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Cap'n Squirrgle
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I've been on a classics kick here of late, going back to Call Of The Wild and A Tale Of 2 Cities. Before that it was Parfum (in german) by Patrick Suskind, and a big 'ol pictorial book on architecture.

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I'm reading 'The Scottish Englightenment: The Scots Invention of the Modern World' which is a slightly over-the-top claim but then the author is American.

Especially interesting to me are the parts on Glasgow University in the 17th and 18th Century. Good read, all in all.

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I'm just about finished with "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and I'm going to start "The Trial" by Kafka.

I'm priming for my trip to Prague in a couple weeks.
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I got it as a get-well gift and am actually enjoying it.

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I'm going to start "The Trial" by Kafka.

I'm priming for my trip to Prague in a couple weeks.


If you must but don't freak out when you visit the cathedral.

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Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Hell's Angel's - Hunter S. Thompson
Complete Works of Charles Fort

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Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Hell's Angel's - Hunter S. Thompson
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Salinger, nice!

(also, laughing about your quote.)

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A Conspiracy of Paper-David Liss
Really good historical mystery. I'm about 1/4 through and loving it. It's better than An Instance of the Fingerpost if you happened to enjoy that.

Before that:
Blood Music-Greg Bear

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JOB:A Comedy of Justice-Robert Heinlein
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Started:
Dave Eggers: You Shall Know Our Velocity!

But it just seemed too . . . straight-forward . . . so I . . .

Switched to:
Terry Pratchett: The Color of Magic

because I've never read any of his books and everyone always says if you liked the Hitchhiker's Guide books, you'll like these. We'll see.

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the complete works of franz kafka

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the pump house gang - tom wolfe
galapagos - vonnegut

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Kavalier and Klay is excellent. So many layers and a great American adventure story.

I'm reading: Ball Four by Jim Bouton - this guy's voice is so dead on. He can tell great baseball stories, skewer an establishment (Major League Baseball) while clearly loving the game. A fantastic read that I've put off for a long time.

Just finished: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - which I also enjoyed.
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konstantinl Wrote:
I'm reading 'The Scottish Englightenment: The Scots Invention of the Modern World' which is a slightly over-the-top claim but then the author is American.

Especially interesting to me are the parts on Glasgow University in the 17th and 18th Century. Good read, all in all.


you realize I am in love with Dylan Moran/Black Books?
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Mlle XIX Wrote:
konstantinl Wrote:
I'm reading 'The Scottish Englightenment: The Scots Invention of the Modern World' which is a slightly over-the-top claim but then the author is American.

Especially interesting to me are the parts on Glasgow University in the 17th and 18th Century. Good read, all in all.


you realize I am in love with Dylan Moran/Black Books?


and you realize i am in love with darren.

just finished augusten burroughs' dry.
i had to go to rehab just from reading this.

just started il gigante: michaelangelo, florence and the david.
it's the story of the 12 years it took mr. mike to sculpt the david.


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Just finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

It was a very good, historical fiction/fantasy. Not a page turner, which actually was good, it gave me some time to spend with the characters.

Just started...

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King...

It was killing me not to read about it a while back in a Topic that Spade and Dana were talking about. I love it so far... nearing the end of Gunslinger.

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same thing i replied the last 2 times this thread came up.

chronicles - bob dylan.

i really need to make time to read more often.

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Mlle XIX Wrote:
konstantinl Wrote:
I'm reading 'The Scottish Englightenment: The Scots Invention of the Modern World' which is a slightly over-the-top claim but then the author is American.

Especially interesting to me are the parts on Glasgow University in the 17th and 18th Century. Good read, all in all.


you realize I am in love with Dylan Moran/Black Books?


You know I can read all the books in the world, be incredible rude to people and drink masssive amounts of wine but at the end of the day he's got the cute face and I haven't.

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Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
A Tale Of 2 Cities.

My favorite literary character of all time is Sidney Carton

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I'm reading: Ball Four by Jim Bouton - this guy's voice is so dead on. He can tell great baseball stories, skewer an establishment (Major League Baseball) while clearly loving the game. A fantastic read that I've put off for a long time.


This book is a great picture of what being a ballplayer in the sixties was all about: Drinking and Fucking

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Please Kill Me- Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain


This book is great...I just wish they woulda left out the Patti Smith parts, and cut some of the damn 'ol Iggy, too.

I am reading:
"They Marched Into Sunlight" by David Maraniss, which is about a battle in Vietnam, a protest in Madison, WI, and the decisons made in DC and Hanoi at the time.

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway

"Scotty, James B. Reston and the Fall of American Journalism" by John F. Stacks

and, re-reading "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" by Toby Young [/b]

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