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Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the [BOOK THREAD]
Lardalish
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Lets see, so far this summer Ive read:
Feet of Clay
Thud!
Guards! Guards!
Thief of Time
Night Watch
Soul Music
The Fifth Elephant
Small Gods
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
and I just got from the Library:
Frankenstein
On a Pale Horse
Looking forward to those two, started Frankenstein and I'm really hoping its not as dry as Dracula was, but oh well, if it is I'll trudge through just to say Ive read it. Ive heard great things about that Piers Anthony novel, so that should be a good read.
So what about you guys? What have you been burying your noses into this summer? Whats next on the chopping block?
Feet of Clay
Thud!
Guards! Guards!
Thief of Time
Night Watch
Soul Music
The Fifth Elephant
Small Gods
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
and I just got from the Library:
Frankenstein
On a Pale Horse
Looking forward to those two, started Frankenstein and I'm really hoping its not as dry as Dracula was, but oh well, if it is I'll trudge through just to say Ive read it. Ive heard great things about that Piers Anthony novel, so that should be a good read.
So what about you guys? What have you been burying your noses into this summer? Whats next on the chopping block?
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All my local libraries suck and I didn't want to spend money on books so I've only read a few things this summer- Shadow of the Giant , Man in the High Castle, finally got around to reading 1984, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Rama II, aaaand I can't remember any others at the moment. My dad just finished Garden of Rama so I'll probably start that soon.
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This summer I've read The Road, American Gods, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and parts of The Assault on Reason and Thank You for Smoking. I'm going to start on I Am Legend today.
I found Volume Two of the Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes at a flea market for like 2 dollars, but I left it in my apartment so Ill have to wait on starting those. Looking forward to it though.
Jordan of Elienor, Human Shaman
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes I think it is
Also, I'm plowing through "On Free Choice of the Will" by St. Augustine. I've sworn to myself I'll finish it, no matter how dry it is.
No no, read that again.
The Fifth ELEPHANT
It's a Discworld book and its pretty awesome.
Jordan of Elienor, Human Shaman
Thief of Time
Guards! Guards!
Feet of Clay
Night Watch
Thud!
Men At Arms
Jingo
The Fifth Elephant
Perdido Street Station
The Scar
Iron Council
and I'm now reading Factotum. Bukowski certainly has a distinctive style.
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Also I finally found For Whom the Bell Tolls at the Library so I'm reading that too.
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dumping in dixie, from the ground up and i'm working on a world of its own
fuck this summer
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"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
you can't buy it in arizona though
plus the raiders are a total gangbanger thing here
It is really good. He's an excellent and witty writer.
ps the raiders suck
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Honestly? I hate the fandom of this series, and the last two books were kind of "meh," but this one? Definitely a great end to the series. As much as I've bitched about HP and Rowling in the past, I think she did a bang-up job on this one.
Now re-reading Stephen King's ON WRITING, a great book no matter what the reason you're reading it.
Also this summer have finished:
- Chuck Pahluniak's DIARY (I liked it, but many probably will not.)
- Years Best Fantasy & Horror, 2004
- Stephen King's LISEY'S STORY (Probably the best thing he's written in years.)
- Koontz's THE HUSBAND (Koontz is the Snickers Bars of literature - this one is no exception.)
- Re-read HST's HELLS ANGELS (Pure, unmitigated Hunter S. Thompson. Cannot be lauded enough.)
My wife and I have no idea how the fuck they're going to turn it into a feature-length film. There's maybe 20 minutes worth of writing in there.
what are you talking about, it's the best manual on whaling in existence
atwood irritates the fuck out of me
i'm reading the handmaid's tale alongside 1984 right now
i mean
you should read that book
but don't expect to enjoy it
Have you read Me Talk Pretty One Day
That one was good too
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Good choice.
I really, really enjoyed that series.
Though I'm now in the possession of a Stephen Fry book and some other book.
well it's pretty fucking fat
i mean i could just go for something smaller
So far I've read:
J-Pod - Douglas Coupland
Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
Milan Kundera - The Art of the Novel
Thomas Wolfe - Look Homeward Angel
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughter-House-Five
Paul Auster - The Solitude of Loneliness
and I'm in the middle of reading:
Paul Auster- The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Le Petit Prince
Martin Page - How I Became Stupid
The first three Harry Potters
At the Mountains of Madness
Hell's Angels
Crooked Little Vein
hmm, a few others I can't recall of the top of my head.
Other recent reads... The Night of the Triffids (yes, night), it was fairly good. Not enough triffid action though. And not as unnerving as the original book. But I have to agree with some reviews I read that it was indeed written in a close style to that of John Wyndham, which is good.
I've also been reading Peter Hamilton, I think he does some great sci fi. Damn those books are long though.
I found 1984 to be excruciatingly boring. Maybe it's just me.
I've been reading Discworld books lately. I can't believe I didn't start reading these earlier, they are fantastic.
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tl;dr for the link: Crazy person in asylum sends in sentences to be used for words going into the Oxford English Dictionary. Guy making dictionary doesn't know that the aforementioned crazy person is a crazy person until they meet a few decades into the project.