Also just started the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I know I am so behind the times.
Also just started the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I know I am so behind the times.
"Head Clear. Mouth shut. See Much. Say little." Roland Deschain
"Go your way, I'll take the long way 'round. Ill find my own way down, as I should." Ben Howard
Alternating the current Dresden (book 7 today) with Weaveworld by Clive Barker
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I liked it. Not perfect by any means, but it's fairly well paced and I like Katniss as the central heroine. What were your impressions of the trilogy as a whole ?Originally Posted by blavigne
That has been on my to-read list for so long but I never get around to it. Let me know what you think of it once you finish it !
This is my second copy of the book, if that tells you anything. I love Weaveworld!
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I'm beginning the first novel in a recently released omnibus, Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. The cover caught my eye. Despite the big yellow Dungeons and Dragons bar slapped across the top of it, I decided to buy it. I'm loving it so far.
I just finished Elric: Swords and Roses by Michael Moorcock. After the Chronicles I'm contemplating either the next "trilogy" of Elric novels--The Dreamtheif's Daughter, The Skrayling Tree and the White Wolf's Song--or the Cornelius Quartet, which collects the four Jerry Cornelius novels. Any suggestions on which to go with first?
It's unlike any Simmons I've ever read. It's a quiet kind of character study - with some lovely writing, but not much is happening.How is it?
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Which is fine.
So far, I like what I've read.
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I'm currently walking my way through the Texas world of Sheriff Bell & Anton Chigurh in Cormac MacCarthy's No Country For Old Men. Momma saying "I got cancer." to random strangers and "I told you so three years ago." makes me giggle every time I read it. The Road is equally good, but there are few glimpses of the joy that No Country has.
the definition of a book bears like
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When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
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I am reading "Venture-Untamed" and "Venture-Unleashed" by R.H. Russell.
Yes, sounds interesting. I'll have to pick it up soon.the definition of a book bears like
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you will never change the outcome" -Michael Jordan
Reading American Psycho for school. There is a strong possibility I will stab my eyes with a fork.
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Just finished Candide, going to move on to Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky, then onto some Vonnegut. Maybe Blue Monkey or Breakfast of Champions.
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Not a fan of the book/film? I'm surprised (even in college) that book would be part of a professor's curriculum.
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you will never change the outcome" -Michael Jordan
yeah, wasn't really a big fan of the novel. loved the movie though.
I've never seen the movie, so the plot (however little of one there is) is all new to me. The class I'm reading for is a transgressive literature class, so that's why it's included in the cirriculum, I guess. The class makes me want to jump off a bridge. I keep telling myself that I just have to make it to April 30th.
So you were able to finish it? I'm on page 92 and don't know if I'm going to be able to. I didn't think it was possible, but this just might beat TGWTDT as the slowest beginning ever.
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Chronicles is one of my all-time favorite trilogies. I can remember reading them when the first came out in the mid-80's. The Legends trilogy, which came next, is also great. Then they opened Dragonlance up to other writers. Some good, some bad.I'm beginning the first novel in a recently released omnibus, Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. The cover caught my eye. Despite the big yellow Dungeons and Dragons bar slapped across the top of it, I decided to buy it. I'm loving it so far.
Just finished Insomnia (gave it a 4 out of 5, it had its moments, lol), now reading Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Yay!
So has anyone read any of Naomi Novik's Temeraire series? Any reviews good or bad?
I've got about 30 pages left of Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky, what an incredible read. It makes me want to just keep reading more of his stuff it's so good. No, it makes me want to learn Russian to read it in it's native form. I read about the translation of Notes From Underground, mentoned how Russian vocabulary seems to have an infinite emotional context, that even the slightest fluxuation can change the meaning of a word and how difficult it is to translate his work, to find the right words to express his thoughts, especially in such a small book.
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I'm in the final 150 pages of IT. This is such a great book. I will probably read a novella next to balance things out.
I am so happy you loved Dostoyevsky! If you really start learning Russian, I'm always ready to help. Now I look forward to you reading The Karamazov Brothers, and of course The Devils.
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When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dresden #8 and Aztec.
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Wow, that would be a major undertaking. Similarly, I've always wanted to learn Japanese, because, reading Haruki Murakami, and reading what his translators say about translation, it's obvious you can never ever get the same sensations and feelings in translation as in the original, no matter how talented the translator is. It can be a perfect translation, if such a thing were possible, and it still wouldn't be the same, just simply because it's in another language, which has its own untranslatable features.
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