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Post by Captain Ahab on Sept 24, 2007 10:03:57 GMT
Purchased Terry Pratchett's - The Colour of Magic and Slyvia Plath's - The Bell Jar.Finished The Virgin Suicides and Through a Glass, Darkly. Now reading The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.
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Post by Captain Ahab on Oct 14, 2007 14:49:02 GMT
Finished Striped PJs, now on The Bell Jar when I get room on the train, grr.
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Post by Captain Ahab on Nov 15, 2007 15:26:49 GMT
Finished The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath which I really liked in spite of the suicide and mental health stuff... Today I started Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder.
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Post by Loretta Lee on Nov 16, 2007 11:11:34 GMT
Aside from milions of cruddy library books , Daniel Pennac - Au Bonheur des Ogres Didier Daeninckx - Meurtres pour Memoire (there is an english translation and I can really reccomend this one!) & Amelie Nothombe - L'hygiene de l'assassin
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Post by Folie á Deux on Nov 16, 2007 23:45:34 GMT
[shadow=black,left,900]You smiled at the Frenchness of all that? Wow
Reading King's Four Past Midnight, have been for ages, but just not getting on with it. Blame dark mornings and packed busses. Must do better![/shadow]
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Post by Captain Ahab on Nov 17, 2007 10:53:23 GMT
Do you read much foreign language stuff, Jen?
Dark mornings are good, packed public transport...not so much.
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Post by Loretta Lee on Nov 18, 2007 20:28:12 GMT
When it's compulsory, yes!! LOL! However, Meurtres pour Memoire is one I think I would have enjoyed reading for myself too, as it has a lot of historic background to do with algerian french Yes I smiled LOL, it's not that bad, and like I said, you can get English translations ;o) (not that I did! That would be cheating!) xXx
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Post by Captain Ahab on Sept 6, 2008 13:08:08 GMT
The Road - Cormac McCarthy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks I Am Legend - Richard Matheson All audiobooks bought from iTunes...
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Post by fbiscully on Sept 9, 2008 17:21:21 GMT
persuasion - jane austin ... read it in 3days. was my first austen and deffinetly not my last!
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Post by Captain Ahab on Oct 17, 2008 10:38:08 GMT
Recent purchases...yet to be read.
A Theory of Justice - John Rawls (West Wing's fault). Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon (The Wire, obviously).
And on its way in the post - The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm (podcast is to blame for this).
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Post by Wiggy on Oct 17, 2008 23:19:27 GMT
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon (The Wire, obviously). Read it a few years ago - my copy is sitting right next to me for some reason too. It's a fantastic read - such a slog to get through, took me a very long time but it's fantastic - as real as it gets. If you enjoy it then watch Homicide: Life on the Street - that's actually based on the book, not the Wire as the cover that I saw in HMV seems to suggest. It's a very shocking book at times - I met a guy from Baltimore and he sighed when I brought it up lol.
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Post by Captain Ahab on Oct 18, 2008 10:53:20 GMT
lol, that poor guy.
Yeah, it's a bit of a bruiser at 650 odd pages but I started it last night!
I'll keep an eye out for the series.
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Post by fbiscully on Feb 10, 2009 15:30:05 GMT
i brought Moby Dick (cannot wait to read it, looks a bit heavty, but the longer the better, hey?!! i also brought Ursula le guins left hand of darkness and Dan Browns Da Vinci Code, which im 3/4's of the way through. cant put it down. love it. I have purposly avoided the film so i dont know whats going to happen. Then go onto the film and judge it from the side of the book instead of vis versa!
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Post by Captain Ahab on Jun 4, 2009 17:17:49 GMT
Band of Brothers Revolutionary Road Some Oliver Sacks American Psycho Fight Club Fast Food Nation & 6 or 7 books on serial killers
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Post by manicmarc on Mar 7, 2010 19:08:39 GMT
Finished Dreamcatcher by Stephen King, which mentions The X-Files towards the end. Great book, about supposed grey aliens but it's actually more about the relationship between 5 friends with special connections. I haven't seem the film yet, not sure whether to either, since it might ruin the amazing world King created in my head.
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