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For lack of a better title, The Book Thread!
ChanPai:
Robbins is my all time favorite author. He has a book of short stories coming out very soon and I hope he does a book tour. I love him like most people love their mothers.
I'll admit that I am in to Harry Potter Mania and just finished the Half-Blood Prince. Now, I get to start on Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way by Bruce Campbell. He autographed when I went to Comic Con!
heretic:
i started the HBP then i realized i hadn't read the last one, so now i'm reading that
TheKithless:
--- Quote from: heretic ---i started the HBP then i realized i hadn't read the last one, so now i'm reading that
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When I first read that, I could have sworn it said "HBK." I wondered when Shawn Michaels wrote a book, and why on earth anyone would read it.
Oerdin:
I'm about halfway through with Anna Karenina; I read War & Peace a few years back and I wanted to read Tolstoy's other masterpiece. I did stop stop reading so I could take hit up the new Harry Potter book though. Yes, I am a Potter nerd.
Garcin:
Karenina is totally worth it -- it's a lot more readable than W&P, especially if you're the kind of person who compels yourself to read through the historical theory parts rather than just skipping over them. The part where Levin is living in the country and lusting after Kitty is one of my favorite literary scenes.
Potter nerd here also. No spoilers, but make sure you have a friend availablef or the end of HBP. You're going to want to talk to someone about it.
--- Quote from: Milkmandan ---My favourite author is David Mitchell.
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Dude, you've got impeccable taste. Cloud Atlas was awe-inspiring. Didn't see the ending coming at all. That made it even better. numberninedream is on my reading list.
Other book recommendations:
-- Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
Best fantasy I've ever read. Very pseudo-historical, if you are into that sort of thing.
-- Dan Simmons - The Hyperion & Endymion Series
Four books in all that Simmons wrote over the span of about 15 years. Science fiction in the far future that involves Zen koans, reincarnated romantic poets, and an 8 foot tell animate sword faster than light semi-robotic killing machine.
-- David Sedaris - Virtually anything he's ever written
Probably a bad recommendation since, by this point, if you haven't heard of him by way of NPR, the New Yorker, or his books, you probably aren't going to like him.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Typical story: girl meets girl, girl becomes boy, boy meets girl, boy narrates book about romance and hermaphrodites.
etc.
--Moiche
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