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Franz Kafka - The Judgment (in the original language).

Deutsch?
Ich will Der Process lesen.

I quite liked that. Not in the original language though. I'm not that good.

I'm reading This Story by Alessandro Baricco and re-reading Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.

Yeah, I should have exempted Rendezvous With Rama. I was gonna say something snarky involving Discontinuity.

Finished Woken Furies, meh. Really fed up with it by the end. The sex scenes were painful to read.

Now on with The Fall of The Sky Lords. Let no-one say I don't read the classics. For some reason I feel the constant need to stare at the sky and scream MIIILOOOO!

One of my favorite books. I re-read it about once a year.

I just started End of an Era by Robert J. Sawyer. A story involving time travel and dinosaurs? Couldn't resist that!

Do graphic novels count?
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They do to me! Today on lunch break I re-read Sam Kieth's Zero Girl. Gets better every time I read it.

The Stand by Stephen King

Finished Fall of the Sky Lords. Funny that with a book containing a character as unholy loathsome as Milo, the most evil action in it is the one I'd be bound to take myself. Odd, anyhoo, I seem to remember whoever first mentioned these books on here said they were looking for sequels; the ending of this book is pretty damn final. Quite heavy on the author tracts, which detract.

Just read Carnosaur, by the same author (under a false name.) Very interesting. Anyone who knows the film of Carnosaur (which came out at the same time as Jurassic Park) knows how bad it is (personally I remember it as So Bad It's Horrible rather than So Bad It's Good, but not everyone agrees) and the book isn't brilliant - it's not as good as the book Jurassic Park - but I hadn't appreciated that Jurassic Park, the book, is remarkably similar to Carnosaur, the book, and that Carnosaur came first by a long time (apparently the author was trying to cash in on Hollywood dinosaur films - ironic, don't you think?) Either direct plagiarism, surprising coincidence, or a simple artefact of working out how the modern world copes with genetically engineered dinosaurs running amok...

Also reading The Nine Nations of North America but not far into it enough to report. Gonna read The Return of the Black Company now.

L'Assommoir by Émile Zola.

Aikido: The Coordination of Mind and Body for Self Defence by Koichi Tohei

Die Klavierspielerin (The Piano Teacher) from Elfriede Jelinek. An aspish pianist in Vienna finds love in one of her students. Can he deliver her of burden?

Won the Nobel prize in 2004, but

according to wikipedia's article on Jelinek.

Of course I love the "shovelling" mentioned by Ahnlund; such honest brutality!

The Catcher in the Rye

Meh. Halfway through; started it earlier tonight.

Death Note. I rented the first volume from the library on Friday. Saturday I went back and rented the rest of the series. 100% addictive.

My reaction precisely.

Writing style got a bit repetitive. 2.5/5 stars, I'd say. I don't see what's so great about it... then again, those giving it 4/5 or 5/5 stars usually are adolescent males (which I am not.)

Now, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison.
I'm glad I read Be Different first; if I had read this one earlier, I probably wouldn't touch Be Different with a ten-foot pole.

...Okay, it's not that bad, but it gets boring.

I'm determined to finish though... Read the first 200 pgs yesterday.