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Discussion: What are you reading at the moment?

William Gibson rocks, period. Check out Pattern Recognition too.

I'm almost done with Catcher in the Rye. I've never read it and thought the slim volume will keep me occupied on the plane. The book is deceptively simple and I'm probably not appreciating it as fully as I should due to a lack of context. Holden reminds me of a younger Miller in Tropic of Cancer.
 
MR Candyslut said:
^ yeah i totally agree. I think the same goes for the entire fantasy genre, yeah? I love them to bits, but they are as formulaic as a Joan Collins novel :)
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Check out Erikson or Bakkar :) Or have you tried Donaldson? I wouldn't call them formulaic romps. :)
 
I'm currently reading Andrew McGahan's Underground. Essential reading for all Australians... ;) Seriously though, it manages to lead a double life as both page-turning thriller and biting political satire. Highly recommended.
 
They had a special at Angus & Robertson, 3 books for $20 so I just closed my eyes and pointed. I was desperate and had no money (and have long since read the 6 or 7 Christmas books I was given).

So right now I'm reading some UK trash called "Spin Cycle", a kind of Nick Hornby spin-off about two London lads doing laddish stuff around London.

But in the meanwhile my stepmom sent me the 'biography' of the Girl in the Cellar, Natascha something - that girl who was kept in a little room in some pervert's basement for nearly 10 years, I'm really really looking forward to reading this, so I'm doing this speed-read thing with the trash UK novel. I don't know why I can't just ditch it, but it just seems unfair to it, crappy as it is.

Then again, I got 3 pages into some stupid Mills & Boony-type romance a friend hopefully loaned me during my period of desperate booklessness and threw that on the bottom of the pile. I do have my limits.
 
The Gift by Hafiz
translated by Daniel Ladinsky

"A Cushion For Your Head
Just sit there right now
Don't do a thing Just rest.
For you separation from God, From love,
Is the hardest work In this World.
Let me bring you trays of food
And something That you like to Drink.
You can use my soft words As a cushion For your Head"
-Hafiz (1320-1389)
 
Raz! Long Hard Road Out of Hell is amazing... manson is surprisingly brilliant at short stories... if you've gotten that far. i've not met anyone who's read it, but i know that many would be stunned by his stories...i do love the book very much. =D
 
1984 by george orwell

Reading it for the 4th time,imagining that world could be real,gives me shiffers:D
 
^ Definitely one of my favourite novels; I've read it a couple of times. Underground is in some ways Australia's answer to Orwell's nightmare vision, set about 10 years in the future and presenting an exaggerated picture of the current political climate.
 
vurtomatic said:
William Gibson rocks, period. Check out Pattern Recognition too.

I'm almost done with Catcher in the Rye. I've never read it and thought the slim volume will keep me occupied on the plane. The book is deceptively simple and I'm probably not appreciating it as fully as I should due to a lack of context. Holden reminds me of a younger Miller in Tropic of Cancer.
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I loved Pattern Recognition so much, but I gave my copy to my dad and never replaced it. I also own Johnny Mnemonic on DVD and have Neuromancer around here somewhere. Next I am going to read Iduru.

CitR is good.
 
I just finished reading this the other night:
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a perfectly worded, moving piece...I wish it didnt have to end.

Not since John Updike's Marry Me, perhaps, has there been such an honest and unflinching moral examination of marital infidelity as this finely crafted novel by the author of the prize-winning story collection Blue Spruce.
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And I'm in the process of reading this :
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Already past 300 pages.....(I read books simultaneously..;) taking breaks from one to the other)I do not have a particular liking for Norma Jeane Baker but this has got to be one of the BEST works of fiction (loosely based on biographical fact) I've had the pleasure of reading..and it all goes by so fast. Oates writing style is beyond genius.

Oates attraction to the subject of alter-egos and split identities suffuses into her fiction and forms one of the primary subjects of Blonde. There is a recurrent tone Oates uses with many of her female characters when trying to create what she calls psychological realism. Within this literary style she creates characters who reveals a hypersensitive awareness of her or his own being and a special attentiveness to the perspective of the other characters. The characters establish a delicate relationship to themselves where they are a viewer watching themselves.
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i was reading 'stop smoking', i cant remember who by. it was actually going really well but i left it in a hotel in perth. anyone who lives there, it was left in room 610 a week ago, collect it and let me know what u think.
 
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