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100thmonk	Date: February 24, 2006 @ 7:40 PM well, i recently blasted through the harry potter books, and i am working on "at the mountains of madness" by h.p lovecraft, and am just about to finish "going postal" by terry pratchett. i am also inching through "the will to power", by friedrich nietsche. what are you reading
Veracohr	Date: February 24, 2006 @ 10:11 PM I recently finished "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Very funny!
desiderata	Date: February 24, 2006 @ 10:31 PM "Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical and Modern Stereotypes" For class, of course. I can't wait until I'm done with college and have time to read for pleasure instead of pain.
mattbanx	Date: February 24, 2006 @ 10:36 PM I am mostly a mag and rag reader. Helter Skelter seemed a lot more interesting to me than the movie. I like a lot of autobiographies and history documentaries. I like watching a lot of videos and dvd's on it. But I guess that does'nt count since you are talking about books. I would like to reread Hammer Of The Gods. I had to do that for a school essay. It would probably be more enjoyable now and sink in more.
PrincessTast...	Date: February 24, 2006 @ 10:56 PM I am reading the Dune series by Frank Herbert. Not as average sci-fi as I had been led to believe. More like "meta-reality" type stuff.
K3VIN	Date: February 24, 2006 @ 11:16 PM wizards first rule by terry goodkind and the prequel before it
Israfel	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 12:10 AM Rereading (again) To Kill A Mockingbird...one of my all time favorites.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 1:15 AM Desiderata , I know what you mean - at uni I had to do a french course on 'women and culture in the french speaking world' (my existentialist class was cancelled) by a man hating arab woman who looked and acted like a suicide bomber and kept talking about 'men shoving their patriarchal filthy penises' onto women where it wasn't wanted and we oppressed women with our filth penises raping and beating women and that all Western men were brought up to put down women and use them as sex objects - of course, there were only 2 guys including me on the course and about 20 women of whom 13 were confirmed lesbians and a couple of others suspected. Every week me and the other guy were lambasted in class for all of the 2 weeks I went to that class by this lady who also happened to hate christianity and praised muslim women who killed americans or other 'infidels' by suicide bombings etc Only came back for the exam and still passed !
mattbanx	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 1:35 AM That's amazing! You must have had a very open minded instructor.
mattbanx	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 1:42 AM I say that of course because I believe every word you must have said about it. Why do the lezbians seem so sympathetic to a religion that would arguably treat women a thousand times worse? To coin an old liberal cliche-"Why don't we all just get along?" The independent minded say "If my head aint in the juicer"
EvilPicnic	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 6:26 AM I just finished Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, & I'm now reading a collection of essays called 'Deschooling Society' by Ivan Illich. For fun. My college choices are mainly science based, so other than textbooks I don't have anything major to read, and I miss all the stuff I was reading back in highschool.
idealist	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 6:29 AM just readin 'how to solve your childs sleep problems'.... but other than that in the middle of forever odd(dean koontz) and just finished mr murder and ice bound last week(by the same) really into dk at the mo...
SimonWaldram	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 7:44 AM I'm reading a big biography of the Spanish poet Fredrico Garcia Lorca called 'Dream of Life', it's really good
sinai	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 7:51 AM ive read several good books lately... i can't be asked to go track down the authors for all of them but: The History Of Reggae Quantum Physics 2 books from the "Sword Of Truth" series (by Terry Goodkind i think) Lords Of Chaos: The Bloody Rise Of the Satanic Metal Underground... Why Not Me? by Al Franken theres others, but thats all i can pull off the top of my head from the past month or so... i read a lot
BlackMage	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 8:07 AM Reading Plato's 3rd book. The book before that was Gaijin from James Clavell. Nice books both of them.
AdNauseam	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 10:13 AM I love Terry Pratchett!! Some of my all-time favorite books!
sinai	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 12:04 PM the Discworld dude! read a few of his Mort was one i can recall very good stuff
BlackMage	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 12:10 PM No wait, yeah. The book before Plato (which I'm reading now) was The Lost Continent by Terry Pratchett. It rules.
AdNauseam	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 3:04 PM Has anyone else read the Bromeliad Trilogy? They're kinda kid's books, but they're really good. They don't take place in Discworld, though.
AJPresensky	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 3:05 PM I have been reading the book "a solitary blue", it's really boring and it was about how this one guy went through College and spent his life living there and studying and how he earned his grades and kept relationships with friends. There was little to no action in it. I liked other books better!
EvilPicnic	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 4:59 PM ^^then stop reading it and get another better one. Yeah, I've read all of Pratchett's books. I can't remember all of them (I started them quite young), but my favourite has to be Good Omens, and I remember the rewrite of The Carpet People as being quite good. The Bromeliad ones are all good, especially Truckers. He's written so many good books it's difficult to pick favourites. I won't even attempt it with the Discworld ones.
TegidC	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 6:59 PM I read in order or publication Pratchett up to the 5th Elephant and after that you realise, it gets a bit samey, great style though. The Little Prince The Outsider Lady Windermere's Fan The Great Gatsby (School) 1984 Brave New World Harry Potter(s) Now on Dante's Inferno. Want to read To Kill a Mockingbird
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 7:48 PM Albert Camus - The Stranger (l'etranger) - one of my all time faves, inspired 'Killing An Arab' by The Cure incidentally... Jean-Paul Sartre - No Exit and The Game Is Up The Importance Of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde Bleak House/David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Biographies on The Beatles, Led Zep and The Rolling Stones - very interesting, many choices, much truth, much bull, better than TV!
DeadraveN	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 9:15 PM what's a "book"?
desiderata	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 9:46 PM TegidC -- I loved the Inferno. Neither Purgatorio or Pardiso are as interesting -- hell is much cooler. "Abandon all hope ye who enter here." BTW, I'd want to be in lust level. Doesn't sound that bad really
tooles	Date: February 25, 2006 @ 10:33 PM Yeah, I'm eking my way through Purgatorio right now, and you're right, Inferno's better. Purgatorio's...all right...it's not good...it's not bad... Good Omens! What a hilarious book! I've never read any other Pratchett, but Gaiman is amazing. American Gods is one of the coolest books ever, it's so chilling and dark. The Sword of Truth series was mentioned a coupla times. Heck yes! Faith of the Fallen was the most moving thing I've ever read. Deadraven, books are like TV, but they don't talk as much. I haven't had time for much personal reading lately, like Desiderata, I have to read so much for school. I'm reading Leviathan by Hobbes right now. You'd think it'd be interesting, but it's not. Neither was The Republic (Plato), The Nicheomachaean Ethics (Aristotle), or The Prince (Machiavelli). I have very little faith for Rousseau, Locke, and Marx next month. Even my English course has some pretty weak titles. The Man-Eater of Malgudi was an Indian "modern classic", but pretty dull, if you ask me. White Teeth by Zadie Smith wasn't too bad, but I wouldn't really recommend it. What I would recommend is The Master and Margarita. Also George R.R. Martin's "A Game of Thrones." Great great stuff.
opiumchild	Date: February 26, 2006 @ 1:57 AM the Sandman-neil gaiman william blake percy bysshe shelley... and add a dash of jung
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: February 26, 2006 @ 2:17 AM You should try French literature at Uni - Gisele by Balzac (mind numbing poverty stricken plague book that makes La Peste (The Plague) by Camus look like a comedy book) and Andre Gide's novels that are mostly dull, interspersed with homosexual encounters with little arab boys and animal sodomy...both dull and grossly sick at the same time!!
100thmonk	Date: February 26, 2006 @ 3:08 AM "the master and margarita".. never managed to finish that bulgakov book.. i read about half and was distracted and never got back to it.. hmmm.
tooles	Date: February 26, 2006 @ 12:56 PM :blech: French lit... ...I think I'll pass... Actually, if you're looking for some interesting French stuff, try Beaudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. It's poetry, I'll warn you right now, but it's pretty compelling stuff.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: February 26, 2006 @ 9:43 PM There's a lot of great French literature we studied, I enjoy existentialist writings by Camus, Sartre, Sarraute, De Beauvoir etc. stuff like le petit prince by St.Exupery, Voltaire's old farces 'Candide etc.', Kafka, 'le bourgois gentilhomme' by Moliere etc. But stuff like Proust, Balzac and Gide maked for pretty heavy reading. Some of the existentialist writing can get a little heavy too, especially the critcial essays etc, but Sartre wrote great accessible books like 'les jexu sont faits' (the game is up' and 'no exit'
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: February 26, 2006 @ 9:45 PM oops - typos, 'les jeux sont faits' (my favourite sartre screenplay/novel)
tooles	Date: February 27, 2006 @ 2:03 AM Yeah, Kafka's not always what I'm in the mood for, but I'll agree he's got some great stuff. I think I like The Trial more than The Metamorphosis because the whole beetle thing creeps me right out. I haven't read 'le bourgois gentilhomme' but I did study 'Tartuffe' in a play analysis class. Moliere is pretty funny.
wailingmiserere	Date: February 27, 2006 @ 8:40 AM The Iliad.
Dexter	Date: June 1, 2006 @ 6:53 AM My Life As A Fake by Peter Carey
Svensta	Date: June 1, 2006 @ 8:48 AM Someone mentioned Prachett getting 'samey'. I gavup on Prachett, Goodkind (Sword of Truth) and Lemony Snickett for the same reasons. Recently plowed through: Jose Saramago - Blindness Walter Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz Donna Tartt - Secret History Neil Gaiman - American Gods Currently in: Hal Duncan - Vellum Ken Grimwood - Replay
AgentMGD	Date: June 1, 2006 @ 9:04 AM Finished reading Russia and the Russian History, Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol and Other Ghost Stories
thesoloer	Date: June 1, 2006 @ 9:06 AM I have read a couple of books in the past year and a half. Montana 1948- a good book we read in school about how a kid did not like how his father kept on keeping him from knowing what was going on. He wanted to know more about himself and to get involved with his family's activities. he went through a personal journey. He didnt go anywhere, but since his uncle got arrested, he had a ton of allotted time to think over his actions and think it out. Artemis Foul- Artemis foul is an artefact stealer. All he needs to do is to avoid some trip wires, to get an artifact, or for another reason, he can get fairy magic and his crew goes on spy missions to get more magic. They want more magic than the bad guys want. This is a really good book and I have only read one hundred pages so far. Sarah Bishop. Sarah Bishop, is good, because it's not bad, it's not GOOD, but it's good. It's about 200 pages. READ IT NOW. Alchemy- AWESOME! Omens are bad evil, good, they mean to tell you that your life is going to change very suddenly and you'll know if it's a good change or if it's a bad change. I also read some readings, transcripts, and other books too but they arent noteworthy. Angels and Demons is a good book for people who have no books to read. I really dont like Dan Brown's style of writing I think his style of writing is better left for movies. I also read this really long book called a solitary blue and it was hideous. One of my friends gave me the book and wanted me to read it really bad but I think it was the worst decision I ever made. Taking that book was bad. The book was boring. It was boring, but it was inspiring. Taking the book may have been the worst decision I have ever made but the book was nontheless inspiring IMO.
vzeye	Date: June 13, 2006 @ 10:06 PM Benjamin Franklin, an American Life by Walter Isaacson The Annotated Brothers Grimm by Maria Tater

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