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  1. 06-04-2010, 03:04 AM #1
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    What did-we read in May ?

    Alabama Song - Gilles Leroy
    Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
    The boy in the striped pyjamas - John Boyne
    Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
    The possibility of an island - Michel Houellebecq
    ...As a moth mistakes a bulb
    for the moon, and goes to hell...

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
    The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Charbon
    The Ligtining Thief by Rick Riordan

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    I was really lazy in May, I nearly finished rereading The City and The Pillar, and I have 3 others going but not finished.
    "If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
    - Margaret Atwood
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    Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoesvky
    Nausea- Jean-Paul Sartre
    The Stranger- Albert Camus
    The Devil's Dictionary- Ambrose Bierce
    American Psycho- Brett Easton-Ellis

    It's been a good month
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    Quote Originally Posted by lupe View Post
    The possibility of an island - Michel Houellebecq
    How did you like it? I'm curious.

    Balthazar and Blimunda by José Saramago
    Bleak House by Charles Dickens
    The Gaudi Key by Esteban Martin & Andreu Carranza
    Impure Blood by Borisav Stanković
    The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
    On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwann
    Novellas by Yoko Ogawa
    La Bęte humaine by Émile Zola
    A Heart So White by Javier Marías
    Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović
    Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
    The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
    The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
    The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa
    Howards End by Edward Morgan Forster
    Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sánchez Pińol
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    Jesus Christ, where do you find the time.
    "If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
    - Margaret Atwood
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    Le Liseur - Bernhard Schlink
    Is This What You Want? - Kate Pullinger (ed.)
    Mother's Milk - Edward St. Aubyn
    Night Train - Martin Amis
    The Colour of Blood - Brian Moore
    Ordinary Love & Good Will - Jane Smiley
    Le Divorce - Diane Johnson
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    Quote Originally Posted by victorianfan View Post
    How did you like it? I'm curious.
    I haven't finished it yet, I'll let you know. But I always enjoy the humourous side of his novels and this is no exception.
    ...As a moth mistakes a bulb
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    Wow! How do you manage it Victorian? I'm so envious. I'm lucky if I can finish one book per few months, let alone a month. Stupid daily life gets in the way. D*** those pesky chores!
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    Quote Originally Posted by OrphanPip View Post
    Jesus Christ, where do you find the time.
    Jealous, ha!
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    Quote Originally Posted by lupe View Post
    I haven't finished it yet, I'll let you know. But I always enjoy the humourous side of his novels and this is no exception.
    Please, do. I'm looking forward to it.
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    Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Sharyn Mccrumb
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    Heidegger and a Hippo walk the those Pearly Gates Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein.
    Alice and her Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carol
    A few short stories by Edgar Allen Poe
    On Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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