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Old 12-05-2010, 01:15 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Old 12-05-2010, 01:20 PM   #2 (permalink)
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^ Just finished it actually. Great stuff, but the last chapter really lets it all down.

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Old 12-06-2010, 01:33 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Currently reading Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.

I'm a little over 100 pages in (just started it today) and I had to take a break because my brain hurts.

Pynchon is one wordy yet interesting fellow. I'm enjoying the book, but it's actually a process to read...and a somewhat arduous one at that.
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Old 12-06-2010, 08:22 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Currently reading Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.

I'm a little over 100 pages in (just started it today) and I had to take a break because my brain hurts.

Pynchon is one wordy yet interesting fellow. I'm enjoying the book, but it's actually a process to read...and a somewhat arduous one at that.
Pynchon is rough territory. I've picked up Vineland but I've yet to start it. A buddy of mine is way into him and has a Gravitys Rainbow tattoo but even with his shining endorsement, its not enough to shove me into his material yet.
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Old 12-06-2010, 10:46 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Finished Do androids dream of electric sheep? Didn't really care for it. The weakest thing I've read by Dick so far in fact. Oh and I have no idea how they managed to make Blade runner from this but it has VERY little to do with the book....thankfully. :\

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So far, great...(:
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“The desserts were a foot tall!” Enid said, her instincts having told her that Denise didn’t care about pyramids of shrimp. “It was elegant elegant. Have you ever seen anything like that?”

“I’m sure it was very nice,” Denise said.

“The Dribletts really do things super-deluxe. I’d never seen a dessert that tall. Have you?”

The subtle signs that Denise was exercising patience—the slightly deeper breaths she took, the soundless way she set her fork down on her plate and took a sip of wine and set the glass back down—were more hurtful to Enid than a violent explosion.

“I’ve seen tall desserts,” Denise said.

“Are they tremendously difficult to make?”

Denise folded her hands in her lap and exhaled slowly. “It sounds like a great party. I’m glad you had fun.”

Enid had, true enough, had fun at Dean and Trish’s party, and she’d wished that Denise had been there to see for herself how elegant it was. At the same time, she was afraid that Denise would not have found the party elegant at all, that Denise would have picked apart its specialness until there was nothing left but ordinariness. Her daughter’s taste was a dark spot in Enid’s vision, a hole in her experience through which her own pleasures were forever threatening to leak and dissipate.
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^Think my dad likes that book a lot. Have you read Freedom?
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Nope, it's the first thing I've read by him.
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Nope, it's the first thing I've read by him.
Well if you like The Corrections I guess I'd recommend it, as he seemed to really enjoy it. Maybe I should read one so I can actually know what I'm talking about.
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Old 12-07-2010, 12:54 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Oh hey, I'm reading that too! I'm so in love with his writing style.
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