Easy to read, but once you start getting inside of it, there is so much more going on that you don't see at a first glance. Too bad F. Scott Fitzgarald didn't write anything else on that level, died penniless as well.
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Easy to read, but once you start getting inside of it, there is so much more going on that you don't see at a first glance. Too bad F. Scott Fitzgarald didn't write anything else on that level, died penniless as well.
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I seem to be in the minority of people that really just despised the Great Gatsby...
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Since July I've read:
1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Slaughter House Five, Cat's Cradle, and Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
The Metamorphosis, Penal Colony, and The Judgement by Franz Kafka.
I've really enjoyed starting to read again and these have been great. I've been reading about a book a week. I just finished Timequake, and I'm waiting till payday to buy another book [i reread them & take notes in them].
1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Slaughter House Five, Cat's Cradle, and Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
The Metamorphosis, Penal Colony, and The Judgement by Franz Kafka.
I've really enjoyed starting to read again and these have been great. I've been reading about a book a week. I just finished Timequake, and I'm waiting till payday to buy another book [i reread them & take notes in them].
"Perdido Street Station" by China Mieville. Fascinating book, marvelously well constructed, and bursting at the seams with pure imagination... simply put, an odd hybrid of steampunk science fiction, urban fantasy, visceral horror, political intrigue, and Dickensian characters and class struggles. I'm about 350 pages in, with another 275 to go...
You're not alone.
I read it when I was in school, hated it. Though I think part of the reason for my hatred was that we had to analyze the meaning behind everything like the green light at the end of the dock, the eyes on the billboard in the badlands type area (forget what it was exactly).
The same goes for To Kill A Mockingbird. Actually pretty much any book I read at school I didn't like.
Mieville is amazing. I highly recommend picking up his other works, especially The Scar, which is in my top 5 favorite novels. It's an even more brilliant story than Perdido is.
Ha! Great to hear... I'll admit, I've already been snooping around the amazon.com pages for The Scar and Iron Council. It might be a bit preemptive, but I'm hooked on Perdido, and the idea of a 'moby-dick' story in that world sounds more than a little awesome.
I would probably get that just for the title. What's it about, and how well is it done?
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Just finished the first and second Dexter books. Now I am onto Dexter in the Dark. Actually quite happy they changed the TV show a bit as I am still catching a few surprises 
Just finished the first and second Dexter books. Now I am onto Dexter in the Dark. Actually quite happy they changed the TV show a bit as I am still catching a few surprises
Oooh, i've been meaning to pick up the third book. Yeah, it's great that the show and the books haven't really followed the same path... both are great in their own ways, and watching the show or reading the book first doesn't spoil the other.
I'm actually reading Palahniuk's Stranger Than Fiction right now. Haven't read Haunted yet, although I have read the infamous "Guts".
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