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recently I read the following:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Memoria de mis putas tristes
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston seagull

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I'm really into folktales and such stuff right now...preparations for my studies
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I´m reading now: Le cauchemar d´Innsmouth and La couleur tombée du ciel by HP Lovecraft.
oh! :oops: in english would be: The nightmare of innsmouth and The color fallen from the sky

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Some stuff about immrama (ancient celtic tales about the seas), in connection with ancient portuguese tales.

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I´m reading now: Le cauchemar d´Innsmouth and La couleur tombée du ciel by HP Lovecraft.
oh! :oops: in english would be: The nightmare of innsmouth and The color fallen from the sky


My fav is the Dreams in the Witch House (or stg like this...)

Right today I've finished Bulgakov's Master and Margarita...again.
Also some day ago - Morphium. (Bulgakov, too)

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Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston seagull


One of my favourites!!! :D

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In the past few weeks I was lucky to read this ones:

Camus: The Fall (La chute)
Camus: The Plague (Le Peste)
Camus: The Stranger (L'étranger)
J.K.Rowling : Harry potter and the Half-Blood Prince (the first one I've read in English - but I'll read the others too so, it's easy to understand it and very well-written, either...I love this story!)
Huxley: Brave New World
Lem: Solaris (again...)

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MajGull Axelsson | Den jag aldrig var [The one I never was]
About a woman with split personality and complicated relationships, kind of... Very good, TisH! :green:

Recently read:
Arto Paasilinna | Adam and Eve
A humouristic and crazy (as always) story about a man who solves this planets energy problem for good. :lol:
John Ajvide Lindqvist | Låt den rätte komma in [Let the right one come in]
About love, vengeance and vampires in a suburb of Stockholm. And this vampire is a small, strange girl... It's NOT an ordinary horror book, really something else :tw:
Traci Lords | Underneath it all
The true story by the former porn star herself. Horrific story – and fascinating. :o

@Daeron: I like Brave New World, a great story with a lot of good morality in it.

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Ensemble c'est Tout (Together) by Anna Gavalda
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About love, vengeance and vampires in a suburb of Stockholm. And this vampire is a small, strange girl... It's NOT an ordinary horror book, really something else


Hmm, sounds interesting...I like vampire stories and vampires. You made me curious.

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Daeron wrote:
In the past few weeks I was lucky to read this ones:

Camus: The Fall (La chute)
Camus: The Plague (Le Peste)
Camus: The Stranger (L'étranger)


Great books, Daeron. Albert Camus is one of my favorite writers. As a ficcionist and as a philosopher... :wink:

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It was however very ... uncomfortabely sometimes to read The Stranger. You know, this kind of coldness (I can't really find the right word) and "I-don't-really-care-what-happens-it-doesn't-touch-me-at-all" is not unknown for me. Sometimes I feel things like that. Emptiness, when nothing really counts and nothing really has importance.
And it was a bit scary because of this. Like a kind of mirror (although not as serious of course as this Mersault in the book) I dunno what about you but I was happy when I finished it.

Weird...

Have you ever recognised things in books that seemed to describe things from your own life, habits and moods? (serious question which might be i9nteresting to discuss about...)

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Like Rolling Uphill: Realizing The Honesty Of Atheism by Dianna Narciso
Atheist Universe: Why God Didn't Have A Thing To Do With It by David Mills

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Vargsmal by Varg Vikernes... quite interesting, but poor english translation

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Daeron wrote:
It was however very ... uncomfortabely sometimes to read The Stranger. You know, this kind of coldness (I can't really find the right word) and "I-don't-really-care-what-happens-it-doesn't-touch-me-at-all" is not unknown for me. Sometimes I feel things like that. Emptiness, when nothing really counts and nothing really has importance.
And it was a bit scary because of this. Like a kind of mirror (although not as serious of course as this Mersault in the book) I dunno what about you but I was happy when I finished it.

Weird...

Have you ever recognised things in books that seemed to describe things from your own life, habits and moods? (serious question which might be i9nteresting to discuss about...)

I certainly know what you talk about. :-|
And we must for sure discuss it next time we meet :green:

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I'd welcome it too, thx. Those times I don't feel it's OK.

Nahhh goin' back reading those Harry Potter-thing again before I give it back to Aunt Zsóka from whom I "stole" it :D And get all the others in the same time :P
Also I guess I'd read now The Lord of the Rings again - this time also in English. (8th or 9th time, I don't clearly now)

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Have you ever recognised things in books that seemed to describe things from your own life, habits and moods? (serious question which might be i9nteresting to discuss about...)


Yes, but in a good book I think there must be a character to whom you can relate to (though I don't read novels too much), even if not in the best way. For example I read Gone with the wind at least twice a year and if all the 4 main characters's 'weak sides' were mixed into one person that would be me, but I still read it over and over...maybe I have a masochistic self aswell, who knows :roll:
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