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    Quote Originally Posted by Remarkable View Post
    The Fifth Elephant ~ Terry Pratchett
    Hey i love this book..read it many years ago but still remember it
    Through the darkness of future past
    the magician longs to see
    one chance out between two worlds
    'Fire walk with me.'


    Twin Peaks

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    hi, first post here...figured this is a good way to start
    busy month - I've been on holiday

    The Grave Thief by Tom Lloyd
    The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
    The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
    The Judging Eye by R. Scott Bakker
    His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) by Naomi Novik
    Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
    Barbary Shore by Norman Mailer
    Cold Copper Tears (Garrett Files) by Glen Cook
    Barking by Tom Holt
    Sword & Citadel by Gene Wolfe
    The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds

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    Quote Originally Posted by dreamscape View Post
    ...The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon...
    I just bought this book but haven't read it yet. How did-you like it?
    ...As a moth mistakes a bulb
    for the moon, and goes to hell...


    -Tom Waits-

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    Moll Flander - Defoe
    Sweet Thursday - Steinbeck
    Winter of Our Discontent - Steinbeck
    The Red Pony - Steinbeck
    Puddn'head Wilson - Twain
    Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
    The Stranger - Camus
    -Mariamosis

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    A Mercy – Toni Morrison
    Everything I knew – Peter Goldsworthy
    The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
    The Crucible - Arthur Miller
    We of the Never Never - Mrs Aeneas Gunn
    Vampire Academy – Book 1 Richelle Mead
    I am back............................

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    Quote Originally Posted by lupe View Post
    I just bought this book but haven't read it yet. How did-you like it?
    I quite enjoyed it. It was vastly over-hyped, but I found myself drawn into it by the second half, when its nature starts revealing itself.
    It is definitely endearing, but I can't help but think that some things may get lost in the translation, as I have read on other sites.
    He has a new one coming soon, which I will definitely pick up.

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    Careless by Deborah Robertson. Very Interesting book. this book shows us that an emotional trauma (a father kills six children at an outdoor playgroup and then himself) diminishes. The principal characters - the survivor for example, fazes out, as does her relationship with her mothers as other indirect and unrelated characters enter the story as it progresses until finally one is left without any real resolution and the event is left in the far distance.

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    Awakening- Kate Chopin
    Brideshead Revisited- Waugh
    Vanity Fair- thackeray
    Lolita (reread)- Nabokov
    Middlesex- Eugenides
    Kim- Kipling
    Hamlet (required reading)- Shakepeare

    "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."

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    Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald: beautiful, beautiful!

    The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: I got a little more attached to Civilization and its Discontents and his essays. To this work and Totem and Taboo, they did not touch me quite as much.

    The Complete Plays of T.S. Eliot: not to say I did not enjoy the plays, I love his poetry a lot more.

    A whole load of poetry by W.H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, and Allen Ginsberg; reviewed a few additional works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

    A novel written by a friend of mine.

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    Richard Yates-Revolutionary road
    Le cleziot-Desert
    Richard stark-The damsel
    Honoré de Balzac-Cousine Bette
    Marguerite Yourcenar-Alexis
    Le coup de grace
    Paul Auster-the man in the dark
    Brian moore-Dark robe
    Guy Gavriel Kay-Tigana
    Nancy Mitford-The Sun King
    Chester Himes-Real cool killer
    Jeanette Winterson - Weight -Myth of Atlas and Heracles
    Henry james-the siege of London

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    Quote Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm* View Post
    I studied this for a course I took last year! I don't even think I read the whole thing haha. Did you like it?\\
    First 20 pages are ok. But as I read through, I become less interested with the topics and arguments/opinions he wrote. Some of them are nothing new (IMHO).

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    I read War and Peace, Lady Chatterley's Lover, A House of Gentlefolk, The Interpretation of Murder, and finished Villette.
    Amongst others (:

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    Oh, and An Inspector Calls for school.

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    How did you like Jude he obscure? I kind of want to read it.
    Last edited by beth01081; 02-07-2009 at 10:47 PM.

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    Tess of the Durbervilles-Thomas Hardy
    The Importance of Being Earnest- Oscar Wilde
    Someone lives someone dies- lurlene mcDaniels
    About half of Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
    Two Princesses of Bamarre- Gail carson levine

    Plus I just bought The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne and
    A Passage to India- E. M. Forester

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