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Scoobes said:
sapphi_snake said:
Scoobes said:
sapphi_snake said:

What I read recently:

 


This any good? I don't know much about it but one of my work colleagues is really enjoying it.

Yep, it's very good. One of those sci fi novels that doesn't bore you with pointless tech stuff, and deals with actual serious issues (in other words it's an actually good book). It's about clones used to harvest vital organs from and is told from the POV of one of them (first person narration). I greatly enjoyed it, though I couldn't help but start crying at the end. Definately can be desribed as a "tearjerker", and is also a little depressing, but still wonderful. You should read ASAP!!!

Thanks for the info. I'm looking for the Kindle/ebook version as I type this.

Ah, great! Post your impression of it when you're done with it.



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Just finished reading The End of Eternity by Asimov. Prior to that I salso read the 14 novels main novels in the Foundation universe.
As of now I'm finishing 1984 (I stopped reading at some point in april).



 

Kirameo said:
Just finished reading The End of Eternity by Asimov. Prior to that I salso read the 14 novels main novels in the Foundation universe.
As of now I'm finishing 1984 (I stopped reading at some point in april).

Ah, that book is amazing!!! Shame on you for not having finished yet.



"I don't understand how someone could like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, but not like Twilight!!!"

"Last book I read was Brokeback Mountain, I just don't have the patience for them unless it's softcore porn."

                                                                               (The Voice of a Generation and Seece)

"If you cant stand the sound of your own voice than dont become a singer !!!!!"

                                                                               (pizzahut451)

Now reading The Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Twain is one of my favorite writers and I have read three of his books already: Joan of Arc, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Puddin'head Wilson. Joan of Arc and Huck Finn are two of my favorite books of all time and I honestly cannot decide which of the two I prefer.

Hopefully Tom Sawyer is just as remarkable.



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Tom Sawyer was indeed a remarkable read. It was not the same type of masterpiece of Huck Finn, but it captured the magic  amd pettiness of carefree childhood  so wonderfully I read the book in a few sittings.

Now reading the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard. 



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Finished 1984 on sunday and now reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It's quite good.



 

I'm reading The Stand by Stephen King. Slowly getting there...



I ran out of sci-fi to read a couple years ago and switched to fantasy for now.

I'm currently reading The sword of truth series by Terry Goodkind. I'm in the 4th book, Temple of the winds. It's been awesome so far.

I'm also waiting for the next book in The wheel of time series by Robert Jordan. He started writing it in 1984 and unfortunately died in 2007 before he could finish it. Brandon Sanderson took over with notes from the author and is doing a great job so far. The epic is already over 11.000 pages and still great.

My favorite book still is the Otherland series by Tad Williams. Amazing story about a future version of the net. If there's one book I would like to have turned into a movie it would be this one. It would have to be as long as lotr though.



I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell, The Great Gatsby, The Aeneid by Virgil, The Color of Water by James McBride, and I have to start in on A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, too. And then I'm also reading biographies about Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, and the Tudors. Literary multitasking FTW!

Too much reading! But it's all good, too.



Kirameo said:
Finished 1984 on sunday and now reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It's quite good.


1984 was interesting imo, but  a little slow for my tastes. Now what I liked is In the Wake of the Plague. Its a book talking about the historical impacts of the Black Death on Europe.



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