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I just finished Dune this week (too me a year. I is slow. )
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I'm reading The Way of Kings by Sanderson, and I'm also reading the awesome web serial Worm
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That's my favorite book ever. The sequels are shit, but the original is the absolute best.Epignosis wrote:I just finished Dune this week (too me a year. I is slow. )
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I avidly read all six books when I was young, but I now hardly remember anything. I liked them up to the Children, but after that, especially the last (official) one, they were pretty dire indeed.
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I need help, Syndicate! I just got back from a wonderful two week vacation during which I did no reading at all. Before I left, I had just finished book 6 of Paradise Lost. While I was on vacation, however, I found in a book store "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" by JRR Tolkien, and obscure piece of nerdity that I've been wanting to get my hands on for a number of years. It's a lovely day outside and something needs to be read. Do I continue with Milton, or do I indulge in my Tolkien excitement?
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Finish Milton first. The Adventures of Tom Bombadll is okay, but it is far from Tolkien's most interesting work. Personally, I regard Paradise Lost as the finest poem in the English language.Sloonei wrote:I need help, Syndicate! I just got back from a wonderful two week vacation during which I did no reading at all. Before I left, I had just finished book 6 of Paradise Lost. While I was on vacation, however, I found in a book store "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" by JRR Tolkien, and obscure piece of nerdity that I've been wanting to get my hands on for a number of years. It's a lovely day outside and something needs to be read. Do I continue with Milton, or do I indulge in my Tolkien excitement?
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I'm pleased to see you have such excellent taste in literature.
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I like a good story
I'm reading Paradise Lost mainly because i'm about to graduate college with a degree in English, but i've gone my entire academic career without reading it, one of the biggest fixtures in the English canon. It did not feel right. I have enjoyed it so far.
I'm reading Paradise Lost mainly because i'm about to graduate college with a degree in English, but i've gone my entire academic career without reading it, one of the biggest fixtures in the English canon. It did not feel right. I have enjoyed it so far.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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I have read Kafka on the Shore, and plan on getting to that book at some point.A Person wrote:The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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Yeah reading that made me really like his writing style so I wanted to read this too. Still enjoying his writing a lot.Metalmarsh89 wrote:I have read Kafka on the Shore, and plan on getting to that book at some point.A Person wrote:The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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I think both those books are among my favourite of his, although I'm slowly forgetting anything from his books except for Kafka, which I've read twice. I'm anxious to buy his new IQ84 trilogy, because I hear it's pretty caarp.
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Yeah I hear a lot of people really dislike it, but some people love it. I was interested in tackling it eventually but he has plenty of other books that I want to check out before that.
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Yeah I have read Kafka twice, one of my favourites. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle was really good also. I read the full 1Q84 trilogy and it didn't live up to my expectation of him as an author. It was much much too long. The story itself wasn't exactly terrible and I did enjoy many aspects of it. The format brought it down imo -- it focused on the main 2 characters the firt two books and each chapter was written from one of their perspectives and then in the third book a third character perspective was brought it. A lot of times, escpecially in the third book, there was an over lap with characters and you would just the same scenario from the other perspective -- so there was a lot of repetition. Typical Murakami style there was also charachters asking themselves a lot of questions, but the various characters were asking themselves a lot of the SAME questions and the multiple characters samey internal dialogues got a bit tedious.Ricochet wrote:I think both those books are among my favourite of his, although I'm slowly forgetting anything from his books except for Kafka, which I've read twice. I'm anxious to buy his new IQ84 trilogy, because I hear it's pretty caarp.
I'd check it out if you could get it out of a library or something. Some people think it's amazing, but it's a big book (or series of books) so I wouldn't really pay a fortune for it.
Has anyone read his newest book?
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Oh, also reading Ship of Magic the first book in the Liveshi Trilogy by Robin Hobb. I read one of her books last year and was hooked and have since read most of her fantasy series, albeit slightly out of order.
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I haven't read him in a long while and am not always up to date with his new works (IQ84 was an exception, since all the bookstores were plastered with it). So far I've read:Neverwhere wrote:Yeah I have read Kafka twice, one of my favourites. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle was really good also. I read the full 1Q84 trilogy and it didn't live up to my expectation of him as an author. It was much much too long. The story itself wasn't exactly terrible and I did enjoy many aspects of it. The format brought it down imo -- it focused on the main 2 characters the firt two books and each chapter was written from one of their perspectives and then in the third book a third character perspective was brought it. A lot of times, escpecially in the third book, there was an over lap with characters and you would just the same scenario from the other perspective -- so there was a lot of repetition. Typical Murakami style there was also charachters asking themselves a lot of questions, but the various characters were asking themselves a lot of the SAME questions and the multiple characters samey internal dialogues got a bit tedious.Ricochet wrote:I think both those books are among my favourite of his, although I'm slowly forgetting anything from his books except for Kafka, which I've read twice. I'm anxious to buy his new IQ84 trilogy, because I hear it's pretty caarp.
I'd check it out if you could get it out of a library or something. Some people think it's amazing, but it's a big book (or series of books) so I wouldn't really pay a fortune for it.
Has anyone read his newest book?
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Did you enjoy this one? This is the only one I've read side from Kafka, and I enjoyed it. But running is a hobby of mine, so I am curious if it still entertains for the non-runners.Ricochet wrote:What I Talk About Wen I Talk About Running
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I can also jog once a day for 30 minutes without having a heart attack.Metalmarsh89 wrote:Did you enjoy this one? This is the only one I've read side from Kafka, and I enjoyed it. But running is a hobby of mine, so I am curious if it still entertains for the non-runners.Ricochet wrote:What I Talk About Wen I Talk About Running
Very funny you should ask, though. I enjoyed him sharing so much about his hobby and the challenges he faced, but I didn't find any other literary qualities in the book, as a biographical excerpt/journal/whatev.
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I want to read these, as well as Sputnik Sweetheart and Norwegian Wood. Next up though I'm planning on reading Gravity's Rainbow, Henry made me want to read it years ago but I've never got around to it.Rico wrote:Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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I also got a recommendation from a non-Henry person to read it, but it must be like 3000 pages long and mneh, not in the mood yet.
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It is different from a standard running memoir. Normally when I've read books about running, the struggles are focused on the difficulty of the workouts, or severity of injuries and overcoming them. This one was quite different in that it focused on the personal interest, and the shift in that interest as his life continued to change its course. It was nice to read a book about running from a non-competitive runner because of this.Ricochet wrote:I can also jog once a day for 30 minutes without having a heart attack.Metalmarsh89 wrote:Did you enjoy this one? This is the only one I've read side from Kafka, and I enjoyed it. But running is a hobby of mine, so I am curious if it still entertains for the non-runners.Ricochet wrote:What I Talk About Wen I Talk About Running
Very funny you should ask, though. I enjoyed him sharing so much about his hobby and the challenges he faced, but I didn't find any other literary qualities in the book, as a biographical excerpt/journal/whatev.
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I've been reading Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (1996) for almost exactly a year and a half now. Last night I finally hit and blew past the halfway point. It's all downhill from here, right? Right?
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No. You have R-S-T on the back 13.G-Man wrote:I've been reading Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (1996) for almost exactly a year and a half now. Last night I finally hit and blew past the halfway point. It's all downhill from here, right? Right?
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R and T don't scare me much but P and S are the two longest sections. It only becomes insufferable when I get stuck in a long stretch of words with the same prefix. I can see that happening in both P and S.Epignosis wrote:No. You have R-S-T on the back 13.G-Man wrote:I've been reading Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (1996) for almost exactly a year and a half now. Last night I finally hit and blew past the halfway point. It's all downhill from here, right? Right?
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Back in high school a friend introduced me to the Mortal Instruments series and I rather enjoyed it, but never got to finish the series. I think the 5th book hadnt come out yet. That was quite a few years ago. So recently I got a library card and am starting to re-read teh series from the beginning.
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Started Dune Messiah yesterday.
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I am doing this now. Not very far in though.A Person wrote:I want to read these, as well as Sputnik Sweetheart and Norwegian Wood. Next up though I'm planning on reading Gravity's Rainbow, Henry made me want to read it years ago but I've never got around to it.Rico wrote:Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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Still struggling.Ricochet wrote:Struggling to even pick up Alex Shteyngart's Absurdistan the past weeks. I only ever failed to finish a few books in my life, but maybe I should reconsider in this case and read some Rimbaud instead.
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I'm reading Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. It's the first part of a trilogy. Think Indiana Jones but an all women group and now it's a horror instead of an adventure.
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Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden. It's about Genghis Khan, and the first in a 4 part series. It's very good.
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How have I never heard of that Dr. Seuss book?
Epignosis wrote:If llama is good, it means we exist in a universe in which multitasking llama can call out the first of two mafia while simultaneously calling out two civilians.
I don't want to live in that universe.
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I love this book!Epignosis wrote:Just completed:
This and "Alligator Pie" and "Mr. Tickle" were in constant rotation at our house when I was a kid.
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He originally wrote it under the name "Theo Lesieg."thellama73 wrote:How have I never heard of that Dr. Seuss book?
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God damn this book.Ricochet wrote:Still struggling.Ricochet wrote:Struggling to even pick up Alex Shteyngart's Absurdistan the past weeks. I only ever failed to finish a few books in my life, but maybe I should reconsider in this case and read some Rimbaud instead.
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Come on, Ricochet, sign up for my game. I am always nice to you.Ricochet wrote:God damn this book.Ricochet wrote:Still struggling.Ricochet wrote:Struggling to even pick up Alex Shteyngart's Absurdistan the past weeks. I only ever failed to finish a few books in my life, but maybe I should reconsider in this case and read some Rimbaud instead.
Epignosis wrote:If llama is good, it means we exist in a universe in which multitasking llama can call out the first of two mafia while simultaneously calling out two civilians.
I don't want to live in that universe.
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I don't see how it will help me finish reading the book.thellama73 wrote:Come on, Ricochet, sign up for my game. I am always nice to you.Ricochet wrote:God damn this book.Ricochet wrote:Still struggling.Ricochet wrote:Struggling to even pick up Alex Shteyngart's Absurdistan the past weeks. I only ever failed to finish a few books in my life, but maybe I should reconsider in this case and read some Rimbaud instead.
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I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha and really enjoyed it, very beautifully written and I learned a lot about geisha culture/20th century Japan.
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Loved it.nutella wrote:I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha and really enjoyed it, very beautifully written and I learned a lot about geisha culture/20th century Japan.
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Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.
Bit tough, I have to admit. Nothing quite makes sense.
ETA: I take that back. It makes sense, but it requires more effort than I'm used to. Which says something.
Bit tough, I have to admit. Nothing quite makes sense.
ETA: I take that back. It makes sense, but it requires more effort than I'm used to. Which says something.
“Is it very long?” Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of poetry that day.
“It’s long,” said the Knight, “but it’s very, very beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it–either it brings the tears into their eyes, or else–”
“Or else what?” said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.
“Or else it doesn’t, you know. The name of the song is called ‘Haddock’s Eyes’.”
“Oh, that’s the name of the song, is it?” Alice said, trying to feel interested.
“No, you don’t understand,” the Knight said, looking a little vexed. “That’s what the name is called. The name really is 'The Aged Aged Man’.”
“Then I ought to have said 'That’s what the song is called?’” Alice corrected herself.
“No, you oughtn’t: that’s quite another thing! The song is called 'Ways and Means’: but that’s only what it’s called, you know!”
“Well, what is the song, then?” said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.
“I was coming to that,” the Knight said. “The song really is 'A-sitting on a Gate’: and the tune’s my own invention.”
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Keys and I were just talking about this book!Epignosis wrote:Loved it.nutella wrote:I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha and really enjoyed it, very beautifully written and I learned a lot about geisha culture/20th century Japan.
I love this book as well. It was one of the first books that came with me during my move from America to England.
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I'm reading Capote's Complete Short Stories. Halfway through, they're pretty ech.
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Still reading the dictionary. Getting close to being done with the letter P and closing in on page # 1,000. Here's my update post if you're interested.
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Stay determined, R for Rico is across the corner.
I'm attempting again to read Hesse's Steppenwolf, which counts as one of the few books I never managed to finish. Strange enough, I should normally relate to this character's loneliness, emotional crisis and idealism - or should have, back when I was 16 and my mind was a spleen-colored Pollock-like scatter of thoughts and perceptions, but I haven't evolved much since anyway - but the writing is so dense and self-referential and the protagonist kinda makes you want to throw a shoe at, lol. The fragments in which he interacts with other actual characters fare better, but the inner monologues fail so much to keep me interested.
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I'm attempting again to read Hesse's Steppenwolf, which counts as one of the few books I never managed to finish. Strange enough, I should normally relate to this character's loneliness, emotional crisis and idealism - or should have, back when I was 16 and my mind was a spleen-colored Pollock-like scatter of thoughts and perceptions, but I haven't evolved much since anyway - but the writing is so dense and self-referential and the protagonist kinda makes you want to throw a shoe at, lol. The fragments in which he interacts with other actual characters fare better, but the inner monologues fail so much to keep me interested.
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