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Old 10-31-07, 07:15 PM
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What are you reading? (November 2007)



I'm now embarking on my 3rd attempt at reading this book(s). I've never gotten deeper than 150 pages before. Wish me luck!
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i think im going to re read i am legend before the movie hits and i recently re watched night watch and day watch so im gonna order the book series
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I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert



Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition by The Onion

Technically "reading", but on a break:



The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

Bathroom reading:



The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy & Vice by Phineas Mollod and Jason Tesauro
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"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon.

I have taken on the task of reading all his novels in chronological order.
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Right now I just started. . .

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Finished:
Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (audiobook)

Starting:
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (audiobook)

Still reading:
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Then:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Originally Posted by Joe Molotov


I'm now embarking on my 3rd attempt at reading this book(s). I've never gotten deeper than 150 pages before. Wish me luck!

Good luck!

I found it pretty much evenly painful all the way through. But there were enough good bits to keep me going.
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Good luck!

I found it pretty much evenly painful all the way through. But there were enough good bits to keep me going.
I love conspiracy theories and I crave something more intelligent than the works of Dan Brown, so it seems like this would be the perfect book for me. But it continues to sit on my nightstand next to a similarly unread copy of Foucault's Pendulum. :/
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Lovin' every page of it... I already read World War Z eariler this year.
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Originally Posted by Joe Molotov
I love conspiracy theories and I crave something more intelligent than the works of Dan Brown, so it seems like this would be the perfect book for me. But it continues to sit on my nightstand next to a similarly unread copy of Foucault's Pendulum. :/
Enjoy the book and Hail Eris!

I have read almost everything Robert Anton Wilson has written. Easily one of my favorite authors (although I enjoy his non-fiction stuff a little more than his fiction).
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Originally Posted by Joe Molotov
I love conspiracy theories and I crave something more intelligent than the works of Dan Brown, so it seems like this would be the perfect book for me. But it continues to sit on my nightstand next to a similarly unread copy of Foucault's Pendulum. :/
Here are a few things that will help you understand the book. First, Wilson worked in the Letters Department for Playboy in the 1960s, and he read mail on every crackpot conspiracy theory in the world. He just downloaded the whole mass of it into the story. Second, I've been told that the book is a lot easier if you've read James Joyce first. I haven't. Third, this book gives you the basic groundwork on how to do magic. Not Harry Potter's wizards, not playful fantasy -- magic.
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I'm on a Clive Cussler kick now. I've gone through several in the past few weeks. So much for the Pulitzer list I was going to go through.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Then:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Good luck with Anna Karenina, I just could not finish it.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Then:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
OOPSb double post
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let me know your thoughts on this. I read "Bigger Brother" last year, and obviously love Band of Brothers.
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Good luck with Anna Karenina, I just could not finish it.
What translation did you read? I should have no problem, I love Russian Literature, plus enough people I respect have called it the greatest love story of all time.

In the meantime, I read Vonnegut's Man Without a Country. Still need to finish the PKD book, which I probably will soon.
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What translation did you read? I should have no problem, I love Russian Literature, plus enough people I respect have called it the greatest love story of all time.

In the meantime, I read Vonnegut's Man Without a Country. Still need to finish the PKD book, which I probably will soon.
I read it in high school. The translator made no bones about deleting pages of political observations, feeling that a modern reader would be bored about 19th C Romanov politics.
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