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Ooh, I'm not familiar with that - where does that feature in his chronology? |
I'm stuck at a particularly mind blowing (even by my standards) chapter of this:
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I've never read Capote, although I hear he's good. Right now I am reading: ![]() |
Prelude to Foundation - Isaac Asimov
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Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving
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i'm saving that for my bus ride up to nyc when move there. i can't wait to read it!. i just finished the minutemen double nickels on a dime 33 1/3 book. it's really good i thought. next up is the neil young harvest one. i can't wait to read that! |
I read about 150 pages of it last year but after that I just bogged down with class work and Steinbeck and never got a chance to finish it. I'm still just halfway through Portrait of the Artist as well.
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yeah i got through 50 pages but i had other stuff to do. ulysses is something you read when you have a lot of time on your hands. |
I'd throw East of Eden into that category too. I hated it the entire time I was reading it because of how wordy and drawn out it was, but afterwards I count it among my top 10 favorite books.
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yeah, i'm like that too. the idiot was like that. it took me 3 different reads to finish it, but whne i did it became one of my favorite novels. |
Come to think of it, the only large volume reading that I didn't get bogged down on at all was when I read all the Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy stuff and that clocks in at well over 1,000 pages. Still, quite possibly the funniest stuff every written at times.
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yeah i haven't read that yet. my friend has and said it was good. i try to read a book in just one setting but sometimes i put it down for a few weeks and pick it back up for some reason. i bet a lot of people do that though. |
When I was ready really heavily, I'd have 3 books going at one time and try to read at least a chapter a day in each.
I can't recommend the Hitchhiker's series enough. It just takes some time to find all the parts. Walden books usually has the trilogy for $20 but there's another book and short story after those. I think the complete volume can be had in paperback for around $30. If you like totally irrelevant and senseless humor that isn't that lowbrow, you should enjoy it thoroughly. |
[quote=Sonic Youth 37]When I was ready really heavily, I'd have 3 books going at one time and try to read at least a chapter a day in each.
I can't recommend the Hitchhiker's series enough. It just takes some time to find all the parts. Walden books usually has the trilogy for $20 but there's another book and short story after those. I think the complete volume can be had in paperback for around $30. If you like totally irrelevant and senseless humor that isn't that lowbrow, you should enjoy it thoroughly.[/quote i can only read music books or some history books when i'm reading a few books at once. when reading a novel, i have to just pay attention to that one novel. i think that's why i put down a novel for awhile because i find another one and i try to read them both but i have to pick and chose in the end. i'll check it out. when i move i'll have plenty of time to read whatever books i decide to read, but that may well be one of them. |
The 13 1/2 Lives Of Captain Bluebear
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I'm just finishing up the China Mieville collection of stories called Looking for Jake. Quite a bit more horror material than his well known Fantasy-SF novels, but equally well written.
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I've been drifting back to my Portable Beat Reader.
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I've always loved that pic of Jack and Bill.
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