07.02.2008, 02:17 AM | #1281 |
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George Orwell's 1984.
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07.02.2008, 02:38 AM | #1282 |
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I just read Buried Child by Sam Shepard. Weird shit. I liked it, but felt really uneasy afterwards. Claustrophobic, even. Not a comfortable ending. I think I need to see it to get the full effect, though.
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07.02.2008, 02:42 AM | #1283 |
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Re-reading Catcher in the Rye and Final Crisis #2 (Grant Morrison can be so obtuse).
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07.02.2008, 09:43 PM | #1284 |
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07.02.2008, 09:49 PM | #1285 |
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I just started The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds. This novel is set in the Revelation Space universe, but before the melding plague has taken out the glitter belt. A prefect is a sort of local space cop, and this is apparently a rather space cop sort of book. It feels great to be back in this universe, which is interesting given all the rough things that happen to the people who actually live in it!
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07.02.2008, 10:37 PM | #1286 |
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skinny legs and all - tom robbins
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07.05.2008, 03:07 PM | #1287 |
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Froth On The Daydream by Boris Vian.
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07.08.2008, 05:39 PM | #1288 | |
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is surprisingly amazing. I've avoided it for absolutely aeons. I'd be surprised if I hadn't finished all of the 'utter prick staple books' litany by the time I'm 30. Happy times.
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07.08.2008, 05:46 PM | #1289 |
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I had to read The Parson's Tale for 'O' level Eng Lit. It's still, to this day, the only thing I can quote to any great degree.
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07.08.2008, 06:05 PM | #1290 | |
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O-level? Surely you must mean A-level? There's no such qualification as O.
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07.08.2008, 06:14 PM | #1293 |
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just finished Perec's - W or the memory of childhood,in the next week - Raymond Queneau's - The Bark Tree.
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07.08.2008, 06:15 PM | #1294 |
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I'm reading the fourth book in the Hitchhiker's Trilogy, So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish.
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07.08.2008, 08:30 PM | #1295 |
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Isaac Bashevis Singer - In My Father's Court
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07.08.2008, 08:44 PM | #1296 |
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These are on my nightstand right now, even though I'm not reading them yet. They're re-reads anyway.
92 in the Shade by Thomas McGuane (one of my favorite novels ever) The Quiet American by Graham Greene The White Album by Joan Didion
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07.08.2008, 08:51 PM | #1297 |
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Starting back Ulysses tomorrow night, hoping to finish it by the weeks end.
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07.08.2008, 09:05 PM | #1298 |
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