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What Books are you currently reading?

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Im reading Lord of The Flies, Naked Lunch, and Robots of Dawn right now.
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Lord of the flies was a good book, right now im reading Lord of the rings for the 20th time===>Imma dork<===
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Currently reading the Hitchhikers Guid To The Galaxy Compendium in a hard bound format once more :D

Also on Volume 5 of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan ;)
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I just read the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy I had the one big book, i liked it alot... hey did you see the movie? I liked it even though the people i went to the movies with didnt like it, prolly cause they didnt read the books i guess
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julie124 wrote:I just read the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy I had the one big book, i liked it alot... hey did you see the movie? I liked it even though the people i went to the movies with didnt like it, prolly cause they didnt read the books i guess
The film was so-so, pretty much what I expected, nothing more and nothing less. I guess when you grew up listening/watching both the BBC radio and TV series, you're a little jaded ;)
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I gotta admitt it wasnt as good as the book, that like lord of the rings, i rather the books, maybe im crazy :laugh:
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Im reading the Wheel of Time sereis. There great.
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I'm re-reading The Belgariad by David Eddings, and I'm also reading Airframe by Michael Crichton.
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the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy series was incredible. the movie is so so but the series is just so awesome it encompases the book completly. (i think thats what i mean?)
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Trying to read Hamlet.. But DAMN it's boring. Maybe it's cos I only read it at about 3 am (I have nasty insomnia), but nothing in there makes any sense to me.

I know I want to read it, it just isn't exciting.
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Hamlet isn't too hard to understand once you realize that Hamlet's sanity = not so much.

Also reading at 3 AM isn't a good idea. Just sit down and read it all at once, it's not that long.

Anyway I'm currently re-reading Bram Stoker's Dracula as prep for a Vampire LARP I'm playing.
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i loved hamlet, anyone wanna know anything about it, Pm me
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Dopefish wrote:Hamlet isn't too hard to understand once you realize that Hamlet's sanity = not so much.
That's for sure. Read Hamlet last year...blahhh. :sleep:
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I loved it, I really go tinto it when we was doing i tlast semister :P
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I read Macbeth last semester.

It wasn't bad.

I plan to read Hamlet later this year.

Though I finished reading the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. It's actually a really good play, full of hidden meanings and symbolism.

Though I'm also reading Trigger Happy by Steven Poole. It's an intelligent and rantish approach on video games, covering pretty much every topic to do with video games in concerns to everything else in the world. VERY interesting read.

Though I want to read The Outsiders again.... that book was REALLY good.... So was The Transall Saga....
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Swiftman wrote:Though I finished reading the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. It's actually a really good play, full of hidden meanings and symbolism.
Ahh yes I remember studying that play in year 11, it was actually pretty good. I thought the movie also did justice to the play unlike most book to movie transitions it was really quite good.

Shame he died last year, though he was 90 so I’m sure he had lived a full life.
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late post lol



Yeah, have you also read Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Sinister? It's not as good as Death of a Salesman, but it's certaintly not horrible, and the movie puts paid to the play. [movie > play in the case of the Crucible]
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Nope I don’t believe I’ve ever read anything else by him, though I’m currently reading the Dune encyclopaedia and later tonight I shall be starting the Kenshin mangas.
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Well, in the wise words of Larry the Cable Guy....

GIT 'ER DONE

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Fuck, I remembered how you hate over-sized text, Sinister.
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I don't hate it per se, it just gets over used far to much and starts to get irritating.
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