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bellebelle
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I thought it was about time for a sister thread to the music one, partly because I'm looking for recommendations.



I'm currently reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060007192/"; target="_blank">Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568582080/"; target="_blank">Angry Young Spaceman</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375724672/"; target="_blank">True History of the Kelly Gang</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316557633/"; target="_blank">Garden State</a>.



I'm enjoying all of them, so far.
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    alpha macalpha mac Posts: 463member
    Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger.
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    zarathustrazarathustra Posts: 264member
    Im enjoying... <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670889954/qid=1023879940/sr=2-4/ref=sr_2_3_4/026-8729930-6412420"; target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670889954/qid=1023879940/sr=2-4/ref=sr_2_3_4/026-8729930-6412420</a>; (Hang on! that looks way too long?) at the moment.



    He's as cynical and sniping as I feel but so much better at expressing it.



    A little drier is Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War', could be a great film! I was hoping for a stream of sword and sandle epics after Gladiator, but I'm still waiting.
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    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I am currently reading <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=reply&f=6&t=001357"; target="_blank">this</a>.



    When I'm done, I'll probably try reading <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=6&t=001357"; target="_blank">this</a>.
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    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Reading One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez right now.



    The next in line after that is Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace.



    After that is probably A Bend In The River by V.S. Naipaul
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    spaceman_spiffspaceman_spiff Posts: 1,242member
    The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles, translated by Paul Roche



    We the Living, Ayn Rand's first novel
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    brussellbrussell Posts: 9,812member
    Plato's Republic, in Greek.

    Sartre's L'Etre et le Neant, in French.

    Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in German.



    Aww, who am I kidding. I'm reading People Magazine. In English.
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    timotimo Posts: 353member
    [quote]Originally posted by BRussell:



    Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in German.

    <hr></blockquote>



    Bah. Tractatus is so yesterday. Try Philosophical Investigations.
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  • Reply 8 of 48
    jambojambo Posts: 3,036member
    I'm reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060938455/qid=1023900984/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-9679351-8513733"; target="_blank">Fast Food Nation</a> by Eric Schlosser. If anyone's looking to loose weight, buy this book.



    J :cool:
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    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    [quote]Originally posted by groverat:

    <strong>Reading One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez right now.



    l</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I have read it , wonderfull book from a nobel prize winner. Some stories in this book are frightening especially the storie of the baby and the ants. When you reach that passage, you will understand what i mean.
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    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    [quote]Originally posted by BRussell:

    <strong>

    Sartre's L'Etre et le Neant, in French.



    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    If you understand the whole book, there will be a beer for you
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    jaskejaske Posts: 73member
    1) "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera



    2) "Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language"
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    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Read The Bourne Identity (a vintage 70's copy I found in the basement, natch) outside in the sun on Monday.



    Found The Bourne Supremacy (yet again vintage) as well, started it last night, will finish tonight.



    I'll find something a bit more literary next. With the movie coming out, i wanted to be able to be one of the snobby fellows that decries the film's poor adaptation of the novel.



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    the installerthe installer Posts: 910member
    Carl Hiassen's "Lucky You".



    A good read after a hard day's posting



    Damn, soon I will have read all his books . . .



    - T.I.
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    falkolfalkol Posts: 59member
    Douglas Adams: The Salmon of Doubt.



    Marvel's "World of Spider-Man". (To discover new details in the movie.)



    Robert Silverberg: Legends.
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    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Re-reading Being & Nothingness, by Jean-Paul Sartre. Last read it in high school..
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    jesperasjesperas Posts: 524member
    Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places

    Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys
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    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
    Starfleet X: <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    I've discovered a little known fantasy series written by some guy with three initials for a first name, The Lord of the Rings. If you can find a copy anywhere, snatch it up, it's not bad!



    <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />



    I'm soooo late to the party on this, and usually hate anything trendy! I was almost too ashamed to pick up a copy at B. Dalton.



    I half-ass read The Hobbit for a class in high school but didn't think much of it, but once I saw the movie I was HOOKED. I can't wait to find out what happens in the Two Towers!



    Jeff
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    mount_my_floppymount_my_floppy Posts: 913member
    A Rhapsody console giving me a KP
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    jambojambo Posts: 3,036member
    I've decided to start opening the copy of Computer Weekly that arrives on my desk every week. I have ~40 under my desk and from what I have read so far the other 39 will remain sealed.



    J :cool:
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    tmptmp Posts: 601member
    [quote]Originally posted by The Installer:

    <strong>Carl Hiassen's "Lucky You".

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Carl Hiassen is one of my all-time favorite writers. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0449219410/qid=1024072001/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8555560-2196737"; target="_blank">"Skin Tight"</a> is one I reread about once a year.



    Right now I am re-reading E. F. Benson's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0690011059/qid=1024072239/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8555560-2196737"; target="_blank">"Make Way for Lucia"</a>. If you are into British comedy, nothing beats it. I also recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140107649/qid=1024072737/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-8555560-2196737"; target="_blank">"Blue Heaven"</a> by Joe Keenan. It's one of the few books that I have read that made me laugh out loud.



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