Rereading Harry Potter and Haruki Murakami's master piece "Kafka on the Shore"
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I'm currently reading "French Women Don't Get Fat" by Mireille Guiliano.
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I just finished "The Summer Country" by James A Hetley. It wasn't a terrible read, but it was definitely not what I expected. I am more interested in fantasy with a political or emotional undercurrent, a real story about growing up or struggling with various aspects of life. In some sense of those words, this book had it, since the main character is a victim of forced intimate encounters trying to deal with additional suffering brought on by an abusive father, religious zealot mother, and living with her slutty, confident sister. Ultimately, it is like a more mature version of Twilight, sans vampires and enter wizards.
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Regarding The Pain Of Others by Susan Sontag
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Necroscope ~ Brian Lumley
My mother recommended this series to me when I was 14, but I was too busy reading 'Dracula' and 'Interview With The Vampire' to give it a chance. Once again Mother schools me with her book selection....some 19 years down the road... |
I just borrowed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo from a friend. I've heard good things, hope they're true.
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Just finished "Grin in the Dark" by Ramsey Campbell, which sadly I really didn't like. I loved the idea of a lost silent film star (ala Paul Auster) and clowns terrify me... but it was a disjointed mess with a weak and predictable ending.
Now I'm reading Bright's Passing by Josh Ritter, and maybe picking up my copy of David J Schow's The Kill Riff as I'm still in a horror mood, just want it to be GOOD. :) |
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Just finished "Good Omens", fucking fantastic. Neil Gaiman must have some kind of magical powers to be able to create so much awesomeness.
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Samarcande- Amin Maalouf
but the books my university required me to read held me back from reading it but i'm planning to continue reading it after my exams... |
Why Nations Go To War by John G. Stoessinger.
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OK, I have stocked up my summer reading supply:
Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy Twilight of The Idols Human, All Too Human The Will To Power Ecce Homo Kafka: The Complete Stories (I was ripped off! Amerika is not in it! Complete, my decayed ass...) Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric Seneca: Essays and Letters Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton Stumpf: Socrates to Sartre - A History of Philosophy I began by reading the last one listed now, and it flows very well, with some but infrequent trips to the dictionary. I should have read this one first before diving into Nietzche's Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals. In fact this last one is so enlightening about philosophy in general that I think I will buy something by Cicero and read that and the Seneca book first before continuing Nietzsche maybe even preclude him with Schopenhauer and of course Hegel . But I do want to read the Germans before the French (Montaigne, Descartes) as I have heard it then becomes dry reading the other way around (the French then the German philosophers) although I do not know why, I find them both equally fascinating. |
A Study in Scarlet. After I finish this I want to read Koontz's Frankenstein.
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War by Gwynne Dyer.
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Current read
My uncle pressured me into reading Lacan's Écrits... translated I will admit. He said no self-respecting English major can graduate without it! :p
A theoretical challenge! Let's start there... Just finished Verland: The Transformation by B.E. Scully... a gothic literary masterpiece. No self-respecting literary goth should be without it! |
I'm beta reading for a couple of other writers, so I can't say titles but they are totally outside my genre and I'm enjoying it.
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The Sexual Politics Of Meat by Carol J. Adams. Had a lot of reading to do for school so finally getting around to it, only bought it in May.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami.
This book is amazing it's been giving me the weirdest dreams and it's a very enjoyable read. |
cult classics
I'm reading Panther's Bite and Lightning Through the thoughts of the abyss both vampire cult classics, never mind the price its as much as eating out and this lasts longer
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I just obtained a very large chunk of H.P. Lovecraft's non-horror writings. It's interesting to learn about him from his own pen.
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Grimmie by Linda S. Cowden. It's about the Grim Reaper doing things outside his job description.
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At the moment I'm re-reading paradise lost aswell as the players manuel for vtm .
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