What are you reading?

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by Snowlilly, Aug 21, 2012.

  1. Ashu

    Ashu Vice Admiral Admiral

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    I loved crime and punishment :) I don't know what it is about him but i can definitely relate to his work. As for Under Western Eyes, i haven't read it yet but it's definitely going on my list :)
     
  2. R.Data

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    Tolstoy is great too, even if I prefer Dostoevsky. The rusian literature is so good, I think that is my favorite literature, I guess.
     
  3. Ashu

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    I haven't read anything by Tolstoy. I have Anna Karenina on my shelf but i wanted to start with War and Peace
     
  4. Skellington

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    I have War And Peace on my Kindle, provisionally pencilled in for January and February 2015.

    And "February" might well turn out to mean "most of the rest of".
     
  5. R.Data

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    War and Peace is very good, it's one of these book where you deleve into (I'm not sure it's correct:confused:) completely, you really can see the characters.
     
  6. trekkiedane

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    Indeed, and the reader (listener, I should write) gets their morals and sympathies all twisted up along the way... I loved reading it while not knowing what it was all about... till the very end.
     
  7. Skellington

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  8. Ashu

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    Who does he think he is, Neal Stephenson? :rommie:

    That actually sounds amazing. One of the things I love about Alan Moore (because it's something I try to do in my own writing) is his tendency to write in multiple genres and styles, from superheroes to horror to erotica. He truly loves literature and the arts and you can really feel the joy he gets from playing in all the different sandboxes.
     
  10. Starkers

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  11. Miss Chicken

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    I just finished listening to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, narrated by Sissy Spacek.

    My current paperback read is The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi. It is a novel about an Japanese amateur rock collector. So far, very good.
     
  12. Velocity

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    Unshapely Things by Mark del Franco
     
  13. RandyS

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    When HARLIE Was One by David Gerrold
    Star Trek DS9: Warpath.
     
  14. Velocity

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    Unquiet Dreams by Mark del Franco
     
  15. rhubarbodendron

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    LOL I am so tempted to say"this thread" :D

    book I'm reading: Large In Time by a certain poster from this board :)
     
  16. Smellincoffee

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    The Age of Voltaire, Will Durant. I'm almost finished with it, just a chapter on the rise of atheism and the Encylopedie remaining. My 'leisure' read is An Honorable Defeat, concerning German resistance against Hitler.
     
  17. Saga

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    The Magic Goes Away by Larry Niven
     
  18. Miss Chicken

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    I have just finished listening to Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason, narrated by Saul Reichlin which I read as an e-book last year. It is my favourite Arnaldur book so far.

    I am about start reading Reykjavik Nights also by Arnaldur Indridason. It is the latest book in the Inspector Erlendur series but is a prequel to the rest of the books and takes place before Erlendur was an inspector and is still a young uniformed policeman in the Icelandic police force.
     
  19. rhubarbodendron

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    Let me know if the books doesn't answer all your questions. All my grandparents and their families were in the resistance. Some even survived.
     
  20. R.Data

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    :lol: I thought the same.

    I'm reading Courtly Romances by Chrétien de Troyes, it's a collection of his romances.