What Are You Reading Right Now?

[The Raven]

[quote name='flaccopoe' timestamp='1357881014' post='1301399']
What's the Wallace book you're looking at about? I know a fair bit about his work.
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I just looked it up. A friend of mine told me to read [i]Infinite Jest. [/i]I'm told that it's satirical, which grabs my interest. I love satire.

[flaccopoe]

[quote name='The Raven' timestamp='1357881228' post='1301401']
I just looked it up. A friend of mine told me to read [i]Infinite Jest. [/i]I'm told that it's satirical, which grabs my interest. I love satire.
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[i]The Pale King[/i] is excellent, too. It's about the IRS.

[The Raven]

[quote name='flaccopoe' timestamp='1357881408' post='1301404']
[i]The Pale King[/i] is excellent, too. It's about the IRS.
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Sounds good!

[flaccopoe]

[quote name='The Raven' timestamp='1357881457' post='1301405']
Sounds good!
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You should John Updike, then. Might I suggest [i]S[/i]?

[The Raven]

[quote name='flaccopoe' timestamp='1357881581' post='1301406']
You should John Updike, then. Might I suggest [i]S[/i]?
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Soon enough! I already have a long list of books to read, so any suggestions are going to be read a while from now. I'll definitely keep it in mind though!

[flaccopoe]

[quote name='The Raven' timestamp='1357882783' post='1301420']
Soon enough! I already have a long list of books to read, so any suggestions are going to be read a while from now. I'll definitely keep it in mind though!
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What books are on your backburner?

[The Raven]

[quote name='flaccopoe' timestamp='1357882883' post='1301421']
What books are on your backburner?
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Working on Casual Vacancy now...

The next few books are [i]This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, [/i][i]The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, [/i]and I'll be mixing in some short stories by Edgar Allen Poe.

[flaccopoe]

[quote name='The Raven' timestamp='1357883305' post='1301426']
Working on Casual Vacancy now...

The next few books are [i]This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, [/i][i]The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, [/i]and I'll be mixing in some short stories by Edgar Allen Poe.
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Fitzgerald, Twain, Larsson, Doyle and Poe: eclectic mix! flaccopoe especially approves of the last selection! I hope you've read [i]The Great Gatsby[/i], it'll give you a good fell for if you'll like his style.

[The Raven]

[quote name='flaccopoe' timestamp='1357883548' post='1301430']
Fitzgerald, Twain, Larsson, Doyle and Poe: eclectic mix! flaccopoe especially approves of the last selection! I hope you've read [i]The Great Gatsby[/i], it'll give you a good fell for if you'll like his style.
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My high school deprived me of reading the classics, so I'm going through them now. I'm excited to get to Twain and Fitzgerald, particularly
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[i]The Great Gatsby [/i]is one of my favorite books.

[flaccopoe]

[quote name='The Raven' timestamp='1357883741' post='1301434']
My high school deprived me of reading the classics, so I'm going through them now. I'm excited to get to Twain and Fitzgerald, particularly
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[i]The Great Gatsby [/i]is one of my favorite books.
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The movie never really struck a chord with me, though I liked the movie a lot. Anyway, bon voyage, bookworm!

[Dubs]

Currently reading [i]Whirl Away[/i] it is a book by a Canadian author - I just started and it is a bunch of short stories about people whose lives 'whirl away' or become unsettled. Normally not the type of book that I am drawn to but the author does a great job of pulling you in and feeling the emotion in such a quick piece.

[Malkavian Raven]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]If you're into books with intertwining short stories, then might I suggest the latest book I just picked up by M.T. Johnson called "Newspaper Diapers". It takes place in Vietnam, talking about the hardships & poverty of the people. Some portions actually had my heart dropping. Makes you appreciate the little things, that's for sure.[/i][/font]

[flaccopoe]

[quote name='CosmicRedPanda' timestamp='1358658804' post='1318091']
[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]If you're into books with intertwining short stories, then might I suggest the latest book I just picked up by M.T. Johnson called "Newspaper Diapers". It takes place in Vietnam, talking about the hardships & poverty of the people. Some portions actually had my heart dropping. Makes you appreciate the little things, that's for sure.[/i][/font]
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In North Vietnam, South Vietnam or both? Or does this take place in contemporary Vietnam?

[Malkavian Raven]

[quote name='flaccopoe' timestamp='1358663745' post='1318155']
In North Vietnam, South Vietnam or both? Or does this take place in contemporary Vietnam?
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[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Contemporary.[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]I do warn people though, some parts of the book are graphic. This book isn't going to make you "feel good" after reading it.[/i][/font]

[flaccopoe]

[quote name='CosmicRedPanda' timestamp='1358664743' post='1318180']
[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Contemporary.[/i][/font]

[font=trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif][i]I do warn people though, some parts of the book are graphic. This book isn't going to make you "feel good" after reading it.[/i][/font]
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It's important to be aware of the suffering around us. In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., here are some of his quotes:

[font=georgia,serif][size=4][color=#000000][background=rgb(219, 218, 241)]"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."[/background][/color]
[color=#000000][background=rgb(219, 218, 241)]"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."[/background][/color][/size][/font]

[T3hRaven]

Finally on A Dance With Dragons. I'll soon be in the waiting period of agony until The Winds of Winter comes out.

[Malkavian Raven]

[quote name='flaccopoe' timestamp='1358665091' post='1318188']
It's important to be aware of the suffering around us. In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., here are some of his quotes:

[font=georgia,serif][color=#000000][background=rgb(219, 218, 241)]"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."[/background][/color]
[color=#000000][background=rgb(219, 218, 241)]"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."[/background][/color][/font]
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"Silence is not always golden; sometimes it's just plain yellow."

[Raven07]

in the middle of reading an Edgar Allan Poe Book, with ALL of his work , really really interesting to say the least, I love it!....."quoth the Raven Nevermore" love that line!

[flaccopoe]

[quote name='CosmicRedPanda' timestamp='1358665537' post='1318196']
"Silence is not always golden; sometimes it's just plain yellow."
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That's not a King quote, is it?!

[flaccopoe]

[quote name='Raven07' timestamp='1358667209' post='1318225']
in the middle of reading an Edgar Allan Poe Book, with ALL of his work , really really interesting to say the least, I love it!....."quoth the Raven Nevermore" love that line!
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You going to watch the ne Poe-inspired thriller, [i]The Following[/i]?!

[berad]

[quote name='The Raven' timestamp='1357883305' post='1301426']
[b]Working on Casual Vacancy now...[/b]

The next few books are [i]This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, [/i][i]The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, [/i]and I'll be mixing in some short stories by Edgar Allen Poe.
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Got that for my girlfriend and she say's it's good. Concur? I understand it's not like HP

[Raven07]

[quote name='flaccopoe' timestamp='1358668393' post='1318228']
You going to watch the ne Poe-inspired thriller, [i]The Following[/i]?!
[/quote] indeed sir, indeed

[The Raven]

[quote name='berad' timestamp='1358690140' post='1318287']
Got that for my girlfriend and she say's it's good. Concur? I understand it's not like HP
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It's a far cry from Harry Potter. A lot more vulgar, for one. Brilliant, but don't read it if you're expecting it to be a Harry Potter-esque book. It really is brilliant though.

[Purple Nurple]

Dead of Night. Fantastic zombie story. As ultimate punishment for serial killing, a doctor devises an execution injection that kills the body, yet keeps brain function working so the killer feels his body rot in the grave.

Except he never gets buried, and of course catastrophe ensues.

[Grendelwulf21]

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217

[Purple Nurple]

[quote name='Grendelwulf21' timestamp='1358720339' post='1318993']
http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217


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I will revisit this little nugget at a later time. Gracias.

[Grendelwulf21]

[quote name='Purple Nurple' timestamp='1358720446' post='1319002']
I will revisit this little nugget at a later time. Gracias.
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It's very lovely Turn your sound up or headphones on for the better experience

[ghost1986]

On my down time, I'm reading [i]Kill Bin Laden[/i] by Dalton Fury, but since the semester's started, I'll be reading a book or two about Dante's Inferno and also the war zones of Iraq and Chechnya for an upper-level Arabic class.

[Purple Nurple]

keep with the books [b][i][u]ON[/u][/i][/b] Dantes Inferno. Good lord, the actual book is a nightmare to try and really understand.

Trying to interpret 14th century imagery while keeping up with the story is not easy.

[Raven07]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsdy_rct6uo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsdy_rct6uo[/url]