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Holiday Reading 2009 (pg. 3)
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| Endlesswave |
| You guys should check out a short story by E.M Forster called "The Machine Stops" written in the early 1900s...it rocks. |
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| The Highroller |
I might also add
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Black Swan
to the list if I have time to read it. |
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| Knox |
| quote: | Originally posted by The Highroller
What books will you be reading this holiday season?
C Moore - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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Let me know how this one is.... I've always wanted to pick that book up and read it.
I've been a huge Dean Koontz fan for years, reading Your Heart Belongs to Me...
Not sure what I'll pick up after that one is done.... |
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| The Highroller |
| quote: | Originally posted by The Highroller
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment
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Just finished reading this one, and wow. This was a very multi-layered book, with each story having an equally satisfying or surprising ending. A really interesting look into the mind of a criminal, a story of an old friend trying to help another through a hard time, a love story, and a story about extreme poverty. Definitely one of the best books I've ever read.
Next, on to Marin Amis - Money (the 3rd time I've started reading it, lol) and Neil Gaiman - Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch |
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| Kate Manus |
I am going to try to get through Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill & Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein... they were both released a few years ago but just got them recently.
The rest of the reading I will be doing apart from the Economist will likely have to do with the courses I am taking in January. |
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| Moral Hazard |
Hand, hand, finger, thumb
Bambi gets lost
How the Grinch stole Christmas
Little Lamb Finds his Friends
and whatever else my daughter pulls down from the shelf and hands to me. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Hand, hand, finger, thumb
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My parents got me this book when I was 3, because I pronounced finger as 'thinger' and thumb as 'fumb'. :toothless |
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| Geoffb3 |
AUTHOR - TITLE
AUSTEN - EMMA
MILL (ED BY RYAN) - ON LIBERTY
SOLOMON - INTRODUCING THE GERMAN IDEALISTS
DE BALZAC - OLD GORIOT
SHELLEY - FRANKENSTEIN (1818 TXT) 2ND ED
HUYSMANS - AGAINST NATURE
GOETHE - SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER
THOREAU - WALDEN & CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
MARX & ENGELS - COMMUNIST MANIFESTO |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by Geoffb3
AUTHOR - TITLE
AUSTEN - EMMA |
eeewww
Austen's worst novel ever, why are you gonna be reading this?! |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Yeah it's all about Pride & Prejudice. Oh that Mr. Darcy! *swoon* |
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| snak3st |
Let them eat Flax - Joe Schwarcz
after that, I plan to read his other book "The Fly in the Ointment" |
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| Endlesswave |
| quote: | Originally posted by Geoffb3
AUTHOR - TITLE
SHELLEY - FRANKENSTEIN (1818 TXT) 2ND ED
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What's the difference between the 2nd ed and the first?
I read it in highschool (don't remember which addition)
Such a great novel. They say it's one of the first "sci fi" novels ever written. |
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