What are you reading right now?

WWWP · 07-12-2013, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon

The Blue Fox - Sjón

So. ****ing. Beautiful.

The world opens its good eye a crack. A ptarmigan belches. The streams trickle under their glazing of ice, dreaming of spring, when they'll swell to a life-threatening force. Smoke curls up from mounds of snow here and there on the mountainsides - these are their farms.

Everything here is a uniform blue, apart from the glitter of the tops. It is winter in the Dale.

Seriously I'm losing my mind for this book rn.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 07-12-2013, 03:53 PM

I'll have to get it! I'll put it in my to-reads

Aperture Science · 07-13-2013, 11:11 AM

Just finished Dan Savage's American Savage

I'm in the middle of re-reading The Great Gatsby, a Sherlock Holmes collection, and I'm thinking of starting The Grapes of Wrath because i'd like to have read the book before i see the move

Paedantic Basterd · 07-13-2013, 07:48 PM

Never see the movie before you read the book. Everything is Illuminated was everything I'd hoped it would be, and I cried twice, which would've been a dozen more times if I didn't already know what major events were going to happen.

Now, on to:

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 07-13-2013, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Never see the movie before you read the book. Everything is Illuminated was everything I'd hoped it would be, and I cried twice, which would've been a dozen more times if I didn't already know what major events were going to happen.

Now, on to:

anticipation · 07-14-2013, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Never see the movie before you read the book. Everything is Illuminated was everything I'd hoped it would be, and I cried twice, which would've been a dozen more times if I didn't already know what major events were going to happen.

Now, on to:

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Paedantic Basterd · 07-16-2013, 09:07 PM

****ing hell, is this hard to read. McCarthy doesn't use quotation marks, doesn't use apostrophes, doesn't inform you when a character is speaking or who is doing the speaking, and this is just unreasonably hard to follow.

"He looked at him. He smoked, and he nodded at him."

WHOSE ACTION IS WHOSE argh, the whole ****ing thing is like this.

Mondo Bungle · 07-16-2013, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Never see the movie before you read the book. Everything is Illuminated was everything I'd hoped it would be, and I cried twice, which would've been a dozen more times if I didn't already know what major events were going to happen.

Now, on to:

That's weird, I myself just started reading 1Q84.

Kafka on the Shore, among his others, is too good.

anticipation · 07-17-2013, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

****ing hell, is this hard to read. McCarthy doesn't use quotation marks, doesn't use apostrophes, doesn't inform you when a character is speaking or who is doing the speaking, and this is just unreasonably hard to follow.

"He looked at him. He smoked, and he nodded at him."

WHOSE ACTION IS WHOSE argh, the whole ****ing thing is like this.

that's the fun of it, it's like reading as i lay dying when you're wasted.

Engine · 07-17-2013, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by anticipation

that's the fun of it, it's like reading as i lay dying when you're wasted.

I read her post and tried to think of a way to say this but couldn't come up with anything. This is good advice. Find a way to turn on the analytics of the writing. Once you do, it's easy reading.

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~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	I'll have to get it! I'll put it in my to-reads

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Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	Never see the movie before you read the book. Everything is Illuminated was everything I'd hoped it would be, and I cried twice, which would've been a dozen more times if I didn't already know what major events were going to happen. Now, on to:

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Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	**ing hell, is this hard to read. McCarthy doesn't use quotation marks, doesn't use apostrophes, doesn't inform you when a character is speaking or who is doing the speaking, and this is just unreasonably hard to follow. "He looked at him. He smoked, and he nodded at him." WHOSE ACTION IS WHOSE argh, the whole **ing thing is like this.