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Scarychips:
Just finished Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel. Not as god as Life of Pi, but still pretty solid.
negative creep:
--- Quote from: scarred on 25 Jun 2010, 16:27 ---It seems like roughly 70% of all alternate history books involve the Axis Powers winning World War II. Which is boring as fuck when you think about what could be done with tinkering with early western civilizations' development, like Rome, Greece, etc.
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I read an interesting book a few years ago, the basic premise of which was that the Roman Empire never ended and that Christianity never broke big. It was set in the 1990s or something. I forgot what it was called, or who wrote it, but it must be around here somewhere.
--- Quote from: Avec on 27 Jun 2010, 08:57 ---Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I can't stress enough how good this book is.
Currently I'm reading History of Greece by Ernst Curtius
Kugai:
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls - Robert A. Heinlein
Daft pun:
Blind willow, sleeping woman by Haruki Murakami.
The last of my Murakami books for now, after Dance dance dance and The wind-up bird chronicle (and Kafka on the shore a few years ago). I quite like his writing style, but I've noticed it loses a bit of its attraction when you read a lot of it. So, on to other writers, probably something by Gabriel García Márquez or maybe Ruhm by Daniel Kehlmann. Picked up his excellent Measuring the world on the cheap a while ago, and Ruhm received good reviews as well.
Jimmy the Squid:
Man I just finished a huuuuge Raymond E. Feist kick. I've now read, pretty much back to back, The Riftwar Saga (which is Magician, Silverthorn and A Darkness At Sethanon), Prince of the Blood, King's Buccaneer, The Serpentwar Saga (Shadow of a Dark Queen, Rise of a Merchant Prince, Rage of a Demon King and Shards of a Broken Crown) and The Conclave of Shadows Saga (Talon of the Silver Hawk, King of Foxes and Exile's Return). When The Demonwar Saga comes out in paper back I might get that and read those but I think I'm over high, Dungeons and Dragons-esque fantasy and the awesome, swords and shields based dreams I have after I read it.
Maybe I'll re-read all my comics in chronological order. Then my dreams will be filled with hanging out with Superheroes being awesome and shit. I love my subconcious.
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