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Offline Nightloser

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What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« on: August 15, 2007, 09:40:40 AM »
I for one am reading Nathaniel Hawthorne-The scarlet letter, and am really enjoying it, and my favourite book is Ken Kesey-One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2007, 08:34:41 PM »
Firstly, that cynic quote is hilarious.

I'm reading Oedipus the King for school, but I'm reading Max Barry's Company for fun.
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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2007, 09:30:11 PM »
My favorite might be Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.  His writing style is painful to read for some people, but I like it.

I'm reading The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn right now.  It's interesting, well-written and depressing.
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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2007, 10:16:32 PM »
Ahh, my favorite...

Probably Alan Moore's Watchmen.
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"I believe every single person is extraordinary. The tragedy is that we
have a society where too many people never get to fulfill that
extraordinary potential. My view – the liberal view – is that
government’s job is to help them to do it. Not to tell people how to
live their lives. But to make their choices possible, to release their
potential, no matter who they are. The way to do that is to take power away from those who hoard it. To challenge vested interests. To break down privilege. To clear out the bottlenecks in our society that block opportunity and block progress. And so give everyone a chance to live the life they want." - Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2007, 10:19:57 PM »
Thanks :) Indeed Max Barry's writings are interesting, and yes...i found Moby Dick boring ;)
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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2007, 11:01:30 PM »
Quote from: Nightloser on August 15, 2007, 10:19:57 PM
Thanks :) Indeed Max Barry's writings are interesting, and yes...i found Moby Dick boring ;)

I'm not far into Company (mostly due to those accursed school readings), but I read Jennifer Government over the summer, and I loved it.  I'll read Syrup later.

I didn't find Moby Dick boring, but it didn't have that particular "classic" feel, either.
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"I believe every single person is extraordinary. The tragedy is that we
have a society where too many people never get to fulfill that
extraordinary potential. My view – the liberal view – is that
government’s job is to help them to do it. Not to tell people how to
live their lives. But to make their choices possible, to release their
potential, no matter who they are. The way to do that is to take power away from those who hoard it. To challenge vested interests. To break down privilege. To clear out the bottlenecks in our society that block opportunity and block progress. And so give everyone a chance to live the life they want." - Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2007, 11:41:36 PM »
Quote from: Trey on August 15, 2007, 11:01:30 PM
Quote from: Nightloser on August 15, 2007, 10:19:57 PM
Thanks :) Indeed Max Barry's writings are interesting, and yes...i found Moby Dick boring ;)

I'm not far into Company (mostly due to those accursed school readings), but I read Jennifer Government over the summer, and I loved it.  I'll read Syrup later.

I didn't find Moby Dick boring, but it didn't have that particular "classic" feel, either.

Most of the American public would have agreed with you back when Moby Dick was published, since it met with poor sales and mixed reviews.  The novel only got its classic status around the 1920's/30's.

I really should read something by Max Berry, considering how I've been on NS for a while now.
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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2007, 11:53:36 PM »
Currently I'm reading... Nothing  ;D

But, Dracula by Bram Stoker was awesome. So was The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.
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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2007, 12:06:59 AM »
Currently reading: Clonk (by Terry Prattchet), Solaris (Stanislaw Lem)
Favourite book: Don't know really. I just read far too much books to call one my favourite.
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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2007, 03:42:11 AM »
Fav:

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.  (sp on names)

Currently:

nada, going to read one soon.
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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2007, 06:13:15 AM »
Favs:

jPod - Douglas Copeland
Oryx & Crake - Atwood
The Jhereg series - Steven Brust
The Prince - Machiavelli

Currently:

Just picked up an unabridged copy of The Stand (King) in a thrift store today for $0.49  :clap:
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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2007, 08:27:30 AM »
The catcher in the Rye ....  :clap: i adored that book :)
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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2007, 08:14:12 PM »
Quote from: Nightloser on August 16, 2007, 08:27:30 AM
The catcher in the Rye ....  :clap: i adored that book :)

I know this is almost heresy, but I despised Catcher in the Rye.  And it not just that I don't have an appreciation for the classics...I read a lot of things, and I have loved books much older and much more "classic-esque".  I wrote a scathing essay about the book for a summer reading program.  Harlan was one of the few characters I have encountered in literature where the only emotion I felt for him was pity, and that was just after the hotel scene.  He just annoyed me through the rest of the book.
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have a society where too many people never get to fulfill that
extraordinary potential. My view – the liberal view – is that
government’s job is to help them to do it. Not to tell people how to
live their lives. But to make their choices possible, to release their
potential, no matter who they are. The way to do that is to take power away from those who hoard it. To challenge vested interests. To break down privilege. To clear out the bottlenecks in our society that block opportunity and block progress. And so give everyone a chance to live the life they want." - Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2007, 11:38:28 PM »
Well it's no heresy to have an opinion, and i'm glad you expressed it :)
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Re: What book are you currently reading, and what's your favourite one?
« Reply #14 on: August 19, 2007, 04:32:53 AM »
I dislike books that are praised simply because someone calls them classics. I think that the Hustler March edition of 2005 was a literary masterpiece and a classic. Should you read it and worship it? Hell no.

Currently I'm reading A Crown of Swords, book of the Wheel of Time, once again. My favourite award would probably be split many ways, but most fondly I think of the original Dune.
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