What are you reading?

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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.

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Finished Xenocide,

Interesting ending but i guess it was that way for the sequel: Childern of The Mind which i start tonight.

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New books!

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (seriously...for history class)

Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach (good book, so far)

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The Moonstone by Willkie Collins. Argued as the first detective novel published around 1868. Somehow Poe's novel didn't count or something.

Artful Sentences by Virginia Tufte. It's an informal grammar book showing you lots and lots of wonderful sentences as examples to certain styles.

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Just Finished Childern Of The Mind ,last of the 1st 4 Ender books.Pretty damm good series a shame i didnt  read these long ago.  probably be a while before i start on The shadow series though.

starting on

American Gods by Neil  Gaiman

Im also almost Finished with Fall of Hyperion-Dan Simmons for my lunch time reading

still looking for  copys of Endymion and Rise of Endymion so will probably start in  on
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis who aparently has a building named after her in Chicago

 

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Finished reading Sacrifice, book 5 in the Legacy Of The Jedi series. I'll begin reading Inferno, book 6 of the series later on today.

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Just finished reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest. I might go as far as saying it is my favourite book I've ever read.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a fantastic book.

As for me, I found an eighty-year old copy of Candide by Voltaire in a Goodwill outlet store. Cost me twenty-five cents, and I'm currently rereading it for the first time in about six years. Having a blast. Right before that, The Once and Future King by T. H. White. Also incredible.

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Currently rereading Sanctuary by William Faulkner.

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Im almost done with American Gods

still working thru Doomsday Book as well

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Finished Doomsday Book by  Connie Willis yesterday. Interesting read about   time travel, religion, The plauge and modern epidemics. Iv been looking for a copy of  "to say nothing of The Dog" for a while now which is set in the same "setting" as doomsday book.

Started "Stand on  Zanzibar" by John Brunner at lunch today.

I will finish Neil Gaiman's American Gods tonight.

Dont know what to think about this one, I have not been exposed to any of his work except i liked the movie "Star Dust" which he wrote. Edit: It seems he wrote also the screen play of the latest version  of Beowolf. one  out of 2 for Neil.

Nothing  i have read before is similar to  American Gods.

 Will start tomorrow  night on

The Fabulous River Boat by Philip Jose Farmer.

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Finishing up

"Into Thin Air" - Jon Krakauer

In the middle of

"The Last Town on Earth" - Thomas Mullen

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Fullmetal Alchemist volume 21 (English Translation), series by Hiromu Arakawa.

I'm also reading Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson.

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Astro; I love Bryon! He is one of my favorite travel writers.

Speaking of travel writing, I recently picked up the book Land of the Crested Lion. It's written in the 1950s, and details the Union of Burma.

It is rather good; talking of the times before the military Junta took over, and Buddhism was almost outlawed. Incredible, and of course very sad, to see the differences between then and now.

I am also dabbling in some Agatha Cristie, mainly because I have watched so much BBC Miss Marple adaptions, I decided I'd flavour the real thing. Rather good so far.

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Agatha Cristie books are always good. Luckily our library has quite a big collection!

I am currently reading The Aeneid by Virgil (in translation of course).

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Interesting, this guy doing what im doing.

Except  im not bloging about The Hugo Winners im just reading them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/sam-jordison-hugo-award-winners

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I just finished reading The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu. It was quite an enthralling read. I recommend that you check it out if you read, and liked Coraline. Different story, but the same animated feel. I'm going to start The Pillars of Earth by Ken Follett tonight.

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Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation'

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Portuguese Plain Architecture by George Kubler

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Streetwise: Snap! Except I am reading Robots of Dawn. It's kinda set in the same Universe.

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Finished the Fabulous River Boat last night

Started on The Dark Design by the same author PH Farmer.

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I finished reading Daemon and FreedomTM by Daniel Suarez.

It's really good.

http://thedaemon.com/

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A friends loaned me a copy of Michael Korda's With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain, whose focus seems to be on the greater bureaucratic strategies and infighting of the RAF and Luftwaffe rather than on cockpit battle stories. Apparently, I'm a sucker for hamstrunged bureaucracy run amok.

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