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DrNick
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They're both excellent books by Jonathan Safran Foer, he manages to tackle big themes like the Holocaust and 9./11 without being overtaken by them. And they are both really inventive, if occasionally a bit annoying.
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JonnyCondom
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Currently reading 'Vince and Joy' by someone i don't know.
I've read and re-read all my books so reading this that mum got free with a magazine.
Turns out to not be too bad.
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DrNick
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I'm reading 'The Last Days' by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (they wrote 'All The President's Men', made into the great film.) This book is about the final crazy months of Richard Nixon's presidency, as he got more and more paranoid and slightly insane.
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Will Oldham
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Im reading tricks of the mind by derren brown, not a story but very intresting none the less
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I'm reading Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny, got to be my fave writer!
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moe
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i'm reading kafka-"die verwandlung" again after years
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Kieron
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| moe wrote: | | i'm reading kafka-"die verwandlung" again after years |
They had a copy of Kafka's complete novels in a charity shop around the corner from me for 50 pence. The shop was shut so my girlfriend went the next day to buy it, but it had gone  |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:58 am Post subject: |
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| Dav wrote: | la méthamorphose ?
The one with the bug ? |
I had to read that in high school, junior year. Our poor teacher spent hours explaining to a couple of the super braindeads in my class that the guy wasn't really turning into a cockroach... 
I think that was my favorite week ever in french class! it was the first time the hours went by so fast because we were just laughing so much.  I still feel bad for the teacher though, because we really didn't try to help him. |
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| moe wrote: | | i'm reading kafka-"die verwandlung" again after years |
I nearly had to perform the play adaptation of this for my drama A Level. Thankfully, my teacher decided on a different one.
I loved it, but it would be so hard to do.
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moe
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it's fun to read...and the people in the bus are looking at me really weird.....maybe they think that i'm such a intelligent guy or something...if they would know where i work hahahaha
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Kieron
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| I've finished Hell's Angels now, and I've moved onto Heat by George Monbiot - excellent writing as per usual by the environmental, social and political campaigner and journalist. |
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DrNick
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I've not read any of George Monbiot's books, but his column in the Guardian is usually excellent. I think we need people like him right now.
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I am reading Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. There is a lot of plot, but in a good way.
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Kieron
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| DrNick wrote: | | I've not read any of George Monbiot's books, but his column in the Guardian is usually excellent. I think we need people like him right now. |
I think you're quite right, Doc. Some of the sections in the book seem to be reiterations of some of his Guardian columns - but don't let that fool you. It's mostly new and original ideas which have not appeared elsewhere. |
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