What are you reading?
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Ulysses gets good at about 3/4 of the way through.
Currently on extended sabbatical from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, a book that's as impenetrable as it is funny. Makes Ulysses look positively linear, so far (three chapters).
^^ Don't worry. Ulysses comes back to you.
And I'm back to Fate Of Worlds, after being too busy to read for a few days. I suspect I should have read other "Fleet of Worlds" books first.
And I'm back to Fate Of Worlds, after being too busy to read for a few days. I suspect I should have read other "Fleet of Worlds" books first.
am I the only one who is tempeted to answer the topic question with "this thread"? 
Curent bedside read: Frankenstein. I'll host a discussion with a few medics and non-medics about the ethical and medical aspects of this story and though I've seen several movie adaptations I never quite got around to reading the book. So it's about time I started my preparations.
Curent bedside read: Frankenstein. I'll host a discussion with a few medics and non-medics about the ethical and medical aspects of this story and though I've seen several movie adaptations I never quite got around to reading the book. So it's about time I started my preparations.
Yeah i think it's just because I'm attempting it immediately after reading Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky and while i'm still reading Kafka.
I read maybe a third (at most) of Lisa Scottoline's Keep Quiet and gave up. Her old suspense novels were really good, but this was... well, I thought I was reading a Jodi Picoult book.
am I the only one who is tempeted to answer the topic question with "this thread"?
No, you're not alone!
Just finished reading 'The Circle' by Dave Eggers. Now moved on to 'NOS4A2' by Joe Hill.
The Shining... been reading it, but rl keeps on butting in .
@ Destructor: I was trying to read that book by Joe Hill, but sadly I had to return it to my local library
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.@ Destructor: I was trying to read that book by Joe Hill, but sadly I had to return it to my local library
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Heehee, great minds...No, you're not alone!am I the only one who is tempeted to answer the topic question with "this thread"?
current read: Sacred Trust, a Highlander (series) fanfiction. Too many too detailed torture and sex scenes imho but some really great funny moments and the characters are very plausible. With a few expurgations it'd propably be a bestseller and re-written to PG13 it might have made a pretty good episode in the series.
Throw in Moby Dick and your head will explode for sure.
Have you ever tried the original unabridges version of Robinson Crusoe? Sentences that stretch over more than 1 page, extremely longwinded phrases. A beautiful language, but requires more concentration to read than your average human can muster. I surrendered after about 100 pages.
I am listening to the novel Hamlet: Prince of Denmarkby A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, narrated by Richard Armitage.
My Kindle read is The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle.
My Kindle read is The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle.
oooh! I must get that one as well! Richard Armitage has such a wonderful voice!
Hah. Sounds great. I'll see if Gutenberg has it.
You're suicidal!
I only skimmed the html file but I think this is pretty much the original text. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/521
I have the paperback version. Penguin, I believe.
I only skimmed the html file but I think this is pretty much the original text. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/521
I have the paperback version. Penguin, I believe.
