What are you reading (August 2007)?
08-01-07, 11:51 AM
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What are you reading (August 2007)?
I picked up Philip K Dick's "Time Out Of Joint" after a weekend telephone conversation with my brother along the lines of which PKD book novel has the plot where....?
From the blurb on the back cover:
It could be about you, I texted to my brother this morning, on finding that this was the book the title of which had alluded us on Sunday.
From the blurb on the back cover:
He spent all day doing puzzles in the newspaper.... it wasn't a simple case of being a paranioac drop out. Ragel Gumm was the centre of the Universe....
08-01-07, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Sessa17
Just finished:
Just started:
Just started:
Those are both two books I really want to read. How was ellis's book?
I'm reading rant by chuck pahlinuk, or however you spell it.
08-02-07, 02:39 PM
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Just finished Stephen King's Carrie. First King novel I've ever read and I have to say I was quite pleased.
Reading now Deathly Hallows.
Next to bat? Don't know, but I'm guessing something horror related. That's all I'm in the mood for lately.
Reading now Deathly Hallows.
Next to bat? Don't know, but I'm guessing something horror related. That's all I'm in the mood for lately.
08-03-07, 04:37 PM
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Just finished:
On The Wealth of Nations by P.J. O'Rourke
Just started:
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlam
On The Wealth of Nations by P.J. O'Rourke
Just started:
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlam
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Finished this one:
Then read all of this one today:
Going on to this book now:
Pleasantly surprised by Candy Freak (it wasn't the book I originally thought it was going to be . . . but great despite it) and I loved Dead Sea. Had some issues with the character and Keene's often repeated use of certain words and ideas, but for a genre read I was left smiling at the book's end.
Then read all of this one today:
Going on to this book now:
Pleasantly surprised by Candy Freak (it wasn't the book I originally thought it was going to be . . . but great despite it) and I loved Dead Sea. Had some issues with the character and Keene's often repeated use of certain words and ideas, but for a genre read I was left smiling at the book's end.
08-06-07, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by lukewarmwater
Those are both two books I really want to read. How was ellis's book?
08-07-07, 12:46 PM
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It's amazing how some books really feel like you've got to work through them and others just flow by.
Read and finished in like 4 days
Really awesome book.
I need to finish a few other books, but I really want to read ham on rye next.
Read and finished in like 4 days
Really awesome book.
I need to finish a few other books, but I really want to read ham on rye next.
08-07-07, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Sessa17
Worth reading if you are an Ellis fan, but if you aren't familiar with his work, it may be way too over-the-top for you. It had moments of maddening brilliance, where I was literally laughing out loud over certain lines & the first half I was really digging, but then his constant rants that have nothing to do with the story whatsoever get old real fast. The plot is paper thin, & Ellis tends to ramble a lot, the book as a whole kind of just felt like a carthardic release for Ellis to get all the perverse shit out of his head before he ended up going insane.
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Originally Posted by lukewarmwater
Really awesome book.
I need to finish a few other books, but I really want to read ham on rye next.
08-09-07, 11:20 AM
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I'm currently working on:
I saw the movie and was left feeling like I missed out on a ton of stuff and as it turns out, the movie does leave out a lot of important details.
And I'm going to be starting on a Jude Deveraux book, "The Raider". I'm having major surgery later this month and need something light and easy to read, plus she's one of my favorite authors.
I saw the movie and was left feeling like I missed out on a ton of stuff and as it turns out, the movie does leave out a lot of important details.
And I'm going to be starting on a Jude Deveraux book, "The Raider". I'm having major surgery later this month and need something light and easy to read, plus she's one of my favorite authors.