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Post by HELENA MARIA on Nov 27, 2017 0:53:42 GMT
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Dec 1, 2017 10:46:11 GMT
La Nausée, by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Post by jimmalone on Dec 1, 2017 18:08:13 GMT
La Nausée, by Jean-Paul Sartre. A good one. For myself: Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk. Just don't have much time to read now.
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 1, 2017 23:36:13 GMT
I'm reading Through the Woods by Emily Carroll. Excellent collection of horror short stories that feel like a mashup of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft and the Brothers Grimm.
"We passed a tree with leaves like a lady's hands And a stream that sounded like dogs growling And a hole deep full of black that smelled of lilac"
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Post by akittystang on Dec 3, 2017 8:03:34 GMT
I've finally gotten around to Call Me By Your Name.
58 percent into it, and if the movie is anything like the book, oh my god...
I haven't felt this strongly about a book in a *long* time.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Dec 3, 2017 10:48:31 GMT
As I Lay Dying and Sound and the Fury. Nooooooooooot a fan. That's a shame, As I Lay Dying is such a moving book, even in the running for my favorite english book (though I'd probably go with Portrait of the artist in the End). I get why a lot of people are not mad about it though. I wrote a review for school once if you have any interest (I hope this doesn't sound douchebagish or conceited, it's not meant that way). I'd love to read Light in August aswell, that's the one that intruiged me the most in the rest of Faulkner's bibliography. A LOT of people are not mad about A s I Lay Dying? I thought Ibbi's position was a very rare one. I can see the Sound and the Fury turning a lot of people off because the first part of it is such a difficult read. Light in August is EXTREMELY intriguing. You definitely want to read that one. Absalom, Absalom is another can't-miss read.
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Post by akittystang on Dec 3, 2017 19:05:35 GMT
Annnnnnnd I finished Call Me By Your Name.
I'm a trainwreck.
Goddamn it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2017 21:22:02 GMT
Gravity's Rainbow. Ho-ly fucking shit is this book out there. Love it so far.
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Post by clunkybob2 on Dec 4, 2017 2:42:45 GMT
The Sphere and the Hologram. I read most of it over summer, then got lazy.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 18:18:36 GMT
Moby Dick
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 5, 2017 23:02:19 GMT
Just finished I Heard You Paint Houses. Very entertaining and interesting, unexpectedly so. Lotta names and info come your way but it's seamlessly digestable and vividly descriptive. Lotta cinematic instances for Scorsese to use.
Now going thru Hitchcock/Truffaut...
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 6, 2017 0:13:14 GMT
HP Lovecraft Short Stories collection at the moment.........
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Dec 8, 2017 17:55:48 GMT
Finished Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI and I absolutely loved it. I plan to read more David Grann, and it's got me on a non-fiction book kick.
Right now I'm reading a book on my favorite historical figure of all time, Harriet Tubman. It's called Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. It portrays Tubman as much more of a BADASS than the one we grew up seeing in history books at school.
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Post by avnermoriarti on Dec 9, 2017 18:37:12 GMT
2666. Don't know exactly why I didn't read it years ago when someone gave it to me as a present.
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Post by jimmalone on Dec 10, 2017 15:14:40 GMT
Die Nacht von Lissabon by Erich Maria Remarque
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Dec 10, 2017 17:47:52 GMT
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Post by jimmalone on Dec 18, 2017 12:38:53 GMT
Here I am by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Post by Ugolin on Dec 23, 2017 1:11:20 GMT
This Is Orson Welles –– phenomenal stuff. Welles himself considered this his autobiography. That The Other Side of the Wind and its corresponding documentary are coming out soon still seems too good to be true.
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 26, 2017 0:42:47 GMT
I'm re-reading Emma by Jane Austen. Haven't read this since I was a teenager. It started my love affair with Austen, and although it doesn't hold up as well as Pride and Prejudice, it's still an entertaining read.
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Post by jimmalone on Dec 26, 2017 13:19:16 GMT
I'm re-reading Emma by Jane Austen. Haven't read this since I was a teenager. It started my love affair with Austen, and although it doesn't hold up as well as Pride and Prejudice, it's still an entertaining read. Funnily enough this will also be the book I will read next, it's already on my shelf for a few weeks. Though unlike for you it will be the first time for me I read Emma. But now I've just begun: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Dec 26, 2017 13:27:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2017 2:27:58 GMT
I'm re-reading Emma by Jane Austen. Haven't read this since I was a teenager. It started my love affair with Austen, and although it doesn't hold up as well as Pride and Prejudice, it's still an entertaining read. I really need to re-read all Austen's works, stat!
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Dec 29, 2017 19:07:25 GMT
Slugfest by Reed Tucker. Really interesting take on the whole DC / Marvel rivalry. Pretty savage at points too.
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Post by jimmalone on Dec 31, 2017 10:25:28 GMT
But now I've just begun: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje This is a terrific book. Sooo wonderful. The build-up is written so wonderful, it's pace so slow, you get to know the characters better step by step, but still you always see them through something like a veil, as they are never fully exposed. I liked the film, but it pales in comparison to the book.
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Post by jimmalone on Jan 5, 2018 10:15:53 GMT
Really liked Emma as alle Austen novels so far. But this is probably my second favorite of hers so far behind Pride and Prejudice.
Now: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
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