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Old 07.09.2009, 05:49 PM   #1941
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^ dude. that is so next on my list! no way i will ever get thru the actual pride & prejudice. but add zombies to anything and it makes everything better.


I really do think they should make many more books like this one. I mean...you are right...zombies make everything better.
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Old 07.09.2009, 10:28 PM   #1942
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Old 07.09.2009, 10:41 PM   #1943
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Old 07.09.2009, 11:04 PM   #1944
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I don't see Gene Wolfe on that list.

He wasn't, but then he was nominated this year. Was it you?
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Old 07.11.2009, 03:51 AM   #1945
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how is this? i had forgotten about it, but am very interested.
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Old 07.11.2009, 08:36 AM   #1946
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Old 07.11.2009, 08:51 AM   #1947
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reading:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
gathering dust unread in the bookcase:
American Splendor - Harvey Pekar, various - I got this for a birthday or christmas a few years ago :\
Don Quixote - Cervantes - got to page 736 of 982 and gave up, it was a slog
Collected Short Stories, vol IV - Philip K. Dick - read some
The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens - wanted to start on Dickens, picked wrong book
The Great Dune Trilogy - Frank Herbert - read Dune
The Complete Chronicles of Conan - Robert E. Howard - read the first ten short stories
Les Miserabes - Victor Hugo
The Garden Party (and other stories) - Katherine Mansfield - had this in year 11 literature, still haven't read it
Everyman's Library Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - been putting this off for years
Tierra del Fuego - Jennifer Strauss - same as Garden Party
to read pile:
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Everyman's Library The Maltese Falcon/The Thin Man/Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Everyman's Library The Dain Curse/The Glass Key/Selected Short Stories - Dashiell Hammett
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
American Tabloid - James Ellroy
The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy
I plan on reading those last two when Bloods A Rover is released at the end of September.
I find it very hard to pick out 'modern' literature to read, I never know what to do or source to turn to


are you seriously reading this many books at once?

There is no way I could have more than one or two on the go at once.. between reading a little of each I'd get lost and have to re-read back. Surely it is easier to just finish them before moving on? Or thats just me.. ?
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Old 07.11.2009, 01:25 PM   #1948
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Maybe he's an android? I can juggle two books- as long as I'm mainly reading one and only going back to the other occasionally. But any more than that and I'd lose the plot completely.
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Old 07.11.2009, 07:35 PM   #1949
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are you seriously reading this many books at once?

There is no way I could have more than one or two on the go at once.. between reading a little of each I'd get lost and have to re-read back. Surely it is easier to just finish them before moving on? Or thats just me.. ?
One at a time, what else? You didn't see that only one book, Huck Finn, is listed under "Reading" or that I got two of the books 6 years ago and still haven't read them?
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Old 07.13.2009, 07:40 AM   #1950
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ah, I missed the part underneath.... just saw the long list of books. My mistake.
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Old 07.13.2009, 03:15 PM   #1951
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Old 07.13.2009, 03:34 PM   #1952
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two things from my last library run that i have yet to start:
haunted - chuck palahniuk
pattern recogniton - william gibson (huh, i wonder why)
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Old 07.13.2009, 04:32 PM   #1953
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Well I finished Huck Finn. That was from the gathering dust unread in the bookcase pile. The last chapters where Tom Sawyer shows up and is crazy were a bit of a slog.
On to Sense and Sensibility from the to read pile. I read Pride and Predjudice in high school, it was good.
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Old 07.13.2009, 07:17 PM   #1954
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Old 07.13.2009, 08:24 PM   #1955
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Old 07.14.2009, 02:57 AM   #1956
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is that supposed to be like the Fudge books?
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Old 07.14.2009, 08:28 AM   #1957
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by fudge, I assume you mean dirty panties?

don't ask me. girlgun wrote them.
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Old 07.14.2009, 05:10 PM   #1958
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Old 07.16.2009, 02:22 AM   #1959
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by fudge, I assume you mean dirty panties?

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Old 07.16.2009, 02:23 PM   #1960
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I am reading the TRAVEL issue right now.
Lapham's Quarterly is a great periodical done by Harper's Magazine's old Editor In Chief. Each issue deals with a different topic, (War, Travel, Eros, Money, Nature) and has images and text all from first-hand sources detailing the history of humanity as it relates to the issue's main topic.
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