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For anyone that likes fantasy, if you don't mind wordiness, long meandering sentences, and obscurity, read The Dreaming Tree. It's amazing. I just read it recently.

http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Tree-C-J ... 330&sr=8-1

i'm liking poetry a lot more lately. blacks by gwendolyn brooks holds some of the most poignant and relevant poems i've ever read... also loved primer for blacks.

i also picked up this neat little book called no no the saddest. the description is as follows: "in 1979 alan bern's wife gave birth to a healthy son three months after having a ruptured aneurysm that left her permanently brain damaged. she died four years later without ever knowing that she had a child. this book is about that period." it's uncomfortable to read at times.

Fuck that. Sounds depressing.

Are the Game of Thrones books anything like the show?

futuresailors wrote:Are the Game of Thrones books anything like the show?

Exactly, except better. The plot is the same though. They didn't change things.

David Eddings: The Elenium.

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nieh wrote:Howl and Other Poems.

Of your own choosing? Because that's almost as bad as Shakespeare.

I have a recording of Ginsberg reading Howl... and it's awesome. That's a poem that was meant to be heard, rather than read.

This Book Does Not Exist

It's a little emo and sometimes too mundane with it's references/details, but I'm into the story.

Lovecraft

Murakami - 1Q84, book three.

Now I know how they could throw this on the german market so quick. They have only translated book 1 & 2 and now, almost a year later, book 3 gets sold. I think this is how it worked on the japanese market so that is basically the only explanation. THey could however have waited a little longer and published all three books in one like the americans did. At least I think they did. Shit is whack! Anyway, I am quite happy the book continues because the ending mede me so unhappy and this is the promise of a better ending. I've also read that Murakami is thinking about making this into a series, so I don't know if I should get my hopes too high.

Also as an audiobook:
ALastair Reynolds - Redemption Ark.

i quite like these revelation space books. I have had the first two on audiobook too and I actually got so sucked into the story that I was convinced I had listened to them in translation. Turns out audible doesn't even have the translated books. I am hoping for and entertaining and smart book. Not all of his are, but the other two from this series did well enough.

Camus' The myth of sisyphus
Third time trying to read it in the pasr few years, and its acgually getting through to me

phantasmagorovich wrote:Murakami - 1Q84, book three.

Now I know how they could throw this on the german market so quick. They have only translated book 1 & 2 and now, almost a year later, book 3 gets sold. I think this is how it worked on the japanese market so that is basically the only explanation. THey could however have waited a little longer and published all three books in one like the americans did. At least I think they did. Shit is whack! Anyway, I am quite happy the book continues because the ending mede me so unhappy and this is the promise of a better ending. I've also read that Murakami is thinking about making this into a series, so I don't know if I should get my hopes too high.

Yeah, the US one is a big fuckin tome. I'm just about to finish book 1, but from what I've deduced, you could read "On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning" (probably my favorite thing he's written) to get a similar effect.

"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe and "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion.

I just listened to Camus' The Stranger last night. It started off kind of boring, then got kind of frustrating, but turned out pretty badass in the end.

Recently listened to all 5 A Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks, as well as the Dunk and Egg novellas. I didn't want it to ever end...now I'm waiting in agony for book 6 like everybody else. Roy Dotrice (narrator/voice actor) is really great, and takes the audiobook experience to new levels. The way he acts out all the lines and does voices, accents and speech mannerisms for every character really brings everything to life in a way that reading it never could.

Stuff I'll be listening to in the coming weeks: Cormac McCarthy mega torrent, Karl Marlantes: Matterhorn, Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses, Stephen King: Under the Dome & Duma Key.

Just read Age Of Reptiles: The Journey (awesome dinosaur comics with no stupid human characters). The art looked a little rushed compared to the previous two series, definitely not as detailed or finely inked, but the advanced visual storytelling and dynamic action is still there, and it was still really enjoyable. It's also always nice to see some Ankylosaurus, my favorite dinosaur.