01.04.2008, 02:42 PM | #961 |
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Just finished Vicki Hendricks' Miami Purity, twisted noir with an extremely horny main character. I liked it so much I just checked out 2 others by her from the library. They haven't got the latest Richard Marinick or Archer Mayor novels in yet.
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Yes, but I associate it with my college sophomore lit class (I was an English minor) and studying it was not as enjoyable as reading it. Bad memories.
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01.04.2008, 10:28 PM | #963 |
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I ordered Brandon Boyd's books White Fluffy Clouds, and From the Murks of the Sultry Abyss, for Christmas and they arrived yesterday. Fantastic books. Talented guy.
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01.05.2008, 12:03 AM | #964 |
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I'm reading it for non-school related, me-related purposes. It's excellent.
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01.05.2008, 10:08 AM | #965 |
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Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran.
Really good travel writing - focuses in on the history and Persian art, and skims much of the off-putting modern day politics.
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01.05.2008, 10:22 AM | #966 |
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I started this a long time ago and for some reason reason didn't finish it. |
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01.05.2008, 01:18 PM | #967 |
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yesterday i've received in the mail a cheap copy of a book called junkie by a certain mr. william lee.
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01.05.2008, 02:24 PM | #968 |
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Kimberly Akimbo.
Actually one of the funniest things I've ever read.
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01.05.2008, 03:50 PM | #969 |
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Naked Lunch. I read parts of it at a younger age, but gave up. People tend to develope a better understanding and appreciation for literature at a more mature period in life.
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01.05.2008, 04:48 PM | #970 |
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The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
should be finishing that up today and then moving on to Goethe's Faust. |
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01.05.2008, 04:53 PM | #971 |
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finished turgenyv (or however his name is)- fathers and sons
very good book. liked it better than gogols dead sould (both of which i am reading fior a russian lit class) also reading, some dante and boccacio and anintroduction to structuralism book. lots of reading to do in a lit degree
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01.05.2008, 05:02 PM | #972 |
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I'm reading a couple at the moment, taking some of them really slowly though.
I'm almost finished the Rick Mercer Report book. It's pretty hilarious. (for the non-Canadian (I don't really think he's aired in the US...), Rick Mercer is a Can. television comedian/personality. Comparable to like... Jon Stewart's Daily Show I guess. Yeh... And the others: J.G. Ballard's Kingdom Come and John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. The Grapes of Wrath is incredible so far, but I'm taking it really slowly, and rereading a lot of the sections. I find it's written so beautifully that I can't help but reread certain bits.
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01.06.2008, 11:05 AM | #973 |
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Anne Somerset - Unnatural Murder
Michael Dibdin- Ratking |
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01.06.2008, 11:07 AM | #974 |
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01.06.2008, 11:25 AM | #975 |
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just finished:
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01.06.2008, 11:27 AM | #976 |
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After I finish those two I have this one lined up:
Zadie Smith - White Teeth |
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01.06.2008, 11:56 AM | #978 |
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so far, i'm liking it. |
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01.26.2008, 01:02 AM | #979 |
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i'm only on page 15 and already he has this to say about his memories of being sworn in as a senator: "Afterward, I watched the girls skip down the east Capitol steps, their pink dresses lifting gently in the air, the Supreme Court's white columns a majestic backdrop for their games." he's talking about looking up his daughter's skirt!
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01.26.2008, 02:58 AM | #980 |
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Currently Furious Gulf by Gregory Benford. "Hard science fiction" to be sure, but plenty of action at the black hole in the center of the galaxy.
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