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What book are you currently reading?

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I've forgotten what books look like. I need to engage my brain and get back into reading, I'm bored often enough reading will be the perfect thing to resolve that.
 
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OH and the book that I have literally just finished this morning is Angels & Demons by Dan Brown ~ I liked it but I'm quite happy to live in a fictional world most of the time anyway!!!;) ;) =D =D %) %) %)
 
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I'm quite happy to live in a fictional world most of the time anyway!!!;) ;) =D =D %) %) %)
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Yes M'n'M, and we want IN on that world, It seems much better than reality ;)

I'm reading 'The Reader' translated from the German. Oprah told me to...
 
Just got Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and I'm really excited about that! Read a few pages on the train home but I'll have to keep myself from reading it before I go to bed because I know then I'll be up until sunrise reading non-stop.

Also reading The Beach by Alex Garland, but I'm not sure if I've actually read it before or not... I may have read only the beginning a few years ago because it seems awfully familiar (and not just because I've seen the film).
 
I read first three harry potters before it dawned on me it was essentially a bunch of shambolic plagerism, and the 4th book was 3 times as long as it needed to be and consisted mostly of "and previously in harry potter". May aswell just read some Rohl Dahl and a Worst Witch story and be done with it.
 
"wrecking Machines" About white-collar boxing. Supposedly it's the new golf for City lawyers.
 
We_come1 said:
I read first three harry potters before it dawned on me it was essentially a bunch of shambolic plagerism...
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that's a pretty serious accusation and could be considered defamatory. can you back it up?

alasdair
 
I'm reading Cock and Bull by Will Self atm.... Its about a woman who grows a penis and rapes her husband, then about a guy who grows a vagina in the back of his leg and gets raped by his doctor....

Linky!

Its dark and disturbing, but poinently funny in parts... Will Selfs verbose writing style makes it a meaty read tho despite being essentially just two novelettes....
 
I am reading possibly the best book ever - I find it hard to describe it, and to get across just how impressive it is - but i'll have a go.

I'm reading The System Of The Word by Neal Town Stephenson. It is the third book in a trilogy called the Baroque Cycle, the first book being Quicksilver and the second The Confusion. Each book is over 1000 pages long, so the story is epic to say the least.

Stephenson describes himself as a science fiction writer - but that doesnt mean future events, robots etc - he writes fiction based on science. In the case of the Baroque Cycle, 16th Centrury science. It is based over a period of 50 or so years in the time of Newton, Leibniz, Hooke, Wren, Louis XIV of France and is effectively the story of natural philosophy - but it's a novel. Half the characters are historical, half made up (the best of which being Jack Shaftoe - the king of the vagabonds). What sets this book apart is Stephensons knowledge, his intricate understanding of mathematics, engineering, philosophy as it is now, and as it was then - and how he weaves it into the story. Reading it takes every ounce of my concentration, yet each page is rewarding.

Don't attempt to start this trilogy as a light read by the pool, it really isnt that, but if you do read it you won't regret it. I'm roughly 2600 through the 3000 or so, and the story is still as riveting as it was on page 1. That is some feat.
 
We_come1 said:
Hah maybe plagerism was a tad strong a word, perhaps "collection of cliches" would be better. I just cant stand Harry Potter or JK Rowling.
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indeed - there's a huge difference between plagiarism and a cliche. which specific aspects do you think are cliches?

alasdair
 
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