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tiggaman

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Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself

Best fantasy I have read in a long time
 

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For fun off the top of my head:

Sexing the Cherry - Various metaphysical Phillip. K. Dick novels - Exquiste Corpse, Poppy. Z. Brite - Crime and Punishment - The Secret Life of Lazlo, Count Dracula and many others.

Highly recommended reading:

Mysterious Skin, Sccot Heim.

Anything by Palahniuk. Letham, Burgress, Eugines...

Comics you need to read:

Alan Moore:

V for Vendetta
From Hell
Watchmen
Swamp Thing

The Sandman, Neil Gaiman.

Preacher, Garth Ennis.

Lucifer, Mike Carey (this is FLAWLESS).

Transmetropolition, Warren Ellis (Alan Moore on LSD, always good).

Y: The Last Man

Hellblazer: John Constatine.

Well hope you like my half dazed reading list...
 

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The French Lieutenant's woman by John Fowles.
It's for school, but its boring as usual... Readable but def, not interesting.
Don't try this book.
 

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The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak

just read No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy and i officially think he is a genius
 

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Rereading HP6: half blood prince, mainly because the 6th movie was pretty dissapointing :mad1:
 

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Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony - Richard Bauckham

How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus - Larry Hurtado

I think it has been too long since I read some fiction.
 

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Still working my way through classic literature.
 

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^^ Is it good? I've been pondering whether or not to read this book for a few months. Many consider The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "childish" although it is deemed a classic.
 

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^^That's a good book. If you like Animal Farm you should try Nineteen Eighty Four. Its more complicated and much heavier but it's worth it. Although it can get a bit depressing if you let all the dystopian stuff get to your head.
 

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1984 is heaps scary. Orwell had a nutjob of a brain (I mean this in a good way).

I read Huckleberry Finn when I was a kid. Good stuff. I'd love to read some of Twain's travel stuff but never came across any of them.

I'm reading a book on the Napoleonic Wars.
 

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Almost anything by Orwell is great.

^^ Is it good? I've been pondering whether or not to read this book for a few months. Many consider The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "childish" although it is deemed a classic.</SPAN>
I've barely started. I'd say give it a read though.
 

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