Dog Moved On
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Post by Dog Moved On on May 29, 2010 13:46:42 GMT -5
What book are you reading, how far are you, and what do you think so far? :) Have you read anything else by the author?
Currently I'm reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Usula K. Le Guin. I actually picked it up a few months ago and got about a quarter of the way in, but then things got a little hectic and I put it down for a while. I'm starting over. The writing is beautiful, but I haven't really gone far enough to make much comment on the plot or philosophy. (Le Guin is a very philosophical author.) Previously I'd read her book The Dispossessed, mostly at Dio's prompting. It was wonderful.
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Post by Amanda on May 29, 2010 14:05:06 GMT -5
I'm not reading anything currently, haven't been able to with finals and all of my projects lingering over my head. After school is over, I have a list of books I want to read. My mother is eager for me to read a book called My Ántonia which is apparently about a Czech immigrant. But I'm more interested in stocking my shelves up with books on theology or mythology.
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Post by Devil's Advocate on May 29, 2010 15:47:58 GMT -5
I'm reading Cuban Santeria: Walking With the Night, by Raul J. Canizares.
I love the book... it has some really goosebump-y parts, for example the story he told about his mother. She was supposed to go on a plane, but a young boy appeared to her, told her not to go, and then vanished again. She didn't go on the plane; the plane later crashed.
It's not exactly what I'm looking for-- I am more of a Vodou person than Santeria, but it is still beautiful and it has a lot of good information. I'm not sure what other books are out by him; he passed away in 2002, but I'm sure he wrote more than this book. I'll have to look around.
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dio
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Post by dio on May 29, 2010 19:39:17 GMT -5
I don't know what to read, I'm between books right now. My options are Horatio Hornblower, a biography about Nelson, or my physics lectures. I will probably end up reading two at once, but I need to choose which one I will focus most attention on.
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Dog Moved On
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Post by Dog Moved On on May 30, 2010 11:13:48 GMT -5
Cool books guys. :0 Dio and I interrupted our readings last night to read the NLT Book of Ecclesiastes. I dare say I've never read an ancient text that sounds so much like a self-help book/livejournal entry. King Solomon seems like a pretty cool guy though.
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Post by Sophie on May 30, 2010 11:42:01 GMT -5
Currently, I'm splitting my time between Roadside Crosses by Jeffrey Deaver and The White Goddess by Robert Graves. The first one is a crime story/thriller, and it is AMAZING thus far. I'm in the 400's of pages, nearly finished, and it still has ridiculously fabulous twists and turns.
"The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways . . . not as memorials of past accidents, but as an announcement of his intention to kill. And to kill in a particularly horrific and efficient way: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking web sites.
. . . The investigation reveals that Travis, who idolizes the Columbine and Virginia Tech killers, is bent on revenge — first against those who cyberbullied him, then against anyone connected with the blog that, he believes, has destroyed his life. He vanishes and, using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in MMORPGs, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims, some of whom Kathryn is able to save just in time, some not. Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians from Sacramento, paranoid parents and the blogger himself, James Chilton, whose belief in the importance of blogging and the new media threaten to derail the case . . . and possibly Dance's career itself."
Kathryn is a kinetics expert. So, the book is heavily psychological, as she's always analyzing body language. I love it.
The White Goddess, I've barely started. It's one of the most influential books of the Neo-Pagan movement, I've been told.
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Post by magic dance on May 30, 2010 13:51:58 GMT -5
Right now I'm reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett. I'm almost done, so next in line is going to be The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún by Tolkien and then after that I think I might borrow The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood from my dad.
I also have House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski and Let the Right One in by John Ajvide Lindqvist coming in at the library for me. Yeah...I read a lot during the summer. XD
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Dog Moved On
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Post by Dog Moved On on May 30, 2010 13:54:11 GMT -5
House of Leaves is awesome! Kind of tough to get through and I wasn't fond of most of the Johnny Truant bits, but awesome nevertheless. I haven't read The Year of the Flood, but I did read Atwood's Handmaid's Tale, which was very good if a little disturbing.
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Post by dio on May 30, 2010 15:47:01 GMT -5
Good Omens is yes.
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