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17 Sep 2010, 3:00 pm

I'm currently reading Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It's beautifully written and I'm enjoying it very much.

I'm also reading The Great Philosophers by Bryan Magee. The book is a series of interviews between Magee and experts on most of the great philosophers from Plato to Wittgenstein . I'm finding it hugely enjoyable and superior to Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy which I enjoyed but found far too opinionated. Magee's chapter on Kant was a particular highlight.

I'm also reading The Penguin Guide to Plain English by Harry Blamires. It contains a lot of useful advice on how to avoid using incorrect and inelegant English.



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18 Sep 2010, 12:17 pm

I am now reading An Anthropologist on Mars.



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18 Sep 2010, 12:18 pm

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Is The Brothers Karamazov a good choice to read next?


YES. Fantastic book.



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18 Sep 2010, 12:25 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:
I am now reading An Anthropologist on Mars.


I was just thinking about that book earlier today. I want to read it. I wonder if my local yokel library has it.



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18 Sep 2010, 1:59 pm

Currently reading Prince of Dogs, the second book in Kate Elliot's Crown of Stars series.



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18 Sep 2010, 2:42 pm

currently reading The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest by Steig Larsson



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18 Sep 2010, 2:44 pm

'A Journey to the Northern Ocean' by Samuel Hearne I'm reading at the moment.


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19 Sep 2010, 2:32 am

I'm reading the Tomorrow series by John Marsden a second time after having seen the excellent film adaptation. I read the books over a decade ago so I don't really remember any details of the plot at all.

After this I think I will read The Girl Who Played With Fire, hopefully just in time before the film's release here.



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19 Sep 2010, 3:33 pm

The Norton Anthology of English Literature by, well, a bunch of authors, and Musicophilia, by Oliver Sacks. :)



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19 Sep 2010, 11:21 pm

For light reading - Mockingjay

For "heavy" reading - Still Dune. Taking it slow, trying to digest everything properly.

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20 Sep 2010, 9:54 am

Aimless wrote:
jmnixon95 wrote:
I am now reading An Anthropologist on Mars.


I was just thinking about that book earlier today. I want to read it. I wonder if my local yokel library has it.

KissOfMarmaladeSky wrote:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by, well, a bunch of authors, and Musicophilia, by Oliver Sacks. :)
I lovew all of Oliver Sacks's books. I especially like his memoir, Uncle Tungsten. ( I wished that Musicophilia talked more about popular music and not just classical music.)

I usually read memoirs. Currently reading Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen.



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20 Sep 2010, 1:35 pm

Second part of The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (the translation is something like dark shadow of love).



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20 Sep 2010, 2:30 pm

Reading Matterhorn (very good) and Notes from the Underground (boring - at least the chapters are minuscule) at work.


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21 Sep 2010, 3:07 pm

Started the classic fantasy book by Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight, which also begins her epic Dragonriders of Pern series.



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21 Sep 2010, 3:17 pm

Finished Matterhorn; currently not sure what to read at home. Elric, p'raps. Impenetrable Dostoevsky is relegated to lunch break - managed 20 pages yesterday but only 7 today. Had an embarrassing conversation at work earlier with someone who'd read a load of proper Russian literary classics and me more or less Russian sff only. :lol:


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21 Sep 2010, 3:34 pm

Right now, The Story Girl by Lucy Maud Montgomery, one of over 350 free e-books on my Kindle.