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Dartagnan
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What are you reading at the moment?
Or.....would you recommend?
I'm reading Night by Elie Wiesel, with Dawn, also by Elie Wiesel, next (I got them on Amazon for a few quid).
Night is a painful read about a child's experiences at Auschwitz.
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7/9/2006, 8:58
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Niko Vidgren
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
I'm currently reading HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian.
The Aubrey-Maturin series is fantastic!
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7/9/2006, 9:05
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Milan Fahrnholz
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco.
What could I recommend?
Well, anything by Paul Auster most of all the early stuff from the late 80s. On The Road by Jack Kerouac, Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammet, High-Rise by James Graham Ballard, The Plague by Albert Camus, East Of Eden by John Steinbeck, The Steppenwolf and Sidharta by Herman Hesse, Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation by Nikos Kazantzakis, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera and all short stories and short novels surrounding the Family Glass(most of all Franny and Zoe) by J.D. Salinger who actually did write anything else but The Catcher In The Rye(which I´d highly recommend too, if there was anyone who hadn´t read it already).
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7/9/2006, 12:05
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
Reading at the moment: Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I've a Sherlock Holmes phase at the moment..)
Top 3 books:
Crime and Punishment by Dostojewky
To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Nighttrain to Lisbon (?) (Nachtzug nach Lissabon) by Pascal Mercier
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7/9/2006, 12:33
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Dartagnan
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was a favourite of mine years ago. I must read it again!
I've never read a Conan Doyle book to be honest. But I can report that sadly I managed to convince me mum to buy the complete set of Dumas's historical novels for my 16th birthday! (The Three Musketeers, Man In The Iron mask etc!). We carted them home from the book shop in an old pram. They do look very smart on the bookshelf, though. I've only read about 6 or 7 of them. Now, what would you like - the complete set of Dumas's historical novels or a nice Antoria Strat copy? Hmmmm....that's a toughy!
I got the Antoria strat copy when I was 18, by the way. Black body, maple neck. It has since died.
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7/9/2006, 12:46
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
Flashman and the Mountain Of Light
I'm working my way through this series. Great fun - thoroughly recommended.
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7/9/2006, 13:06
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Dartagnan
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
Phew, that's quite a list, Milan!
Have you ever read any E M Forster (Passage To India, Howard's End etc). In particular, his Short stories? There's a cracker called The Machine Stops, which is so relevant to what were doing right now! It was actually written in 1909, but he could almost have been writing about the internet / world wide web! It contains such nuggets as...
"Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over...What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking?"
For a nice, quick read, go....here!
http://www.plexus.org/forster.html
After everyone has read it, we can all write a short essay on how the world will function when The Machine Stops! Dun, dun, dunnnnnn!
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
What we Believe but Cannot Prove, edited by John Brockman.
It's a collection of short essays by scientists who, wuite simply, answer the question posed to them: what do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it.
It's a bit of a mixed bag. Some essays are very thought provoking but a lot are unoriginal and repetitive (many of them believe that there is life elsewhere in the universe, for example), and some are simply too short to develop their ideas very much. But still an interesting look into how scientists think and what they use to prompt their research.
What would I recommend? Hmmm... here's a recent list I made of "books you must read before you die (non-fiction only) " 
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (may substitute Hard Times)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Beauty by Sherri S Tepper
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Once and Future King by TH White
Paradise Lost by Milton
Milton by William Blake (may substitute Albion)
I, Robot by Isaac Asimiov
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (should really be be the set of both Alice books)
Cross Purposes by George MacDonald
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Gladiator by Philip Wylie
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoyevsky
...plus everything I've written, of course 
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
Q: What are you reading at the moment?
A: The posts in this topic.
(c'mon - you all knew that that response was inevitable - just a matter of whom posted it first! )
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
quote:
MrEd45 wrote:
Q: What are you reading at the moment?
A: The posts in this topic.
(c'mon - you all knew that that response was inevitable - just a matter of whom posted it first! )
It´s always you, because you´re the only one who can still laugh about that.
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