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what do u read? (genre, favourite, current/just-finished)

i dun really have a fave genre but i have just finished reading....
david lodge - small world (satirical take on the academic world)
and i am currently half-way through....
tim winton - cloudstreet (i'm going to see the play sat. week so i wanted to read the book first)
it's just nice to be able to read things ~I~ want rather than the stuff i have to/am supposed to for uni......
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Fav books (series)
My fav. author is Raymond E Feist. He continues to write the best fantasy books ever. He has built an excellent fantasy world and has developed each character/family over the many books he has written. Well worth checking out if ya a fan!
Riftwar Saga (Magician, Silverthorn, darkness at sethanon) -Raymond e feist!
Serpent war saga (Shadow of a dark queen, rise of a merchant prince, rage of a demon king, shards of a broken crown)- again by Raymond e Feist
Terry Brooks - also puts out a kick ass series called Shannara. There's currently 8 books out in that series, with a 9th book being released in a few months!! yay!
The Chronicles of Dragonlance (Margaret weis and tracey hickman) are also excellent books!
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btw 1984 was written by orwell
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F. Scott Fitzgerald - 'This Side of Paradise'
Paulo Coelho - 'The Alchemist'
Ernest Hemingway - 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
Hermann Hesse - 'Sidartha'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 'Love in the Time of Cholera' and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'
Milan Kundera - 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'
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piggiewiggie: for sure!
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friskk: the sword of shannara was one of the first fantasy books i read. followed it till scions of shannara, then got tired of waiting for terry brooks to write the next book and losing track of the plot bcos the gap was too long.
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so i gave up. might take it up again when i run out of things to read.
have also got dan simmons hyperion series (4 books) waiting to be consumed.
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and to add more
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Musahi - the novel and Gorin No Sho
"book of 5 rings"
every george orwell book
Rold Dahl - most : The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar still enthrals me.
The Chopper 'books' - Good for a laugh
Any musicians (auto)biography
blah, anything I can get my hands on..
 
*sigh* ... I havn't read a book in ages *whimper*
friskk has my list, all the stuff I love... And all those who said Terry Pratchett rule, he's my favourite author...
a few people would know I'm writting a sci-fi/fantasy novel (havn't worked on it for over a year now tho
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) so yes, fantasy is my fave genre, followed closely by sci-fi
 
I barely touch fiction these days...for me, it kinda feels like a waste of time when I could be learning about real stuff instead....so, it's non-fiction all the way baby!! I read a ton of true crime (psych is my passion....and the human mind is soooo fascinating, especially when it becomes deviant) - homicide cases...serial killers, etc...intriguing stuff....a recent one was The Anatomy of Motive by John Douglas - anything by him is great...he's the guy who pioneered Quantico and profiling....
I also love biographies....history...all that sorta stuff......
Most recent book I finished was "The Damage Done"...pretty harrowing book by the Aussie guy who got caught trafficking Heroin in Thailand and spent 12 years in prison over there...a tough but necessary read.......
Am now reading a biography of Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese poet/philosopher from first half of last century).....his book The Prophet is my bible....everything about life summed up so perfectly...blows me away every time I open it
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ahhh... i dont believe in reading for learning about real stuff. i save that for newspapers...
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unless referring to history of cos.
when i read i wanna expand my mind in terms of stretching my creativity. to enter the world the author has created, a world which usually doesnt exist but takes much pain and effort to create.
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but i admire pple who can read for the purpose of gaining knowledge. it reminds me too much of being in school and having to read "serious" books.
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I read everything and anything. A lot of psych/philosopy and new age stuff.
I always have a book on the go. Usually two, one that stretches my mind and a trashy romance type novel. It's like junk-food for the brain.
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reading 'xml guide for the world wide web' at the moment..
but my fave readings are:
. patrick suskind - 'perfume'
. douglas coupland - 'generation x', 'life after god', 'microserfs', and 'girlfriend in a coma'
. douglas rushkoff - 'the ecstasy club'
. brian belle-fortune - 'all crew muss bigup' (gives me a huge rush everytime i read it, even at random pages, but i guess it's more to do with drum'nbass..)
. john boorman, ed. - 'projections' series (book on filmmakers on filmmaking)
. asterix comic books!
 
Im reading a book at the moment called 'The Pony Fish's Glow and other clues to plan and purpose in nature'. Its basically a about theories on evolution. Very interesting but its still quite difficult to read.
My fav author has to be Nick Hornby, his books are just so damn entertaining!! Also up there is Iain Banks (his non sci-fi stuff)and recently, sarsen got me quite into Michael Crichton.
Other books Ive loved recently were Anthony Bourdain's (excuse the poor spelling) Kitchen Confidential.. its just an amazing book which I couldnt put down.
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some authors to recommend:
robert jordan, workld making on a scale not since tolkien (wheel of time)
cj cherryh, lyrical poetic high fantasy (fortress in the eye of time)
robin hobb, evocative emotional (farseer)
le modesitt jr, intellectual, philosophical sci-fi, social commentries, discourse on man, power, technology, the human soul; with a dash of political intrigue and good old action (gravity dreams, adiamante)
jeef noon, tears shreds dices recreates the english language, language to interact with, for any tripper (pollen, automated alice), for music lovers (needle in the groove), for scattered comedowns (cobralingus)
greg egan, hard sci-fi on quantum physics, nanotechnology, genes.. challenging mind expanding, sci-fi's leading "ideas" man (diaspora, distress)
metaphysical poets, dark insidious undercurrents
neil gaimen, classic storytelling, adult fairytales (stardust), ordinary lives, gods, ideas, mythology, stories (sandman)
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I'm really into historical books... I don't think I'll bother naming any, because I can see I'm out of place with my interest in them here...
Hamlet, thumbs up for 'This side of paradise'.
A while ago I was heavily into science fiction... Old science fiction though, people from the 30s, 40s and 50s imagining what the world would be like now... Honestly it's been so long since I've read any sci-fi and too many drugs too for me to remember any of the authors... Phillip K. Dick comes to mind...
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Don't know if they dream them Ghost, but they prolly count them so they can get to sleep...
Just finished reading 'Thief of Time' by Terry Pratchett... Another great read...
 
Reading a velly intersting book at the moment
"The Poison Principle" by Gail Bell
Aussie author whos writing about how poisons have been used in past centuries and how they glammed them up in stories, myths and fairytales as well as incooperating her family history where her grandfather was a chemist who mixed miracle cures and poisoned his sons........... very interesting read
ohh and on the cover they have a picture of a old school chemist box with amyl nitrite written on the front!
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anything by heminway, but most especially
'the sun also rises'
anna karenina by tolstoy
catch-22 by heller
ermmm...can we move into authors?
vonnegut
homer
faulkner...
i can go on an on...thats the problem with being a lit. major:p
right now im reading 'the war of don emmanuel's nether parts' by louis de bernieres....its ace!
as for fantasy...robert jordan, terry brooks, david eddings, raymond e. feist...classics
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and just because a novel is fiction doesnt make it any less real...the emotions and the actions that an author is trying to convey to his/her readers sometimes are best communicated by invented characters.
*end rant here*
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Just finished:
"No Logo" by Naiomi Klein.
- a must read for anyone interested in getting info on just how much multinationals exert control over *everything*. This book blew my head off.
Fave book:
"Voss" by Patrick White
-Laura & Ludwig, dissociating in a tree...
buck.
 
just finished reading "the cold six thousand" by James Ellroy. he is the guy that wrote LA Confidential and a whole heap of other really awesome books...
this was the first of his that i had read, and it was absolutely amazing. if you like crime novels/thrillers this is the thing... it is very well written, although the style did shit me for a while, mostly written in short sentences... i.e a sentence is an action, then next action next sentence etc...
but the storytelling is amazing...
definitley recommended reading, this was the first non-fantasy book that i had read in quite a while... definitely worth it...
now i am back onto terry pratchett... guards guards... this is more my style...
 
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