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Capulet
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Date: Oct 11, 2009
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The Trick Is To Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
The Glass Menagerie - Tennesse Williams
The Book Theif - Markus Zusak
If This Is A Man and The Truce - Primo Levi
Plus, re reading Dorian Gray, Jeykll and Hyde and Gideon Mack for my dissertation.
I HAVE TOO MANY BOOKS TO READ, IT'S STARTING TO FREAK ME OUT A BIT.
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Hendrixsa
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Date: Oct 14, 2009
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Seeds of Yesterday by Virgina Andrews. This book is so mental but I love it.
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ShuvLove
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Date: Oct 15, 2009
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Can Reindeer Fly? The Science of Christmas by Roger Highfield. A bit early for the festive season yet, but meh.
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Date: Oct 21, 2009
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Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.
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PandaPrincess
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Date: Oct 31, 2009
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| I'm currently reading Stephen King's Pet Semetary 
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ScattyKat
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Date: Oct 31, 2009
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Slowly going through the Wheel of Time series again :L
Author died though so no one will know how the series ends :(
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Lady Misery
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Date: Nov 1, 2009
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I've just read The Man in the Black Suit by Stephen King. That's the only story that's scared me in a long time.
Edit: I'm so embarrassed about posting that in Frank's topic. I looked like a complete randomer.
-- Edited by Lady Misery on Sunday 1st of November 2009 10:52:49 PM
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Date: Nov 2, 2009
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Currently reading The Waves, by Virginia Woolf, recommended to me by a wonderful man I know. It's delightfully dense and is far more centred on form than content, and that's how I like it.
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loserbuttercup
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Date: Nov 2, 2009
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I'm juggling three books at the minute. Oh how I love being an English student :) North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare and many, many of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories.
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Spiggy
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^ I say, this is an awesome selection. I love Elizabeth Gaskell, all her novels are so sweet and Victorian.
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candiclaus
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Date: Nov 2, 2009
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My book of Byron's Major Works arrived in the post today! Hurrah! :)
(Byron= inappropriate crush...)
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loserbuttercup
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Date: Nov 2, 2009
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| Spiggy wrote:
^ I say, this is an awesome selection. I love Elizabeth Gaskell, all her novels are so sweet and Victorian.
Yesss, I am really enjoying North and South. I'm gonna have a look at Gaskell's other novels when I have enough time to read books which are not part of my course. Also, I noticed Capulet is reading The Book Thief. ONE OF MY FAVOURITES! I love it so much.
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Margo
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Date: Nov 3, 2009
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Right now I'm reading Candor by Pam Bachorz. I'm not really impressed, but I suppose I'll finish.
Also, I'm reading Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow. It's far better, in that odd, Sci-Fi-ish style of his.
I just put down Diana Peterfreund's Rampant. And for a book about killer unicorns, and unicorn hunters, it was a supprisingly good read.
(I honestly can't belive I just typed that last part.)
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Spiggy
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Date: Nov 3, 2009
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| candiclaus wrote:
My book of Byron's Major Works arrived in the post today! Hurrah! :)
(Byron= inappropriate crush...)
I have a ridiculous schoolgirl crush on Byron. And on Swinburne. And Wilde. Ahhhhhh.
"Wilfred Allsop was sitting up, his face pale, his eyes glassy, his hair disordered. He looked like the poet Shelley after a big night out with Lord Byron." - P. G. Wodehouse
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PandaPrincess
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Date: Nov 4, 2009
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loserbuttercup
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Date: Nov 4, 2009
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I'm going to have to make a start on Homer's Odyssey sometime soon.
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Aenigma
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Date: Nov 6, 2009
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^^ At least it's not the Iliad. The Odyssey is so much easier to read - we all wrote essays on the Iliad about a year ago, and as far as I know no-one actually finished the book. We were all totally dependant on secondary sources for our references!
Barely reading anything due to workload, but am reading The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme (just thrilling) and The Golden Ass by Apuleius. The latter is kind of hilarious. When the protagonist is changed into an ass, his first thought it: 'Wow my dick is HUGE now!'
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Magda Mookychick
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Date: Nov 21, 2009
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Anathem by Neal Stephenson. I can only think of a few friends I'd recommend it to as it wouldn't be to everyone's taste. The first 50 pages were very hard work. A dense read, and not many words under four syllables. The next 100 pages were hard work, too. But then I suddenly realised I was reading one of the most exciting books of this decade - a rich and uplifting odyssey of science and philosophy wrapped up in a crazy epic adventure.
But, my God, those first 150 pages were hard work.
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piiratecupcake
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Date: Nov 21, 2009
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Lady Misery
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Date: Nov 21, 2009
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Everythings Eventual- Stephen King
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Magda Mookychick
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Date: Nov 22, 2009
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Piratecupcake, it is! In his earlier days Neal Stephenson wrote books that still had pretty big science and philosophy ideas in them but were way more accessible. I'm still very fond of his cyberindiegeek (it's not quite cyberpunk) novel Snow Crash, and its steampunk successor, The Diamond Age ;)
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Spiggy
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Date: Nov 24, 2009
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Finished reading Iron In the Soul by Sartre recently, now I'm at the beginning of An American Tragedy by T. Dreiser.
I'm also munching on some Nietzsche and Camus for my Philosophy class.
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Aenigma
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Date: Nov 24, 2009
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Still at uni, still reading only Classics books. It's driving me crazy. I did manage to read My Summer of Love, but only because I was stuck on a train. I'm currently on Reading Greek Tragedy, and hopefully my copy of The Roman Novel will arrive tomorrow. Thrilling...
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Beanpop
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Date: Nov 25, 2009
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Im readying The Sight by David Clement Davies. A friend insisted on me reading it, its one of her favourite books. Also, Alice in Wonderland.
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Date: Nov 25, 2009
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The lord of the flies.
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loserbuttercup
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Date: Nov 25, 2009
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Still at uni, still reading only Classics books. It's driving me crazy. I did manage to read My Summer of Love, but only because I was stuck on a train. I'm currently on Reading Greek Tragedy, and hopefully my copy of The Roman Novel will arrive tomorrow. Thrilling...
Sounds delightful :| Are you doing ONLY Classics at university then? I only have to do one Classics module and that's enough to drive me insaaaaane....
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Aenigma
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Date: Nov 25, 2009
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^^ Yep, I'm straight up Classics. I love it to pieces, but it's way stressful. What Classics module are you doing? I take it you're doing some form of English?
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loserbuttercup
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Yeah I'm doing English Literature with American Studies. The module I'm doing is called 'Greek and Roman Epic and Drama'.
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Interview with The Vampire.
Have only read the first chapter so far. The vampire is hot.
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Aenigma
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Date: Nov 26, 2009
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Yeah I'm doing English Literature with American Studies. The module I'm doing is called 'Greek and Roman Epic and Drama'.
Sounds cool! I take it you're looking at the Odyssey, the Iliad, the Aeneid for epic, tragedy for drama? It sounds pretty shibby. What does the American Studies component entail?
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