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Milan Fiori
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, I'm actually reading "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" as well Gil. I take it, it's for class as well? _________________ Be awed by our prowess!
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Gil-galad
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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That it is. We just finished reading "Hamlet"-- so it's a sort of follow up. _________________
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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Ewww, Hamlet. We spent like seriously, 2 months on Hamlet my senior year of high school. We read the play, watched like 2 different movies of it, and saw a performance of it in Chicago. Now I hate Hamlet with a passion.
Oh, and I'm reading Zombie Lover by Piers Anthony. _________________ The immortal chickens shall rule the world!! |
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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We only spent a week on it, so it wasn't too boring for me. My teacher just figured we had to get it under our fingers, since it's the most performed play in history (practically). _________________
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Hawk Thanatos
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Just finished reading The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway which was freakin' awesome and anyone who enjoys stories about ninjas, pirates and nameless protagonists should give it a read. Plus there's an apocalypse in it.
Other than that I've got a few books I'm reading for uni including After Life: An Ethnographic Novel (by Tobias Hecht) and The Elements of Moral Philosophy. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: What are you reading? |
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[quote="Shad":1hv1jrzb]I started this book on I believe Thursday the 19th and finished it today. I'm going to play Exit Fate until I leave on vacation, but I'm talking two books with me by two of my favorite authors: "The Ends of the Earth" by Robert D. Kaplan and "The Proud Tower" by Barbara Tuchman. |
Finished "The Ends of the Earth" on the March 23rd and "The Proud Tower" on April 6th. I'm now reading "Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947" by Christopher Clark. |
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Amyral
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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:46 am Post subject: |
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Hamlet is easily one of my favorite plays, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was fantastic.
I've been on a Hemingway kick as of late, just got done with A Farewell to Arms. |
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I've been reading Douglas Coupland's books. So far I think Hey Nostradamus! is his best work. Microserfs is not bad as well. Other than fiction I'm mostly on to culture and history books. _________________ One Love One Shot |
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:23 am Post subject: |
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I'm currently reading Carlos Ruiz Zafon's new novel, Angel's Game, which is a prequel to his prior work, Shadow of the Wind. It's an amazing book, and totally not what I would have expected at all. Something about his writing is so snarky and clever that it makes me wish I knew the characters personally. Probably one of the best books I've read in quite some time. _________________
"And as the lion slaughters man, I am the wolf and you're the lamb." ~Blind Guardian |
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:49 pm Post subject: Re: What are you reading? |
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Just recently I finished "Thank You and OK! An American Zen Failure in Japan" by David Chadwick. Pretty funny autobiography about David's Zen training in Japan in the late 80's. He was a student then of Katagiri and he had also trained with Shunryu Suzuki in the 70's in the US. Interesting look at Japanese culture, too.
Now I'm reading World War Z by Max Brooks. A chronology of first hand accounts from the Zombie pandemic. He has some interesting social and political commentary, as any good zombie piece should have! |
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:59 am Post subject: Re: What are you reading? |
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I'm reading the first issue of UFC magazine. Good times. |
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Amyral
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:39 am Post subject: |
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Just finished off Shatterday, a book of short stories by Harlan Ellison, a fantastic writer. |
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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:38 am Post subject: |
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A bend in the road by sparks
=> funny sig sage hahaha |
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