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Golazo

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Matthew Reilly - Australian author. I've never been into action books, but his rope me in.

Read:

- Ice Station, Area 7, Scarecrow [Shane Schofield Series]
- Seven Ancient Wonders, The Six Sacred Stones, The Five Greatest Warriors [Jack West Series]

Finishing up Greatest Warriors now. Can't wait for his next one which comes out in the next 6 weeks or so!
 
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mikhail

mikhail

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Jan 24, 2003
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    Thinking about reading some Hunter S. Thompson books. Obviously he's lived an amazing life. Anyone read anything from him?
    Just bits and pieces. His reputation is well-deserved: nutty, but occasionally insightfully profane.

    What did you think of it? Read any other Orwell? I'm a fan of his non-fiction particularly.
     

    Henry

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    Sep 30, 2003
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    homage to catalunya? I love his non-fiction, of course for most of the world it's his political fiction (1984 and animal Farm) that receives all the accolades. Mikhail, what do you think of 1984?
     
    Aug 1, 2003
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    finished david millar's autobiography - I don't know, I get that he wants to redeem himself and all from doping but it just seems... pretentious...but perhaps I'm being unkind

    finished amy chua's "battle hymn of the tiger mother" - ha, nothing none of us don't already know and no idea why I even bothered reading it

    currently reading - I mean attempting - proust's "in search of lost time" - hopefully I will be able to get through this one than giving up like I did with Joyce's "ulysses"
     

    adriano_c

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    Just finished 'A Game of Thrones' by George Martin today.

    I'm not crazy about the author's prose. It's a pretty generic and uninspired. Considering it's the first of a long series of books I can understand the numerous characters that aren't well-developed. Felt a bit uncomfortable reading through sex scenes involving twelve-year-olds.

    Other than that, the plot's pretty good. Lots of branches, layered, and told from plenty of different angles which keeps you wanting to read ahead.
     

    Enron

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    I'm reading The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.


    Edit: I recently finished Maniac Magee By Jerry Spinelli.

    I read it the first time when I was 11 years old or so. I remembered liking it a lot back then so I (bored and finding nothing excitable to read) picked it up and read it in about two nights. It was just as enjoyable as the first time. I now know why I left it on the book shelf.

    It's about a homeless kid who runs everywhere through a racially divided town, his search for a family, and impression he makes on the residents of the town.
     

    Martin

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    Just finished "Wie met vuur speel" by Deon Meyer, my first book in Afrikaans. In all probability also my last, because Afrikaans books are hard to find and hard to find anything good.

    Quite an adorable language though.
     

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