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Ricochet 
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 Posted: October 15 2005 at 05:41 |
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DAS SCHLOSS by Franz Kafka...
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BaldFriede
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 07:33 |
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If you liked "Das Schloss", you should read "Der Prozess" and "Die Verwandlung" by Kafka too.
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Ricochet
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Posted: October 15 2005 at 11:01 |
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ALREADY READ THEM,BALD!
FRANZ KAFKA RULES!!! |
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The Wizard
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Posted: October 20 2005 at 17:48 |
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Dune was one of my favorite books the instant after I finished it. I started reading the prequels, and Kevin J. Anderson is a pretty good writer. He wrote some of my favorite Star Wars books. Read Animal Farm and 1984 also. |
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The Miracle
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Posted: October 20 2005 at 17:57 |
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I recently read "Ring Around The Sun" and "All Flesh Is Grass" by Cliffors Saimack. Awesome science fiction
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: October 20 2005 at 18:06 |
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Jim Garten
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Posted: October 21 2005 at 03:19 |
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Having just finished book two of Clive Barker's 'Abarat' (a five star read, and superior to the first book, I believe), I'm now finally free to read 'Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince'...
So far, I'm impressed; the sly humour (which kids may miss, but will hit the mark with adults) is back, and I already want to kill Draco Malfoy; breaking Harry's nose when he was under the petrificus hex? That's just not cricket! |
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Citanul
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Posted: October 21 2005 at 03:39 |
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Currently re-reading Tad Williams' Memory Sorrow & Thorn.
I've almost finished the third book (for the paperback editions the
final book in the trilogy was split into two, otherwise it would have
been too big). If you like epic fantasy (Tolkien, Eddings, Feist
etc.), you should read this.
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Be or be not. There is no question. - Yoda, Prince of Denmark
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Posted: October 21 2005 at 07:14 |
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Posted: October 21 2005 at 07:25 |
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Most works by Dostoewski are great as well. I like Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M Coetzee as well. I have not read The Life of Age of Michael K. It seems to be Kafka-related. Just to name a few great books: 1984 by G. Orwell Don Quijote by Cervantes Vanity Fair by W. Thackeray Svejk by J. Hasek The City and the Dogs(sorry, I only guess the English title) by M. Vargas Llosa. Currently reading : Oblomov by I.Gontscharov
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I have never read a thriller as thrilling as "Crime and Punishment" by
Dostojewski; what's more, he makes you feel sympathetic for the
murderer!
I highly recommend the novels of Leo Perutz, an almost forgotten author. Novels like "By Night Under the Stone Bridge" (which has a highly original form of story telling; at first the chapters seem to have nothing or very little to do with each other, except that they are all settled in Prague, but the last chapter connects them all), "The Swedish Cavalier", "Saint Peter's Snow", "Master of the Day of Judgement", "The Marquis de Bolibar", "Little Apple", "From Nine to Nine", "Leonardo's Judas", "Die dritte Kugel" (this one has not been translated into English yet, as far as I know; the title of the translation would probably be "The Third Bullet"), to name a few, are some of the best phantastic books ever. And since we talk of phantastic books: "The Other Side", the only novel by graphic artist Alfred Kubin (who is well-known for his illustrations of Poe, for example), is very strange and dark.Highly reommended, and of course with illustrations by himself. And another master of the phantastic: Gustav Meyrink, best known for his novel "The Golem". He wrote four other novels, "The Green Face", "The White Dominican", "Walpurgisnacht" (The German title was not translated for the English translation), and "The Angel of the West Window". While "The White Dominican" and "The Green Face" may be too esoteric for some, "The Golem" is an excellent gothic novel, "Walpurgisnacht" is gothic too, but has a lot of satirical elements (anyone who reads the first few pages and doesn't laugh several times has no sense of humour), and his last and longest novel, "The Angel of the West Window", is probably his best, combining the Prague of the 16th and 17th century with the early 20th century. |
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Posted: October 22 2005 at 18:59 |
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Recentley ive gotten through most of Anne McCafrey's Dragen Rider Of Pern series (ive read up to The Masterharper Of Pern) and find these set of my imagination as well as Tolkiens books did. Im currently readin Terry Pratchets Going Postal from the Discworld series. its as funny as ever and im waiting for sharp observations on life that he usually slips in. As for the Harry Potter books ive read through most of the six this year(not prisnor of azkaban) and their anoyingly well written and to good to ignor as "kids books" |
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The last work that i was indulged in was Plato's Republic. It has it's flawys but it's very important to philosophy. It has excellent ideals, but above all defines what a philosopher should be.
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I loved that one, though don't ask me why. It seemed like it never went anywhere, but it was great! Crime and Punishment nearly did me in. Nothing like feeling like a guilty axe murderer! |
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Past all mortals as we, here we can be.
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Ricochet
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Posted: October 23 2005 at 01:07 |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez - El general en su laberinto
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How can you read through the series but not read The Prisoner of Azkaban? It is a pivotal book in the series. Right now I am reading the first book in Piers Anthony's Incarnation's of Immortality series,On a Pale Horse. Edited by TheProgtologist |
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[/QUOTE] How can you read through the series but not read The Prisoner of Azkaban? It is a pivotal book in the series. Right now I am reading the first book in Piers Anthony's Icarnation's of Immortality series,On a Pale Horse. [/QUOTE] Sorry the books werent mine and they were my brothers and he dident have that one and i was too skint to go buy it myself |
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Posted: October 24 2005 at 04:39 |
Piers Anthony is a frustrating author for me. He comes up with some brilliant ideas, but the execution isn't always that good. One example would be the Bio of a Space Tyrant series. There are some well thought out arguments in that series, but it's spoilt for me by him creating too many parallels with the global political situation at the time. Other series, such as the Split Infinity series and especially the Xanth series just got too silly. |
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I'm not much into detective stories, but now I'm reading one which has amused me a lot: The Moving Toyshop (1946) by Edmund Crispin, considered as a classic. It has humour and an amazingly clever plot and action across Oxford. It comes closer to Hitchcock films than ordinary 'whodunnit?' stories.
As very young I used to read Christie, then I began to overlook the whole genre and since late 90's or so I found the joy of crime/ suspense literature with Ruth Rendell's psychological thrillers. Crispin's novel now is just about my first 'real' detective novel since childhood and I'm very surprised how it hits me (though I'm afraid I still would find ordinary detective novel dead boring...). |
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Posted: October 24 2005 at 05:44 |
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i read a norwegian parody on the da-vinci code...really great also i read a book with english that is used in in inccorect ways....hilariuos |
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