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Ohh yeah, Good Omens was the last Pratchett I read, and it was a blast.

 

Small Gods was wonderful too and I always loved the Death series. But damn, it has been so very long since I've read those.

 

I just finished the 2010 Best American Stories collection yesterday, so onto 2008!

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It's the movie rewritten in Shakespearian English and the plot set in Elizabethian times.

 

Ahh yes, I've read bits of that. Really rather enjoyable. I'd like to make a production of it =D

 

 

 

Haven't watched the film yet, if I'm going to watch a film and read the book it was adapted from I like to read the original work first.

 

Edit: American Psycho is briefly on hiatus while I read Maus. Maus II in fact, I finished the first book last night. Everything about the comic is so beautifully understated - form the art to the narrative - that it makes the horrific moments in history it portrays all the more poignant.

 

That's fair enough- though I find in a lot of cases experiencing an adaptation first can make you appreciate the source text a lot more. I think I'll be sticking it out with AmPsych solely because I know where it goes and what themes it touches on; due to seeing and loving the movie.

 

I really, really want to read Maus, I read a bit of it when I was pretty young and haven't had a look since. Ever read Persepolis? What I've read of that was great, and I get a pretty similar vibe from it, on themes of ethnicity and political/social oppression.

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I remember when I first discovered Maus I found it in the school library and though 'this looks cool' but after thumbing through a bit I think the maturity of it went a over my head. It was mostly a friend reading it last summer that rekindled the dormant interest.

 

Persepolis I haven't read, I have a feeling I heard mixed reviews about it or the film (or both) around the time the film came out so I've never got round to checking it out for myself unfortunately.

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Heart of Darkness was good but I found at times he got a bit too abstract with his prose, and it became incredibly hard to follow at times.

 

On a related note: 'Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties' (wikipedia). What a guy. I think it was his third or fourth language as well, although I don't have my copy of Heart of Darkness to hand to confirm that.

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Reading \o/

 

I am on a mission to read all the classics I haven't read before, so I recently finished Farenheit 451. I'm in the middle of reading The Bell Jar. The other two on the list are Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men.

 

Then I'm gonna read Stardust, the Graveyard Book and then the Anansi Boys.

 

Yay for reading.

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Firstly a thread for this sort of already exists except in a different tense. Maybe we should get the threads merged?

 

Anyways, last book I read was Frankenstein for uni.

 

Last book for pleasure...well there was Maus and I'm halfway through American Psycho but that's been on extended hiatus for a long time because I don't get much time for reading what with all the sleeping work I do.

 

I quite want to read The Bell Jar myself, I've never read any Plath before. Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice And Men are both awesome, so enjoy!

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Still polishing off Decision Points. The former president certainly has strong opinions, and while I'm not a big fan of certain stances he takes, it was fascinating to hear him tell his side of the story. People often just shut themselves away from dissenting opinions, and that just leads to situations like our current political divide today. Of course, it will be much easier to listen to the other side, now that the extremist sides are being toned down and the political spectrum is balancing out again.

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Just finished The Girl Who Played With Fire. All in all a great read, and just like the first book I got off to the slow part but then polished of 3/4 of the book in 2 days. If I was going to criticise anything it would be the moments where Larsson seems to take a slight departure from an otherwise entirely realistic (if dramatic) world. The blond giant, for example, is a bit too blond giant-ey, but I'm thinking specifically [major plot climax spoiler here]

 

 

the bit where Salander is shot in the head, buried alive then digs her way out. It was cool when the bride did it, it was cool when Batman did it, but a skinny little Swedish girl in a realistic crime thriller...

 

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