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Still reading P.G. Wodehouse. Stephen Fry wrote the intro to the book. He writes the following:
Frankly, I don't get it. Wodehouse is somewhat funny. But not that funny.What a very, very lucky person you are. Spread out before you are the finest and funniest words from the finest and funniest writer the past century ever knew.
Still reading Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos and On Liberty by John Stuart Mill.Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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One thing's for damn sure: I wouldn't use the word "stupendous" to describe The Da Vinci Code.Originally posted by Zkribbler
Great Oogly Mooglies!! I stumbled across Orson Scott Card's Empire. I'm about 1/3 of the way through. It's the best political thriller I've read in years -- better than The DeVinci Code and in the same league as the ending in The Sum of All Fears.
Stupendous!
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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Harry Turtledove's Settling Accounts: The Grapple.
I've read most of what he has written except for the stuff with dragons.Resident Filipina Lady Boy Expert.Comment
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I stopped The World Is Flat... maybe I will start it again during my Christmas holiday. The book is good; with lots of info... but it become repetitive.
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I just finished reading for leasure:
Will The Real Heretic Please Stand Up
by David Bercot.
Wrote by what it seems to be as an Anabaptist, I read it as a search of my faith and what direction I want to give to my faith.
It was good, surprisingly good.blehComment
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"East, West" by Salman Rushdie. It's a really good collection of short stories. I suppose that I prefer short stories from canonical novelists in general. Joyce, Nabokov, Vonnegut, etc. I blame teh television/internet."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
-BokononComment
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Umberto Eco. Not telling which book, because practically I read them all at the same time. I read them before, and I will read them again.Comment
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When it all comes to it, life is nothing more than saltfish - Salka ValkaComment
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I'm reading Dick. Currently I'm somewhere in the middle of "Confessions of a Crap Artist". 15 more books to go.Graffiti in a public toilet
Do not require skill or wit
Among the **** we all are poets
Among the poets we are ****.Comment
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The Lucifer Effect by Zimbardo.In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.Comment
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Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. It's close to six hundred pages long and the back flap description gives away events that take place three hundred pages in. I don't want to know half the book before I read it. Grr.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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It is really good book and series.
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I really want to read "The Lucifer Effect."
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
-BokononComment
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Just finished the moon is a harsh mistress. Re-reading Kiln People by Davind Brin.Comment
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Just read (will have to read some parts again):
How The Mind Works, by Daniel Dennett
About to begin reading:
The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard DawkinsComment
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