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Originally Posted by Zombie Robot

^ dude. that is so next on my list! no way i will ever get thru the actual pride & prejudice. but add zombies to anything and it makes everything better. :)

I really do think they should make many more books like this one. I mean...you are right...zombies make everything better.

Jean Baudrillard - "Symbolic Exchange and Death"

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Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

I don't see Gene Wolfe on that list.

He wasn't, but then he was nominated this year. Was it you?

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

how is this? i had forgotten about it, but am very interested.

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Originally Posted by perverzion

Jean Baudrillard - "Symbolic Exchange and Death"

Any good?.

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Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

reading:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
gathering dust unread in the bookcase:
American Splendor - Harvey Pekar, various - I got this for a birthday or christmas a few years ago :\
Don Quixote - Cervantes - got to page 736 of 982 and gave up, it was a slog
Collected Short Stories, vol IV - Philip K. Dick - read some
The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens - wanted to start on Dickens, picked wrong book
The Great Dune Trilogy - Frank Herbert - read Dune
The Complete Chronicles of Conan - Robert E. Howard - read the first ten short stories
Les Miserabes - Victor Hugo
The Garden Party (and other stories) - Katherine Mansfield - had this in year 11 literature, still haven't read it
Everyman's Library Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - been putting this off for years
Tierra del Fuego - Jennifer Strauss - same as Garden Party
to read pile:
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Everyman's Library The Maltese Falcon/The Thin Man/Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Everyman's Library The Dain Curse/The Glass Key/Selected Short Stories - Dashiell Hammett
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
American Tabloid - James Ellroy
The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy
I plan on reading those last two when Bloods A Rover is released at the end of September.
I find it very hard to pick out 'modern' literature to read, I never know what to do or source to turn to :(

are you seriously reading this many books at once?

There is no way I could have more than one or two on the go at once.. between reading a little of each I'd get lost and have to re-read back. Surely it is easier to just finish them before moving on? Or thats just me.. ?

Maybe he's an android? I can juggle two books- as long as I'm mainly reading one and only going back to the other occasionally. But any more than that and I'd lose the plot completely.

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Originally Posted by phoenix

One at a time, what else? You didn't see that only one book, Huck Finn, is listed under "Reading" or that I got two of the books 6 years ago and still haven't read them?

ah, I missed the part underneath.... just saw the long list of books. My mistake.

still on american psycho. alternating between digging it and fucking hating it.

two things from my last library run that i have yet to start:
haunted - chuck palahniuk
pattern recogniton - william gibson (huh, i wonder why)

Well I finished Huck Finn. That was from the gathering dust unread in the bookcase pile. The last chapters where Tom Sawyer shows up and is crazy were a bit of a slog.
On to Sense and Sensibility from the to read pile. I read Pride and Predjudice in high school, it was good.

the Pantyface Trilogy - In-house Author

Pantyface
Pantyface 2: Pantyface Goes Down
Pantyface 3: Pantyface Rides Again

I think they are worth $8 each.

Poor pantyface. The only way he can see is when his trousers are undone.

is that supposed to be like the Fudge books?

by fudge, I assume you mean dirty panties?

don't ask me. girlgun wrote them.

Currently reading Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut.

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Originally Posted by floatingslowly

by fudge, I assume you mean dirty panties?

don't ask me. girlgun wrote them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfudge

I am reading the TRAVEL issue right now.
Lapham's Quarterly is a great periodical done by Harper's Magazine's old Editor In Chief. Each issue deals with a different topic, (War, Travel, Eros, Money, Nature) and has images and text all from first-hand sources detailing the history of humanity as it relates to the issue's main topic.
great stuff