What are you reading now?
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"Insatiable Wives" by David J. Ley
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"Any Human Heart" by William Boyd.
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I have many, many books that I'm about halfway through at the moment. I have a terrible habit of never finishing books :sighsm:
I currently am about a third way through LOTR Fellowship of the rings ... and have been for some time. Its quite a hard book to get through but I am enjoying it.
I am also about halfway through 'The Devil Rides Out' by Dennis Wheatley. Damn good book, sends shivers down your spine!
Also meant to be finishing 'The Fiery Cross' by Diana Gabaldon and that seems the most hopeful at the moment.
I mean I actually read some of it yesterday!!
I currently am about a third way through LOTR Fellowship of the rings ... and have been for some time. Its quite a hard book to get through but I am enjoying it.
I am also about halfway through 'The Devil Rides Out' by Dennis Wheatley. Damn good book, sends shivers down your spine!
Also meant to be finishing 'The Fiery Cross' by Diana Gabaldon and that seems the most hopeful at the moment.
I mean I actually read some of it yesterday!!
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I read tons of Wheatley when I was about 12-14 - then I realised what a complete racist he was (read Uncharted Seas if you don't believe me.) Your brother would be appalled at his political leanings as well - he was somewhere to the right of Mussolini. He knew how to write a good yarn though and his research into historical details was impeccable, albeit skewed by his pro-monarchy, empire and church views.
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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
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Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
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This is the wrong forum for bluffing
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Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
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I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
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I am reading a 2009 Henning Mankell crime novel not yet available in English. Found mine at Turku airport.
International disaster, gonna be a blaster
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)
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I'll try not to let that get in the way of me enjoying this particular book... but I dunno how well that's gonna work to be honestXamonas Chegwé wrote:I read tons of Wheatley when I was about 12-14 - then I realised what a complete racist he was (read Uncharted Seas if you don't believe me.) Your brother would be appalled at his political leanings as well - he was somewhere to the right of Mussolini. He knew how to write a good yarn though and his research into historical details was impeccable, albeit skewed by his pro-monarchy, empire and church views.
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Jose Saramago - Blindness. Very annoying style (but that's just my opinion) but I find the story fascinating and am somehow strangely hooked.
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Reviews of this book, try to push it into some kind of trascendentalism or philosophy teaching... It is not.
It is just a family story seen by a dog which loves its owner and wants to reincarnate as a human like him... It is light and fast reading.
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It's the last of the Salander girl trio, that Larsen or Larson guy. I read the first and saw a couple of tv episodes of the second, plus a couple of the third. I figure I have most of the story.
International disaster, gonna be a blaster
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)
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What I'm supposed to be reading for class:
along with a half-dozen others related to humankind's adaptation to urban life. 
What I'm actually reading:
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"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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How are you finding "Earth"? I have heard good reviews.fbm wrote:
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Worth every penny and every minute spent reading it!Sisifo wrote:How are you finding "Earth"? I have heard good reviews.fbm wrote:
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Maybe even worth the grade demerit I'm sure to get for turning in my assignment paper late because of reading "Earth" instead of what I was supposed to be reading...
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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In the last pages of this:
It usually takes me a while to get into the rythm of chinese literature. It takes a lot longer to have me immersed in the story, but it is worth the initial effort for this book. The memories of a student who during the cultural revolution in China is sent to live in the mongolian countryside and gets fascinated by the symbiotic relationship of humans and wolves there.
This book it is an enviromental howl and a open critic to many of the chinese and modern agricultural practices. I think it is a must-have.
It usually takes me a while to get into the rythm of chinese literature. It takes a lot longer to have me immersed in the story, but it is worth the initial effort for this book. The memories of a student who during the cultural revolution in China is sent to live in the mongolian countryside and gets fascinated by the symbiotic relationship of humans and wolves there.
This book it is an enviromental howl and a open critic to many of the chinese and modern agricultural practices. I think it is a must-have.
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Dodgy.
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