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Noelveiga said:
I'm not too fond of poll threads like this because, frankly, nobody bothers to read what everybody else posts and I don't really need an audience to perform intellectual masturbation.

So, since I do have a decent suggestion for the thread, let me begin by commenting on other people's entries.

First, I'm seeing a lot of fantasy and science fiction. Not all is good (I wholly endorse Dune and I'll take Pratchett before most "serious" literature, specially the early stuff), but I'm more annoyed by the fact that most of it is rather... well, obvious. Terry pratchet, Frank Herbert and a bunch of novelizations? And what is not in that realms is mostly cheap best-seller crap. Dan Brown? Grisham? Tom Clancy? Really? Tom Clancy?
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Why do you care what other people read? Maybe they like to read that stuff. It's like insulting someone's music preferences. It doesn't harm you at all, let them read what they want to in peace.

I am currently rereading my issues of Kill Audio by Claudio Sanchez, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, and Aristotle's Rhetoric. Starting in on some Cicero next week. Do those choices meet your standards Noelveiga? Or are they too popular?
 
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The last book I've finished was A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess.

Currently reading Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'.

As for comments, well. I'm not that far into 'The Road' yet, but generally, I liked A Clockwork Orange more. 'The Road's' good and all, but not that good, in my opinion. And besides, the plot only just now started getting interesting.
 
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I'm sort of reading two concurrently

Fiction: "Necronomicon" by H.P. Lovecraft

Non Fiction: "The Brain That Changes itself" by Norman Doidge M.D.
 
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Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig.

It's a free download, and really accessible. He has always presented reasonable arguments, I have found. Worth checking out.
 
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Hmm lately been reading H.P. Lovecraft's Short Stories. I'm the middle of reading The Dunwich Horror but just read The Call of Cthulhu.
 
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just finished re-reading 'the day of the triffids' by john wyndham.

moving on nicely now to 'vengeance of the dancing gods' by jack l. chalker
 
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Summer Knight by Jim Butcher, book 4 of the Dresden Files and Dune.

Love them both to bits so far. All Dresden Files books are brilliant, and Dune is one helluva piece of literature.
 
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I just finished The Book Thief - Markus Zusak which is one of the best books I have ever read, and I'm not going to read another book for a few weeks because I need my homework to go away momentarily.
 
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Since the start of this year I have read... One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Watchmen, Of Mice an Men, Catcher in the Rye, Songs of Innocence and Experience, finished the World According to Garp. Currently reading Frankenstein and the Penguin Book of American Verse. Next reading Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde or Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman. Having more ongoing reads of The Bible and Physics for Scientists and Engineers.

In other words, I'm using this year to compensate for my lack of reading in other years. If I continue at this rate, I will have read more books this year than I would have done in all my previous years.
 
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