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    "Vellum" and "The Ink" by Hal Duncan

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    Quote Originally Posted by fallingup View Post
    Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Little Prince, and one of the various books by V.S. Naipaul
    I read Anna Karenina this year. It's the most absolutely engrossing, sweeping, moving narrative I've read in a very, very long time. Good buy!

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    Quote Originally Posted by fallingup View Post
    Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Little Prince, and one of the various books by V.S. Naipaul
    I read Anna Karenina this year. It's the most absolutely engrossing, sweeping, moving narrative I've read in a very, very long time. Good buy!

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    Light In August, In Evil Hour, Julius Caesar and Che's Bolivian diary. All at once.
    Despite the snow,
    Despite the falling snow.

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    At a second-hand bookshop,

    3 titles by W. Somerset Maugham:
    Cakes and Ale
    The Moon and Sixpence
    The Razor's Edge


    and Ordinary Love & Good Will by Jane Smiley.
    "He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Bartholomew View Post
    Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
    My favourite Conrad - hope you enjoy it, Sir B.

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    The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
    "there is an absolute
    and that must be in the heart"

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    Just ordered Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac.

    Slowly building up my book collection, but running out of space for the buggers!

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    I went bookshopping again:

    The Family ~ Mario Puzo

    The Dollmaker~ Harriette Arnow

    Atlas Shrugged ~ Ayn Rand

    Whip Hand ~ Dick Francis

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.Bought it yesterday.
    Noću, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logički opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.

    Miroslav Krleža

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    My library just sold some old books. I bought:
    1. Intruder in the Dust by W. Faulkner
    2. J. Kerouac: On the Road (My second copy. Love the novel.)
    3. S. Rushdie: Fury
    4. H.G. Wells: The History of Mr. Polly
    5. B. Easton Ellis: American Psycho

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    Quote Originally Posted by johann cruyff View Post
    A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.Bought it yesterday.
    I read this a few weeks ago, definitely worth the hype... and while there are some sections that are fairly esoteric, it is to Hawking's credit that he makes pretty difficult concepts digestible to the non-physicist...

    I think you probably need to have a basic interest/curiosity in astro-physics and cosmology though otherwise it could be pretty hard work ..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hank Stamper View Post
    I think you probably need to have a basic interest/curiosity in astro-physics and cosmology though otherwise it could be pretty hard work ..
    Obviously...
    Noću, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logički opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.

    Miroslav Krleža

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    The vindication on the rights of women by mary wollsencroft ( well actually im in the process of putting the amazon order in right now... so it sort of counts doesnt it?
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    I've bought several books recently

    1 - Merle's Door : lessons from a freethinking dog
    2 - Of Men and Their Mothers
    3 - Mean Girls Grow Up
    4 - Tell Me Where It Hurts: a day of humor, healing and hope. In my life as an animal surgeon
    What Are You Crazy!!!

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