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just bough Lord of the Flies by William Golding and The Island by Aldous Huxley yesterday. Huxley is God
 

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Just picked up The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky from the post office this afternoon
 

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who likes Dan Brown collection =D or Jodi Picoult?

All his books are great.

Fav are: #1 Da Vinci Code
#2 Digital Fortress
#3 Deception point

dont really like Angels and Demons. Heard he has a new book out ^^=)

Jodi Picoult is also an amazing writer, read "Perfect Match" ^^
The Pact was ok, only read half tho ...
 

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Ohhh man, I need to update the books I've bought. I park across from a really great 2nd hand bookshop near uni every tuesday. :D

White-doggy, I'm against Dan Brown- To my mind they all have exactly the same plot with different characters and situations.
 

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That I really agree Emma-Jade. They have the prologue and then somebody dies blah blah then secret is unveiled. quite similar. However, I also like the way he uses his words...very literate :)
 

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The sad thing is, I read all four of his books just to see if I could guess who the villain was before the halfway mark was reached.

Bleh, someone has a little too much time on their hands.
 

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today i bought, at my fave second-hand bookstore:
the little friend - donna tartt
american psycho - bret easton ellis

i was so thrilled to have found AP at a 2nd hand store! :D
 

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Just bought
"Tenacious" by Julian Stockwin (6th in "Kydd" series)

Before that;
*splurged on Star Wars books (I know I am pathetic) pulp fiction but good reads, by the by they are the ones where everyone is older nad has kids who are older than they were in the movies (han and leia)
*finally got the emperor series by conn iggulden - semi factual look at the life of julius ceasar
 
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Holes by Louis Sachar. Had to pick this one up for uni (because I have to read a Stage 4 English text).
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. I grabbed this one up because I saw it as I was paying for the other one.
 

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Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero by Thackeray
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
Emma by Austen

Pengiun classics 3 for 2. They're the only novels I read anyway. Hope to be finished all three by the end of uni holidays which gives me ~3ish weeks to be done.
 

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got given a pile of books for my birthday a couple of weeks ago including:
- the time traveller's wife, by audrey niffeneger.
- vanity fair, by william makepeace thackeray.
- anna karenina, by leo tolstoy.

happy to report that i requested all of them.
 

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amy236 said:
- vanity fair, by william makepeace thackeray.
You have good taste (check the post above yours) :cool:

EDIT:

Got

Jane Eyre by Brontë
The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engles (marxism, lol)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Caroll
 
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Over the past month or so have bought:

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
The Hunter - Julia Leigh
Wide Sargasso - Sea Jean Rhys
Silk - Alessandro Baricco
Blood & Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
Jane Eyre - Brontë
Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

Those that are bolded I highly recommend. Highly. As in, buy them right now and read them until your eyes hurt.
 
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Picked up Robin Hobb's latest book today. Renegade's Magic. I hope it's not as bad as Forest Mage.
 

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I have heaps and heaps of books, since reading/writing is my profession. However, most of these books I've put in my family's collection (so far over 300 books, novels mainly). I do however, have some in my own stash. Anything I highlighted in red is a highly recommended read.

* (As of 21/7/2007) The complete series of Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (7 books).
* The Belgarion/Mallorean series by David and Leigh Eddings(13 books).
* The Dreamers series by David and Leigh Eddings (4 books)
* The Elenium/Tamuli series by David and Leigh Eddings (6 books).
* The Riftwar Saga, Krondor Trilogy, Prince of the Blood, The King's Buccaneer, the Serpenstwar Saga, A Conclave of Shadows (series), The Dark War Trilogy by Raymond E. Fiest (18 books).
* The Axis Trilogy by Sara Douglass (3 books)
* Wizards of Odd by various authors.
* Gathering the Bones by various authors.
* The First Americans Saga by William Sarabande (4 books).
* Zen Computers by P.T. Sudo.
* The Riders by Tim Winton.
* Brother Night by Victor Kellerher.
* The Makers by Victor Kellerher.
* One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
* Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin.
* The Smoking Gun by Malcolm Rose.
* Year of the Phial by Joe Boyle.
* Starship Titanic by Terry Jones.
* Road to Mars by Eric Idle.
* Deadly Games by Hilary Norman.
* Merlin by James Mallory (3 books).
* The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett et al.
* I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein.
* The Norton Anthology of English Literature: 16th/17th Century edited by Stephen Greenblat (contains over 400 pieces of medieval literature).
* Christian Theology by Alister McGrath.

Current Total of Books: 73 books (I need a life)
 
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Went to visit my folks today, and they bought me the latest Murakami, After Dark, as well as a book called Interpretation of Murder. The Murakami is fairly short, just 200 pages, so I'll be looking to finish it over night. Not bad so far.

Sample chapter for anyone interested.
 

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hehe

i've read the new one benny :p
it's standard murakami, but nonetheless quite enjoyable
 

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Ah.. finished it overnight as expected. I wouldn't say it's bit different from standard Murakami in the sense that it's by far his least ambitous novels. Almost feels like a lengthy short story.

I quite enjoyed it though. Very cinematic. While reading I was thinking of all the directors that could do a damn decent job with this material. Very interesting to see what a Wong Kar Wai, a Michel Gondry, a Jean-Pierre Jeunet or even a David Lynch could do.
 

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definitely a 'cinematic' book
he even tells it from a camera at times :p

maybe he's screaming for one of those directors to adapt
wong kar wai seems like a perfect marriage to me
lynch and jeunet would be freaking scary.
gondry perhaps too quirky
 

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