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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Dec 27, 2011 4:15:49 GMT -5
I'm going through a phase of reading the first chapter and getting distracted, so my currently-reading list includes The Once and Future King, The Mists of Avalon, The Book Thief, and The Hobbit. I'm determined to finish at least one of them before I allow myself to buy A Dance with Dragons... but if someone else buys it for me, all bets are off!
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Post by Marina on Dec 30, 2011 1:51:16 GMT -5
I just finished Neverwhere. BEST GAIMAN EVER! I liked it much better than American Gods.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Dec 30, 2011 2:27:38 GMT -5
I've been reading The Hobbit aloud to various cousins and family-folk, and it's loads of fun. I've somehow never read it before -- it's surprisingly adorable, and great to read to others. Getting me hyped for the movie.
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Post by thoughtsdropin on Dec 30, 2011 21:56:38 GMT -5
I'm just finishing up Divergent by Veronica Roth, which I recommended in the dystopian literature thread. I loved it at first, but am unfortunately liking it less and less the more I read.
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Post by Marina on Dec 30, 2011 22:57:19 GMT -5
I'm reading Finnikin of the Rock. I can tell it's going to be my favorite book. I'm only a quarter of the way through. Guys, it tears your heart out from the beginning... and you kind of like it. That's how good it is.
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Post by Marina on Dec 31, 2011 18:35:57 GMT -5
Guys, guys, I just finished Finnikin of the Rock. You need to go and get it and read it. You won't regret it. It was the best.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jan 1, 2012 13:45:05 GMT -5
Guys, guys, I just finished Finnikin of the Rock. You need to go and get it and read it. You won't regret it. It was the best. RECOMMEND IT ON GOODREADS or I know I'll forget... |
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Post by sammybluejay on Jan 1, 2012 18:56:09 GMT -5
I just started James Joyce's Dubliners for a class. I'm never sure if I actually like his writing style or not...
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Post by Kori on Jan 6, 2012 4:09:54 GMT -5
I just started James Joyce's Dubliners for a class. I'm never sure if I actually like his writing style or not... I've heard Dubliners is actually way different from the writing style of his novels. Which is a little preturbing. I liked Dubliners, and am now a little scared to start A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.I, for one, am working on Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett. I can't wait to see how Discworld does Macbeth. ^^ |
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Post by Tanith on Jan 6, 2012 15:08:05 GMT -5
I just finished The Stranger by Albert Camus. It took me a while to get into it, but it definitely hit me when I did.
Debating whether to pick up Dostoevsky's Demons or The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie next. I took a class on Rushdie last semester, and after finishing it I'm now more of a fan of his work and exhausted with him at the same time...
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Jan 11, 2012 1:55:57 GMT -5
Just finished Catching Fire and Mockingjay. Now on to...something. I have three other books with me on this trip. No idea what I'm going to read next.
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Post by Tanith on Jan 11, 2012 15:22:55 GMT -5
As Barnes & Noble had neither of the two I was going to read, I've started The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić. So far it's very interesting. I'm not really familiar with Bosnian history, but I like the way he's telling it in a series of character anecdotes. I'm also enjoying his sort of discussion on how history and imagination can be so closely woven.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jan 11, 2012 23:12:04 GMT -5
I'm currently re-reading Dorian Gray for my VicLit class this coming semester. I haven't read it for five-ish years, so going back and reading it again is weird. There's a lot of stuff I don't remember and a LOT that I KNOW I missed the last time I read it.
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Jan 14, 2012 1:07:45 GMT -5
Currently reading Thirteen Reasons Why and hating it. It's contrived and manipulative and annoying.
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Post by Marina on Jan 14, 2012 17:39:51 GMT -5
I'm reading John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars" ... I can't stop blubbering. It's obnoxious. I don't care how good the book is, I will never love a book about dying children. That's why I stopped reading Lurlene MacDanielle.
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