What do you read?

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Re: What do you read?

Post by HvyMtlClickWitch » Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:23 pm

Right now I'm reading a biography of Glenn Miller. The guy who wrote it is really, really bland. :(
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Equinox » Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:05 pm

Morgana wrote:Still Bram Stocker's Dracula :D I have no time to read it fast but I try to do it in the night... I'm speechless! :P
Yup, it's simply wonderful. A masterpiece!!! There's no question abou it.
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Morgana » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:55 pm

Interview with the Vampire. The book is better than movie

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Re: What do you read?

Post by Mystical » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:41 pm

I shall read some books that I need to get at the Univesity... Ah... Moby Dick, they aren't jokin'.... wrrrrr

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Re: What do you read?

Post by Equinox » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:06 pm

For the school I have to read Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. I'm in act 1 and I find it to be funny. :D
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Heiserich » Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:39 am

I've just read "The hidden Empire" by Kevin J. Anderson, the first part of the "Saga of the Seven Suns". It was just meant to relax, while writing my diploma-thesis (By the way: I'VE FINALLY FINISHED IT!!!), but it's so good that I have to read the remaining 3 books also. I'm just about heading for the library... :)
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Stratovarrior » Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:09 pm

Right now I'm reading the message i'm typing...

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Re: What do you read?

Post by Stealth » Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:30 am

For uni I'm reading "Immigrants and National Identity in Europe" by Anna Triandafyllidou.
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Equinox » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:09 pm

I'm reading Rosencrantz and Guildernstern Are Dead. Iforgotbywho.

It's absurd, but fun.
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Re: What do you read?

Post by neonlightchild » Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:04 pm

"diario íntimo de un guacarrocker"...armando vega gil.
It is probably the most stupid book i've ever read, but now i have to finish it.
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Stealth » Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:26 am

Right now... Nothing!!! And I'm loving it!!! :D

But my vacations won't last for too long. :cry:
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Morgana » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:46 am

Now I need to read books for my diploma project... :( I have vacations but it is dealed with my job, and I still have to think about my study... It's really difficult to work and to study at the same time. :(

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Re: What do you read?

Post by Morgana » Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:20 pm

I've just read one story on Russian forum... I was crying... I'll try to translate it and post here in the evening, you need to read it guys... :cry:

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Post by Kain´s seventh son » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:14 pm

Just finnished reading Narnia - All Stories... I didn't like it...somehow it was just WAY too religeous and black and white for my taste... evil is allways evil, good is allways ubergood... especially the last story made me allmost sick... it was just terrible to read with all that serious-faced religeus symbolism...

So, now I think I will read a few Terry Pratchet books to save my sanity :D ...or at least what's left of it :wink:
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Morgana » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:06 pm

Kain's Seventh Son, I tried to find out "The Master and Margarita" to dowload it fre but... useless. :( Try to do it by yourself, maybe you're more lucky than me :wink:

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Re: What do you read?

Post by Stealth » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:15 pm

I'm reading "Going Up the River - Travels in a Prison Nation" by Joseph Hallinan. Very interesting book about the prison system in the U.S. It shows how the system focuses on punitive measures rather than on reform. I had this book for one of my classes, and I have another one about the prison system which might be even better than this one; it's called "Lockdown America - Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis".
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Re: What do you read?

Post by NordicStorm » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:19 pm

My current reading list:
Francis Fukuyama - The End of History and the Last Man
Patrick Cauvin - Le sang des roses (trying to learn French)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind (original title "La sombra del viento")
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Kain´s seventh son » Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:26 pm

Morgana wrote:Kain's Seventh Son, I tried to find out "The Master and Margarita" to dowload it fre but... useless. :( Try to do it by yourself, maybe you're more lucky than me :wink:
Well, I'll be on lookout for it... I rarely download anything... so I'll try some other path to find it :) Thank you for trying though :)
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Forget-me-not » Sat May 27, 2006 4:08 am

Here are two links on "The Master and Margarita" in English (two different translations)

http://lib.ru/BULGAKOW/master_engl.txt

http://lib.ru/BULGAKOW/master97_engl.txt

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Re: What do you read?

Post by cliff » Sat May 27, 2006 4:44 am

Forget-me-not wrote:Here are two links on "The Master and Margarita" in English (two different translations)
Thanks for the link!!!
Thank to you, I'll be able to finally read The Heart Of A Dog!
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Equinox » Sat May 27, 2006 5:44 am

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.

It's about Buddhism, really intresting.
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Re: What do you read?

Post by stratoplayer » Sat May 27, 2006 7:34 am

Just finished "Thus spoke Zarathustra" excellent, a narrative philosphical statement, genious!

Will reread "Rayuela" (Hopskotch) by Julio Cortazar, a masterpiece, can't recommend it enough!
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Re: What do you read?

Post by htcdude » Sat May 27, 2006 10:38 am

1 Chronicles from The Bible now :)
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Forget-me-not » Sat May 27, 2006 3:56 pm

cliff wrote:
Forget-me-not wrote:Here are two links on "The Master and Margarita" in English (two different translations)
Thanks for the link!!!
Thank to you, I'll be able to finally read The Heart Of A Dog!
You are welcome :) As for me, it's nice to help someone, even if I didn't expect it :)

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Re: What do you read?

Post by OPOJ » Sat May 27, 2006 4:36 pm

Hi everyone.
I read all kind of science fiction books. Like Isaac Asimov.
Now I'm reading Brave New World from Aldous Huxley.

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Re: What do you read?

Post by stratobabius » Sun May 28, 2006 12:15 pm

These days, I'm reading the Anatomy of human body... Must know it all by next week.Only 500 pages

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Re: What do you read?

Post by Forget-me-not » Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:24 am

stratobabius wrote:These days, I'm reading the Anatomy of human body... Must know it all by next week.Only 500 pages
You are not alone... I'm reading this course of physics. Very boring, believe me. Much worse than Anatomy

http://irodov.nm.ru/ebooks/irodov3.djvu

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Re: What do you read?

Post by Heiserich » Fri Jun 02, 2006 12:14 pm

I just started reading "War and Peace" by Tolstoi a few days ago. It's a great book! Now I'm on page 450, still about 1000 to go :)
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Post by Kain´s seventh son » Fri Jun 02, 2006 1:52 pm

Forget-me-not wrote:Here are two links on "The Master and Margarita" in English (two different translations)

http://lib.ru/BULGAKOW/master_engl.txt

http://lib.ru/BULGAKOW/master97_engl.txt
I REALLY should lookout for this forum more often :) thank you Forget-me-not :) just bookmarked the pages, and try to read the book when I get the time :)


Oh, and for now... I have nearly finnished Janis Joplin - The Scars Of Paradise... it is truely exelent book, giving allmost too good descriptiion on Janises life... though mostly that's 'couse of her own choises... she lived a very sad life, even though she was the first female rock superstar... I recomment this one for everyone, wether or not did you like her music (or did you happen not to even manage to hear it) it really opens one's mond on many things... along with the buble of hippie-generation being generally exelent in all aspects of life... nope... well, just read the book, will you? :)
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Re: What do you read?

Post by Forget-me-not » Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:30 pm

Kain´s seventh son wrote:Oh, and for now... I have nearly finnished Janis Joplin - The Scars Of Paradise... it is truely exelent book, giving allmost too good descriptiion on Janises life... though mostly that's 'couse of her own choises... she lived a very sad life, even though she was the first female rock superstar... I recomment this one for everyone, wether or not did you like her music (or did you happen not to even manage to hear it) it really opens one's mond on many things... along with the buble of hippie-generation being generally exelent in all aspects of life... nope... well, just read the book, will you? :)
Yes, I will! If I find it somewhere
Heiserich wrote:I just started reading "War and Peace" by Tolstoi a few days ago. It's a great book! Now I'm on page 450, still about 1000 to go :)
Great you are! I didn't have enough diligence to finish it :(

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