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Im reading the Vivisector by Pat White


the beginning is good, but it gets boring then it picks up a bit after that!
 

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Originally posted by glitter burns
I've read all of the Pelzer books (and I didn't cry - no stereotyping me thank you!)

and also this book called "My Language is Me", a non-fiction written by the therapist of this teenager with schizophrenia recording six years of his treatment.
Sorry... didnt mean to stereotype...
You say you are reading "my language is me", i don't understand, are you saying this is Dave's therapist? And is "a man named dave" good reading?
 

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i just finished reading
zadie smith - white teeth
quite long but i rushed it so i read it in a week
apparently a good po/mo related text for 3 unit - post colonial and the sort
its bout these two families ones from bangladesh (or thereabout) the others jamaican
deals with inter racial relationships, religion and science
kinda sounds shit but its a great read!

and coming from a bias 3 unit student --> anything by italo calvino - if on a winters night a traveller - and i just began short story - the non-existant knight

i got such a long list of books i wanna readdd arghhh its so addictive
 

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justi finished "Grass for His Pillow" by Lian Hearn, and currently reading Shogun, by James Clavell
 

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I'm just about to start Bram Stoker's "Dracula".

I'm a sucker for vampire stories.
 

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I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha and I loved it.

I've just started "Reading Lolita in Tehran" and I think it will be good.
 

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Originally posted by jhakka
Emma by Jane Austen.
emma/clueless for english? I'm reading emma the same, and its so boring, it drives me crazy.
 

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Betwixt reading critical essays about 'Heart of Darkness' (Interesting stuff.)


Walter Benjamin-The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
 

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Originally posted by braindrainedAsh
I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha and I loved it.

I've just started "Reading Lolita in Tehran" and I think it will be good.

I loved the book Lolita, can't remember the author though I read it twice out of some obsession
 

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Originally posted by JazzaT

You say you are reading "my language is me", i don't understand, are you saying this is Dave's therapist? And is "a man named dave" good reading?
no, "my language is me" is not about dave pelzer at all, it's completely unrelated to anything to do with him, it's a just a book i was reading so i mentioned it.

a man called dave was ok. not as powerful as "a child called it", or even "a boy called dave" (i think the first in the series was the best i think, the last ones were just him dealing with stuff.)
 

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Rosencrantz and Guldernstern are Dead [play]

obviously for english but i really like it..the bantering between the two is great :)
 

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still trying to read 'heart of darkness' and also reading the Iliad by Homer.....
 

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Final acts by Alex Abella. its alright apart frm the fact they will decide to throw it a sentence of spanish nd i don't know spanish/.
 

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Ok I am insane to be reading this [according to my friends who are doing Emma/Clueless :p] but i took a peek at my friend's copy of Emma (which she was grudgingy reading) and found that I was interested so I borrowed a copy and am now starting to read it slowly. I technically dont have the time but when im taking a break from my "strenuous" study :rolleyes:, I read that...the way I see it, Ill finish it when im about 20 :p
 

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Originally posted by ahohen_77
justi finished "Grass for His Pillow" by Lian Hearn, and currently reading Shogun, by James Clavell
is grass for his pillow any good? i readied the first one but i really need to started reading the second book
 

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I am reading way too many books:

--> Emma - Austen
--> Heart of Darkness - Conrad
--> Pride & Prejudice - Austen
--> King Lear - Shakespeare
--> Frankenstein - Shelley
--> Theban Trilogy - Sophocles

And yes, they're all for school :(
 

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has anyone read the name of the rose by umberto eco
i just started it
im bout 20 pages in (i only got it yesterday)
but im finding it hard to get into -- usually i cant put a book down
im upset
can someone tell me of it gets good?
 

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