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Which book are you currently reading?
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Joel
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That sounds fine. I'll probably try to find Speaker for the Dead at the library this week. I've never been a huge sci-fi reader, but there's a first time for everything.
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Joel
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Only downside from them is I have to pay $3 for shipping up to Canuckistan. Still, $7 is cheaper than I'd find at a book store and I get to buy it in my underwear.
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Mata Hari in there? Any mention of the body? Or is it all fiction?
Point there, FK. 👍 Personally, I think a book is only as good as its reader.
Absolutely not. Homo noeticus FTW.
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Just finished The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers. It far exceeded my expectations. Don't think I had ever heard or read the term conflagration before as much as I did in this book. Learn something new every day. 
Started reading A Storm of Swords, A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 3 by George R.R. Martin.
Started reading A Storm of Swords, A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 3 by George R.R. Martin.
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"Forest of the gods" by Balys Sruoga. The author spent two years in Stutthof concentration camp(1943-1945) and the book is about the life inside the camp. There's so much irony in it that sometimes it may even seem funny...
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Just picked up The Hobbit and LOTR 50th anniversary editions. My dad had the books years ago and I remember watching the old animated Hobbit movie growing up. I also read the fellowship of the ring in middle school, waaaay back in 1994. After I read those, I'll be reading The Hunger Games that my wife read for her college courses. She was required to read the first one, but finished out the series since they where so good. Unlike the LOTR series, I haven't seen The Hunger Games movie yet.
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I'm going through a few at the moment.
Lamb by Christopher Moore - My God is this hilarious.
The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel - Hescel's prose is so poetic. Every sentence seems important.
Harry potter and the Chamber of Secrets - I made a resolution to reread the whole series by the year's end.
@BaconDrift - I hear good things about the Caiphas Cain series. Are they as good as rthey're hyped up to be? I'm not much of a 40k fan but I've got friends that are pressuring me to read them.
Lamb by Christopher Moore - My God is this hilarious.
The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel - Hescel's prose is so poetic. Every sentence seems important.
Harry potter and the Chamber of Secrets - I made a resolution to reread the whole series by the year's end.
@BaconDrift - I hear good things about the Caiphas Cain series. Are they as good as rthey're hyped up to be? I'm not much of a 40k fan but I've got friends that are pressuring me to read them.
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Almost finished with The Hobbit. There was a lot of parts I had forgotten about and it's just as great as I remembered. Just not as descriptive in the beginning as I would of liked. I found the deluxe edition of A Game of Thrones for $20 and snagged it up. Never watched the tv series, and a young guy at work said it was fantastic to read. Guess we will find out.
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The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi.
It might be difficult to believe, but this is not a work of fiction. The story centres on Douglas Preston, an American writer who moves to Italy to work on his latest novel - but by sheer coincidence, the villa he rents is adjacent to one of Italy's most infamous crimes: one of several brutal serial murders attributed to "The Monster of Florence", Italy's answer to Jack the Ripper.
The book is divided into two halves: the first recounts the original string of murders from the point of view of Mario Spezi, a journalist working on the case. The second half follows Preston's obsession with the case and his work with Spezi to try and unmask the killer twenty years after the final crime. Along the way, they encounter an ambitious prosecutor who believes he has uncovered a vast conspiracy of murders and satanic rituals that threatens to destabilise the entire fabric of Italian society, and will stop at nothing to prevent Preston and Spezi from embarrassing him.
For our American viewers, he's the same prosecutor who attempted to charge Amanda Knox with the murder of Meredith Kirchner.
It might be difficult to believe, but this is not a work of fiction. The story centres on Douglas Preston, an American writer who moves to Italy to work on his latest novel - but by sheer coincidence, the villa he rents is adjacent to one of Italy's most infamous crimes: one of several brutal serial murders attributed to "The Monster of Florence", Italy's answer to Jack the Ripper.
The book is divided into two halves: the first recounts the original string of murders from the point of view of Mario Spezi, a journalist working on the case. The second half follows Preston's obsession with the case and his work with Spezi to try and unmask the killer twenty years after the final crime. Along the way, they encounter an ambitious prosecutor who believes he has uncovered a vast conspiracy of murders and satanic rituals that threatens to destabilise the entire fabric of Italian society, and will stop at nothing to prevent Preston and Spezi from embarrassing him.
For our American viewers, he's the same prosecutor who attempted to charge Amanda Knox with the murder of Meredith Kirchner.
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Almost finished the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Will be starting to read the next book in the series tomorrow.
It almost felt like I was reading the script of the movie for a while
So easy to read after a 650 page book with more than 50 characters.
It almost felt like I was reading the script of the movie for a while
So easy to read after a 650 page book with more than 50 characters.
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As I said earlier, I'm making a break from A Song of Ice and Fire.
After finishing A Storm of Swords, I've read:
Markus Zusak - The Messenger
^ Awesome read. Light and funny. Just what I needed.
After, I've read:
Daniel Silva - Portrait of a Spy
^ It was my first Silva novel. I was expecting more, storywise, to be honest. But I liked the way he writes and all the spy and Israeli intelligence stuff.
And, finally, yesterday I've started this:
José Saramago - Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira
^ That's Blindness, for the majority of you.
It's my first Saramago book, which, for a Portuguese guy, it's almost a sin.
After finishing A Storm of Swords, I've read:
Markus Zusak - The Messenger
^ Awesome read. Light and funny. Just what I needed.
After, I've read:
Daniel Silva - Portrait of a Spy
^ It was my first Silva novel. I was expecting more, storywise, to be honest. But I liked the way he writes and all the spy and Israeli intelligence stuff.
And, finally, yesterday I've started this:
José Saramago - Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira
^ That's Blindness, for the majority of you.
It's my first Saramago book, which, for a Portuguese guy, it's almost a sin.
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The Alchemist
I found this on my Mother's bedside table, and was standing around examining it, when she told me to take it away and read it. Her library is as vast as mine, though it is a completely different mix, but I took it away, because sometimes we do read the same books.
I read it in one sitting that night . . and then put it down with a feeling of absolute wonder; another piece of the puzzle had fallen firmly into place. Great book. I've heard about this author so much - ye never read him. I am now not very sure that I'm that knowledgeable about the literary world out there. Must read his other books.
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