matty

I cannot say enough about neal stephenson as a writer. He embodies all that I feel a good writer should hold true to. He tells a darn good yarn. His characters are fully developed with flaws just as in real life. There are no perfect characters in his book Cryptonomicon. He also has a good sense of humanity and rebellish side to him. To those that have read the book there is a little jem placed within the book. The solitare encryption scheme that is used in the book is an actual full blown, VERY well concieved scheme. One reason for including it in the book is so that people in other countries who are not endowed with the same rights of privacy that we are shall have a means of private communications all their own.

Matty

safari invasion

I read "Fight Club" yesterday and "Survivor" the day before that. I'll probably start something non-fiction tomorrow. Either "Inside Delta Force" or "Fighter Wing."

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overheadalbatross

Recently finished: "Killer Angels," Michael Shaara (American Lit. class)
"Red Dragon," Thomas Harris
"subUrbia," Eric Bogosian
"Jennifer Government," Max Barry

Currrently reading: "Hannibal," Thomas Harris

Soon to be reading: "The Jungle," Upton Sinclair
"Fast-Food Nation," Eric Schlosser
"Mall," Eric Bogosian
"Slaughterhouse Five," Kurt Vonnegut

That's enough.

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Lily

currently rereading Orson Scott Card's Enchantment.

Once my schoolwork lightens up I'm hoping to start Dr. Zhivago and rediscover The Once and Future King. I read that in middle school and haven't been able to go back to it since. I have the feeling that were I to go back to it, I'd get VERY different stuff out of it

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tekp

Ive just finished reading Johnny and the Bomb (terry Pratchett) and thought it was very good.

I am now reading Johnny and the Dead (wrong order, but hey).

I have already read Only Your Can Save Mankind years ago. I might read it again actually, that was good...

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Farror

Polgara the Sorceress, reading, but not necessarily enjoying.

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strangedaze

I just read Jeanette winterson's The PowerBook, and today I'm working on Nabakov's Lolita. I tried reading St. Augustine's Confessions, but the style didn't really appeal to me. I'll probably read that and Hubert Aquin's Next Episode when I have a lot of spare time. Still haven't read Wilde's Picture yet, so that's definately on my list.

-SD

Lily

strangedaze, right now I'm trying to read Augustine's Confessions too. Actually, it's currently sitting at the bottom of my backpack. It's kind of hard to read his opening pages when it's sunny outside and all you want to do is PLAY! or something . . .

I've just finished Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics. It's basically a collection of whimsical short stories about what prehistoric life might have been like. My favorite is the first story . . .

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strangedaze

I'm hoping I can get through it later - maybe it will provide me with some spiritual answers. But right now I just don't have the time nor the patience to throw myself into such a deep text. I suppose I will just live vicariously through you, so I urge you to read it for the both of us

That being said, Nabakov writes breathtaking prose. The first 30 pages of Lolita are sensational.

Lily

strangedaze, out of curiosity, are you referring to Cosmicomics or Augustine's Confessions? It doesn't really matter, but I was just curious . . . as I always am!

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strangedaze

Confessions. What is this other thing you speak of?

tekp

Finished reading Johnny and the Bomb and recently continued to read Jean M Euel's Clan of the cave bear after stoping reading it a while back for a reason now forgotten...

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safari invasion

Have started reading Patricia Cornwell's Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed. Very interesting stuff.

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Gundampilotspaz

Dan Browns "Angels and Demons" Which I will follow by Robet A. Heinlein's "Dubble Star", my 8th Heinlein book.

Leapord

Just started reading Rhapsody by Elizabeth Haydon. Gotten about 1/3 of the way through, and it seems really good so far.

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