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That actually sounds like it might fall into the type of fiction I enjoy. Except for the "trauma to overcome and find a way to redeem themselves". I might check it out though, maybe sample the audiobook. For some reason I find fiction easier to absorb through audio. Strangely I have the opposite feelings towards non-fiction, I need to see the words to absorb them.

Well, I wouldn't let that put you off. He doesn't get heavy with it at all or even go into detail. He mentions it in a matter of fact way and then it's shown more through the characters' personality and he has a playful sense of humour.

At the moment I am reading 'birth of our power' by Victor Serge.

I just started reading Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.


Books I started months ago, but haven't finished yet:

Exploring the Earth & Cosmos by Isaac Asimov


And although I love these authors, not even they can make judeo-christian mythology interesting.

Asimov's guide to the bible. by Isaac Asimov

and

The book of genesis illustrated by R. Crumb.

Back on to the Sharpe series now; Harry Potter series in English, next up. Read en masse, the Sharpes are formulaic.

I'm about three hundred pages into Thomas Harris's Red Dragon(my first Hannibal Lecter novel). A real page-turner, that book.

Reading 'Fool Moon', a wizard detective named Harry Dresden..not bad...

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Loved it, I'm so sick of sexy, rich vampires.

I'm reading The Nation's Favourite Poems.
When I'm in the mood for it poetry can be great to read and of course write.

I picked up Self Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean-Pierre de Caussade today. I think it's a self help book.

I'm currently reading Give Me Back My Legions! which is an historical novel concerning the Roman military disaster in 1st century Germany, and the events leading up to it. The protagonist is one of my favorite historical characters, Arminius, the man who liberated ancient Germany from Rome. In all fairness, Arminius is a flawed hero - he is motivated by his contempt for the Romans and their culture as much as he is by his desire to see his people free. He is a man of his age and place; that is, he is violent and cunning, with a distrust for the knowledge offered by the Classical world. The antagonist is Varus, a soft, pampered Roman aristocrat sent to the north by his emperor Augustus to Romanize the Barbarians. He is not an evil man, just stupid and overwhelmed by a job given to him that proved to have been beyond his abilities. As an old time history major from my college days, this is the kind of novel I find myself eating up.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I've just started reading one of my favourite books: Mordants Need by Stephen Donaldson.
After I finish I'll read the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever series.

I'm reading Metro 2033. It's about a man named Artem living in the Moscow Metro in the year 2033. The world in this book was destroyed by nuclear war and above ground, Moscow lies in ruin and is ravaged by perpetual blizzards as a result of nuclear winter. Above ground, animals that survived have evolved to better survive in the nuclear wasteland. Below ground in the vast Moscow Metro, each and every station has evolved into a sovereign city state with the occasional Neo-Nazi-ruled or Neo-Soviet ruled station. The book just became a video game as well so I'll put a video up to give you an idea of the plot and such. Keep in mind that the trailer has gore, so if you can't handle it, don't watch it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MXXaPdg9Go[/youtube]

Murikami is cool. Nowegian wood is one of his best. He is influenced a bit by Kafka. I'm Reading Kafka's 'the Trail' at the moment. I don't usually read fiction unless it has some deep philosophical, political or historical subtext. I need to feel that I'll come away with more that just trivial character interaction.

I just started "Wind in the Willows." Before that I read "The Mysterious Stranger" which was posthumously created from Twain's draft. Before that I read "Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime." Before that I read "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Heinlein.