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my favorites, thus far, being...
fiction: a portrait of the artist as a young man, by james joyce
non-fiction: the art of fiction, by john gardner (ironic, i know)
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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2003, 01:03:37 AM » |
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if only i'd actually written down every book i read this year, perhaps i could remember them well enough to pick a favorite =)
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2003, 11:39:35 AM » |
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I reread my favorite novel of all time, Catcher in the Rye, a month or two ago.
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« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2003, 02:24:38 PM » |
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if only i'd actually written down every book i read this year, perhaps i could remember them well enough to pick a favorite =) True dat...how the heck am I supposed to remember all the books I've read? From the ones I can remember... Fiction: The Complete Sherlock Holmes, A. C. Doyle Non-Fiction: The C++ Programming Language, B. Stroustrup (yeah, I'm a nerd. Wah.) |
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« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2003, 06:14:52 PM » |
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Probably Harry Potter #5
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« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2003, 07:33:58 PM » |
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Probably Harry Potter #5 Really? Number V was not my favorite. I thought it was very much a filler book. I thought 1, 3 and 4 were much better, and I think to date 1 and 4 are my favorites. (Maybe it's time to start a Harry Potter thread!  ) Non-fiction: How Then Shall We Live by Francis A. Schaeffer and The Beatles' Anthology by The Beatles Fiction: Crime and Punishment, Waiting for Godot, Lord of the Rings TrilogyFiction is hard though, because I don't remember all the books I've read. These are probably my more recent favorites. |
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« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2003, 08:17:09 PM » |
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Non-fiction: Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.
Fiction: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
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« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2003, 09:26:38 PM » |
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We, by Eugene Zamiatin
Hihgly recommended, the grandaddy of distopian literature.
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Newton's Third Law is wrong: Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, there is no force equal in reaction to a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick.
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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2003, 10:21:01 PM » |
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Fiction: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
That's one darned good book, though I wish Stephenson hadn't gotten quite so weird about the "Nam-shub of Enku" or whatever the heck it was...but still quite an entertaining read. If you liked it, you should check out Cryptonomicon, which is slightly less unconventional and with a more familiar setting, but longer and less freaky. Hiro is still my hero, though |
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« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2003, 03:35:22 PM » |
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Hmmm..... my favorite ficition book would have to be Redeeming Love by Fracine Rivers, acutally that is my favorite book of all time. Wings of Dawn by Sigmund Brouwer is pretty amazing as well. Haven't read any non ficition lately.
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« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2003, 09:12:19 PM » |
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Probably Harry Potter #5 that was also one of my favorites this year--i thought that while the plot was not as great as some of the previous books, such as #3 and #4, the characters developed a lot more in 5. |
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« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2003, 12:50:46 PM » |
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« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2004, 08:57:39 AM » |
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of course.
moving on...
i also really enjoyed "to the lighthouse" by virginia woolf, "life of pi" by yan martel, and "peace like a river" by leif enger, this year.
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« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2004, 11:16:13 AM » |
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I've heard a lot of good stuff about 'The Life of Pi'...I'll try to check it out sometime.
Though it doesn't beat Sherlock, Songs of Distant Earth by A.C. Clarke was really good. I guess I just like books by authors whose first initials are A.C. (I wonder if Clarke's middle name is Conan).
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« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2004, 01:09:31 PM » |
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I have a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories some where around here, but I haven't read it in quite a few years.
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« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2004, 12:07:08 AM » |
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Fiction: (tie) Dostoevsky's Crime and Punnishment and Douglas Adams' Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Non-fiction: John Piper's Don't Waste Your Life
It looks like I'm not the only person here who took a humanities class last year. I also had to read Portrait of The Artist... and Waiting for Godot. The former was fun, in that Joyce can really turn a phrase, but uninspiring in terms of plot. As for Waiting for Godot....well, care to tell us why you liked it? I found it to be sadly representative of what passes for literature in the modern world: clever rather than smart, with too much garnish and not enough substance. But that's just me.
Anyway, the class was worth it just for C&P and Faust.
NP: "I Am Nothing" - Ginny Owens
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Today I was not blinded, crippled and dipped in boiling silver to make a graven image of the spiritual condition to which I naturally tend. So it was a good day.
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« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2004, 08:56:33 AM » |
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Yeah, Douglas Adams is one-of-a-kind.
Haven't read C&P (Punnishment? Is that what we get whenever Josh tries to make a joke), but Faust is certainly worth a read.
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