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05 Mar 2007, 2:54 pm

I highly recommend 'English Passengers' by Matthew Kneale. Best book I've read in years.

Right now I'm reading 'Can You Forgive Her?' by Anthony Trollope, wriiten in 1860's London. I'm fascinated by all the rules of society in this book - I would have failed utterly as an aspie in Victorian England.

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05 Mar 2007, 4:27 pm

The Black Cauldron by, Lloyd Alexander

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06 Mar 2007, 4:30 am

julian barnes the history of the world in ten and a half chapters

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06 Mar 2007, 12:05 pm

Little Children by Tom Perotta

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07 Mar 2007, 6:58 pm

Just started "The Garden Of Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee.

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08 Mar 2007, 12:51 am

Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche (Translation by Walter Kaufmann)

After this, I plan to read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein. Something I've put off for far too long.

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08 Mar 2007, 1:31 am

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion - extremely well written, didn't like it.
A House For Mr. Biswas - also well written, too long (it's not the 600 pages, it's how it feels too long)
The Girl With The Curious Hair - by John Foster Wallace - I get high on his writing!

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08 Mar 2007, 1:48 pm

I'm reading Mozart and the Whale, and it is so touching...I feel like crying...Actually I'm shedding tears every page...Anybody reading this book? I think it's really good...

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08 Mar 2007, 6:13 pm

I'm reading the perks of being a wallflower. I think the main character has aspergers.

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10 Mar 2007, 5:53 am

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. It's the third time I've read it (over about 12 years)

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10 Mar 2007, 7:11 am

This is amazing. I just finished "A House For Mr. Biswas" which takes place in impoverished Trinidad. It was kind of depressing so for my next book I picked Graham Greene, because he's always a good read. This particular book is "The Heart of the Matter" and as I started reading, I saw that this book also takes place in impoverished Trinidad. What are the odds? I suppose if I picked up Dickens that would be about impoverished Trinidad too.

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15 Mar 2007, 12:39 am

Claradoon wrote:

Wow...interesting...what a coincidence!

I'm still reading Mozart and the Whale...I'm half way through, and I have to admit the book is both very touching and emotionally intense...I am seeing two remarkable individuals living their lives...It is beautiful and heartbreaking and...just...something that I cannot grasp with a few words...

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19 Mar 2007, 9:26 pm

I'm reading Congratulations! It's Asperger Syndrome by Jen Birch...It's a lovely memoir...I'm only on the first few chapters, and I can relate to many things if not all...

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21 Mar 2007, 5:18 am

"Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships", by Temple Grandin and Sean Barron.

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21 Mar 2007, 7:53 am

.... "the zombie survival hand guide" just to highbrow the thread up bit

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21 Mar 2007, 11:29 am

"A Spot of Bother" Mark Haddon
"A Brief History of Modern Psychology" Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
"Crystalline Lifetime - Fragments of Asperger Syndrome" Luke Jackson
"The Sickening Mind - Brain, Behaviour, Immunity and Disease" Paul Martin

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