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post #401 of 4517
3/30/03 at 6:50pm
Newest issue of Maxim. And I just finished About a Boy.
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post #402 of 4517
3/30/03 at 8:12pm
Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov.
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post #403 of 4517
3/30/03 at 8:54pm
No Place to Learn: Why Universities Aren't Working, by Tom Pocklington and Allan Tupper. It's a critical overview of the Canadian university system.
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post #404 of 4517
3/30/03 at 8:58pm
Just finished Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby.
Great writer. Got to get a hand on Choke.
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post #405 of 4517
3/30/03 at 9:04pm
I'm also reading Shakespeare's Quill, Descarte's Mind, by Jamie Pool.
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post #406 of 4517
3/30/03 at 9:05pm
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas - H.S. Thompson.

also

A Year At The Movies - Kevin Murphy(MST3K)

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Official Secrets - not sure of the author. This one's about how the U.S. and Britain knew about the holocaust long before they reacted to it.
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post #407 of 4517
3/31/03 at 11:29am
Quote:
Adam Warren:
I'm also reading Shakespeare's Quill, Descarte's Mind, by Jamie Pool.
Nice...

I'm about 5 chapters into Joyce's Ulysses. Going much better than my first attempt years ago.

As for PERLsoprock's question about Egger's You Shall Know Our Velocity, I didn't care for it much, and I loved Heartbreaking Work...
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post #408 of 4517
3/31/03 at 3:06pm
I dare anyone to try and read Finnegan's Wake.
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post #409 of 4517
3/31/03 at 4:14pm
Just finished The Descent. Pretty damn good, this will make a fun flick. The end was kind of blah, but then I'm almost NEVER happy with endings.

I'm a few chapters into Iain M. Banks' Use of Weapons now. Ah, it feels so good to slip back into the Culture universe. Also, Banks' writing is leagues above guys like Jeff Long. The Descent was fun, but he can't turn a phrase the way Banks can. Yikes.
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post #410 of 4517
4/1/03 at 1:10pm
Just finished Night in the Lonesome October by Richard Laymon. Now reading another of his books, Island.
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post #411 of 4517
4/12/03 at 11:51am
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0813335337/qid=1050158991/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-7118803-9282358?v=glance&s=books" target="_blank">Endgame-David Rohde</a>.

Damns just about everyone involved: U.N., U.S., Brits, Dutch, Serbs, Muslims, Croats......

Heartbreaking.
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post #412 of 4517
4/12/03 at 2:17pm
The Adventures of Kavelier and Clay.
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post #413 of 4517
4/13/03 at 8:09am
The Angelwalk Trilogy - by Roger Elwood (Currently Out of Print)
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post #414 of 4517
4/13/03 at 11:25am
I've recently finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Michael Chriton's Prey, and Road to Perdition.

Current reading: Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
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post #415 of 4517
4/13/03 at 3:01pm
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
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post #416 of 4517
4/13/03 at 5:09pm
The Foundation is great. I'd like to read it again, and just to see if the connection between Al-Quaida(the foundation) and Asimov's series is valid. An interesting exercise in perspective.

I'm just started -- Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, by Stephen Strogatz.
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post #417 of 4517
4/13/03 at 6:02pm
Lolita by Nabakov.

And as God is my witness, I WILL finish it.
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post #418 of 4517
4/13/03 at 7:20pm
John Cage poetry
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post #419 of 4517
4/14/03 at 3:36pm
Future Noir: The making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon
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post #420 of 4517
4/18/03 at 4:24pm
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
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post #421 of 4517
4/21/03 at 12:27am
Thought I'd get in on this thread.

Currently reading the following:

Hidden Charges- Ridley Pearson
Status: 2/3rds through. I'm liking it. I found it in a box in my uncle's attic... looked interesting. It's your basic suspense novel with thin-plot lines and minimal character development.

The Old Man and the Sea- Ernest
Status: Started yesterday and almost done. Loving it, as I love all Hemmingway.

1984 (for about the 8th or 9th time)- Orwell
Status: 1/3rd through. Re-Reading it again for English, as we have done many years before now and I have done on my own years before that.

I Am Legend- Richard Matteson
Status: 1/3rd into it. FUCKING LOVING IT so far!

EDIT: It's coincidence with the I Am Legend book and the last post. I haven't honestly even looked in this thread before I posted. Weird... people must love this book.
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post #422 of 4517
4/21/03 at 1:34am
Hell I was looking originally for a Clive Barker book when I got I Am Legend. Barker's good, but Matheson walks all over him.
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post #423 of 4517
4/28/03 at 7:32pm
In A Lonely Place, by Dorothy B. Hughes. I'm not sure if I'm going to finish it, I picked it up on impulse a LONG time ago, and I've suddenly found myself with nothing to read and no money. It's interesting, having just finished The Big Sleep, reading two books with Bogart films adapted from them back to back.
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post #424 of 4517
5/2/03 at 3:42pm
Scratch that, I've started on Live From New York, by Tom Shales and, uh, some other guy.
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post #425 of 4517
5/3/03 at 6:12am
Conan the Defiant by Steve Perry.
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post #426 of 4517
5/3/03 at 2:16pm
Sheri S. Tepper's Grass.

The opening scenes have hardly endeared the book to me: I loathe fox-hunting.
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post #427 of 4517
5/4/03 at 10:08am
Quote:
AgentOrange:
Sheri S. Tepper's Grass.

The opening scenes have hardly endeared the book to me: I loathe fox-hunting.
Actually, I take the above statement back.

The book is turning out to be surprisingly good Science Fiction.
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post #428 of 4517
5/4/03 at 2:49pm
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Peter the Pro-War Pony:
A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons. My first venture into Simmons.
Oh, Simmons is terrible. Rubbish. Just ask Blofeld.
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post #429 of 4517
5/4/03 at 5:47pm
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
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post #430 of 4517
5/4/03 at 5:49pm
Quote:
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Conan the Defiant by Steve Perry.
Jesus wept. It's horrible.
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post #431 of 4517
5/4/03 at 11:09pm
Couldn't finsh Kavelier and Clay. It loses steam after the war.

Finished Across the Nightingale Floor and currently reading The CEO of the Sofa.
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post #432 of 4517
5/5/03 at 12:02am
Robert Fagle's Iliad/Odyssey translations, at the inspiration of a Blofeld post.
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post #433 of 4517
5/9/03 at 1:31pm
Just read Holes. Not bad.
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post #434 of 4517
5/9/03 at 1:51pm
Finally diving into Hyperion.
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post #435 of 4517
5/9/03 at 10:01pm
How are you liking them so far Adam and Poxy?
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post #436 of 4517
5/10/03 at 5:47am
Just finished the wonderful Everything Is Illuminated...

Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow (great... but quite a bit of work [bout 100 pages down so far], definatley nice to have a couple other books on the go at the same time)

Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase (just getting into it, but so far -- love)

Burroughs - Naked Lunch (why didn't I read this sooner?)
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post #437 of 4517
5/11/03 at 4:51pm
Black House ..king&Strub
really enjoying it so far....

Fall Of The White Ship Avatar ..Brian Daley
third book of a trilogy ive enjoyed the first two so looking forward to this one....
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post #438 of 4517
5/11/03 at 7:47pm
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
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post #439 of 4517
5/13/03 at 6:19pm
Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy

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Reading the Vampire Slayer: A Critcal Companion to Buffy and Angel
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post #440 of 4517
5/20/03 at 7:16pm
I'm actually reading a Binchy myself, "Evening Class." Its pretty good. I think she does a good job switching focus as one topic begins to mature.

Also reading "The Little Friend" which is good. I'd probably get more into it if the book wasn't so damn big and thus hard to pack along on the morning commute.
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post #441 of 4517
5/21/03 at 11:32am
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer.

Melikes it.
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post #442 of 4517
6/2/03 at 5:05pm
Clive Barker - The Great ans Secret Show
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post #443 of 4517
6/2/03 at 8:06pm
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maitainance

About halfway through, and digging it... though so far I do think its been a little over-praised...
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post #444 of 4517
6/8/03 at 5:06am
Jem: Frederick Pohl

Resource-starved earth colonises alien world, competing power blocks, primary protagonists are racist, sexist and general all-round nasty pieces of work.

Typical, as well as thoroughly enjoyable, Fred Poll fayre really...
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post #445 of 4517
6/9/03 at 8:05pm
Charm School - Nelson DeMille

So far it's pretty good. Reading it based on the reco from some of the guys in this forum. So far I'm not dissapointed.

As a side, any recos for the next DeMille that I should read?
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post #446 of 4517
6/9/03 at 9:10pm
The Gold Coast
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post #447 of 4517
6/10/03 at 12:24am
I just finished The Running Man by Stephen King (Richard Bachman). Awesome book. A lot different from the movie, but I like book and movie equally, but the movie needs a remake based on the book. The last act was amazing. You really felt Richards' pain as his intestines are hanging out and he trips on them, pulling the intestines out MORE.
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post #448 of 4517
6/10/03 at 12:39am
Just finished What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg.

Pretty decent. Nice look at 50's Hollywood.
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post #449 of 4517
6/12/03 at 11:04pm
The Little Engine that Could
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post #450 of 4517
6/20/03 at 10:45pm
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Carnage and Culture

by Victor Davis Hanson
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