journyman161

The Giza Power Plant by Christopher Dunn - fascinating read... An engineer taking a look at the engineering side of the pyramids & other ancient artefacts.

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*Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
*Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it - Moses Hadas
*He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know - Abraham Lincoln

strangedaze

i thought the same thing about diary.

i loved a clockwork orange. let me know how u liked it. seen the flick?

hitting trainspotting last? have u read porno?

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Avarice

i couldnt read trainspotting, too hard, might ask more gf to read it to me [ shes from edinburgh] need to try reading clockwork orange again. the constant slang killed me.

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Ralizah

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. A truly magnificent piece of literature.

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ReikiMeg

I'm finishing up Gene Wolfe's "The Knight" before I head onto Stephen King's Tower series.

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jasmin

I`ve started Ghost wars by Steve coll .it is the secret history of the CIA,Afganistan and BinLaden ,from the soviet invasion to sep10 ,2001/

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Stewart

I'm currently reading two books:

The God Boy, Ian Cross
A book from New Zealand author and journalist, Ian Cross. The God Boy is the first novel of an author who, since the fifties, has only four novels to his name.

This one concerns a thirteen year old recounting a time in his life two years ago when his parents were going through a bad time; so bad it has resulted in him living in a Catholic school away from them. The novel follows his thoughts on the period when he was an eleven year old kid wandering his small New Zealand town and trying to rebel.

There are shades of Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle within this novel, and it fits between them as regards its publication. It was published in 1957.


ella minnow pea, Mark Dunn
A rather tricksy epistolary novel that, as the story continues, loses letters of the alphabet and forces to the characters to find new words and phrases with which to express themselves.

It's about the residents of a small island called Nollop, its most famous son being Nevin Nollop (for whom it was named). His claim to fame? He wrote the pangram: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs. There's a statue dedicated to him on Nollip with several tiles below phrasing his famous line. But, one by one, the tiles begin to fall and, rather than replace them, the High Council takes this as a sign that Nollop doesn't want his people to use these letters any more. Strict rules come into force and, starting with Z, the people are forced to communicate in their letters with less and less letters, which is a tad inconvenient, until on l, m, n, o, and p remain (hence the title, also the main character).

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PamHKyle

Just finished 'The court of the Lion' by Daniel Alietri and Eleanor Cooney.
Historical novel set in China, painting the downfall of the T'ang Dynasty and the rising of An Lushan. Loads better than I hoped for, but you sort of need to be in this kind of books.

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Hakeem

mm... I'm about to begin reading "The Kite Runner". Then probably head to LOTR,, everybody else read them! about time for me...

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Stewart

Once you've read it, please post your thoughts on this thread.

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Hakeem

Okay..

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Fantasy of You

Arg I hate LoTR.. I don't know why everyone likes the books so much! Anyway,I'm reading Wilbur Smith's When the Lion Feeds (for th 16th time lol- buy it) and Dead Koots' The Taking for the 2nd time.. Yea I'm short onbooks ^_^

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BeautifulDisaster

I'm reading Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth". It's okay so far...and I still haven't gotten to the main plot of the book. I have a feeling it's gonna be a LONG one.

andreaypich

The diaries of Sylvia Plath
Joyce's Dubliners
London, a biography

Also several poems and essays for my exam on English modernism.

VinrAlfakyn

Finished Rhapsody, and now I'm reading Prophecy, also by Elizabeth Haydon. It's the second book in her series.

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also in "Somplace To Be Flying" by Charles de Lint