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« Reply #840 on: April 20, 2011, 05:23:38 PM » |
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« Reply #841 on: April 20, 2011, 05:42:14 PM » |
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Visiting my girlfriend in Oxford has again delivered a raft of excellent reads for basically no money; I've replaced my long-lost copies of Junky and The Road, and picked up Paul Auster's Moon Palace to boot.
The plot of virtually every Paul Auster novel is "Paul Auster is incredibly clever", but I never seem to get sick of them (probably because Paul Auster is incredibly clever).
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« Reply #842 on: April 21, 2011, 08:00:21 AM » |
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The Pentateuch.
And A History of God by Karen Armstrong
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« Reply #843 on: April 22, 2011, 11:00:50 PM » |
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Currently on a big comic kick, reading classics I've missed, old favorites, and also just random shit.
Today I read Ghost World, which I probably don't need to tell you is wonderful. It's like a bit of time forever frozen in comic book form and it's beautiful to walk around inside it.
And also I Kill Giants, which made me cry a little, which is a damn hard thing to do. Managed to be very touching without being sappy or overly sentimental, mostly by turning something sad into something epic, but kind of silly. Very well handled story, and BEAUTIFUL art.
I'm also about to start Sandman for the first time. I've always wanted to read it, but was discouraged that the complete set costs about as much as a house. So I figure I am going to get the first few from the library and see if I love it so much that I want to commit.
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« Reply #844 on: April 23, 2011, 04:00:28 AM » |
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« Reply #845 on: April 23, 2011, 07:38:40 AM » |
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Terry Pratchett, enough said. Actually, not enough said. Which one? |
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« Reply #846 on: April 23, 2011, 12:40:02 PM » |
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Terry Pratchett, enough said. Actually, not enough said. Which one? Damn, well... Guards! Guards! Just got it started. I already finished Soul Music and The Last Continent. I know, order isn't right. Our library didn't have The Colour of Magic. But I have seen the movie.  |
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« Reply #848 on: April 23, 2011, 01:28:47 PM » |
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The movie isn't bad but the book is still a really good read (and pretty different).
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« Reply #849 on: April 23, 2011, 01:49:27 PM » |
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I stopped reading Pratchett when Carpe Jugulum came out and I realised he'd been telling the same five jokes over and over again since 1983.
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« Reply #850 on: April 23, 2011, 01:50:22 PM » |
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I stopped reading Pratchett when Carpe Jugulum came out and I realised he'd been telling the same five jokes over and over again since 1983.
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« Reply #851 on: April 23, 2011, 03:18:33 PM » |
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But I have seen the movie.  Not the best way to get introduced to his works, eh?  |
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« Reply #852 on: April 23, 2011, 06:57:30 PM » |
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Dresden Files... again.
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« Reply #853 on: April 23, 2011, 07:33:00 PM » |
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Just finished "Broom of the System" by David Foster Wallace, and now tackling "Infinite Jest"
Also about halfway through "Dance, Dance, Dance" by Haruki Murakami, and just started "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller (never read it).
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« Reply #854 on: April 23, 2011, 07:53:31 PM » |
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Just finished "Broom of the System" by David Foster Wallace, and now tackling "Infinite Jest"
Infinite Jest is possibly the greatest book EVER. We lost a great mind when DFW erased his own map (to use his own terminology). I have a copy of Broom of the System that I haven't gotten around to yet, was it good?? Also, his last (unfinished novel) was just published this month, The Pale King. I'm pretty certain it's going to be amazing. We should read it together :D |
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« Reply #855 on: April 23, 2011, 08:11:26 PM » |
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Just finished "Broom of the System" by David Foster Wallace, and now tackling "Infinite Jest"
Infinite Jest is possibly the greatest book EVER. We lost a great mind when DFW erased his own map (to use his own terminology). I have a copy of Broom of the System that I haven't gotten around to yet, was it good?? Also, his last (unfinished novel) was just published this month, The Pale King. I'm pretty certain it's going to be amazing. We should read it together :D Yeah I know! My roommate's already got us a copy, he's reading it right now. He's read nearly everything DFW's done and says The Pale King is already "the most Wallace" of anything, to quote him. You've no idea how much I wanna skip everything else for now and read it first.... think I should?  Broom's awesome, from what I've read so far it's the most "novel" of all his works, if you get me. Fairly traditional structure. That being said it's amazing and hilarious and you should go read it right now. If you managed to read Infinite Jest you'll breeze through it  |
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« Reply #856 on: April 23, 2011, 09:18:05 PM » |
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I'll get around to both of them eventually. My to-read list is rather large though.... Infinite Jest took me 18 months to read, but most of that was before I got to page 150. Once I hit about 200, it was a snowball ride of exponentially faster reading. It was almost like my mind was going really slow to get the abbreviations and DFWisms down before I could really appreciate (and devour) the story. That was the first book of his I read. I agree though, after IJ no book should be a challenge  |
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« Reply #857 on: April 25, 2011, 09:30:08 AM » |
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I'll get around to both of them eventually. My to-read list is rather large though.... Infinite Jest took me 18 months to read, but most of that was before I got to page 150. Once I hit about 200, it was a snowball ride of exponentially faster reading. It was almost like my mind was going really slow to get the abbreviations and DFWisms down before I could really appreciate (and devour) the story. That was the first book of his I read. I agree though, after IJ no book should be a challenge I can see that. There are a *few* of those... |
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« Reply #858 on: April 25, 2011, 11:44:00 AM » |
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Now reading Candide (Voltaire) and a novel my friend wrote, for which I am an editor.
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« Reply #859 on: April 26, 2011, 09:26:59 AM » |
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My friend gave me Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, so I've started that. Will finish before Infinite Jest.  Also started Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut. Quick read, but strange. Not the best of his to start with, me thinks. Will have to go pick up Slaughterhouse Five. Are you a professional editor? |
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