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[soulfilms]

Books I've read this year:

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING Milan Kundera (beside the seemingly unbearable title, I really really enjoyed this novel but haven't seen the film yet)

LOLITA Nabokov (only got around to it this year, i think it grows on you)

THE GRADUATE Charles Webb (rather unremarkable)

CATCH-22 Joseph Heller (absolutely LOVED it. It suits my ideosyncratic humour so so well)

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Austen (boring)
MANSFIELD PARK Austen (better)
LADY SUSAN Austen (rather good)
PERSUASION Austen (almost finished)

(i'm trying to complete the entire Austen range i just need to read Northanger Abbey)

And others which i thought rather unremarkable so it does not deserve to grace this board. YOUR TURN.

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[Alex]

I must interject a theory I just developed after reading your post.

I rarely take vacations. I voraciously read magazines and newpapers, but not books.

You took a vacation AND you read books...

Could there be a parallel here?

Those who read books also take vacations???



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Alex

[soulfilms]

I take vacations, read books, read magazines (but rarely now), read newspapers watch TV, watch films and listen to the radio. 90% of the newspaper is disregarded by me and magazines such as Time i find a tinge too dry for my tastes (although it still enters my household). The only TV that I watch are commedic current affairs programs (Good News Week, The Panel- both hilariously funny and satirical look at the week in (a somewhat) revue and yes, i do enjoy the good humoured Sex and the City, but it's the only fictional TV show i watch.

Taking holidays and reading books. I bought a book when on holidays (Le morte d'Arthur -Malory) but gave it to my friend as i thought she'd enjoy it. Now I wish i'd kept it and had given her A HISTORY OF TORTURE or A HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION although grammatically, it should be AN history of .... Plenty of people take holidays without reading books but then, plenty of people read in their holidays.

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[Alex]

Well I must say how lucky I am to have two intelligent women that post on this site...I will contentedly read my Sunday Spiderman comic strip now I know this is so.



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Alex

[Tard]

Jeeze. My reading list is just pathetic in comparison! Will have to agree that reading books isn't done as often as it used to be. The net is spoiling me!

recent books:

FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID Phillip K. Dick

WAR AGAINST WAR Ernst Friedrich

THE LAST DAYS OF CHRIST THE VAMPIRE J.G. Eccarius

THE ILLUMINOIDS Neal Wingus

JUNCTION Jack Dann

I love cheezy sci-fi/fantasy!

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[Hannibal]

Hmmmm....reading eh? I do a fair amount...I suppose.
I've read books 1,2, and am currently on 3 out of the 4 Dragon Nimbus series by Irene Radford.
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer I believe...
Dragons Of Cuyahoga - don't know the author.
Dreams Of Terror and Death - H.p. Lovecraft
The Road To Madness - H.p. Lovecraft
The Dilbert Principle - Scott Adams
The Joy Of Work - Scott Adams

I read my monthly installments of Dirt Rider, MxRacer, American Motorcyclist, CycleNews, and any other motorcycle related magazine that arrives at my door


Whatever happened to Pride And Prejudice,
that was a big book by Austen wasn't it??
I had to do a 10 page comp 2 paper on Persuasion, the book was so horrid I definately couldn't finish it. I ended up dropping the class. I am not a classic lit fan, especially of Austen *yuck*

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[SHATOUSHKA]

not a big fan of austen, i would hafta congradulate you, soulfilms, on reading anything as since not many do so nowadays.
i am a literature FREAK. (many already know this, just thought i'd add it here...again.)

just as a curiousity, may i ask you why you are bent on reading all of austen? i assume you are female, and i certainly have no conjecture about that, being female myself.
i just want to see what others see in austen.
catch-22 IS a good book.

i recently (last night) read A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert...and i can honestly say i was bored to tears.
i made up for it by following it with Jorge Luis Borges's--The Garden Of Forking Paths.
highly enjoyable. i looooove stark reads.

read any other classical literature?


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[soulfilms]

Yes I am female and I think my obsession with finishing the Austens has something to do with closure. I see Austen novels as a whole rather than individual and up until a few years ago, I could fairly well recite Pride and Prejudice being the only Jane Austen I had ever read. Maybe it's because i'm sappy (whilst i can never tolerate sappiness in films) but somehow, sappy books are tolerable.

POSTSCRIPT I also finished the fantastic VANITY FAIR Thackeray (not the magazine) even though i had started it two years ago.

Few others I had forgotten:

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Arundhati Roy (i know i've spelt her name wrong. It's such a BEAUTIFUL book)

WHITE TEETH Zadie Smith (mixed reaction)

MOLL FLANDERS Damn BORING!!!

LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE ditto

I'm planning on reading Strindberg's MISS JULIE and some ALBERT CAMUS and some Gabriel Marquez.

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[SHATOUSHKA]

wow, soulfilms rocks!
i think i've read everything by camus. he's one of my favorite authors. (as mentioned on the camus forum) i recently aquired an LP in which camus himself reads a few of his works in french, naturally.
strange thing is, i almost had to sell my house in order to weasel it from the other bidders on ebay.
since then, i have stayed clear of ebay.
that shit is addicting.

hannibal--are you reffering to that krakauer novel 'into the wild'? or did he write another novel? let me tell ya, 'into the wild' made me so freakin bored i was glad the guy died (er...the guy in the book).
as far as i can see it, he deserved everything he got.
what a pathetic story.

i like sci-fi too. well, especially asimov. he is the coolest. anyone read him?

and speaking of comics, does anyone read those too? i am a freak for gaiman comics. i tried to get interested in other titles, but it wasn't for me.
there is something about marvel that really chaps my hide. dc is better.

well...
you know.
*shrugs*

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General Philosophy

[Tard]

Managed to get through the 4-book set of Foundation, but it read more like a soap-opera than the classic cheeze-sci-fi which I enjoy. It was just a little too dry.

Wrote outlines for 3 violent/porn/sci-fi novels, but don't have the interest in writing them. Also co-wrote a story with a prolific Canadian artist for a comic-book, but lost interest in that too; sold him the rights to the story though!

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