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Postby Hope » 3/21/2008, 10:57 pm

marjane satrapi's persepolis! for the nth time!
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Postby saman » 4/1/2008, 1:18 pm

lions of al-rassan by guy gavriel kay
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Postby Johnny » 4/1/2008, 1:37 pm

Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
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Postby beautiful liar » 4/1/2008, 7:58 pm

saman wrote:lions of al-rassan by guy gavriel kay


ooo. i enjoyed that one. let me know what you think.

after exams i'm going to start muybridge's horse by rob winger. i'm excited about it - i bought it from him at a reading and i was pretty impressed.
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Postby crustine » 4/2/2008, 4:54 pm

"What are you reading?"
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<center>Her beauty was disarming, but she had no other resources for dealing with the world.
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Postby Random Name » 4/2/2008, 7:19 pm

Anne of green disgusting gables.
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Postby saman » 5/8/2008, 9:42 pm

lions of al-rassan was pretty good. not as good as the fionavar tapestry, but okay.

just finished reading:
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it was probably the girliest book i've read in a long time, but it was so good. i actually only slept for three hours last night because i couldn't put it down. now i need the second one *bounces around restlessly*
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Postby Random Name » 5/9/2008, 11:25 am

The Chronicles of Narnia
Choke
The Ruins
and hopefully soon Cat's Cradle (again. Because I totally didn't understand what was going on the first time around)
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Postby Hope » 5/9/2008, 5:10 pm

^mmm cat's cradle

currently reading jpod. hate it but can't stop reading ahhhhhhhhh
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Postby Random Name » 5/9/2008, 7:05 pm

Hahaha its so ridiculously addicting, isn't it?
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Postby saman » 5/10/2008, 7:58 pm

saman wrote:lions of al-rassan was pretty good. not as good as the fionavar tapestry, but okay.

just finished reading:
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it was probably the girliest book i've read in a long time, but it was so good. i actually only slept for three hours last night because i couldn't put it down. now i need the second one *bounces around restlessly*


okay. so. i just spent this last week reading the three books that are out in this series like a maniac. now i feel purposeless. the fourth book's not out until august, and i feel like a drug addict deprived of their favourite drug. mrrg.
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Postby Neil » 5/10/2008, 11:39 pm

Harlan Coben's "The Woods."

I'm really not reading it. I bought it for my mom as part of her Mom's Day gift. :lol:
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Postby Molly89 » 4/1/2010, 3:08 pm

Just finished reading "a thousand splendid sons" by Khaled Hosseini. Might not be some people's cup of tea, but I enjoyed it.

I tried reading Twilight, a friend of mine is a majpr fan. But haven't gotten through it yet, don't know that I like it that much.
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Postby Carson79 » 4/1/2010, 7:48 pm

I refused to read Twilight until a couple months ago, then I read all 4 books in 2 weeks (which with my schedule is a huge feat!) I really didn't think I would like them so much - really surprised me - not huge into teen vampire fiction!

I just picked up The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson today, haven't started it yet but hopefully sometime this weekend. Has anyone else read it?
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Postby m2 » 4/1/2010, 9:05 pm

Give A Boy A Gun by Todd Strasser. A very creepy book.

Also reading Life Of Pi, a freaky novel that I suggest many of you read.
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Postby Shanae » 4/2/2010, 3:43 pm

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
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Postby saman » 4/2/2010, 4:11 pm

i have a real problem with margaret atwood's writing that i can't pinpoint. i've only read the handmaid's tale by her, and i hated every second of it. i think it's because even though her writings are science fiction, as much as she tries to deny it, she has no real training or knowledge of the science fiction genre, so her story doesn't reach all the potential it has. it's basically science fiction for people who don't like science fiction, but as a sci-fi fan myself, the handmaid's tale hurt my brain lol
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Postby Molly89 » 7/14/2010, 4:27 pm

Currently reading "Stories:all new tales", an anthology with authors Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Mosley, Diana Wynne Jones, Stewart O'Nan, Jodi Picoult and more. Loving it! Also, been meaning to pick up "1000 awesome things" Neil Pasricha :)
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Postby saman » 7/14/2010, 4:36 pm

molly, can you shrink your avatar a little, please? it's a bit big.
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Postby Waiting to Exist » 7/14/2010, 7:35 pm

Just finished F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. Now starting East of Eden.

Tender was good. Really well-drawn characters, I thought, though it didn't hit me like Gatsby did. But a lot of the book seems to be about aging and losing yourself in the process and stuff, so maybe I'll appreciate it more when I'm a little older. So far East of Eden is fantastic, though.
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