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Jomei
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Poetry. Right now, "Player Piano" by John Updike, and after that, "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks.
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Snigwel
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Player Piano is also the name of a swell book by Vonnegut. His first novel, actually.
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Jomei
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Saying a Vonnegut book is swell defines redundancy. 
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AWPJudy
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MEIN KAMPF.
[size=59]zomg shock value.[/size]
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[quote="Marekenshin"][quote="Metal2Hedgehog"]I could always use a panty peeler.
Those things never work when i try and peel my apples.[/quote]
Of course a panty peeler won't work on apples, that's just silly.[/quote]
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discovolante
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Reviving this thread because it's a good one.
Since my last post in this thread, I read mostly H. Murakami. I liked [i]Dance! Dance! Dance![/i], but was disappointed by the abruptness of the end. I found [i]South of the Border, West of the Sun[/i] to be insanely boring, but I think it was just the translation (Jay Rubin > Alfred Birnbaum). [i]The Elephant Vanishes[/i] (short story compilation) had hits and misses, again possibly due to the translation in some cases. My personal favourites from it were "Slow Boat to China," "Sleep," "The Second Bakery Attack," and "The Fall of the Roman Empire, The 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and The Realm of Raging Winds."
I read the Great Gatsby in class. I liked it a lot.
I'm reading a book for my U.S. History class called "Mammies, Coons, Toms, Mulattoes and Bucks." 5 cents if you guess what it's about.
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[quote="Metal2Hedgehog"]A douche is something you put in a girls smiley face.[/quote]
[quote="Lesser_Hamster"][i]Sawao utters a chilling whisper through the bathroom door; it's so faint that Manabe almost misses it.
"I WANNA BE YOUR GENTLE MAN."[/i][/quote]
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Jomei
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I've recently read [i]God Bless You Mr. Rosewater[/i], [i]Mother Night[/i], and am reading [i]Breakfast of Champions[/i], all by Kurt VonneGod.
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Josher
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[u]Our Town[/u] by Thorton Wilder. I'm liking what I reading, despite its shortness. 
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kudos anyone?
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The Sword of shannara
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terra
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[quote="discovolante"]Since my last post in this thread, I read mostly H. Murakami.[/quote]
check out [i]the wind-up bird chronicle[/i] and [i]hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world[/i]. i think i liked those best out his books that i've read. good and screwy.
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Ikareta Baby
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I picked up some more Pushkin. I'm currently reading [i]the negro of peter[/i]. His prose translate elegantly enough, but I think his narrative could be stronger. Of course, the material is dated, but I'm enjoying it either way.
I also have a stack Rene Bazin to chew through over break.
hopefully >;[
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discovolante
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[quote="terra"][quote="discovolante"]Since my last post in this thread, I read mostly H. Murakami.[/quote]
check out [i]the wind-up bird chronicle[/i] and [i]hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world[/i]. i think i liked those best out his books that i've read. good and screwy.[/quote]
we talked about the wind-up bird chronicle before. it's still one of my favourite books. i read kafka on the shore and underground as well.
hard-boiled wonderland i still don't have.
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[quote="Metal2Hedgehog"]A douche is something you put in a girls smiley face.[/quote]
[quote="Lesser_Hamster"][i]Sawao utters a chilling whisper through the bathroom door; it's so faint that Manabe almost misses it.
"I WANNA BE YOUR GENTLE MAN."[/i][/quote]
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Pepopo
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I'vr been reading the Metamorphosis and Silence of the Sirens by Franz Kafka.
(For whomever has read Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, the cockroach "Mr. Samsa" that Nny kills over and over is a direct reference to the Metamorphosis' protagonist, Gregor Samsa.)
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GoldenRhino
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[quote="Pepopo"](For whomever has read Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, the cockroach "Mr. Samsa" that Nny kills over and over is a direct reference to the Metamorphosis' protagonist, Gregor Samsa.)[/quote]
Ah, very cool! Jhonen Vasquez is amazing.
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TS
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I just read that da vinci code book, now I feel I have wasted time.
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clouds
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i'm reading shadow of the giant by card, 'phantastes' and 'the princess and the goblin' by george macdonald.
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