What book are you reading?

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    Messy Marj

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    I think we used to have a thread like this, but eh...it's dead so.

    I'm reading Clive Barker's Weaveworld now for the third time.
     
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    Eh, Lenin's "State and Revolution" :p

    And I should probably finish my half-read "Catch 22" and Nick Hornby's "How To Be Good" sometime.
     
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    I read How to be good about 3 months ago. Even though the book is not big at all I had some trouble getting through it. It's an alright book, not very special or anything.
     
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    I still haven't quite finished reading Northanger Abbey. I think I've read pretty much all of Nick Hornby's books, they're good. The last book I finished was Dubliners which was for my English course.
     
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    Yeah, How To Be Good is pretty alright but I don't think it can be as good as "High Fidelity".

    Dean, have you read Fever Pitch as well? I got that one by mistake, but after all it was great for a football book, haha.
     
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    I've been dusting up some old favorites and reading them again just for the hell of it.

    The Westing Game (holy crap!) by Ellen Raskin
    Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
     
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    It's this book called the Bible by God.
     
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    I'm reading

    Pema Codron - The Places That Scare You (It's not long but kind of hard to understand)
    and rereading
    Ring by Koji Suzuki (Ring, Loop, And spiral are some of the best mystery/horror books I've ever read)
     
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    Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric Nylund
     
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    Yeah, that was the first of them that I read, I think.
     
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    Alex Garland's - The Beach

    Read it about 30 times
     
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    Oh yeah, I still haven't read all of the first volume of the Buddha manga yet even though I got it at Xmas 2006.
     
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    Robin Hobb - The Liveship Traders Trilogy
     
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    Im Reading Halo: Ghosts Of Onyx ( I Really need to finish it)
     
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    I was reading American Psycho but I couldn't get through the descriptions of everyone's clothes. I told myself if he did it one more time I'd stop, also I didn't have time to read it after that.
     
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    :lol:
     
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    I've just started re-reading Rising Sun by Michael Crichton. I've read it 14 time already but this is one of my favorite books of all time. I'm taking a break from the other book for now.
     
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    I never understood that, reading 2 books at the same time. I mean, if I read a book my whole mind is focused on it and if I would start a new book I would only get confused and I'd mix them up.
     
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    Same here.
     
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    For me it's not that hard to do. I've been multi-tasking in reading since I was really young. Reading The Dark Tower, I, II, and III, going from one to the other on the other hand was DAMN hard. :lol: I'll never try to read 3, 800+ page books at the same time again.
     

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