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Post by TotalWar on Jun 17, 2008 13:57:28 GMT -5
Blindsight by Peter Watts. Probably the darkest novel, science fiction or otherwise, I've ever read. A typical "novel of ideas", its very well thought out and each paragraph is packed with ideas. It gets a little too heavy to read at times. Its available for free online here: www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
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Post by spiritsurge on Jun 17, 2008 20:30:31 GMT -5
I used to be a big fan of Tolkien, and lately I've been tryin' to read a copy of The Children of Hurin, which has been sitting on my shelf for almost a year now. But after having read The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, Roverandom, and On Fairy Stories, I'm afraid I may finally be all Tolkiened out.
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Post by cm on Jun 19, 2008 0:24:28 GMT -5
GRE prep book
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Post by black mamba on Jun 19, 2008 0:31:44 GMT -5
Ditto.
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Post by cm on Jun 19, 2008 1:06:50 GMT -5
Ditto. Barron's?
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Post by penguinopolipitese on Jun 19, 2008 1:57:14 GMT -5
slam by nick hornby... it's okay.
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Post by arfnarf on Jun 22, 2008 3:33:16 GMT -5
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Poor little Beth....so sad
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Post by Miyuki on Jun 22, 2008 3:55:12 GMT -5
My "bookish" friends say I'm way behind, but I just finished The Kite Runner and I loved it. Anyone else read it?
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Post by spiritsurge on Jun 25, 2008 20:50:06 GMT -5
Currently reading: Margaret Atwood's "Surfacing"
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Post by susanita on Jun 29, 2008 20:18:42 GMT -5
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon and The Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
I've put Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar on hold for now.
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Post by p****cat~ on Jun 30, 2008 16:27:16 GMT -5
Lullabies for Little Criminals- It's not a difficult read- just really sad..
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Post by spiritsurge on Jun 30, 2008 22:30:07 GMT -5
Now Reading: J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan & Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens"
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Post by rob on Jul 1, 2008 3:18:51 GMT -5
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon and The Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges I've put Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar on hold for now. When I'm out macking on chicks, I usually say I'm reading books like these.... really obscure ones with spanish or indian sounding authors. If she asks "What books are you reading?" and I say something like "Catcher in the Rye", there's a pretty good chance she'll have read it already, quiz me on it and eventually call me out on it (as at most I'll have skimmed through the wikipedia entry)..... but if I say I'm reading "All the little peacocks by Indra Ramathanananan", that will go totally unchallenged and make me look like a supreme intellect. You seem to have perfected this strategy too. HIGH FIVE!
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Post by susanita on Jul 1, 2008 4:16:09 GMT -5
Oh, right on. I too have read Ali the Little Peacock by Indra Ramathananaaanahnah. Touching scene when Ali gets bitten by the mongoose, right? Anyway, I'm actually reading these books. In another forum I frequent, I hear about Pynchon all the time; I figured it was time to check out what all the fuss was about. And pretty much any story of the genre magical realism will fall under the description of "Spanish/Indian-ish and obscure". It's kind of a twofer genre for the purpose of 'macking', I guess.
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Post by spiritsurge on Jul 3, 2008 13:47:17 GMT -5
Now Reading: Albert Camus's "The Stranger"
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