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Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Originally posted by Ed_The_Dead Ed_The_Dead wrote:

Why... p2p?!

I outha...

You got a problem with something I said,Ed?

Ed's just being dead again, don't worry.

As for me, I'm desperately trying to find some time to read Alastair Reynolds' "Absolution Gap" (flat characters, but the universe is wicked) and close read Beckett's "Endgame".
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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Originally posted by Norbert Norbert wrote:


Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

I've not yet read Da Vinci code - there was a period last year when everyone (and I mean everyone) seemed to be reading it... I guess I'll read it eventually; certainly before the film is released (Tom Hanks...? Hmmmm). Personally, I enjoy his writing style; personal taste, eh?


I also have not read The Da Vinci Code, but I don't believe that I've missed something...


As far as I know Brown has been already sued for plagiarsm.



The Da Vinci Code has the most ludicrously bad prose style I've read in many a long year - Dan Brown could yet be a worthy successor to Jeffrey Archer, although as I actually finished the Da Vinci Code and I've never got further than 50 pages into any Jeffrey Archer he's got a way to go yet.


The Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson does the whole conspiracy paranoia trip much more effectively, and also features loads of drugs and pervy sex into the bargain.



The Illuminatus Trilogy? There's some reading matter I've not thought about for a while - there's a copy of that gathering dust in the "must read that again sometime" pile at home.... now I think of it, there's also a copy of the Shroedingers Cat Trilogy (R A Wilson)as well... time to dig them out, I think!

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For those who can read Spanishi I recommend:

A Thousand Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

De Perfil - Jose Agustin

The Tomb - Jose Agustin

Great Narrative Novels!!!
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Originally posted by R.Darkmoon R.Darkmoon wrote:

For those who can read Spanishi I recommend:

A Thousand Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

De Perfil - Jose Agustin

The Tomb - Jose Agustin

Great Narrative Novels!!!
Cien Anos De Soledad(sorry for my Spanish if  I wrote it incorrectly) means  A Hundred Years of Solitude(Száz év magány).Very good book anyway.
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 Salman Rushdie:Midnight Children
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Nathaniel Hawtorne:The Scarlet Letter
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Originally posted by Norbert Norbert wrote:

Nathaniel Hawtorne:The Scarlet Letter

ugh i had to read that last year for school
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Originally posted by R.Darkmoon R.Darkmoon wrote:

For those who can read Spanishi I recommend:

A Thousand Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

De Perfil - Jose Agustin

The Tomb - Jose Agustin

Great Narrative Novels!!!

nice ones
I love Solitude
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 Salman Rushdie:Midnight Children


Excellent book - far superior to his later and more well known works.

Incidentally - still reading The DaVinci Code and I'm afraid I must state here and now, with head lowered in humble apology....

I'm enjoying it - so Yah Boo Shucks!

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Norbert Norbert wrote:

 Salman Rushdie:Midnight Children


Excellent book - far superior to his later and more well known works.

Incidentally - still reading The DaVinci Code and I'm afraid I must state here and now, with head lowered in humble apology....

I'm enjoying it - so Yah Boo Shucks!

If you'd read my religion rant last December you'd already know a lot of this..

Just read a paragraph of Rushdie then a paragraph of Brown. You would call the latter "literature"
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OK.....I have finally broken down and started to read The DaVinci Code.

I'll tell you what I think about it after I'm done.


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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

....very good book


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Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

....very good book



Yes it is.
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

....very good book



Yes it is.

 

 

 

 

 

and also read

"foucault's pendulum"
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LOve this book
I read it for school last year
our teacher read it and said itwas better than whatwe were
origianlly going to do
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Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

OK.....I have finally broken down
and started to read The DaVinci Code.


I'll tell you what I think about it after I'm done.


its a piece of crap
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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Norbert Norbert wrote:

 Salman Rushdie:Midnight Children


Excellent book - far superior to his later and more well known works.

Incidentally - still reading The DaVinci Code and I'm afraid I must state here and now, with head lowered in humble apology....

I'm enjoying it - so Yah Boo Shucks!

I also think that Midnignight Children is far superior to any other Rushdie  book.
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