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I'd like to read that myself one day, not sure if it was translated or if I can even find an original copy.

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Four Plays by Matei Vișniec. His A Paris Attic Overlooking Death was the first play I went to as a teenager and despite my gaffe of not acquiring headphones and having to watch then everything in French (which I hardly understood), the spectacle was actually spellbinding - it received a great staging by a leading director.

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The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo. It's an account of the real life serial killer Richard Ramirez, I'm about 1/4th of the way through and it's amazing so far
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Oryx & Crake (by Margeret Atwood), per the book club list that fingersplints created. I'm reading that one right now.

I recently finished Cradle to Cradle, a book about the life of the many different items we encounter on a daily basis, and what happens when they're no longer useful. A little depressing, but informative.
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Metalmarsh89 wrote:Oryx & Crake (by Margeret Atwood), per the book club list that fingersplints created. I'm reading that one right now.
I checked that out of a cruise ship library on my last cruise nine years ago. Yes, I read a novel on a cruise. Two actually. Eloh had just given birth to our son- the cruise was planned and paid for well before she knew she was pregnant- so we spent a lot of time in the cabin for nursing and naps.

I enjoyed it a lot, even if a lot of it felt dated. I plan to read the other books in the series someday.
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Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea by Katherine Harmon Courage.

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Bubbles wrote:The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo. It's an account of the real life serial killer Richard Ramirez, I'm about 1/4th of the way through and it's amazing so far
Ooooh, I'm putting this next on my list. I really enjoy serial killer nonfiction.

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Anyone else here read the comic Saga? I just caught up and it's SO FKING GOOD. Highly recommend.
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nutella wrote:Anyone else here read the comic Saga? I just caught up and it's SO FKING GOOD. Highly recommend.
what's it about?
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Finishing Saramago's All the Names.
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I'm still reading the dictionary. I'm still on the letter R. Life is busy and there are Olympics to watch, so I haven't actually read a page during the month of August yet.

I have been reading through the Republican National Convention platform little by little. I plan on reading through the Democrat's, Libertarian's and Green Party's platforms as well and comparing and contrasting them before election day.
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^ D < G < L < R
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Finnish theosophical magazines from the 30s and 40s k
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Killing Willis, by Todd Bridges. quite interesting so far
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The Flood by J.M.G. le Clezio. Trippy writing, so far.
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (French: [ʒɑ̃ maʁi ɡystav lə klezjo]; born 13 April 1940), usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a French-Mauritian writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".
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Yes, I believe his book is the one I'm reading. :nicenod:
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The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich k
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Stuck halfway through Italo Svevo's Senility. It seems James Joyce admired, befriended and supported this writer and his novels, but I'm sort of at a loss. It all reads like 100 pages of socially-inadequate-man's-tale-of-batshit-jealousy post-romantic malaise. :\
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In this moment I'm reading The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant.
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Currently reading A Song of Ice and Fire series, almost done book 3.
Don't really read too much, just stuff like Bukowski and the like.
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The Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James. I knew I would like it based on the negative Amazon reviews complaining that it was hard to read and used too much Latin.
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I started re-reading 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie a few weeks back, thinking that I'll get back into it eventually.
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Cryptonic wrote:Currently reading A Song of Ice and Fire series, almost done book 3.
Don't really read too much, just stuff like Bukowski and the like.
I am currently rereading the series myself. I do it every year in the vain hope that I will have the story fresh in my mind should GRRM will finally bring out the next book :sigh:
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I'm still boycotting George RR for criticising everyone else's endings while never writing one himself.
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I'm a Westeros junkie :puppy:
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Vompatti wrote:In this moment I'm reading The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant.
This book doesn't have much structure or coherent argumentation k

Also less extraterrestrial sex magick than I expected :sigh:
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Vompatti wrote:
Vompatti wrote:In this moment I'm reading The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant.
This book doesn't have much structure or coherent argumentation k

Also less extraterrestrial sex magick than I expected :sigh:
Man, what a letdown.
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thellama73 wrote:
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Vompatti wrote:In this moment I'm reading The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant.
This book doesn't have much structure or coherent argumentation k

Also less extraterrestrial sex magick than I expected :sigh:
Man, what a letdown.
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However I started Nightside of Eden today and it seems potentially more promising :mafia:
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I'm about to start reading Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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S~V~S wrote:I'm a Westeros junkie :puppy:
Me too.. me too.. even hosted a 6 sided mafia game based on it. Idk why I'm so drawn to it.

Just start book 4 today tho. The epilogue of book 3 was pretty awesome :)
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My dad is reading a lot these days, probably to test his new goggles. He devoured a 150+ book in a day and a half, while it's been a month and I'm still stuck with
Ricochet wrote:Stuck halfway through Italo Svevo's Senility. It seems James Joyce admired, befriended and supported this writer and his novels, but I'm sort of at a loss. It all reads like 100 pages of socially-inadequate-man's-tale-of-batshit-jealousy post-romantic malaise. :\
Anyway, he wanted me to give him a new book to read from my collection.

I gave him Blood Meridian. :grin:






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Still working on the dictionary. Here's my latest update. It's been almost a month since I read a page but I'm determined to finish the dang thing this year. I'm currently in the early pages of letter S.
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I'm feeding my fascination/obsession with the ancient world with The Birth of Classical Europe by Peter Thonemann and Simon Price. It's a thorough if still somewhat basic overview of the beginnings and progression of the cultural identity we know as "European" from the early Bronze Age Aegean through the fall of the Roman Empire. Reading it has made me ache for a chance to go back to the Aegean region with more time to explore all of the sites I missed the first time. I love this stuff.
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G-Man wrote::sigh:

Still working on the dictionary. Here's my latest update. It's been almost a month since I read a page but I'm determined to finish the dang thing this year. I'm currently in the early pages of letter S.
I didn't know about this project until now. I just read all your entries. Most interesting!
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I just finished Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, which is a novel told completely within the confines of Chilean SAT questions. It really depressed me (content not format).
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Mongoose wrote:I just finished Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, which is a novel told completely within the confines of Chilean SAT questions. It really depressed me (content not format).
What time period did the book cover?

I am interested in reading Latin American literature, particularly magical realism.
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Mongoose wrote:I just finished Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, which is a novel told completely within the confines of Chilean SAT questions. It really depressed me (content not format).
What time period did the book cover?

I am interested in reading Latin American literature, particularly magical realism.
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My father is testing out his new goggles (either that, or his mid-life crisis hobbies have suddenly led him back to reading fiction) and during this two week holiday, he has read (always demanding that I choose a book for him):

Orhan Pamuk, White Fortress
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Meanwhile, I only managed to finish To Kill a Mockingbird (which I understand is the equivalent of an eight grade syllabus reading in the US of A)

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Why is my father so superhuman, while I am just a dirty bum hole?
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Re: What do you be readin'?

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To Kill a Mockingbird inspired me to become an attorney.

I am currently reading the genre-bending fantastic The Last One by Alexandra Olivia
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