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just picked up two books from a friend of mine... "Knight of the Black Rose" by James Lowder and "Specter of the Black Rose" by James Lowder and Voronica Whitney-Robinson. both of which are a part of the Ravenloft series of fantasy novels.

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Finished Catcher and Brave New World; I'm now on "Memoirs of a Geisha".

 

Does anyone know if there's some sort of clever in-joke centered around the word "indefatiguable" in BNW? Huxley uses the word in every chapter without fail until about 2/3 of the way through, where he stops using it completely :confused:

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Eh, me reading The stuff of Life by Eric P. Widmaier

 

well, i'm not as advanced as you guys. reading real profoud stuff. :( Catching up.the whold november i was reading about politic. cause i did badly for my social studies exams. Haiz, so got sick of the chaotic world of politics and decide to switch to science. My all along BEST choice. :)

 

SCIENCE IS THE BEST!

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Gary Flake's Computational Beauty of nature...great book

about simulations.

Gerstner's Spiking Neurons book---> TOO HARD

Steve Geary--> the body electric

good cybernetics type book on uptodate researchers and their studies like cell growth on chips.

 

I am waiting upon Steve Grand's new book and Strogatz

Sync book

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Did everyone stop reading or something?

 

I was on "Ulysses" but it's quite heavy going, and I don't have a lot of time right now. So I have put it back on the shelf for now to read John Grisham's "A Painted House" instead.

 

V good book about murder and family secrets in the Arkansas cotton harvests... strange but true.

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the YT is reading through a traditional recipe book writen in Russian, and also a magazine called "Kitchen Gardener" :)

 

sad, but true :)

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Since then I have read:

 

Armaggedon the Musical

They Came and Ate Us; Armageddon II, the B Movie

The Antipope

East of Ealing

The Sprouts of Wrath

The Brentford Chainstore Massacre

The Book of Ultimate Truths

The Raiders of the Lost Car Park

The Greatest Show Off Earth

A Dog Called Demolition

Nostradamus Ate My Hamster

Sprout Mask Replica

The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag

Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls

Web Site Story

The Fandom of the Operator

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

and

The Witches of Chiswick

 

by Robert Rankin.

 

Stardust

Smoke and Mirrors

Neverwhere

American Gods

 

By Neil Gaiman

 

Star Maker

Last and First Men

 

by Olaf Stapledon

 

The Political Animal (Jeremy Paxman)

Aberystwyth Mon Amour (Malcome Pryce)

The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Shea and Wilson)

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)

The Divine Comedy (1) (Dante)

On Liberty (John Stuart Mill)

The Godfather (Mario Puzo)

Ubik (Phillip K Dick)

The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)

Stand on Zanzibar (John Brunner)

Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Robert Tressell)

Tragically I Was an Only Twin (Peter Cook anthology)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

and

Carter Beats the Devil (Glen David Gold)

 

and I am currently reading:

 

Last Tango in Abersytwyth (Pryce again)

The Brentford Triangle (Rankin again)

and

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

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Sayonara³ said in post # :

Nerd :P

 

Says the person coding an online browser based space warfare game.

 

I only administrate the forums.

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Right. I'm reading:-

 

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

The Hobbit - J R R Tolken

 

 

I gone done did read:-

 

Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi

Stardust - Neil Gaiman (Like MrL's but with prueety pictures)

 

 

That's it really.

 

 

oh, and People in Vogue / A Century in Portraits - Vogue. Which was surprisingly good.

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greg1917 said in post # :

The Bible.

 

I've always wanted to do that too. =/ which version are you reading?

 

Sayonara³ said in post # :

Finished Catcher and Brave New World; I'm now on "Memoirs of a Geisha".

 

Does anyone know if there's some sort of clever in-joke centered around the word "indefatiguable" in BNW? Huxley uses the word in every chapter without fail until about 2/3 of the way through, where he stops using it completely :confused:

 

How is Catcher in the Rye? I hear its good, and i've been plannign to borrow it from me friend.

 

indefatigable...kinda' like Lenina's performance? :eek:

 

anywho, i'm just reading textbooks; i'm not as fortunate as you guys who have the freedom to choose what you read

:rolleyes:

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I just Started reading an autobiography called "moster". Its about a true american gansta and quite graphic.........but highly recommended

 

The best book i have read and finished to date is "The Reality Dysfunction" the first book in the night dawn trilogy.......it has everything from Zero gravity sex to the metaphysical queries

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NSX said in post # :

How is Catcher in the Rye? I hear its good, and i've been plannign to borrow it from me friend.

It's enjoyable, although Salinger probably couldn't believe his rotten luck when he realised joe public loved it as I'm fairly sure it's meant to be a scathing commentary on "the way people are".

 

I'm going to re-read it soon as I'm sure it has some fairly complex subtexts, despite the deceptively simple approach to the story.

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I'm reading The Fellowship of the ring, which I have been planing to do since I saw the movies :D

I enjoy the Books By Asmov, Bradbury, and I've read a lot of Orsen Scott Card. For fun sometimes I use to read those punny books, the Xanth Novels by Piers Anthony.

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Right now I'm re-reading "Clarissa" by Samuel Richardson...a very early 18th century novel. But I read anything from pulp fiction to classics....I'm going to get into Vikram Seth's "A suitable Boy" next which I keep attempting but get side tracked from. Sorry...the sentence construction was way off there but hey, I'm in a rush!

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I'm currently reading

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

I had attempted to read Ulysses a short while ago, but had to set it aside until I had more time as well.

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