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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:54 pm
by kay
ytee wrote:
kay wrote:
ytee wrote:I loved Shadow of the Wind...it's very similar in style..to be honest, I'm shocked you didn't like it.
I know about 6 people who didn't think much of it. It was ok, but from the rave reviews I think we'd all thought it was meant to be amazingly stupendous.
Yeah, my wife can't get into it either. I just thought maybe she was crazy...I really enjoyed it.
Possibly it might be to do with the fact that I read mostly sci-fi and fantasy stuff, so none of it was particularly new or different. I think it was also that not much actually happened through most of the book.
Have you read this? Pretty sad, but a great book...

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Nope, not read that.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:51 pm
by 64hz
just read demian.

1 question: how is 'demian' pronounced?
day mee an
deh my an
dee my an

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:48 pm
by limb
dharma bums Jack Kerouac it is awesome

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:37 am
by 64hz
limb wrote:dharma bums Jack Kerouac it is awesome
my favourite book i've read so far.
i've got visions of cody sitting on my table that im gonna start soon.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:54 pm
by limb
64hz wrote:
limb wrote:dharma bums Jack Kerouac it is awesome
my favourite book i've read so far.
i've got visions of cody sitting on my table that im gonna start soon.
It's his best that I've read so far, and I've read a few.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:31 pm
by 64hz
same, the latest i read was Big Sur, together with Dharma Bums its his best work imo(from what i've read). its like his own critiscism of the 'beat generation' he spawned.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:18 pm
by jaydot
At the minute Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Gray

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:55 pm
by 2manynoobs
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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 12:04 pm
by *grand*
The Ascent of money: A financial history of the world, by Neil Ferguson. It's an entertaining read. It basically talking about how financial innovations, and the flow of stores of value have shaped the rise and fall of nations since the 1500.

Grand

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:20 am
by skitz_0
rereading

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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:16 am
by 64hz
http://cyber.eserver.org/unabom.txt



its actually a good read.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:08 am
by bright maroon
..still reading the 1885-1888 Sir Richard Burton version of 1,001 Arabian Nights
...is taking me that long to get through it.


endless caliphate and wazir 'z

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:11 pm
by inaya
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Camus' Les Justes

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:43 pm
by k_k
im reading like the preface in my copy of james joyces uylesses at the minute, will start the actual book soon.
also reading a collection of short stories by flannery o'connor, the last one was "the geranium" i believe

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:37 am
by Milky Pirate
Im currently reading World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War by Max Brooks.. its awesome, being made into a major film by brad pitts production company..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:30 pm
by 64hz
can anyone translate egyptian heiroglyphs? :lol:

i just bought war and peace from a secondhand bookshop and there was a piece of papyrus with heiroglyphs on it. i tried to translate it myself on the web, but there where a couple of glyphs that i couldnt identify.
i imagine its just a tourist trinket that the previous owner used as a bookmark, but it would be cool to find out what it means.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:00 am
by kwami
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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:15 am
by laurent__duval
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really enjoying this. wanna get on some more of his stuff. seems like a brilliant man as well, proper adventurer.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:46 pm
by kay
64hz wrote:can anyone translate egyptian heiroglyphs? :lol:

i just bought war and peace from a secondhand bookshop and there was a piece of papyrus with heiroglyphs on it. i tried to translate it myself on the web, but there where a couple of glyphs that i couldnt identify.
i imagine its just a tourist trinket that the previous owner used as a bookmark, but it would be cool to find out what it means.
I have some friends who might be able to. I also bought a book on it but would probably fail.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:47 pm
by 64hz
thats pretty cool man, ill stick a scan up tomorrow, dont bother with it if you cant be assed, it will probably just be something like 'simon was in cairo' or something.