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What is everyone currently reading?


I am reading this fine novel by Leo Tolstoy for my Russian Literature in Translation course:

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A Feast for Crows

by George R. R. Martin.

4th book in the Song of Ice and Fire series.


Such a good series by the way. I usually hate fantasy but this is really good.

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Just finished my second read through of this. Still as good as ever. Just makes me sad that it will never be new to me

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The Stand is so good.

You have the 90's extended version right?

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I believe so yes.

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Speaking of Stephen King, I just finished this one...



Pretty good and one of the "Bachman" books.

Also just finished this one...



A great one. I had never seen the movie so this was new to me. I watched the movie afterward, but of course the book was better.

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recently finished

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From the writer of No Country For Old Men

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Oh snap, I just read that one too!

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You like it? I'm only half-way in so far.

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H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror, which is actually a collection of classic horror stories that Lovecraft noted in an essay he wrote about horror literature. I read the essay as well, and it's quite good. He has a very intellectual view of how to write horror.

Teuth, you might want to check it out as I know that's your bag, or one of your bags, I should say.

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I wish GRR Martin would finish the 5th book. Only then am I starting with the 4th... because they take place at the same time and you can read them at once.

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Hmm.. I read the synopsis on Wikipedia while looking through dystopian books, and I loved it :) Too bad I know everything that happens in it, I'll probably never read it..

I currently am not reading anything. I don't know what tı read.. Maybe I should start Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness..

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I think it's pretty well done. It has a lot of similar themes to The Long Walk appropriately enough. Philosophy on life and death, etc.

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I think it's a full year before it will see release.

But HBO did just green light production for the Song of Ice and Fire series.

Each book is supposed to be one season so if it gets picked up, it'll probably force him to write the last two books faster. That would mean he'd have to get number 6 done within 5 years and number 7 done within 6 years.

Which sadly, would still be a lot quicker than he normally writes.

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Why do you think it's a full year from release? When he finished book 4, he expected to finish the 5th within a year. That was what, 3 years ago? He already had a big part of the book ready, because book 4 and 5 were supposed to be one book instead of two... :(

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My friend has it on pre-order and she just got notification that it would ship around October 31st 2009.

I had previously thought it was going to be released in April so let's hope that's actually the case.

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Pfff... that guy is slacking big time. If you read his blog, it makes you want to chain him to his desk to finish his book. :D All he can talk about is football.

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i tried reading Anna Karenina this summer, but didn't really like it as much as I thought I would. It was good and all, but I never felt compelled to pick it up. it was a disappointment, because I had read The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky the summer before, and it was probably the best book I've ever read.

not reading anything right now, i do too much reading at school. i do read comics from time to time... just finished gotham central's run... really good stuff. going to start reading something soon... maybe transmetropolitan... or the watchmen, since everyone talks about it like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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Try Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky.

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i finished this book last month. not reading anything right now, I want to start the discworld series this week, as I have some time because of holiday.

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i will read this eventually. i want to read master and the margarita by bulgakov first.

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Nice. Got this for Christmas last year. It's very good.

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Second book in the Dark Tower series.


Drawing of Three I believe

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depressing.

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Not so much reading as memorizing it. :lolz:

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re-reading the pern series, I'm up to Nerika's story.

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I've been reading this email. It was sent to me and 25 other recipients, all with University email addresses.

....so wtf?

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I just finished the Twilight series and am starting the Chronicles of Narnia

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I bought Mark Twain's Tom Saywer and Huckleberry Fin, a 2 in 1 pocket, second-hand. I already had Huckleberry Fin, but I wanted to read Tom Saywer first.
I might start it in a few days.

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Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Never read his other books but was intrigued after hearing him talk on Radio Lab.

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I bought "The Color of Magic" and "The Light Fantastic" of Terry Pratchett's Discworld on Amazon... I didn't like the Turkish translation of the books, and couldn't find the English ones here. So now I have to wait 15-25 days for delivery... oh well, at least my finals will be over by that time.

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I read Michael Crichton's Terminal Man within a day. It had been sitting on the shelf for over 2 years, I finally decided to read it.
It's good. Better than the Andromida Strain, not as good as his more exotic books like Jurassic Park.
Funny by the way, I really couldn't tell that this book was 38 years old, except for the large computers and lack of cell phones.

Before that, I finally finished The War of the Worlds. I had started that 2 years ago, but halway through it was too boring. It's nice that he wrote this 110 years ago, but the the way it's told is just too dull.

I also started (again) in Romeo and Juliette. I just want to have read at least 1 Shakespeare story... I don't mind the old English, but I do mind all the talking and rhyming.

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Ive been wanting to read Sphere.


Right now im reading Heart of Darkness.

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Reading Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and also the Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid.

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Reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth by Lovecraft. It's really short but I just can't find enough time to finish it.. :(

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My plant catalogue as I plan out my spring garden...

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-spoiler-

the lillies are the murderer(s?).

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Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West