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10 Nov 2016, 6:55 am

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Just finished 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley.


been on my book shelf for around 10 years and still not read it. 1984 is my favourite all time book and I am obsessed with post apocalyptic stuff



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11 Nov 2016, 11:22 pm

I read/reread between 10 and 20 books at a time, I alternate between like a rabid squirrel as I've always done it, some I'm perusing are harry potter and the order of the phoenix, my tome on the ancient egyptian empires which I hit every couple days as it's very challenging to absorb information from, interview with the vampire by anne rice, othello by shakespeare and treasure island by stevenson which I started again as I forgot where I got up to when I abandoned it a few months back because I was reading other stuff. I really frigging like treasure island, I was never impressed by jeckyll and hyde by RLS, I managed to get a great mark on my english lit a level in the past when I picked the theme of duality to write about, I put aside my disappointment and appreciated the ambition despite not enjoying the actual content.



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12 Nov 2016, 4:32 am

Getting into Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night"



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12 Nov 2016, 6:00 am

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Getting into Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night"


Celine was a favorite influence on Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs.


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12 Nov 2016, 11:50 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
staremaster wrote:
Getting into Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night"


Celine was a favorite influence on Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs.


Yeah. I have a cold, so I'm finding his relentless negativity supportive.



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12 Nov 2016, 3:24 pm

staremaster wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
staremaster wrote:
Getting into Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night"


Celine was a favorite influence on Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs.


Yeah. I have a cold, so I'm finding his relentless negativity supportive.


:lol:


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12 Nov 2016, 3:58 pm

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo



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13 Nov 2016, 3:32 pm

Finally read The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan :D



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15 Nov 2016, 6:14 pm

A Curious Man: The Strange Life Of Robert Ripley, which is a biography about the man best known for creating the Believe It Or Not craze in the 1930s.


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15 Nov 2016, 7:52 pm

"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.


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25 Nov 2016, 12:05 pm

I just finished reading, "Neurotribes." It was fascinating and a quick read.

I also just finished reading a tennis-related book, "Federer and Me." I hated it! The author talked more about himself than about Roger Federer.

I am currently reading "An Anthropologist on Mars," by Oliver Sacks. His writing is fascinating to me because my interests include autism/Asperger's issues and medical subjects in general.

I'm also planning to read "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand.



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25 Nov 2016, 4:35 pm

Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen Ambrose.


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26 Nov 2016, 8:04 pm

The Art of Travel, by Alain de Botton

Essays in Love, by Alain de Botton



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26 Nov 2016, 9:56 pm

Tranny: Confessions of punk rock's most infamous anarchist sellout, by Laura Jane Grace.



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27 Nov 2016, 12:15 am

Amidst my usual and constant pile of about twenty books I'm re-reading or reading, a big ass book on the brain and various states of perception, Welcome to Camp Nightmare goosebumps book by RL Stine, 1984 by Orwell, The World's Wife by carol ann duffy, Hamlet by will shake your spear.