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The original Casino Royale book from '52. Sadly, I already kind of know what's going to happen since I watched the 2006 movie, but whatever.
What are you reading right now?
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Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod
It's a space opera and moves a lot faster than the last ken MacLeod book I read, The Night Sessions.
It's a space opera and moves a lot faster than the last ken MacLeod book I read, The Night Sessions.
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A Picture of Dorian Gray.
It's a cautionary tale from 1891 about a guy who gets a picture painted of himself, and later finds out that the painting is aging instead if himself.
It's a cautionary tale from 1891 about a guy who gets a picture painted of himself, and later finds out that the painting is aging instead if himself.
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Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
It's an antiwar dark comedy about a guy who travels back and forth through time and gets abducted by aliens.
My favorite video explaining the novel:
It's an antiwar dark comedy about a guy who travels back and forth through time and gets abducted by aliens.
My favorite video explaining the novel:
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Executive Orders by Tom Clancy, also Understanding Flight by Anderson and Eberhardt (so far, a very accessible introduction to the physics of flight).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JAZ9v2zMPEw#t=186
also, reading The Girl Who Played with Fire. The first book of the trilogy's fantastic, the second two are just uguughghg but I have a thing where I feel I ought to complete a series whenever I start one ( ._.)
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Just finished Mike Carey's "Lucifer" comic series, which was a perfect Sandman spin-off. Now I'm moving on to Christopher Moore's The Serpent of Venice, which should be pretty good.
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Catch-22. I have meant to get around to it for a long time, and finally have. I heard it was surprisingly "not dated", but I find it to be quite dated. 
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Abarat by Clive Barker. My first Clive Barker book. I am a wimp and not big on horror that's why I haven't read him, but something attracted me to this book.
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I'm just coming to the end of the Illuminatus! Trilogy, which frankly I'm finding a bit overrated. There are some interesting ideas and a few good jokes, but the story and characters they hang on are a bit 2-dimensional.
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No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. I really want to read Blood Meridian but my English professor suggested I start with The Road and No Country.
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Don't read all three one after the other. The forum doesn't need a suicide.
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. Started out as a Law School recommendation, but I'm really enjoying the reading so far.
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I've been reading "The Prince" as well, though it's a bit dry and I have a bit of a hard time getting the historical references he makes.
I'm back in one of my reading binges, I'm also currently reading:
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
"East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
"The Killer Angels" by some guy who I can't remember
"The Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac
I finished reading "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck this past week, and I also finished "Flowers for Algernon" which was a downer of an ending.
I'm back in one of my reading binges, I'm also currently reading:
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
"East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
"The Killer Angels" by some guy who I can't remember
"The Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac
I finished reading "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck this past week, and I also finished "Flowers for Algernon" which was a downer of an ending.
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Extremely good book, one of my favorites and one that really opened my eyes in terms of analyzing literature. Comes highly recommended.
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Killer Angels is Michael Shaara. It's the book the big Gettysburg miniseries was based off of. It's from an outdated, thoroughly flawed view of Civil War history, but still quite entertaining as long as you treat it as a dramatization.