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23 Jun 2011, 12:10 pm

Finished Bleak Seasons, which was confusing because the narrator jumps around in time a lot. Now on with She Is The Darkness. Gets an automatic A+ for the title, I love that song. :)


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23 Jun 2011, 1:44 pm

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The Catcher in the Rye

Meh.


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.)


I thought Catcher was whiny, cynical horses**t even at the height of my whiny teenage cynicism. It's just awful, by far the worst book forced upon me in high school, and that's really saying something. It wasn't all bad, though – high school also introduced me to All Quiet on the Western Front, The Great Gatsby, and The Odyssey.

Right now I've still got bookmarks in a ridiculous amount of books, but I haven't read anything in over a week. Moving to a different city has thrown me into a listless funk which is causing me to lose interest in everything.



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23 Jun 2011, 3:53 pm

Liam O'Flaherty - short stories volume one


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23 Jun 2011, 7:11 pm

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It wasn't all bad, though – high school also introduced me to All Quiet on the Western Front, The Great Gatsby, and The Odyssey.


I've read The Odyssey and The Great Gatsby... the former during school, and the latter just for fun. I liked the latter better; not because I chose it to read and wasn't forced to, actually: I just detest Greek mythology.
I want to read All Quiet on the Western Front.


About done with Look Me in the Eye (about eight pages left.) It took a turn for the better, actually. It seems more like Be Different towards the end.



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23 Jun 2011, 7:12 pm

Strange Attractors by Jeffrey A. Carver


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24 Jun 2011, 2:17 am

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera.



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24 Jun 2011, 5:50 am

Nothing right now, oddly enough. I need to find something.



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24 Jun 2011, 9:37 am

Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler



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24 Jun 2011, 12:14 pm

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Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler


I own that.
Haven't read it, though.



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24 Jun 2011, 1:11 pm

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Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler


I own that.
Haven't read it, though.


Lord of the Swastika is better. :)


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24 Jun 2011, 2:00 pm

Night Watch. Another Discworld book by Sir Terry Pratchett.


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24 Jun 2011, 2:36 pm

On the road, by Jack Kerouac


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25 Jun 2011, 12:46 am

The Music of Life by Hazrat Inayat Khan,it's all about how vibrations and rhythm make up our existence and define space and time.It's so amazing!



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25 Jun 2011, 4:20 am

Made in America by Bill Bryson.

So far, I think that its predecessor, The Mother Tongue, is better.



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25 Jun 2011, 2:40 pm

Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling.



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25 Jun 2011, 5:45 pm

Don't call me a drama queen.... Dr. Debra Mandel.

SHAM....Steve Salerno