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currently reading?

>> No.603621
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Surprisingly decent.

>> No.603625
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Eh, normally I don't promote this shitty cancer, but I'm so enthralled by what I'm reading right now, why not?

>> No.603626
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>> No.603653
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>> No.603656

>>603653

!

>> No.603657

>>603653

This is a cool cover.

>> No.603669

>>603653
That cover is awesome. Shit, now I feel bad about my copy and its crappy cover art.

>> No.603675
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National Episodes by Benito Pérez Galdós. Spanish literature, sorry bros.

BTW it's amazingly awesome.

>> No.603685

>>603656
>>603657
>>603669
I just got it off google. It was the best though. The library copy I have has no art. It's just fucking blue. and the title is only on the spine. I actually opened it up up-side down once.

>> No.603695

The Colour Purple. So fucking poignant.

>>603653

One cubic centre metre cures 10 gloomy sentiments!

I always imagined soma to look like coke...

>> No.603699

>>603685
I love those books.

>> No.603701

>>603685
> only knows cheap paperback editions of books

>> No.603703
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Civil Disobedience
Walden

>> No.603705

>>603695
Better to take a gram than give a damn!

>> No.603712

>>603701
Bitches don't know 'bout my hardback.

>> No.603753
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>> No.603789

World War Z

>> No.603793

The Difference Engine

I got past the first part.

>> No.603802

Flatland

>> No.603808

>>603789

Great book. Not only OMG ZOMBEES, SO COOL. It's well written, original, critic and addictive.

>> No.603810
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still this

>> No.603811

Currently trying to absorb everything I can about Midsummer Night's dream to prepare for a final.

I've read it twice in two days, and I've still got a week to go.

>> No.603813
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Not his best work by a long shot but it's okay.

>> No.603822

>>603789
On my to-read pile :)
Me, I'm reading the Qur'an and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
...I find myself repeating myself all of the time on /lit/.

>> No.603824

Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol

>> No.603826
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started a little bit ago, oh man im lovin this book

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>>603612

>> No.603834

>>603822
which translation?

>> No.603842
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Okay so far, just started earlier.

>> No.603846
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I'm a sucker for a good fantasy

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>>603653

>Foreword by Christopher Hitchens

This Christopher Hitchens? That's gotta be interesting.

>> No.603860

>>603851
He writes Forewords for many books

>> No.603864

how's high school op

>> No.603863
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Fishing Cat approves.

>> No.603862

>>603860

Even so, I'd be interested to hear what he says about BNW.

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Started off slow, but it picks up nicely and now I don't want to put it down.

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Lolita, on you jews recommendation, this shit is hilarious I'm loving it!

>> No.603879

>>603863
Fishing Cat is such a badass.

>> No.603880

>>603834
Of the Qur'an? It is the Abdullah Yusuf Ali version.

>> No.603888

>>603880
Ali is fine, new Khalidi is the best so far imo

>> No.603891

>>603888
Yeah, I'm not a muslim so I don't really mind about the quality of translation- just want to get the jist of it.

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Half done; pretty good

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just finished the part where he escaped the prison

>> No.603949

>>603793
I found it decent but not great by Gibson standards (still worth reading.) No idea how it evaluates by Sterling standards.

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Decent so far.

>> No.603959
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Pic related.

>> No.603963

rereading: Fight Club and Fear And Loathing in LAs Vegas.
Fresh reading: Shootin' The Shit With Kevin Smith: The Best OF Smodcast

>> No.603960

>>603956
>>603918
>>603899

so wacky, I'm reading these too

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>> No.603975

Just finished reading Neverwhere and Stardust, both by Neil Gaiman. I liked them a lot.

>> No.603985

why not add a mini-review /lit/? make things more interesting...

>> No.603986
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603986

You fucking fuckers keep talking so damn well about this, so I decided to suffer along.

>> No.603993

>>603986

fyi never go into a /lit/ ASOIAF thread until you've AFFC, unless you don't care about spoilers.

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>> No.603997
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603997

The Constant Gardener.

It is alright.

>> No.604002

>>603963
I LOVE SMODCAST. Kevin Smith is the mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Mosier actually reads a lot.

>> No.604016

Restaurant at the End of the Universe

>> No.604021

>>603993

Yeah, don't care much about spoilers, since I abstract from them as soon as I take the book. I've been keeping up with the threads (mostly when there's raging over GRRM) until I started it, so now I plan to stay away until I start seeing more of the plots you guys keep talking about.

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historyfag here

>> No.604048

>>604041
is this the one that has Glenn Beck on the jacket talking about how much he learned from the book?

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>> No.604062

>>604048

I don't know, I skipped all the goofy bs in the beginning. It's a pretty good history book, though. Not as biased as one would expect.

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>> No.604079

>>604069

hey i think i read that once, how do you like it?

>> No.604097

>>604079
Only a couple of stories in, but I'm really enjoying the style. Sort like a slightly reigned in Barry Hannah, a more indulgent Ray Carver, or a more sober Bukowski. Good stuff.

>> No.604107

>>604041
Is that a history book written by Conservapedia?

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saw someone talking about this the other day so i went out and bought it.
i think it's one of the most beautifully written books i've ever read, even though it's not all too exciting so far. about 5 chapters in.

>> No.604143

>>604107

I've heard some things about the later chapters being biased. The later chapters being the ones about the time the author lived through. I'm up to early 1900's and I haven't noticed much bias yet.

>> No.604157

Philip Roth- Goodbye, Columbus

>> No.604173

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataiiiiii- i came...

>> No.604322

Portnoy's Complaint--Philip Roth.

>> No.604420

Notes From the Undergound. An ex told me it reminded him of me, and the first time I tried, it hit too hard...so now I'm trying again.

>> No.604495

>>603810
same

>> No.604505

The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.604519

Gravity's Rainbleh.

>> No.604520

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.
It's neat but I dont like the main character very much, but I'm only like 10 pages in so that could easily change.

>> No.604534

>>604115
I was really disappointed by that book

>> No.604541

The Picture of Dorian Gray

>> No.604545
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>> No.604550

The Epic of Gilgamesh

>> No.604559

Wurthering Heights

>> No.604577

Toll the Hounds

>> No.604601

Moby Dick

>> No.604633
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Also, Hamlet for an AP Lit. class.

>> No.604643

>>604505
shit, me too!!

>> No.604644

>>604420
wat, that you're a stalker?

>> No.604648

The coran in fucking arabic.
Thus spoke zarathustra.
The emperor's new mind.
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson.

>> No.604653

>>604550
How's that? A friend of mine reccomended it to me, but i am skeptic i could find some sense on a text from thousands of years ago.

>> No.604665

Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard

I recently read his Kingdom Come, which I liked better for thematic if not technical reasons.