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joa.nst.ar

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The Sound Of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan. another one of those aussie books that is really well writen and touching.
 

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I'm started Tim Winton's Dirt Music last night. The setting seems awesome, but I'm yet to get into the plot. At school in my extension class, we're reading Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Its not bad.
 

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nicole21290 said:
Then There Were None (except my old copy is called Ten Little Niggers) - Agatha Christie
<3

that's pobably one of the best crime fiction stories ever written.
 

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Tulipa said:
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vig�*a Edition

Hemingway as a person was eh but fuck did he write well.

i was going to buy that the other day in a second hand bookstore. hmmm. you have reminded me that i must return and purchase it! :D
 

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Out of class, still Catch 22
in class, Antony and Cleopatra

when we were reading it today Carlin goes:

"What, so Octavius is screwing his sister...??? ergh!"
Sinclaire: "Could you rephrase that please Carlin?"
Carlin: "So Octavius is ploughing his sister?"
:lol:
 

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ameh said:
For school: Patrick White - trying to find a book from his that ISNT boring
Non-School - English Patient (Michael Onda....something)
- The Penal Colony (Kafka)
- Nietschze - The Vicious Circle
- Catch 22 - Joseph He

ller

zZzz...
lol you mean Michael Ondatje? i don't like him (Ive read Anils Ghost and Engligh patient a few times)

he writes too much. I also feel that his whole broken-up-puzzle-piece style is trying too hard. I think that simplicity is a lot better.

My favourite books are

* The alchemist
* the book theif (IF YOU HAVENT READ IT READ IT)

but i love to read a variety of styles. i like books tha jump straight into it instead of grabbling on about whatever poetic notion they get carried away with.
 
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The Outsiders. found it lying around the house and decided to read it :/

I've watched the movie and it's not as good as the book :eek:
 
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jhakka

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Temple by Matthew Reilly.

Always a good author to fall back on when you're out of new stuff to read.
 

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Just finished The Great Gatsby the other day for English.

Aside: I thought this passage was interesting "...I was standing beside his [Mr McKee's] bed and he was sittting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands."
Did Nick Carraway have some 'relations' with Mr McKee?
 

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finished re-reading 'the light fantastic' by pratchett
starting 'the origin of the brunists' - robert coover
 

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Something Rotten, by Fforde.

dunno what i am going to read next, probably something else postmodern.
 
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walrusbear said:
finished re-reading 'the light fantastic' by pratchett
starting 'the origin of the brunists' - robert coover
I'm now reading Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett. <3
 

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