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Norbert 
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Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Ease of Existence Immortality |
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Jim Garten
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Nice expression! Neatly sums up those books some others may not consider 'worthy' enough to be mentioned here (how many people actually read Kafka for pleasure...?), but are well written nonetheless. Speaking of good quality eye-gum, just started 'Deception Point' by Dan Brown (he of the 'Da Vinci Code'); as usual, the narrative grabs you, pulls you in, and doesn't let go. |
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I dont find his books particularly well-written,in fact I'd put his skills on a par with the likes of Andy McNab.The Da Vinci Code was ultimately a frustrating read for me-the subject matter was already very familiar (originally covered in the superior "non-fiction" Holy Blood and The Holy Grail) and as I said,I just kept shaking myu head in frustration at the lack of literary craft. |
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Jim Garten
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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? |
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Norbert
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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. |
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I've read it, and it's not very impressive- overdone and awkward,bland characters, and the ending is predictably pathetic. Deception Point is mostly the same. |
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I prefered Brown's Angels and Demons over the Da Vinci Code. As for what I've read recently...In God's Name by David Yallop, An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I...Riveting! Too bad it's out of print. I'm almost done with The Man Who Changed the World - The biography of Mikhail S. Gorbachev... a very complex man indeed. |
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The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol
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I just finished Solaris by Stanislaw Lem.
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I prefer the can can in Paris........................like the last tango in Paris, but with the leg over your head.
Sorry about that.................... long day at the pitface. |
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I am now reading Dead Man's Walk,the first of 2 prequel books to Lonesome Dove,by Larry McMurtry.
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Don't you drop the butter, though...? 
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I have just finished 'North & South' by Elizabeth Gaskell...and have just started 'Emma' by Jane Austen (again...I want to see whether they all end up with different partners this time around).... I'm having a bit of a classics moment... Edited by fandango |
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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FANDANGO!!!!!!!! Where the hell have you been? |
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trying deperately hard not to spend any money on CDs, as I haven't got any!! |
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Why... p2p?! I outha... |
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TheProgtologist
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You got a problem with something I said,Ed? |
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Yes I do! You darn criminal b*&&*%*!!!! Never ever use p2p!!! Thats braking the law!!! You are a bad man! All those darn downloading freaks should die! Especially those Who have Illegal copies of The New DST album!!! How I hate them!!!
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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. |
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
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