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23 Jul 2011, 3:23 pm

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck


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23 Jul 2011, 4:43 pm

Finished Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, ho-hum, could've done with some heavy editing in places and it was a bit too grim for my taste but a decent read. The clash of views between the lead characters was interesting. Might get the others.
Read HP and the Chamber of Secrets. Will reread the rest of the series but may divert onto Rule 34 and Parrot and Olivier in America which just arrived chez moi.


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25 Jul 2011, 3:51 am

about 200 or so pages into George R.R. Martins "A Dance With Dragons". So Far So good. Less actioney so far compared to the previous books, but only time will tell.


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25 Jul 2011, 8:44 am

Read HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban, reading HP and the Goblet of Fire. Also reading Narbonic online.


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25 Jul 2011, 5:29 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck


Nice one, I'm reading BNW at the moment as well. Can't believe its taken me so long to read - one of those books I kept thinking 'I'll read that one later'.


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26 Jul 2011, 12:44 pm

just started
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick


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26 Jul 2011, 2:01 pm

Manual of Latin prosody :eew:



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26 Jul 2011, 2:50 pm

Titangeek wrote:
just started
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick


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26 Jul 2011, 2:52 pm

Jory wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
just started
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick


:thumleft:


So far i am liking it quite a bit, much better then the last piece of drivel i read, lol


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26 Jul 2011, 2:56 pm

KyushuFez wrote:
AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

and

Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck


Nice one, I'm reading BNW at the moment as well. Can't believe its taken me so long to read - one of those books I kept thinking 'I'll read that one later'.


I actually want to finish reading Of Mice & Men because it's shorter
and the copy of Brave New World I own also has
Brave New World Revisited in it.

The public library system of Portland has a summer reading game
where people over 18 who participate must read at least 4 books
by the end of August. There's also a summer reading game for kids.

Prizes for those who finish are either one of two e-book readers
or tickets {for two} to all the 2011-2012 lectures by visiting artists who come to
Portland to speak.


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26 Jul 2011, 3:39 pm

Titangeek wrote:
Jory wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
just started
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick


:thumleft:


So far i am liking it quite a bit, much better then the last piece of drivel i read, lol


I always recommend Androids to people who’ve never read Dick, and they always seem to enjoy it. I know from experience that recommending a better but less accessible novel like A Scanner Darkly just results in confusion.



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26 Jul 2011, 7:20 pm

Jory wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
Jory wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
just started
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick


:thumleft:


So far i am liking it quite a bit, much better then the last piece of drivel i read, lol


I always recommend Androids to people who’ve never read Dick, and they always seem to enjoy it. I know from experience that recommending a better but less accessible novel like A Scanner Darkly just results in confusion.


From what i have read of A Scanner Darkly, it does not seam like something i would like


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26 Jul 2011, 7:40 pm

Eden, Eden, Eden by Pierre Guyotat



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26 Jul 2011, 7:53 pm

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From what i have read of A Scanner Darkly, it does not seam like something i would like


You just have to do some research, read plot summaries, and choose whatever sounds most appealing. Everyone has their favorites.



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26 Jul 2011, 7:56 pm

Jory wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
From what i have read of A Scanner Darkly, it does not seam like something i would like


You just have to do some research, read plot summaries, and choose whatever sounds most appealing. Everyone has their favorites.


Right now my favorite book is a tie between the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Regenesis by C. J. Cherryh


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26 Jul 2011, 8:07 pm

I meant if you're getting into Philip K. Dick. The favorites of most fans and critics seem to be Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, and A Scanner Darkly. I would recommend any of them, but Androids seems to be the most accessible.