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Canuck
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CloseI read Sputnik Sweetheart a few years ago actually and really found it average. It's the reason I didn't look into more Murakami. Maybe I should reread it, but I've heard from friends that it isn't one of his best.
I'm reading the Great Gatsby next. I have 100 more pages of Wind Up Bird.
I'm reading the Great Gatsby next. I have 100 more pages of Wind Up Bird.
Orig
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Canuck, are you just reading things I've been reading? I just finished Gatsby a week or two ago. O_o
By Murakami standards Sputnik is pretty average, sort of like a Norwegian Wood lite in some ways, but I liked it 'cause I'm a sucker for exercises in hopeless crushes and human longing.
Just finished The Four Loves. Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen is up next. Hope he's as good an author as he is a musician.
By Murakami standards Sputnik is pretty average, sort of like a Norwegian Wood lite in some ways, but I liked it 'cause I'm a sucker for exercises in hopeless crushes and human longing.
Just finished The Four Loves. Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen is up next. Hope he's as good an author as he is a musician.
Blitzen
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A book about a Canadian Major who actually served under the command of the Red Army in 1918 during the Russian Civil War.
Canuck
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I haven't started Great Gatsby yet. Instead picked up another book, but I forget the title. An Artist in the floating world or something. About post-war Nagasaki. Nice little novel.
lichlord
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Re-reading The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass
all by Phillip(Phillup) Pullman
all by Phillip(Phillup) Pullman
Canuck
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Reading Great Gatsby, and really dislike it. Hope to finish it soon so I can finish my Murakami break and get to Kafka by the Shore.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (MY GOD IT'S LONG)
and simultaneously:
Caine Black Knife by Matthew Stover.
The former is far too long, the latter is sadly far too short.
Matthew Stover is an author who I understand made the undignified but lucrative decision of writing several truly AWFUL star wars novels in the middle of his career, but the Caine series (Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, and now the current one I'm reading) are excellent, truly my favorite fantasy novels and in fact the only fantasy novels I have ever liked or respected at all.
and simultaneously:
Caine Black Knife by Matthew Stover.
The former is far too long, the latter is sadly far too short.
Matthew Stover is an author who I understand made the undignified but lucrative decision of writing several truly AWFUL star wars novels in the middle of his career, but the Caine series (Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, and now the current one I'm reading) are excellent, truly my favorite fantasy novels and in fact the only fantasy novels I have ever liked or respected at all.
Just finished Intelligence in Nature by Jeremy Narby. Interesting read. I'd recommend it to anyone who has an interest in nature, biology or anthropology. The book is a very relaxed, personal look and collection of interviews by Jeremy in his investigation into intelligence as it manifests in nature.
I am now starting Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky. That or Pro JSF and Ajax.
I am now starting Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky. That or Pro JSF and Ajax.
demondestiny
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Just finished reading The Hades Project and am now reading Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva.
ZPE
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Hey I never saw this topic.
Started Hard Landing by Stephen Leather although I really haven't but I should.
Last read: Tamerlane
Started Hard Landing by Stephen Leather although I really haven't but I should.
Last read: Tamerlane
Orig
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Wasn't that an Edgar Allan Poe poem?
A Sorrow Beyond dreams was, unsurprisingly, sadder beyond dreams. Currently reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Loved Blade Runner, hope this is just as good.
A Sorrow Beyond dreams was, unsurprisingly, sadder beyond dreams. Currently reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Loved Blade Runner, hope this is just as good.
yamata no orochi
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I am currently reading The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe and East of Eden by John Steinbeck. The scale of Long Sun is a lot smaller than New Sun's, but it feels more cohesive and surprisingly has a real likable protaganist. East of Eden has Cathy Ames, who is probably one of the most messed-up antagonists in any book I've ever read, ever.
I also read some of Doom Patrol yesterday, an experience that was about equivalent to being insane for one and a half hours.
I also read some of Doom Patrol yesterday, an experience that was about equivalent to being insane for one and a half hours.
Finished Death Note Vol.3; it was a pretty boring affair overstating and drawing out the fact that Kira and L are on the same wavelength for thought process. So they're toe-to-toe. Thankfully they added Second Kira to mix things up, and handicap both Kira and L at the same time. I'll be buying the next volumes later; frankly the series is getting stale at this point and I have little interest in how it'll end.
demondestiny
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Trust me, the death note series gets really good as you progress more.
Have just began reading The Betrayal Game by David L Robbins.
Have just began reading The Betrayal Game by David L Robbins.
AznChipmunk
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author=demondestiny link=topic=2557.msg55806#msg55806 date=1231853778
Trust me, the death note series gets really good as you progress more.
I read all of it and it got worse as it progressed. It kept dragging on.
