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Originally posted by miked10270
George Orwell, 1984 & Animal Farm.
Really in love with both books and they go together. I feel like writing a review on them right now, but I'd be at the keyboard for a month and the bandwidth would probably wreck the server.
Mike.
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Both very good books, but I think they were a little too similar. I'm not sure why, because the plots are completely different, but I think that basically everyone should read those books.
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Originally posted by Bones
yevgeny zamyatin "WE"
inspiration for orwell's 1984
its an amazing book and id reccommend it to everyone
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I'll look at it.
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Originally posted by RelaX
J.D.Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye and
Marco van Leeuwen - Dune Advent (fanfic)
neither of which is turning out to be particularly good... after this comes Joseph Heller - Catch-22 which I have higher hopes for...
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I didn't like Catcher much at all. Catch-22, on the other hand, is one of my favorite books. I very much like the dark humor. Most people I've talked about the book with seem to either really like it, or really not like it.
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Originally posted by Ganguro
Just picked up "Designing Web Usability" by Jakob Nielsen
good stuff!
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The web needs more of this. Not sure if that book is any good though :P
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Originally posted by Charlatan
I am currently reading Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the
All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
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That book sounds interesting, tell me what you think of it when you are done.
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Originally posted by riptide4070
" The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoesky
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A friend of mine claimed that this was the best book he ever read, and learned Russian primarily to read this book. I intend to read it very soon.
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Originally posted by Mr Scorcex
I'm currently reading several books. The second book in Tad William's otherworld series, Siddharta by Hesse, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy seriers, and The Salmon of Doubt, both by Douglas Adams.
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I'm unsure of the <i>Salmon of Doubt</i>, since it was unfinished, I have so far refused to read it. The other books by Douglas Adams were very entertaining though.
A few people mentioned <i>Siddharta</i> by Hesse, should I read this book?
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Originally posted by silverback
I have started reading the Harry Potter books...never thought I would...and I am enjoying them.
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I used to read fantasy books a lot as a kid, and this series, while interesting, didn't seem all that exceptional when I read the first book a few months ago. I'm not sure what people like about it so much.
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Originally posted by cdcow
Right now, reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks. Great series of case studies on neurological disorders. Dr. Sacks makes you feel for the patients.
Don't know what I'm gonna read next.
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He wrote another book, <i>An Anthropologist on Mars</i>. The stories were interesting, but I can't say that I enjoyed it <i>that</i> much.
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Originally posted by PredeconInferno
Right now, I'm reading a book called Cryptonomicon. So far, it's pretty interesting.
In case you're curious, it's by Neal Stephenson
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I intend to read this eventually, he also wrote <i>Snow Crash</i>, an entertaining, if cheesy cyberpunk novel. And <i>Diamond Age</i>, a less interetaining book, although I liked the environment it took place in.
And finally, I am reading <i>The Once and Future King</i> by T.H. White, an entertaining if slow book. A much different picture of King Arthur and the Knights than I had seen before.