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Books - currently reading?

Postby C.Cat » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:52 pm

I'm now reading Vets Might Fly by James Herriot

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Postby Angstwolf » Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:13 pm

I'm not actively reading anything. Too busy with school at the moment. D:

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Postby Comrade K » Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:16 pm

I'm not actively reading anything. Too busy with school at the moment. D:
Same. I have some books in limbo because of school.
In limbo are:

Grouding for the Metaphysics of Morals - Immanuel Kant.

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (I swear I'll finish this one day!)

The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings - various

However, the stack of books I have purchased but not yet read is something like this:

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West - John Ralston Saul

The Collapse of Globalism - also by Saul

With Every Mistake - Gwynne Dyer

The Iliad - Homer

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche

And I'm always re-reading the Sun Tzu.
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Postby nickspoon » Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:03 pm

Jasper Fforde - The Big Over Easy

Fforde is a fantastic author. I've read the whole Thursday Next series, just starting on Nursery Crimes. The great thing about The Big Over Easy is that it manages to be witty and slightly silly whilst still being a very good mystery novel.
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Postby Dr. Sticks » Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:20 pm

for pleasure: rereading Dune
for english: The Road by Cormac McCarthy (haven't begun it yet)
for US studies: The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria
occasional thumbing through: Communist Manifesto (don't worry I'll get to actually good government documents after this one)

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Postby Segovia » Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:39 pm

Well here in the IB program we just finished To Kill a Mockingbird which was boring. Now we are reading Night. Our outside reading book for this nine weeks is Mythology.

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Postby datherman » Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:55 pm

Well here in the IB program we just finished To Kill a Mockingbird which was boring. Now we are reading Night. Our outside reading book for this nine weeks is Mythology.
Read both of those in 8th grade. They're decent, though I must insist you introduce your class to the How to Kill a Mockingbird flash video.

Also a horrible pun: if you have 2,000 mockingbirds, you have two kilo-mockingbirds.
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Postby nickspoon » Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:01 pm

Well here in the IB program we just finished To Kill a Mockingbird which was boring.
You Philistine! To Kill a Mockingbird is a fantastic work of fiction. One of the best books I've ever read.
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Postby Segovia » Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:11 pm

I'm just not that into historical fiction. I've even found Johnnny Tramain boring.

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Postby nickspoon » Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:13 pm

It's hardly historical fiction. Historical fiction deals with real events into which fiction is woven; To Kill a Mockingbird is merely a modern classic.
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Postby Segovia » Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:46 pm

It is so. It's based on the scottsborogh trial.

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Postby nickspoon » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:00 am

The Scottsboro trial was a very similar case but I don't think you could say it was based around it. It certainly was never mentioned, and the particulars of the case are almost completely different. There's not enough to call it a historical fiction based on the Scottsboro trial.
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Postby Segovia » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:04 am

No matter what you say It's not going to make me like the book more.

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Postby Hyperion » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:41 am

I am currently reading the book White Wolf by David Gemmell, in an hour I shall be reading The Swords of Fire and Ice, by the same author, tomorrow...Not sure yet.
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Postby Doc Sigma » Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:28 am

I don't read.


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