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Post by Talyla on Feb 4, 2006 0:50:12 GMT 2
I've just finish reading Facts about Finland by norvegian Erlend Loe, there were so many different thougts not about Finland , mostly about water firstly i was not ageeing with it but after some disaster with my heating system i do not like water too)))javascript:add("%20:D")
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Post by thyr on Feb 4, 2006 16:53:06 GMT 2
I read now "Maus" by Art Spiegelman. Very interesting...
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Post by icydragon on Mar 3, 2006 21:18:34 GMT 2
Darren Shan - all his books they are really good JKRowling - harry potter Ben Bo- skullcracker, the edge, burn out phillip pulman - northern lights, the subtle knife, the amber spyglass
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Post by MoonDancer on Mar 4, 2006 0:32:09 GMT 2
Tolkien: Lord of the Rings All books of Grey Owl Cooper's classic books Jules Verne's classics Hemingway's books Vonnegut's books Some of Stephen King's horrors And plenty of Hungarian classical and modern novels (eg.: Jókai, Mikszáth, Márai, Albert Wass)
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Post by frostwolf on Mar 16, 2006 17:28:44 GMT 2
anything by tom sharpe or terry pratchett
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Post by Kochevneg on Mar 16, 2006 17:40:20 GMT 2
Works by Howard Lovecraft, Fjodor Dostoevski, Mihail Bulgakov, Tim Severin, Ray Bradbury... Books about shamanism and vikings Different sagas
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Post by teuton on Mar 21, 2006 21:38:12 GMT 2
I am reading "Handmaid's Tale" atm, I am quite interested in dystopias right now. The book is really awesome, I can tell you. It gives many ideas which are revealed later on, so there's a lot of tension. I like that.
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Post by CrazyMary on Mar 21, 2006 23:30:01 GMT 2
I am reading "Handmaid's Tale" atm, I am quite interested in dystopias right now. The book is really awesome, I can tell you. It gives many ideas which are revealed later on, so there's a lot of tension. I like that. The Handmaid's Tale is gooooood. I find Margaret Atwood patchy - sometimes she writes very well and sometimes, her books are rubbish (Oryx and Crake for example). Right now I'm re-reading Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy. I knew these books were wonderful but I had forgotten how much. She is very skillful at developing characters, I get a bit teary when anything bad happens to one of them.
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Post by teuton on Mar 23, 2006 17:39:49 GMT 2
Random fact: I prefer to read books in foreign languages, I have not read any book in German in the last timeexcept of those I had to read fo school. Privately I read books in their original version, or in a different language. Handmaid's Tale is of course in English and so on... I am really looking forward to Shakespeare and MacBeth
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Post by DaveTheRake on Mar 24, 2006 2:16:30 GMT 2
I have a huge list of books I must read formy NorthAmerican literature subject, and this gives me quite a few time to read what I do really want. Right now I'm finishing Kerouac's "On The Road"... this is the typical author you've heard his name somewhere, but you think it's only read by erudites; well, I supposse that's why I chose my degree, to read more than the usual books; but this book... well, is only 300 pages and it has taken me 3 weeks. It didn't caught me at all, though I can't say it's a bad book. In fact I supposse that in a few years I'll remember it with pride. But not at all now.
I must read now Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire (short, thankfully) and Tony Morrison's Beloved. But that's among the list of books I must read. Appart from that I began with Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life. It's the book I'm reading just before I go to bed, that's why I've been able only to read the prologue and the 3 first short chapters. It's interesting so far, it fits with the kind of books I usually preffer, but it's maybe a quick first impression.
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Post by rosenrot666 on Apr 5, 2006 10:54:27 GMT 2
I like Maeve Binchy! I read almost all books of her. Ireland, romantic and tragic love/ relationships. I am not often reading "ambitious" books, as I only read for relaxing a bit.... @nee~chee: I started reading "Son of Shadows" a few weeks ago. But I did not know it is an Trilogy, as in the bookstore only this one was lying. Perhaps I should read the first at first
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Post by Sankarihauta on May 7, 2006 17:13:36 GMT 2
I can recommend a great author from Finland called Paavo Haavikko. I read his Kullervon tarina which really is one of my current favourites.
By the way the new Amorphis album is based on this book as well..the lyrics are taken out of the english translation. ;D
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Post by TomS on May 7, 2006 19:14:54 GMT 2
Several authors that float my boat: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, J.R.R. Tolkien, Douglas Adams, ... and locally: Herman Brusselmans.
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Post by bearclaw on May 8, 2006 13:41:08 GMT 2
R.A. Salvatore's forgotten realms books. Its too hard to choose between them, they are all great.
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Post by thyr on May 8, 2006 14:41:15 GMT 2
Recent favourite: Orhan Pamuk- Snow
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