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Post by U R GAY on Feb 18, 2015 17:13:51 GMT
Gone back to my project of trying to read through all Stephen King's books (I hadn't gotten very far, really) but I've started reading 11/22/63 which is really good so far, I'm about half way through.
1- IT 2- Different Seasons 3- The Stand 4- Skeleton Crew 5- The Shining 6- The Long Walk 7- Misery 8- Night Shift 9- Joyland 10- Carrie 11- Just After Sunset 12- Cell 13- The Running Man 14- Rose Madder 15- Blaze
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2015 17:17:13 GMT
Salem's Lot needs to be next. Then Insomnia.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2015 17:37:00 GMT
Finished For Whom The Bell Tolls and feel completely drained because of it. Easiest 10/10 I've given a book in a while.
I need to read more light-hearted stuff, man
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2015 17:47:29 GMT
How have I only just found out that Hemingway shot himself?
For fuck's sake, as if some of those chapters about suicide and that weren't eerie enough
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Post by notpropaganda on Feb 26, 2015 17:55:40 GMT
You should read some Sylvia Plath to really brighten your day.
Or maybe Virginia Woolf
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 1:52:19 GMT
Reading Tales from the House of the Dead because I love a light hearted read, book includes The Gambler too. Sister got me like, 6 Stephen King books. Can't decide if I wanna start one of those after.. Bag of Bones maybe
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Post by notpropaganda on Mar 25, 2015 23:42:27 GMT
Anyone else ever read Nietzche?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2015 13:42:03 GMT
Packed Dostoevsky in again, for now. Maybe it's just the translation but he writes some fucking dull passages.
About 300 pages into Bag of Bones after a couple of days, had no idea what to expect and bizarrely assumed King was a crime/thriller writer. Boy was I wrong when it got to the middle of the day and I decided the book was making me feel uncomfortable. Shit can be oddly scary at times. Good stuff though, Insomnia might be next I think.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2015 16:13:01 GMT
Gonna have to re-read Hard Times over the next couple of weeks with a Marxist theorists head on. I may regret this.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2015 22:33:57 GMT
Finished Bag of Bones and it tailed off quite a bit in the end. A lot of continuous action spread over upwards of 100 pages, it really lost its flair. Pretty disappointing as it started really well too. 3/5 on Goodreads.
Debated whether to go with Wolf Hall but I'll leave that until the summer to finish. Cosmopolis and the first Dexter book are next up, I think. Need some light reading what with it being essay season and that.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2015 12:51:26 GMT
Cosmopolis is shit, about halfway through Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms which is unsurprisingly brilliant Ordered All The Light We Cannot See too because of the most recent additions to my GoodReads page that has the best Average Rating. 4.27 is crazy but I suppose you have to take it with a pinch of salt, like new releases on IMDB I don't suppose it's had as half as many reviews as the company its keeping so it'll probably go down, but still worth a go.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2015 19:36:29 GMT
Cosmopolis is shit, about halfway through Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms which is unsurprisingly brilliant Ordered All The Light We Cannot See too because of the most recent additions to my GoodReads page that has the best Average Rating. 4.27 is crazy but I suppose you have to take it with a pinch of salt, like new releases on IMDB I don't suppose it's had as half as many reviews as the company its keeping so it'll probably go down, but still worth a go. 1) A Farewell to Arms turned out to be a right dud. Really just a For Whom The Bell Tolls 'lite' except the characters were empty spaces that his usually open-ended dialogue and speech did little to help. He really cannot write women either. 2) All The Light We Cannot See is still gathering dust on my 'to read' shelf, but it's stepped up to a 4.38 on GR so I might eventually get around to it sooner than later. Just finished Blood Meridian. Fair to say the book, or it's intentions, completely passed me by until about 30 pages from the end even then it seems as though I was wildly wrong, and that the book wasn't so much a discussion of religion versus modernity as it was violence versus...well...violence. 3/5 I know it's obviously meant to be great and maybe when I've read it a second time through with my ideas on it a little more settled it'll open up to me but otherwise I'm thoroughly underwhelmed given it's labelled his masterpiece on the first damn page.
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Post by Star of Spurs on Jun 7, 2015 20:02:35 GMT
read a lot of plath these last few weeks. can understand why she's the icon of so many teenage depressives, the bell jar is beautiful
now moving through a lot of the authors i put in my personal statement (kafka, pullman, keats) but haven't actually read that much of. kafka's awesome
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2015 20:08:37 GMT
Am I right in thinking The Bell Jar was her only release before she killed herself? Or was released posthumously?
Need to pick that up, seen it in glorious hardback for £8 at Waterstones.
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Post by notpropaganda on Jun 7, 2015 20:14:24 GMT
I just read the third book from th Gentleman Bastard series. For anyone who likes fantasy stuff it's really clever, good series to get into
Midway theough "Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend" which is one of those page turners. Novel idea, very well written
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