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Almost done reading "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.
Interesting book. However, I think it could have had the same impact on me had it been 500 pages shorter. I have about 50 pages or so to finish which I will probably go through tonight before bed.
After that I'm planning to read "Mr. Murder" by Dean Koontz and hopefully borrow the last two Dark Tower books from a friend to finish reading the series.
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- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand - Les contemplations by Victor Hugo -and again, the constitution.
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Fiction: Haruki Murakami - Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Non-fiction: Haruki Murakami - UndergroundPosts: 4519 | Registered: Sep 2003
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I just finished Bloodchild and other stories by Octavia Butler, and have started Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.
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Oh, Portabello, I own Parable of the Sower- it's at home, though, and so I can't read it until Saturday, but I'd be interested in knowing what you thought! Posts: 8473 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Currently NOT reading: G.R.R. Martin - A game of thrones
I ordered it at a multi-lingual bookshop around three weeks ago, and it's still not here... The funny thing is that I have all the other books from the series, but not the first one! Oh well, I'll go on reading "Darwin's Radio" until then...
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It's due out sometime this month and it's about Dracula. Kind of along the lines of the Da Vinci Code, et al, but it's a lot more detailed and better written.
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I don't remember the translator, but the copy of "The Aeneid" that I read started: "I sing of arms and of the man", which incidentally, is my favorite opening line of anything I have ever read.
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Just finished re-reading the Sevenwaters trilogy by Juliet Marillier - great read for Irish/Celtic mythology or history enthusiasts who don't mind a little romance-centred narrative.
Currently: "The Merlin Conspiracy" by Diana Wynne Jones "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman "Green Dolphin Street" by Elizabeth Goudge
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now reading "Fiend" by Jemiah Jefferson. It was a book of the week selection from my email horror book club thing. Every day for 5 days they email a chapter of a book, then take a week plus a weekend off. So you only get selections every other week. This one is a vampire story, the first couple chapters reminded me very much of Anne Rice.
Next on the list, "The Nameless Day" by Sara Douglass.
I can't read multiple books at the same time like some people <eyes Astaril's reading list>
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And I can't read just one like other people! It all depends on my mood. I get very specific book-cravings for certain character types or worlds or things. Does anyone else? Also, I've got to have one for the kitchen when I'm waiting for toast to pop, one that fits in my coat pocket for reading while I walk, etcetera.
And I just started "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" again last night in anticipation for Book 6!
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I tend to go by author. I'll read more or less randomly for a while until I read something that strikes my fancey, and then I'll read a lot from that author. I'm about to finish everything that Octavia Butler has published. Posts: 16551 | Registered: Feb 2003
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mph, consider yourself lucky to be able to afford/find so many books from the same author!
I read most of the SF books as they were translated into Romanian, but there have been periods when I would take everything I had by one author and reread them. It was really interesting when I did this with Ph. K. Dick's novels, as there are so many of the same elements/ideas that appear in most of them that you actually feel like you're inside a specific universe.
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Psychologie de la bataille (battle psychology) by Anatoli Karpov and Jean-François Phelizon (very interesting comparaison between chess and business world, with lot of anecdotes) Oscar et la dame rose by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (Beautiful !) Quatrevingt-treize by Victor Hugo
And I'm reading two books : Integral text of François Villon's poetry (from the XVth century) The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway
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The 6th Harry Potter...I got an advance copy...Just kidding, I'm reading for the first time Foundation and Empire, which I'm absolutely loving. Is the third book in the Foundation trilogy as good as this one?
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I made a deal with a housemate of mine that I'd read the first Wheel of Time book if she read Ender's Game. Needless to say she finished a few days ago while I still have a ways to go... But I think I got her hooked. =)
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If it helps ailurophobic Crime and Punishment is excellent. I'm a tad iffy on the last 2 though. I'm glad to see that people are reading Murakami, the few books I've read of his were amazing.
Currently Reading : Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
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Syrup by Max Barry Regina's Song by David Eddings The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
I usually don't like reading more than two books at once.
Once classes begin again, most of my reading time will be spent on non-fiction - granted, Herodotus can be just as fantastic as fiction! (I'll probably have time for 1 or 2 non-assigned books a month). So I'm getting a lot of 'fun' books done this summer.
Edit: *sigh* My dad just informed me that I am reading more than one book at a time because I don't like any of them.
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Hm, someone else on this page was reading The Once and Future King but T.H. White. That's what I'm reading now and I love it. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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On deck: The next Homecoming OSC book. Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett The rest of the Drizzt Do'Urden seriesPosts: 1236 | Registered: Mar 2002
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I am completely and utterly embarrassed to say that I read Shadow Puppets, and the whole time, I felt like OSC was copping out, making these relationships jump so quickly into depth, from out of nowhere.
Well, then I realized I was not reading the second book in the series, but the third.
And I felt really dumb. But here I am confessing my groupie sin.
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