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Originally posted by Import Currently reading -The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time- Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.

this book is something! an absolutely great read, very different too

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Originally posted by Yohan *drool*

drool indeed
fellow York graduate too!

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Hunter S. Thompson - The Gonzo Papers vol.s 1 - 3

Chuck Palahniuk - Invisible Mosters

Christopher Moore - The Island of the Sequined Love Nun

George Orwell - selected position papers and editiorials

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Originally posted by Import Currently reading -The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time- Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. Not sure what next, possibly something from this thread, but taking the GO everyday im sure i will get alot of reading done this summer.

This book is cute and got a few chuckles out of me. Its great for a beach/vacation read. Very short chapters, a simple story line, easy read. I definately recommend it.

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Originally posted by The Highroller Any recommendations?

Ive been sticking to a lot of the same authors so hopefully someone on here can recommend something for me as well.

What Ive enjoyed:

Augusten Burroughs - Ive read all his novels and short story collections. Absolutely brilliant. Ive never laughed so hard.

David Sedaris - The guy at my bookshop recommended him to me because i liked Augusten Burroughs so much. I enjoyed Naked, a collection of short stories... But did not enjoy him as much as Burroughs. But still funny.

Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes. Most people think Im nuts when I say its one of the funniest books Ive ever read. But it really is. It is also one of the most depressing books Ive ever read. But Franks humour is so witty/dry I absolutely love it. I read the second part, Tis, but I cant remember what I thought about it.

John Irving - I've only read The World According to Garp and the Forth Hand, but they were both brilliant.

On my list to read this summer:

Chuck Palahniuk - Choke.
Doug Coupland - All Families Are Psychotic

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Originally posted by The Ear Chuck Palahniuk - Invisible Mosters

This book was so weird, even for Palahniuk.

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Originally posted by Intangible Doug Coupland - All Families Are Psychotic

One of the few books that actually makes me laugh out loud.

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Originally posted by Irishaddict One of the few books that actually makes me laugh out loud.

jPod did the exact same thing for me. Such twisted humour. I have no idea how Coupland comes up with the stuff that he does.

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Originally posted by slingshot My summer reading list is massive. This is going to be the summer of reading for me.

Ditto.

This started for me back in March when I started going crazy when tax time started heating up and i need an "escape" to keep myslf grounded and un-stressed (as possible) when at work.

Since then I've been going through a novel a week, save for the 2nd latest one I read, which took me two weeks, since im not really enjoying the "level" to which David Eddings had written this fantasy series at.

Read about 7 books in the last two months, and now am actively looking for new fantasy series to start, since ive now gotten through most that have been on my reading lists for years now (usually just later instalments (ie. book 5 or 6 or 3, etc.) in series that I've already began years ago and get to points where i need to wait for the newer novels in teh series to come out.

On "The Younger Gods" (Book 4 in the Dreamers series) now by David & Leigh Eddings, but i def wouldnt recommended it. His early work was far superior. I have haunch the addience he's intending to capture with it must be younger... otherwise i dont know what the hell happened, but he's dumbed down things WAY to much in this series. Loving the idea of it, but dont like the writting of hte plot or characters much at all. Fails to impress.

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Originally posted by The Highroller jPod did the exact same thing for me. Such twisted humour. I have no idea how Coupland comes up with the stuff that he does.

STILL need to read this novel. Dammit.

But I dont know if im gonna touch anythign but fantasy series this summer.

Last fall and winter I read a lot of the lawyer or fiction novels I'd gotten behind in re: authors that I follow.

Now that I've caught most those up, i need to start reading my epic fantasy series and knock those off the list.



If anyone like Grisham, then JOHN LESCROART is an author i HIGHLY recommend to you. He writes better than Grisham (though there are 1 or 2 Grisham novels that I love far above the others, The Chamber being one of them... intense book) and his books have continuity of characters!!

(The best part!) Being familiar w/ these characters and feeling like you "know" them from other books adds SO MUCH to the reading experience. And the characters are not static! They change jobs, lose jobs, lose family members, have crises... and it all just builds to the overall world in these books. So the character you know as the lawyer or police chief in the first few novels may not be still in that roll by book 3 or 4. They will remain the main characters, but their role in the novels changes dramatically as they progress through their careers. It keeps things very “real” and even more interesting!

Best lawyer novels I've read.

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Has anyone read Perfume: Story of a Murderer?

I bought it a while ago and haven't picked it up yet - it sounds kind of twisted... I'd have to read it on a sunny day lol

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Originally posted by Slylee oh well, different strokes different vaginas

Some dance to remember ~ Some dance to forget

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Originally posted by The Highroller jPod did the exact same thing for me. Such twisted humour. I have no idea how Coupland comes up with the stuff that he does.

+1

His new book The Bubble Gum Thief was not very good at all - very dissapointed in it

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Originally posted by Ania_xox Has anyone read Perfume: Story of a Murderer? I bought it a while ago and haven't picked it up yet - it sounds kind of twisted... I'd have to read it on a sunny day lol

I read it in Russian
read it!
and watch the movie!
very twisted, yet so good!

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Feel the energy deep inside your system
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