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  • pearlposterfan
    pearlposterfan Posts: 102
    'The Richest Man in Babylon'
    -George S. Clarson
  • cuyler41
    cuyler41 Posts: 388
    The power of One - Brice Courtney
  • wavescamecrashing
    wavescamecrashing Posts: 440
    thres so much reading i want to get through, both for my degree and for pleasure. im currently reading 'growing up poor' by Anna Davin about childhood poverty in Britain and Roddy Doyle's new one, 'Paula Spencer' which is a sequal to 'the woman who walked into doors' I loved that book, killed a train journey in one go with it, so now i feel obligated to see how the character develops.

    I read tc Boyle's 'talk talk' recently and thought it was just superb. I am looking to read all of his novels...ambitious? so far i read the tortilla curtain, drop city and started worlds end. anyone else like his books? Also read most of 'stories' the short story collection.

    whoever said 'scar tissue' is like a car accident I agree, you feel as if you are intruding, Kiedis has certainly lived a colourful life...

    By the way, i love this thread, almost no one i know bothers to read...
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    prljamgirl wrote:
    Right now I'm rereading 'Girlfriend in a Coma' by Douglas Coupland. I'll probably finish it sometime tomorrow.......it'll give me a clean outlook on things going into the new year, that's for sure!!! :) I really love that book. I've probably read it 4 or 5 times and get something new out of it everytime.

    i just finished, 'all families are psychotic'.

    i was on this site sometime recently and this person said they couldn't read generation x cause it had a pink cover and they couldn't deal with the colour pink.
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  • aoife
    aoife Posts: 126
    Dracula by Bram Stoker
    "If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin castle, unless you set about the organisation of the socialist republic then all of your efforts would have been in vain. England will still rule you through her capitalists ,landlords and commercial institutions"
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    ive been doing a lot of catch up over break now that i can read for fun again. since finals ended i've read:

    a long way down- nick hornby, disgrace- jm coetzee, maybe a miracle- brian strouse (i LOVED this book), white noise- don delillo, the stranger- albert camus

    right now im reading:

    the big over easy- jasper fforde

    i also have copies of the following for reading over the rest of this break, next break, or summer:

    handmaid's tale- margaret atwood, straight man- richard russo, la confidential- james ellroy, brothers karamazov- fyodor dostoyevsky, love in the time of cholera- gabriel garcia marquez

    whew. i also need to buy another book shelf... the 2 i have are full ;)
  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    aoife wrote:
    Dracula by Bram Stoker

    awesome book. one of the few ive read more than once. do you like it so far?
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  • chipboy
    chipboy Posts: 137
    Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. It's sort of an odd auto-biographical sequal to Less Than Zero and Rules of Attraction. Worth checking out if you liked those two.
  • aoife
    aoife Posts: 126
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    awesome book. one of the few ive read more than once. do you like it so far?
    ya its excellent but i keep having bad dreams, did you know bram stoker is Irish?
    "If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin castle, unless you set about the organisation of the socialist republic then all of your efforts would have been in vain. England will still rule you through her capitalists ,landlords and commercial institutions"
  • Lisa81
    Lisa81 Posts: 132
    'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' by Spike Milligan
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    aoife wrote:
    Dracula by Bram Stoker

    My mother in law gave me a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble for Christmas and I bought that book yesterday.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    Seeing in the Dark : How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe by Timothy Ferris
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    aoife wrote:
    Dracula by Bram Stoker

    I did that, for my first degree. I should re-read it, sometime.
  • mumi
    mumi Posts: 662
    "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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  • deadmosquito
    deadmosquito Posts: 729
    A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    mumi wrote:
    "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

    I bought that with my gift certificate also. I think counting all the books I got for Christmas or bought with a Christmas gift certificate, I ended up with about 20 new books. Nerd!!!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • daystar143
    daystar143 Posts: 367
    Hannibal Rising

    Which surprizingly sad.
    The Daystar

    "But --you say that Dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar...Ask yourselves, all of you...What power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to Dream of Heaven?" Dream speaking to Lucifer as written by Neil Gaiman.
  • aoife
    aoife Posts: 126
    daystar143 wrote:
    Hannibal Rising

    Which surprizingly sad.
    Ya i work in a book shop and i read the back of that and it sounds really good but in order to read it i would probably have to read the other three
    "If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin castle, unless you set about the organisation of the socialist republic then all of your efforts would have been in vain. England will still rule you through her capitalists ,landlords and commercial institutions"
  • daystar143
    daystar143 Posts: 367
    aoife wrote:
    Ya i work in a book shop and i read the back of that and it sounds really good but in order to read it i would probably have to read the other three


    Working in a bookstore would be my dream job! And I would love to visit your lovely country some day!

    If you've seen Silence of the Lambs, you've got enough background to understand the newest book. It might be fun to read them in order, starting with the newest one. Hannibal was a little gruesome for my tastes (yes...that is an intended bad pun given the subject matter) and didn't have the psychological thriller aspect that made Silence so good.
    The Daystar

    "But --you say that Dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar...Ask yourselves, all of you...What power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to Dream of Heaven?" Dream speaking to Lucifer as written by Neil Gaiman.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    daystar143 wrote:
    Working in a bookstore would be my dream job! And I would love to visit your lovely country some day!

    If you've seen Silence of the Lambs, you've got enough background to understand the newest book. It might be fun to read them in order, starting with the newest one. Hannibal was a little gruesome for my tastes (yes...that is an intended bad pun given the subject matter) and didn't have the psychological thriller aspect that made Silence so good.

    Well said. Silence of the Lambs is a masterpiece and Red Dragon is also very good. Hannibal falls way short. I enjoyed the chase aspect of the FBI agent trying to track Hannibal down in Italy and trying to get the reward but overall it is a far cry from the previous two Hannibal books. I think I will read the new one when it comes out in paperback.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."

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