what are you reading? - Page 98

EVOLghost · 07.09.2009, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Zombie Robot

^ 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.

I really do think they should make many more books like this one. I mean...you are right...zombies make everything better.

Rob Instigator · 07.09.2009, 10:28 PM

perverzion · 07.09.2009, 10:41 PM

Jean Baudrillard - "Symbolic Exchange and Death"

Dead-Air · 07.09.2009, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

I don't see Gene Wolfe on that list.

He wasn't, but then he was nominated this year. Was it you?

Zombie Robot · 07.11.2009, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

how is this? i had forgotten about it, but am very interested.

me. · 07.11.2009, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by perverzion

Jean Baudrillard - "Symbolic Exchange and Death"

Any good?.

phoenix · 07.11.2009, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

reading:
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

are you seriously reading this many books at once?

There is no way I could have more than one or two on the go at once.. between reading a little of each I'd get lost and have to re-read back. Surely it is easier to just finish them before moving on? Or thats just me.. ?

dirty bunny · 07.11.2009, 01:25 PM

Maybe he's an android? I can juggle two books- as long as I'm mainly reading one and only going back to the other occasionally. But any more than that and I'd lose the plot completely.

Lamont Cranston · 07.11.2009, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by phoenix

are you seriously reading this many books at once?

There is no way I could have more than one or two on the go at once.. between reading a little of each I'd get lost and have to re-read back. Surely it is easier to just finish them before moving on? Or thats just me.. ?

One at a time, what else? You didn't see that only one book, Huck Finn, is listed under "Reading" or that I got two of the books 6 years ago and still haven't read them?

phoenix · 07.13.2009, 07:40 AM

ah, I missed the part underneath.... just saw the long list of books. My mistake.

Seandi · 07.13.2009, 03:15 PM

automatic bzooty · 07.13.2009, 03:34 PM

still on american psycho. alternating between digging it and fucking hating it.

two things from my last library run that i have yet to start:
haunted - chuck palahniuk
pattern recogniton - william gibson (huh, i wonder why)

Lamont Cranston · 07.13.2009, 04:32 PM

Well I finished Huck Finn. That was from the gathering dust unread in the bookcase pile. The last chapters where Tom Sawyer shows up and is crazy were a bit of a slog.
On to Sense and Sensibility from the to read pile. I read Pride and Predjudice in high school, it was good.

floatingslowly · 07.13.2009, 07:17 PM

the Pantyface Trilogy - In-house Author

Pantyface
Pantyface 2: Pantyface Goes Down
Pantyface 3: Pantyface Rides Again

I think they are worth $8 each.

dirty bunny · 07.13.2009, 08:24 PM

Poor pantyface. The only way he can see is when his trousers are undone.

Lamont Cranston · 07.14.2009, 02:57 AM

is that supposed to be like the Fudge books?

floatingslowly · 07.14.2009, 08:28 AM

by fudge, I assume you mean dirty panties?

don't ask me. girlgun wrote them.

StevOK · 07.14.2009, 05:10 PM

Currently reading Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut.

Lamont Cranston · 07.16.2009, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by floatingslowly

by fudge, I assume you mean dirty panties?

don't ask me. girlgun wrote them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfudge

Rob Instigator · 07.16.2009, 02:23 PM

I am reading the TRAVEL issue right now.
Lapham's Quarterly is a great periodical done by Harper's Magazine's old Editor In Chief. Each issue deals with a different topic, (War, Travel, Eros, Money, Nature) and has images and text all from first-hand sources detailing the history of humanity as it relates to the issue's main topic.
great stuff

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dirty bunny expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: oh, why Texas actually Posts: 1,680	Maybe he's an android? I can juggle two books- as long as I'm mainly reading one and only going back to the other occasionally. But any more than that and I'd lose the plot completely. __________________ kiss me kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
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automatic bzooty invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,859	still on american psycho. alternating between digging it and fucking hating it. two things from my last library run that i have yet to start: haunted - chuck palahniuk pattern recogniton - william gibson (huh, i wonder why)
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Lamont Cranston 100% Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 725	Well I finished Huck Finn. That was from the gathering dust unread in the bookcase pile. The last chapters where Tom Sawyer shows up and is crazy were a bit of a slog. On to Sense and Sensibility from the to read pile. I read Pride and Predjudice in high school, it was good. __________________ This is how it will all end: not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or gigantic crabs roaming the Earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.
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floatingslowly invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 21,165	the Pantyface Trilogy - In-house Author Pantyface Pantyface 2: Pantyface Goes Down Pantyface 3: Pantyface Rides Again I think they are worth $8 each.
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dirty bunny expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: oh, why Texas actually Posts: 1,680	Poor pantyface. The only way he can see is when his trousers are undone. __________________ kiss me kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
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Lamont Cranston 100% Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 725	is that supposed to be like the Fudge books? __________________ This is how it will all end: not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or gigantic crabs roaming the Earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.
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floatingslowly invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 21,165	by fudge, I assume you mean dirty panties? don't ask me. girlgun wrote them.
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Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,978	I am reading the TRAVEL issue right now. Lapham's Quarterly is a great periodical done by Harper's Magazine's old Editor In Chief. Each issue deals with a different topic, (War, Travel, Eros, Money, Nature) and has images and text all from first-hand sources detailing the history of humanity as it relates to the issue's main topic. great stuff __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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