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Last edited by munkinhead; 03-12-2011 at 01:33 AM.
you are my left arm
All right, I am game.
My first one:
1. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
3. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
4. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Last edited by iamnobody; 03-21-2011 at 09:51 PM. Reason: updating
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
1. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
2. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
1. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
2. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
3. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Sounds great. As for me: Mysteries and Secrets of Magic by C. J. S. Thompson.Originally Posted by Lokasenna
Yes - my fault. scanned and assumed you were doing it from the end of the year. I would have had a good list from then. I'm into War and Peace so my list will be small as a result... still reading it - jolly good it is though.Why when I quote you, Paul, does it say that instead of what you posted? Lol, weird.
I wish I had started this thread on january 1st which would have been fitting, but I only came up with the idea yesterday.
And what I was going to say about your post is, you finished all those books in a day? Damn, I feel inadequate.
EDIT: Okay, you must've edited your post and it took a bit to catch up. In any case, this has all been much more complicated a reply than I intended.
W&P should count for about 10 books, I'd say.
1. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
2. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
3. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
4. Paradiso by Dante
Finished two books on the same day!
I'd re-read Frankenstein for pleasure, and tackled Clive Tolley's Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic for work. The former was great, the latter less so.
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
My reading for the 1st two months of 2011:
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
Unless - Carol Shields
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
I need to give Frankenstein another read sometime. Maybe I will. There's too much to read that I haven't read that keeps me from doing rereads often.
1. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
2. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
3. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
4. Paradiso by Dante
5. Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville. Yeah, it's just a short story/novella, but it took up a night of reading, so here it goes.
5. The Magus by John Fowles
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
1. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
2. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
3. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
4. Paradiso by Dante
5. Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville.
6. The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
1. Crime & Punishment-Fyodor Dostoevesky
2. The Mayor of Caterbridge-Thomas Hardy
3. The Jungle-Upton Sinclair
4. Jude The Obscure-Thomas Hardy
5. The Magus-John Fowels
6. The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoevesky
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
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