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Originally posted by Matti Matti wrote:

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...).


Try Stanislaw Lem's "The Investigation". One of the least typical detective stories I've ever read. Well, along with Adams' "Dirk Gently" books, but they're not exactly in the same league.
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Right at the moment I'm reading an interesting little book on the history of mental illness.  It's quite facinating, especially when it goes into the time of the inquisition.  I'm also reading a book on the history of underground comix. 

 
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Thanks to Garten I've bought up a buncha RingWorld books and have become quite tanj obsessed.
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Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

Thanks to Garten I've bought up a buncha RingWorld books and have become quite tanj obsessed.

RingWorld?

Isnt that one of Gdub's Fantasy Books? I remember him telling me that he was particularly fond of one character called The Assmaster,who presumably looked after the donkeys...Ermm
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Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

Thanks to Garten I've bought up a buncha RingWorld books and have become quite tanj obsessed.

Those books and pretty much everything written by Larry Niven is incredible.


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        Other books I liked:

         John Fowles: The Collector

                              The French Lieutenant's Woman

        Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus

         Norman Mailer :The Naked and the Dead

                                 The Executioner's Song

          Mika Waltari : Sinuhe

                                The Enemies of Mankind
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I'm currently reading A Feast For Crows, by George R.R. Martin, the newest book in the Song of Ice and Fire series. Definitely one of the best Fantasy sagas out there.

Recently read Jack Kerouac's On The Road as part of my university curriculum, entertaining book.
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Try "the celest bums" from kerouac, he's not bad.
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Finished the Dark Tower series last week.

Totally awesome.
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Originally posted by TheKnowingDirge TheKnowingDirge wrote:

Finished the Dark Tower series last week.

Totally awesome.

I agree,an incredible series.


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just finished William Greider's "Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country"

awesome book
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Mario Vargas Llosa [(weak translation)] Paradise Just Around the Corner
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Just finished Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. It makes me laugh and it makes me think. Can't wait to receive the Pratchett book Going Postal and Thud.

I will continue now with a book by a Dutch historian, Geert Mak - In Europa, who travelled through Europe at the end of the 20th century and visited a lot of important historical places. He visits these citys and villages in chronological order, according to Europes hisotry of the 20th century. 
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Originally posted by UncleMeat UncleMeat wrote:

Just finished Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. It makes me laugh and it makes me think. Can't wait to receive the Pratchett book Going Postal and Thud.

I will continue now with a book by a Dutch historian, Geert Mak - In Europa, who travelled through Europe at the end of the 20th century and visited a lot of important historical places. He visits these citys and villages in chronological order, according to Europes hisotry of the 20th century. 

Just finneshed Going Postal my self, you will love it! Amazing how hes as good now as he was 30 books ago when he started the discworld series
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Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Mario Vargas Llosa [(weak translation)] Paradise Just Around the Corner

I also read it and it was really good.
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Dead?!?

Now, did he genuinely mis-judge Snape, or is this part of a longer strategy whereby he has to die in order to assist HP against V******** from another level of existence?

Maybe more importantly, if HP is steadfast in his intention to leave school early, does this mean we never get the scene where he gives Malfoy a damned good tw*tting in the playground?

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:



Dead?!?

Now, did he genuinely mis-judge Snape, or is this part of a longer strategy whereby he has to die in order to assist HP against V******** from another level of existence?

Maybe more importantly, if HP is steadfast in his intention to leave school early, does this mean we never get the scene where he gives Malfoy a damned good tw*tting in the playground?

Wow, that would be disgusting.

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I'm going to get started on "Dune Messiah" soon.
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

I'm going to get started on "Dune Messiah" soon.

That is very,very good book Stonie

Right now I am reading The Virtues of War by Stephen Pressfield,a book about Alexander the Great.


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Reading the Master & Margarita & Dune now...

Master & Margarita is quite funny cuz of all those Russian names... (I'm reading the English version)

Dune is torture!!!

Damn... some years ago i thought Tolkien was hard reading... This guy is insane!!! How can i understand a darn sentence thats 3 lines long & consist of 234 words, 134 adjectives, 50 pronouns 100 nouns & some vinegar? (well, the original English version looks like that!)



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