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Matt is starting For Those With Eyes to See
Reading this in tandem with Stephen King's new novel JOYLAND.
Jun 11, 2013 06:24AM Add a comment
For Those With Eyes to See

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Matt is 60% done with Voyagers: A Mystery, A Ghost's Tale, A Love Story
"You shouldn't underestimate how exhausting it is to die." Spoken by a dead person. I have to believe that, since I can't verify myself.
Jun 06, 2013 09:55AM Add a comment
Voyagers: A Mystery, A Ghost's Tale, A Love Story

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Matt is 30% done with Voyagers: A Mystery, A Ghost's Tale, A Love Story
"Going to turn the drunkards into doctors and the pickpockets into lawyers? Or how about into politicians, they can't do worse than the ones we've got, eh, Aaron, boy?"
Jun 04, 2013 10:41AM Add a comment
Voyagers: A Mystery, A Ghost's Tale, A Love Story

Matt
Matt is on page 7 of 312 of Voyagers: A Mystery, A Ghost's Tale, A Love Story
I have to read carefully so I don't miss anything when clerics, politicians and a courtesan meet and "socialize" in 19th century St. Louis. Great read so far.
Jun 02, 2013 09:11AM Add a comment
Voyagers: A Mystery, A Ghost's Tale, A Love Story

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Matt added a status update
Everyone on Goodreads should watch and listen to this:
Suzanne Vega performing her song Harper Lee impersonating Carson McCullers.
Jun 02, 2013 01:58AM Add a comment

Matt
Matt is starting Voyagers: A Mystery, A Ghost's Tale, A Love Story
I have CHOSEN that one to read next after quite some pondering. My to-read list has gotten too long I guess.
Jun 01, 2013 11:39AM Add a comment
Voyagers: A Mystery, A Ghost's Tale, A Love Story

Matt
Matt is starting Strange Way Out
I have to read this now. The author offered a free signed book to the first reader who discovers a hidden reference to Stephen Kings's "On Writing" in his (the author's, neither the reader's nor Stephen King's) story.
May 31, 2013 10:04AM Add a comment
Strange Way Out

Matt
Matt is 40% done with Mad Science Institute
"Not for the first time I wished I had an 'undo' button for what I said."
May 30, 2013 11:14AM Add a comment
Mad Science Institute

Matt
Matt is 20% done with Mad Science Institute
I like the story so far. Great main character.
May 28, 2013 11:02AM Add a comment
Mad Science Institute

Matt
Matt is starting Mad Science Institute
FUROR EXITIUM SCIENTIA. On the book's cover. Hmm. I think it means "Rage is the demise of knowledge" or something like that.
May 27, 2013 09:28AM Add a comment
Mad Science Institute

Matt
Matt is 7% done with The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
"They talked [... ] of the doing of the cats on the night the caravan left, and of what was later found in the cottage under the dark trees in the repellent yard." This is a story for cat-lovers.
May 27, 2013 08:27AM Add a comment
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

Matt
Matt is 20% done with Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
A pleasurable read, as expected. One annoyance though: The text of this Kindle edition is set in a sans-serif font. Bad idea.
May 25, 2013 11:28AM Add a comment
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

Matt
Matt is starting Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
I wanted to read this for a long time.
May 25, 2013 10:27AM Add a comment
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

Matt
Matt is 95% done with Die Wand
Die letzten 10% habe ich gelesen, während ich auf den Beginn eines Rockkonzerts wartete. Selbstverständlich in der ersten Reihe einer großen Halle. So ein Kindle ist schon praktisch :-) Das Buch ist übrigens sehr gut... traurig und gut.
May 24, 2013 02:57PM Add a comment
Die Wand

Matt
Matt is 75% done with Die Wand
"Früher war ich immer irgendwohin unterwegs, immer in großer Eile und erfüllt von einer rasenden Ungeduld, denn überall, wo ich anlangte, mußte ich erst einmal lange warten."
May 24, 2013 07:43AM Add a comment
Die Wand

Matt
Matt is 60% done with Die Wand
"Alle Katzen neigen zu geheimnisvollen Zuständen; dann sind sie weit weg und völlig unerreichbar." Dies ist u.a. auch ein Buch für Katzen- oder Hundeliebhaber; auch Kuhfreunde kommen auf ihre Kosten.
May 23, 2013 08:29AM Add a comment
Die Wand

Matt
Matt is 45% done with Die Wand
"Der Lampenschimmer fiel auf den Weg, und der Schnee auf den kleinen Fichten glänzte gelblich." Das passt zwar jetzt gar nicht, aber hier viel mir Zappa ein, der sagte: "Don't eat the yellow snow."
May 22, 2013 09:20AM Add a comment
Die Wand

Matt
Matt is 30% done with Die Wand
"Von äußerer Freiheit konnte wohl nie die Rede sein, aber ich habe auch nie einen Menschen gekannt, der innerlich frei gewesen wäre."
May 21, 2013 08:18AM Add a comment
Die Wand

Matt
Matt is 10% done with Die Wand
"Ich mußte mich ganz still verhalten und ihn einfach überstehen. Es war ja nicht der erste Tag in meinem Leben, den ich auf diese Weise überleben mußte."
Ein Buch, dass zum Nachdenken anregt, insbesondere über Wände oder Mauern, seien sie nun sichtbar oder unsichtbar wie hier, denn das sind die schlimmsten.
May 20, 2013 08:20AM Add a comment
Die Wand

Matt
Matt is starting Die Wand
Die erste Überraschung für mich: Das Buch ist bereits 1963 erschienen, und damit so alt wie ich. Die Autorin ist bereits 1970 verstorben (im Alter von 49). Vermutlich wegen des Films aus dem letzten Jahr, habe ich das Gnaze viel später verortet.
May 20, 2013 06:24AM Add a comment
Die Wand

Matt
Matt is 40% done with The Temporal
"The fourth wall was completeley covered with books, hundreds of old leather bound books."

May 16, 2013 08:08AM 2 comments
The Temporal

Matt
Matt is 25% done with The Temporal
"This evening, he would offer to Gaia the greatest sacrifice he could: one less human being to contaminate the earth." Is this the way to show your love to mother earth? I think not. Bad, bad guy.
May 15, 2013 10:01AM Add a comment
The Temporal

Matt
Matt is 18% done with The Temporal
I think I've never read a book set up in Japan, that was not written by a Japanese. Intriguing start.
May 14, 2013 10:33AM Add a comment
The Temporal

Matt
Matt is starting The Temporal
It seems like I'm the first one here on GR, who has put this on the currently-reading shelf. Strange. Usually I'm always behind. I listened to a Podcast of the first chapter from the author's website. This book sounds really good to me!
May 13, 2013 07:29AM Add a comment
The Temporal

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Matt is 80% done with Becoming Human (Exilon 5 #1)
"'Let's just enjoy tonight and forget about anything that's wrong with this world'" I have nothing to add.
May 12, 2013 07:39AM Add a comment
Becoming Human (Exilon 5 #1)

Matt
Matt is 70% done with Becoming Human (Exilon 5 #1)
"'Um, normally, sir, but the computers on board this ship are designed to save power, um, not to detect life on board.'" Yeah, right. Just set the priorities straight.
May 12, 2013 01:04AM Add a comment
Becoming Human (Exilon 5 #1)

Matt
Matt is 60% done with Becoming Human (Exilon 5 #1)
"'She has the power to castrate men with their eyes if they look at her for too long.'"
Of all the characters in books I would like to meet in real life, this is one I have the a strong urge not to.
May 11, 2013 07:38AM Add a comment
Becoming Human (Exilon 5 #1)

Matt
Matt is 50% done with Becoming Human (Exilon 5 #1)
"It was at times like these that Bill remembered why he preferred to work alone." I can relate to this. The scene around it made me LOL. So true... ipso facto :-)
May 10, 2013 08:59AM Add a comment
Becoming Human (Exilon 5 #1)

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Matt added a status update
On this day, 80 years ago, May 10th 1933, Nazi Germany conducted the biggest book burning campaign in its ill-fated history.
Tens of thousands of works became victims of these small-minded, cowardly, effing Nazi pigs.
The only thing you should do with a book is read it, and then read it again.
Never harm a book, or it will harm you back!
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May 10, 2013 05:35AM Add a comment

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