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What are you currently reading?
Miniluv:
Just finished Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. I'm currently getting a slow start on The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
Boro_Bandito:
So far this semester I've been working on short story collections. I've made it through Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and a "best of" kinda book of Hemingway's short stories called The Snow's of Kilimanjaro , named after one of the stories in the book. I'm about to start on Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and eventually read Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find.
Wineburg was a really good read, but Sherwood Anderson really has something against people being happy I think. This may or may not have anything to do with the fact he was married like 4 times and died because he swallowed a toothpick. Also I think my new favorite short story ever is one of Hemingway's The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.
KharBevNor:
Recently I have been consolidating, reading things again that I have not read for a long time that I remember enjoying a lot. I have a large stack. I have already (re-)read Titus Groan, Gormenghast, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Word for World is Forest, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, The Neuromancer, Virtual Light, Gullivers Travels, Salt, Stone, Mutants, The Wasp Factory and The Bridge. Got some real monsters ahead, including Dune, Illuminatus!, The Nights Dawn Trilogy (all 5000 odd pages), The Silmarillion, The Riverworld Saga, and if I ever get time I want to refresh my grasp on recent Russian history by re-reading Orlando Figes' 'A Peoples Tragedy' and Robert' Services biographies of Lenin and Stalin, books which I am fairly sure I have never actually read all in one go, in order.
Ford Prefect:
Mostly Harmless. Again.
TheFuriousWombat:
I'm now reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The General in His Labyrinth" about the last days of Simon Bolivar. It's great, as I expected, and a nice supplement to the piles of historical documentation I'm reading about the same time period for class. Garcia Marquez has created a complex, humane, and beautiful portrait of this legendary figure and I, for one, am convinced this is a far deeper examination of his life and accomplishments than many historians have pulled off.
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