Author Topic: What are you reading right now?
PadmeA_Panties 
Registered: Oct '03
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Date Posted: 4/12 11:36pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
Finished Starship Troopers, now reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. As well as finishing up Jedi vs. Sith: Essential Guide to the Force.

 

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emilsson 
Registered: Oct '98
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Date Posted: 4/13 5:38am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
At the moment I am reading Karen Armstrong's The Great Transformation.

 

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Obi-Dawn Kenobi 
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Registered: Jan '00
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Date Posted: 4/13 11:34am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
Oooooo, A Clockwork Orange is one of my all-time faves. Great book.

I'm currently plowing my way through the longish Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It's quite engaging.

I recently finished a book called The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg. Super interesting historical account of the bathing habits of people in Europe and America since Roman times. Some very gross history for a clean freak like myself.

 

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soitscometothis 
Registered: Jul '03
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Date Posted: 4/13 1:47pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
Gods and Pawns by Kage Baker.

It's a book of short stories set in Baker's Company series. So far it has been very good, with nice characterisation and dialogue from Baker, as always.




 

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MrZAP 
Registered: Jun '07
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Date Posted: 4/14 11:09am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
Currently reading The Zombie Survival Guide, by Max Brooks. I just finished reading Michael Crichton's State of Fear.

 

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King_of_Red_Lions 
Registered: Mar '03
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Date Posted: 4/14 4:03pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
ULYSSES by James Joyce

This is my second attempt. I started it two years ago and didn't make it far. I've since read Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and have a better grasp of his style - as well as his unique punctuation of dialogue. I'm confident I can tackle the beast this time.

Perhaps, someday, Finnegans Wake...

 

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DAR 
Registered: Jul '04
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Date Posted: 4/14 9:53pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
Angels and Demons

 

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Rogue1-and-a-half 
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Registered: Nov '00
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Date Posted: 4/16 12:17pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now? - Date Edited: 4/16 12:22pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Rogue1-and-a-half
King_of_Red_Lions posted:


Perhaps, someday, Finnegans Wake...


NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

I am warning you. Finnegans is the most vicious practical joke ever visited on the human race; I read it in its entirity; I love Portrait of the Artist and I just finished reading The Dead last night and loved it. But Finnegans . . . the man was absolutely sociopathic at that point, I think.

Everyman (16th Century) - Anonymous

Medieval morality play. As fascinating as you might think.

I Am That - Sri Nisargadatta

Work of Indian philosophy. I'd recommend it be read with a huge grain of salt. When it is brilliant, it is truly life changing. And then on the same page it goes completely bonkers. Both excellent and goofy at one time, sometimes within a single sentence.

Phaedra (1677) - Jean Racine

Quite enjoyable little tragedy. It had a couple of great plot twists and it kept me hooked.

Ulysses (1842) - Alfred Tennyson

One of his finest poems; "Though we are not know that strenght which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are." Amen, brother. Amen.

Odes on Intimations of Immortality (1804) - William Wordsworth

Wordsworth tends to defeat me; this is no exception. The section on trailing clouds of glory is brilliant, the rest rather prosaic.

 

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Chancellor_Ewok 
Registered: Nov '04
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Date Posted: 4/16 12:24pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
War of Wars by Robert Harvey. Its a 900 page paper brick about the Napleonic Wars and its not bad so far.

 

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Fluke_Groundrunner 
Registered: Jun '01
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Date Posted: 4/16 12:42pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
The Grapes of Wrath

 

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Dachspmg 
Registered: Apr '08
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Date Posted: 4/16 12:45pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
A Naval History of World War I.

 

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PadmeA_Panties 
Registered: Oct '03
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Date Posted: 4/19 5:47pm Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
Finished A Clockwork Orange.
Now reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

 

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WormieSaber 
Registered: Oct '00
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Date Posted: 4/20 12:51am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
Barron's Law Dictionary and Guide to the U.S. Constitution.

 

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emilsson 
Registered: Oct '98
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Date Posted: 4/20 5:13am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
Rereading The Count of Monte Cristo for the first time since I was a kid.

 

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packerfansam 
Registered: Feb '07
Date Posted: 4/20 10:38am Subject: RE: What are you reading right now?
WormieSaber posted:
Barron's Law Dictionary and Guide to the U.S. Constitution.


I'm gonna take a guess that you're a law student.

 

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