame you, the thought crossed my mind a couple times. but i figured i would power through it. did you ever read brave new world? that was a great book. |
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07.03.2009, 07:41 PM | #1928 |
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Yeah, I really liked brave new world. The Island just seemed to wander on for flippin ages. I really wanted to get into it but it just seemed to be a bloke on a beach, from what I could gather.
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07.03.2009, 07:42 PM | #1929 |
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yeah thats a good summation of what ive read so far.
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07.04.2009, 11:09 PM | #1930 |
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My book list to read:
Dracula - halfway done and slowly moving. Good Omens by Gaiman Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas Monkey Bridge Candide Utopia Ecstasy Club Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Gideon (some novel that just sounded interesting, not some hidden gem) A Christmas Carol(just cause) Caffeine for the Creative Mind (some creativity stimulus book) The Hardcore Diaries (3rd Mick Foley book)
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07.04.2009, 11:17 PM | #1931 |
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took me a week but finally finished it tonight. great read. never would of guessed how it ended. metaphor for american society? i think so |
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07.04.2009, 11:51 PM | #1932 |
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07.07.2009, 06:35 PM | #1933 |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain gathering dust unread in the bookcase: American Splendor - Harvey Pekar, various - I got this for a birthday or christmas a few years ago :\ Don Quixote - Cervantes - got to page 736 of 982 and gave up, it was a slog Collected Short Stories, vol IV - Philip K. Dick - read some The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens - wanted to start on Dickens, picked wrong book The Great Dune Trilogy - Frank Herbert - read Dune The Complete Chronicles of Conan - Robert E. Howard - read the first ten short stories Les Miserabes - Victor Hugo The Garden Party (and other stories) - Katherine Mansfield - had this in year 11 literature, still haven't read it Everyman's Library Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - been putting this off for years Tierra del Fuego - Jennifer Strauss - same as Garden Party to read pile: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Everyman's Library The Maltese Falcon/The Thin Man/Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett Everyman's Library The Dain Curse/The Glass Key/Selected Short Stories - Dashiell Hammett The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco American Tabloid - James Ellroy The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy I plan on reading those last two when Bloods A Rover is released at the end of September. I find it very hard to pick out 'modern' literature to read, I never know what to do or source to turn to
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07.08.2009, 09:33 PM | #1934 |
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W.G Sebald - Rings Of Saturn
About halfway through this, not liking it as much as i did Austerlitz. |
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07.08.2009, 11:41 PM | #1935 |
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since quite a few of you are into science fiction, I might as well post this here...
At the Science Fiction Message Board, it is our ambition to have a thread for every notable science fiction author, bar none! We would particularly welcome your book reviews, links to relevant websites, personal reminiscences, cover scans, recommendations, and anything else that seems relevant. Discussion is always encouraged. One of the main ways we add to our list is holding our annual "Author August" post-a-thon. This event, now in its 4th year, spotlights a different SF writer for every day of this hot summer month. To choose which authors to focus on, we need your assistance. The list below shows all the authors we've added to our August assembly over the past few years. We'd like to add a few other names, old or new, for 2009. The names with an asterisk against them were covered in 2008, so we don't want to feature them again this year. Authors from previous years, however, are eligible for a reappearance if you've got somebody you would really like to discuss this August. So, who do you want to see on our August 2009 roster? Let us know by posting in this Nomination Thread! The only rule (besides that the authors should at least write some science fiction, of course!) is that after you have nominated an author, you should wait until another person has made the next nomination before you suggest another yourself. In a couple of weeks we'll be posting a calendar showing who will be celebrated on each day of the month. We hope you will be able to drop by regularly to join in our month-long celebration of the people who make science fiction possible for us all to enjoy! Douglas Adams Brian W. Aldiss Poul Anderson Piers Anthony Isaac Asimov J. G. Ballard * Iain M. Banks * Elizabeth Bear Greg Bear Gregory Benford Alfred Bester * Lloyd Biggle Jr. Leigh Brackett * Ray Bradbury Marion Zimmer Bradley David Brin Fredric Brown * Rosel George Brown John Brunner Algis Budrys Kenneth Bulmer * Edgar Rice Burroughs Octavia Butler * Pat Cadigan John W. Campbell Orson Scott Card C. J. Cherryh * Arthur C. Clarke Peter David L. Sprague de Camp * Storm Constantine Samuel R. Delany Phillip K. Dick Gordon R. Dickson Thomas M Disch David Drake Harlan Ellison Phillip Jose Farmer * Neil Gaiman Hugo Gernsback * William Gibson Kathleen Ann Goonan Edmond Hamilton * Peter F. Hamilton Harry Harrison M. John Harrison * Robert A. Heinlein * Zenna Henderson Frank Herbert Nalo Hopkinson Daniel Keyes * Caitlin Kiernan Damon Knight C. M. Kornbluth Nancy Kress Henry Kuttner * Keith Laumer * Tanith Lee * Ursula K. LeGuin Fritz Leiber Murray Leinster * Stanislaw Lem H. P. Lovecraft * Katherine MacLean Anne McCaffrey * J.T. McIntosh * Vonda McIntyre Judith Merril Pat Mills Walter M. Miller, Jr * Elizabeth Moon * Michael Moorcock C. L. Moore Larry Niven Andre Norton Chad Oliver Alexie Panshin Marge Piercy * H. Beam Piper Frederik Pohl Jerry Pournelle Alastair Reynolds Adam Roberts Keith Roberts Spider Robinson Justina Robson Joanna Russ Eric Frank Russell Fred Saberhagen Nick Sagan John Scalzi Robert Sheckley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Nevil Shute Robert Silverberg Clifford D. Simak Cordwainer Smith Norman Spinrad Neal Stephenson * Bruce Sterling Sheri S Tepper James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon) Harry Turtledove Jack Vance * Jules Verne * Joan D. Vinge * Vernor Vinge A. E. Van Vogt Kurt Vonnegut Howard Waldrop Ian Watson H. G. Wells Walter Jon Williams Jack Williamson * Chelsea Quinn Yarbro * Roger Zelazny Is somebody important still missing! Nominate them NOW! |
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07.09.2009, 05:39 PM | #1937 |
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again.
burroughs. i just adore him.
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07.09.2009, 05:46 PM | #1939 |
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^ dude. that is so next on my list! no way i will ever get thru the actual pride & prejudice. but add zombies to anything and it makes everything better.
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