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I just finished reading Middlesex. The writing was so absolutely delicious. Going to have to re-read that again and again and again!

My current read is a novel by Daphne Du Maurier called Rebecca, I've read most of her other novels and they were excellent and this one seems very promising as well.
 

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Lainee said:
I just finished reading Middlesex. The writing was so absolutely delicious. Going to have to re-read that again and again and again!
i thought middlesex was brilliant. i like his style because it's pretty simple but conveys bizarre and interesting ideas effectively.
it's probably the only hermaphrodite/family epic i'll ever read
 
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Just read The Bourne Legacy by Eric Van Lustbader. Now, once again, continuing Dragon Wing until I get a hold of Scarecrow.
 

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Oscar Wilde- The Major Works (for fun, I promise)... currently up to Portrait of Dorian Gray
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Resteraunt at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams

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Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake


PS. Anyone know where specifically I can buy the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. I have a messed up complex about new books that makes me not buy the newly released combined books, even if it is only $13.- :)
 

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Jumbo Cactuar said:
PS. Anyone know where specifically I can buy the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. I have a messed up complex about new books that makes me not buy the newly released combined books, even if it is only $13.- :)
ebay!....more chacactrars.....
 

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Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. It's not bad but it's not really a type of book I'd be into.
 

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Currently reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
 

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im attempting to read David Copperfield by Dickens...don't know how successful its been. Im finding it really hard to get into, and am not really into that sort of thing, but i saw it somewhere for 50c so thought what the hell
 

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lourai*87 said:
im attempting to read David Copperfield by Dickens...don't know how successful its been. Im finding it really hard to get into, and am not really into that sort of thing, but i saw it somewhere for 50c so thought what the hell
Yet another great quality of books; you can buy 3 or 4 second-hand books (or more apartently) for the price of a 2 hour movie. :D
 

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Damn Extension English (shakes fist)

For leisure im reading "God's Callgirl" - Carla Van Raay (the memoirs of a nun turned prostitute!!)
 

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Jumbo Cactuar said:
Yet another great quality of books; you can buy 3 or 4 second-hand books (or more apartently) for the price of a 2 hour movie. :D
THe copy i bought is 40 years old. It sucks that its a library book and some shit has written all over it and the binding is dodgy, but still :p

Oh, and yes 1984 is by George Orwell...read that for English. Not too bad actually, though he comes up with some disturbing content. Anyone read Animal Farm?
 

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Yeah I've read both. We had Animal Farm on our syllabus for Yr 9.
 

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