I'm reading The Bonfire of the Vanities at the moment. I'm finding it very difficult to finish because all I do is write on the internet all day.
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Just finished The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Safón. Very good book.
That was my last new book I have here. I need to raid my parents bookshelf when I visit them next time.
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Stephen King's "Duma Key" is my current vice, although I'm nearly done. Aside from that I'm going through my Lovecraft collection again and I just picked up a shiny new copy of Watchmen to replace the one I appear to have lost somewhere.
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Nice.
I might try some Dickens next. I've never read any of them, for some reason.
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I'm in the process of going through Tolkien. I've finished LOTR and The Hobbit, and am now on the Appendices of LOTR, before reading the Silmarillion.
Also, Syrok, I just wiki'd that book and it looks very interesting, I might have to pick it up sometime.
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Do it. It is one of the best books I've read over the last few years.
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Just finished The Black Swan by N. N. Taleb, really interesting read, and stuck in the middle of Crónica de una muerte anunciada by G. G. Márquez, which is beautifully written.
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Did you read it in Spanish?
I've only read One Hundred Years of Solitude by him. Amazing book. Started Love in the Time of Cholera, but just wasn't in the mood.
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Yes, I'm already forgetting most of the language, and I wanted to counter that. Planning to read Love itTo Cholera next, I just love Márquez' style.
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God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (one of our finest polemicists).
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Can't go wrong with a bit of Dickens. Even if you have seen the movie, great expectations floated my boat and is recommended for a good all rounder.
I'm reading through 'The selfish gene' at the minute and just can't seem to get the time to read more than a couple of pages before sleep-sleeps comes a crawling.
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I might give Great Expectations a waz. Good a place to start as any.
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Oh, and being one of the funniest saddest stories ever written, read "Froth on the Daydream" by Boris Vian if it ever comes your way. This book is pure genius.
And I love the stuff Susanna Clarke is producing, that "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" was sweet escapism.
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Patrick Garratt
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I might give Great Expectations a waz. Good a place to start as any.Aye. If it doesn't grab you by the first few chapters it probably won't. I loved the whole thing but I thought it began well.
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Haruki Murakami is my favourite author. I started off on his short stories - perfect for commuting - After the Quake & The Elephant Vanishes - and moved on to the full novels. Beautiful characterisation and usually a slightly bizarre edge to the stories. His best is "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World". A nice mix of fantasy and sci-fi.
The stories rarely come to a set conclusion or end and leave you plenty to think about.
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DrDamn: I've just been recommended that book by a friend, looking forward to reading it soon :)
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I've only read Norwegian Wood by him, but I loved it. Read it in two sittings, I think. Very gentle book, I thought.
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"maus"andalso"jonathanstrangeandmrnorrell".mausisamazinglol
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I keep not buying Maus. So I'll stop that.
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The Algebraist by Iain M Banks. Not as boring as it sounds.
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