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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
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 Posted - 07/17/2005 : 13:26:33
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Yknow I think that couldve been Nadine Gordimer, Iīll check the anthology I got at home. Thereīs a Byatt one Iīve read there somewhere too.
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Sir Rockabye
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 07/17/2005 : 13:45:44
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Originally posted by Newo
Wait a sec itīs almost August, whatīs with the academia?
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to corner the fish market and marvel at the small acts of philanthropy he commits while depriving most of the world of fish.
Summer reading for AP classes.
You run all kinds of red lights except the ones on the street.
When you run out of exits you can always count sheep. |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2005 : 14:02:06
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Ah. I havenīt read Cold Mountain but I figure if he canīt give it a better title than that Iīm not missing anything.
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to corner the fish market and marvel at the small acts of philanthropy he commits while depriving most of the world of fish. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2005 : 11:27:18
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Just started "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss ("Man Walks Into a Room" and wife of Jonathan Safran Foer, who wrote "Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close").
I shed tears over every other page of this book. No exaggeration.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
3581 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2005 : 12:12:40
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The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Haruki is my friend. His words put me at ease. I don't understand how something Japanese can translate so well.
there is nothing worse than/an undetermined person |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2005 : 12:15:42
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I appreciate Haruki, I want to consider him a friend, I do read this stuff, but I just ... I just .... I can't get it up for Haruki. I'm sooooooooory.
speedy, you would love 'The History of Love." You would love it.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/20/2005 : 12:17:10
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Originally posted by speedy_m
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Haruki is my friend. His words put me at ease. I don't understand how something Japanese can translate so well.
there is nothing worse than/an undetermined person
I went and put a load of his books on hold in the public library today because of the praise they've been recieving on this forum.
I'll be very sulky if you people lied to me.
50p a book these holds cost.
and you're questioning the sciences
and questioning religion
you're looking like an idiot
and you no longer care.
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mosleyk
= Cult of Ray =
USA
607 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2005 : 12:24:29
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I finally got "The Five People You Will Meet In Heaven" and read it straight through. I remember seeing a whole thread to it on this forum, and forced myself not to read too many posts so not to spoil the book. It was a splendid read!
Now I am doubling up on the new Harry Potter and "Journey Into Prayer" by Bill Sweet.....which is a fasinating story of a father and son team out to prove the power of prayer through scientific research (spindrift was the name of their group) and then were found dead. It was speculated they committed suicide, but it has never been fully proven. I swear some of the experiments they did were kinda freaky. So far though, the book it very interesting.
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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
3581 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2005 : 12:47:55
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Tre, you'll like him. Maybe. I like him.
Kathryn, we are SO divorced.
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2005 : 12:50:19
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speedy, we can still be friends. But I get to keep the Nabokov books. And all the Pixies bootlegs. And the cats.
(I like Haruki Murakami, I like "The Wind Up Bird Chronicle." I'm just not ga ga over him the way some people are.)
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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Surfer Rosa
> Teenager of the Year <
4209 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2005 : 00:11:14
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Silent Bob Speaks - Kevin Smith
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. |
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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <
France
4233 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2005 : 06:36:43
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recently read those ones
pas de bras pas de chocolat |
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Broken Face
-= Forum Pistolero =-
USA
5155 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2005 : 06:44:04
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currently reading "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer
-Brian
If you move I shoots!
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/27/2005 : 18:46:09
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Originally posted by Broken Face
currently reading "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer
-Brian
If you move I shoots!
How are you liking it, Brian?
I am still reading his wife's latest novel (and loving it). Plus I just finished Kathryn Harrison's latest:
I hated it. I hate everything of hers and I've read everything of hers.
Her work is a like a car accident I can't stop gawking at.
Everything about the woman wigs me out. She reminds me of everything about myself that makes me uncomfortable - the way she writes, what she writes about, even the way she looks.
Sorry. I kinda freaked out here.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2005 : 03:17:54
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Bedside reading is The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, okay, not half as good as Wonder Boys and the same idea was done better by Pynchon 35 years ago in fact I donīt know why Iīm still reading it, I still havenīt finished the Tin Drum and thatīs brilliant.
This I found secondhand for 3 squid, pieces and interviews by Burroughs Auster, DeLillo, Nabokov, Atwood and well everyone:
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to corner the fish market and marvel at the small acts of philanthropy he commits while depriving most of the world of fish. |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2005 : 03:50:32
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I'm reading cryptonomicon and I better bloody well finish it soon or I may go insane.
and you're questioning the sciences
and questioning religion
you're looking like an idiot
and you no longer care.
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
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Posted - 07/28/2005 : 04:26:43
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I love Cryptonomicon to bits. Are you finding it annoying? I'm not sure what your post means. (Except that you think you're not insane yet.)
:)
I jumped on the Frank Black Bandwagon/'Cause Pixies are so 2004 |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2005 : 09:20:50
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I adore it jedi, but this is my first read and every time I have to put it down to do something else it physically PAINS me, I need to know whats going to happen to who next!
and you're questioning the sciences
and questioning religion
you're looking like an idiot
and you no longer care.
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1718 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2005 : 09:29:15
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I used to have a Cryptonomicon signature here... It's an amazing book. I'm really looking forward to reading the Baroque cycle, but I'm waiting until I've got all 3, in case it gets really addictive.
Snow Crash and The Diamond Age are brilliant too.
I jumped on the Frank Black Bandwagon/'Cause Pixies are so 2004 |
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The Marsist
= Cult of Ray =
Ireland
730 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2005 : 10:01:58
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just finished hitchhickers guide to the galaxy
it was really good a little surreal in places but since when was that a bad thing
"To be known as an underdog - that can only be a good thing. It's better than sucking."
- Frank Black
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2005 : 17:58:12
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tobafett
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1713 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2005 : 19:43:49
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Originally posted by starmekitten
I adore it jedi, but this is my first read and every time I have to put it down to do something else it physically PAINS me, I need to know whats going to happen to who next!
and you're questioning the sciences
and questioning religion
you're looking like an idiot
and you no longer care.
this is so weird! i started re-reading it again...it's such a damned-good read! (it's a fan-freaking-tastic airplane book) |
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The Marsist
= Cult of Ray =
Ireland
730 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2005 : 20:20:45
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Whats the book? sounds good
"To be known as an underdog - that can only be a good thing. It's better than sucking."
- Frank Black
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1718 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2005 : 23:16:19
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^ Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
I jumped on the Frank Black Bandwagon/'Cause Pixies are so 2004 |
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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <
France
4233 Posts |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2005 : 00:01:19
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You can read them French-words?  |
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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <
France
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Coldheartofstone
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
2025 Posts |
Posted - 08/04/2005 : 01:55:32
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I just finished the Rum Diary... a little pissed that it wasn't longer.
But still a great book.
If time is my vessel, then learning to love
Might be my way back to sea |
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
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Posted - 08/26/2005 : 01:27:47
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quote:
Originally posted by Carl
Finished Wizard And Glass today. Bring on Wolves Of The Calla!
are u onto the song of susannah yet carl?
The waxworks were an immensely eloquent dissertation on the wonderful ordinariness of mankind. |
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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2005 : 02:10:38
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I'm reading the Time Machine- again. Can't get enough of Herbert George Wells.
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Jose Jones
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1758 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2005 : 11:42:58
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i just re-read the first four Dark Tower books and am about to finish 'salem's Lot. wolves is next, obviously.
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they were the heroes of old, men of renown. |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2005 : 11:52:18
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Mook O.R.F. Frederiks W.M. Van Noorden C.J.F. The Role of Gelatinases in Colorectal Cancer Progression and Metastasis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1705 2004 69-89
it's making me dizzy |
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Sir Rockabye
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1158 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2005 : 12:08:02
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American History: A Survey by Alan Brinkley
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Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
You run all kinds of red lights except the ones on the street.
When you run out of exits you can always count sheep. |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2005 : 14:36:18
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Can't ever have enough Bill
This is so well translated:
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If I were a millionaire I'd buy every carthorse in Ireland and wait. The day is coming when a carthorse will be worth more than a Porsche. |
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HeywoodJablome
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1485 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2005 : 16:07:49
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| This is a great thread! Some interesting books in here I'll have to check out. I'm reading Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night" again. This book cracks me up to no end, I don't think I'll ever tire of it. |
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