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Nagasaki by Craig Collie

It was pretty horrible and not very meaningful at all. I would not recommend that book to anyone.

I am reading two books at the moment.
1. Marcello in The Real World by Fransisco X. Stork

It's about a very likable 17 year old with aspergers that is forced to work at his dad's law firm to give him real world experience.

2. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by the amazing Leo Tolstoy

It is my first Tolstoy book and he is an amazingly talented writer who deserves all of the praise that he has ever received.

I'm definitely going to read Tipping the Velvet at some point in the future, but I don't know about Affinity. I heard that it was so "gloomy" that it made the author sad to write it. I finished Fingersmith last night, and the only reason why it didn't leave me in total despair was because of its vaguely happy ending. If Affinity is even sadder than Fingersmith, then I'm not sure if I want to read it.

Naked by David Sedaris. Its pretty funny so far.

Mmm; it's not a happy book, but I thought it the best of the three, and I liked the others.


I've been remiss on reading books recently as I've been engaged on the highly geeky linked projects of reading a whole bunch of ME poems and exhaustively making lists of everything to do with the (first) King Arthur RPWG (I'm telling myself I'll write it up as an FAQ - there isn't one, just a handful of really crap wikis), but that's really just an excuse Slowly working through the Polity books still.

OK, as someone else who is interested in Sarah Waters' work, I trust your opinion. I'll start reading Affinity tonight. I had checked it out from the library along with Fingersmith, but I had decided to read Fingersmith first as it was longer. I ordered Tipping the Velvet from the Internet because it wasn't available from the library. I'm still waiting for it to come in the mail, so I guess I'll read that one last.

Finished The Camel Club a few days ago. I'm now all caught up on the first four books in the series (though I read them badly out of order). Just received the fifth and final installment today ... looking forward to starting Hell's Corner sometime this week.

The Rebel, by Albert Camus.

Picked it up at a thrift shop for $0.50.

Also: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig.

House of Leaves - strangest thing I've read in ages. Daneilewski, or something like that.

I've been wanting to read it because everyone says it's strange.

Gosh, I haven't read in what feels like weeks upon weeks... just one or two in reality, though. So busy with school lately... but now that I'm all caught up with everything, I'll have some reading time.
I don't know what I'm going to read, though.
I did pick up an old copy of Camus' The Stranger, so I might re-read it. First time around I was 13 or so, so I can't remember the story as well and I remember liking it.
Also, some Sartre and Dennett. (I met Dennett around this time last year )
Then King's 11/22/63.

What to do...

She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb. This is my second time reading it. I also like I Know This Much Is True, by him also, but I don't have it any longer. I lent it to someone and they never gave it back and I don't remember who I lent it to.

Still reading the Polity books. I've been in two minds as to whether to buy his newer non-Polity books, as I'm a great fan of Asher but not of some of his politics and apparently the new ones are decidedly author-tract-y, so I was delighted to see the other day that he's writing a new Polity one and says he's rediscovered his Skinner form.

Also a whole bunch of ME stuff (I'm working my way through this lot), including The Avowyng of Arthur, which had the most f**ked-up scene I've read in a very long time. As the introduction puts it:
"In this story, the focus of the women's desire is (...) masculine attention, in the form of collective physical violation by five hundred men. Besides working as laundresses, the women service the sexual needs of an entire barracks, and successively kill one another out of jealousy for the men's desire. The lesson Baldwin draws from this incident is not altogether clear..."

11/22/63 by Stephen King
Published in 2011
pg. 31/849

Sherlock Holmes on Screen:
The Complete Film and TV History
by Alan Barnes, third edition 2012

Mozart and the Whale:
An Asperger's Love Story
by Jerry Newport and Mary Newport, 2007

The Dead Travel Fast:
Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula
by Eric Nuzum, 2007

Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens' memoirs.

An absolutely brilliant read. Unexpectedly touching at times, laugh-out-loud funny at times, and *so* well written. And with a message, too.

He debated with himself whether it was too early in life to write a memoir, but as later events proved, he could not have waited. I'm so glad he didn't.

I miss Hitch in the public debate.

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