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Rob wrote: "I don't think you've asked that before.
Pygmy isn't what I'd call typical Palahniuk, but it's my favorite of his so far. Very funny in an often twisted kind of way. Harcore "patriots" who can't ..."
Rob; Is there a lot of explicit sex is the twist?
Pygmy isn't what I'd call typical Palahniuk, but it's my favorite of his so far. Very funny in an often twisted kind of way. Harcore "patriots" who can't ..."
Rob; Is there a lot of explicit sex is the twist?
I just finished Oryx and Crake. Now I'm working on something lighter - U is for Undertow and The Neverending Story, then I'm going to start The Year of the Flood and American Psycho. My husband is working nights so I have a lot more reading time now and my grampa is very ill so I'm reading to escape. I've read 16 books so far in 2010. Now back to my book...
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I'm curious to know what you think of American Psycho...
I've heard its a tough book to get through. I may read it along with something lighter, so I don't get too dragged down. Then again, that will take the mood and mess with it, so maybe I'm better just letting it take me where it goes. Check out my friend Marvin. He writes AWESOME reviews, and he's read the book, so...
i'm reading the new biography of thelonious monk, one of my favorite composes from the jazz continuum. i'm almost done, and sorry to put it away.
Clive Barker's Weaveworld, a triumph of imagination and story-telling wizardry!
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Re-reading Atlas Shrugged sounds like a good idea. I've only read The Fountainhead till now, and I thought it was awesome. Might be worthwhile to explore Ayn Rand's philosophy further.
i finally finished crash last weekend. whoa! i really liked it. i was suckered in really quickly and liked how ballard developed the obsession with automobiles. now i have to go back and watch cronenberg's film again. it sort of passed by me the first time. i also want to read more ballard!i'm NOT an ayn rand fan. wish i could say i was. and her personal politics...hmmm.
I am reading, along with everyone else, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. After that, I am going straight for the newest Yoko Ogawa translation:
Book review: 'Hotel Iris' by Yoko Ogawa
April 9, 2010 | 2:21 pm
Approach with caution: "Hotel Iris" by Yoko Ogawa (Picador, $14) is a strange novel, gorgeously translated. It is the story of Mari, a 17-year-old young woman who works for her tyrannical mother in a hotel by the sea. She meets an older man, a translator of Russian novels, who lives on an island and is rumored to have murdered his wife. He is a pain artist -- ties her up, hits her, spits on her and humiliates her. And she loves him, seeks him out again and again.
“It occurred to me that I had never heard such a beautiful voice giving an order,” Mari thinks. “It was calm and imposing, with no hint of indecision. Even the word ‘whore’ was somehow appealing.”
The text is so clean you can feel the eerie ocean breeze. You think you ought to stop her, but you’re not sure how or if it is really the right thing to do. You know her mother has caused more damage than the translator ever could. Unlike our world of laws, instincts and moral imperatives, you don’t understand the world of this novel at all. Why would this young, beautiful girl need this fastidious, terrifying man?
-- Susan Salter Reynolds
nice review - thanks for posting it gina. sounds like something i'd like.
It's yet another book recommended in this group that's now hanging out on my wishlist...if anyone reads it and feels like swapping it, I'm game. :)
Definitely. If you haven't read any Ogawa, you should try The Diving Pool, too.
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I absolutely LOVED that book Amy. It's made me want to find and read ALL of John Connolly. I read THE GATES and DID like it, but didn't love it as much as TBOLT. My sister has read most of his Detective novels and loves them. Enjoy! As for me, I am reading
, and am going to try to slog my way through
, which I began a WHILE ago and am just not getting into. Its supposedly an interesting and well written book and I want to be in on the loop, so I will finish it, even if its draaaaaaaaaaaagging.
Amy wrote: "I just started The Book of Lost Things and am really liking it - Connolly has a very clean writing style that I admire."Clean writing style - that sounds appealing to me.
i'm going to have to read american psycho one of these days. i've heard so many contrasting points of view.
I wouldn't say I'm READING it, necessarily. It just hasn't caught hold of me yet, so its been very slow-going. There's so many other books that I really really want to read, so I'm getting distracted. I need to sit with it and a glass of red wine and just read 100 pages and see if it sets it hook.
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I'm reading Oscar and Lucinda - hasn't really hooked me yet...
They Thirst is good - or at least, I thought so.
I just started Sweetheart. I'm also reading Bless Me, Ultima, but I'm just at the beginning of both, so I can't say if they're great or not, but off to a good start. Sweetheart is the second of a series of 3 (so far) and I really liked the first one, Heartsick. Two words: Stockholm Syndrome.
oh, bless me ultima is nice. i dated a woman that co-directed an imaginative production of the play in east los angeles, but that was many years ago. it's a fine book.
Good. Marvin picked it for our local book club read.
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indeed. i had a professor that loved wilkie collins - so i had to read a few things....i kept thinking: i'm too busy to be reading this right now!
it was when i was in grad school - (and also dealing with my first year as a teacher - which i did concurrently - typical pg insanity)
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I've been reading as much as possible, because Avery starts Kindergarten this fall, I may look for fulltime work and I'll probably be going fulltime for Accounting from the fall on...yikes. Enjoying potentially my last lazy (sort of) summer for years to come. Man, I'd love a vacation!
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you just jinxed it! what is this? The third or fourth release date for that book?