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#126

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Posted: 8/2/05 at 12:08am

Finished Two Trains Running. Not sure what I'm going to read next. I was in the middle of reading trades of Fables during the weekend, but I need to go to B&N for those. So I think my next project will be Balzac's Père Goriot. In French.

#127

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Posted: 8/2/05 at 12:20am

My summer reading book for college- Iron and Silk

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Mujhse Dosti Karoge?

#128

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Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:13am

I'm reading Les Mis, but its taking me FOREVER!


And am reading Memoirs of a Geisha

#129

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Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:44am

Just finished The Pillowman.

Next up, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

East of Eden is my summer reading book. I can't wait to read it, but I don't have English until second semester. I'm putting it off for a while, just so it'll be fresh in my mind.

#130

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 2:16pm

I'm in the middle of the new Bret Easton Ellis novel, Lunar Park and it is, to say the least, very odd indeed.

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Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

#131

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 2:18pm

I just picked up Lunar Park. Can't wait to dig into it.

#132

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 2:20pm

It's really great but it's quite the mind f**k. He's doing a reading tonight at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square at 7pm.

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Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

#133

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 2:22pm

That should be interesting, to say the least. He's a fun one.

#134

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 2:23pm

Finished The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was a bit melodramatic and foreshadowing-heavy for my taste but still very, very sad and often lovely. Still plowing my way through Cryptonomicon, which I'm sure I'll finish someday, and working slowly on that Pére Goriot translation. I also want to read the libretto of The Beggar's Opera before seeing The Banger's Flopera later this week.

Updated On: 8/17/05 at 02:23 PM

#135

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 2:25pm

Wicked, for the second time...

and a sucky mythology book for honors english

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#136

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 2:29pm

I enjoyed The Confessions of Max Tivoli quite a lot.

#137

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 2:31pm

The concept is great, and the consequences of it are well thought-out, but I just think the narrator foreshadowed all the horrible things that were going to happen a few too many times. And I got the 'twist' almost right away, well before it was revealed. But the ending was heartbreaking.

#138

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 2:38pm

Agreed, Plum. Very good points.

Has anybody read Nicole Kraus' The History of Love? A friend said that I would like it.

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#139

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 2:39pm

Just finished John Stossel's GIVE ME A BREAK (I never knew he had a stuttering problem!) and am starting Dan Brown;s ANGELS AND DEMONS.

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#140

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 2:51pm

Just finished the Devil Wears Prada

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Everything in this room is *eat*able. Even I'm *eat*able. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies. ~Willy Wonka


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I love Ana Gasteyer and Chicago Theater!!!

#141

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 2:52pm

ahh, DP. I loved Angels and Demons. Hope you do, too!

I tend to juggle more than one book at a time, so yes, I'm STILL in the middle of both Harry Potter AND Boy George's Take It Like A Man, plus some plays I've started reading.

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

Updated On: 8/17/05 at 02:52 PM

#142

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:12pm

Just finished two books --

1) The latest pulitzer prize winner for fiction, "Gilead"

2) Pamela Anderson's "Star"

Both were very enjoyable. Gilead was brilliant, and Star was trashy and fun. =)

I'm on to reading non-fiction now -- "The Philosophy of Terror" -- interviews with Derrida and Habermas on the meaning of 9/11.

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"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'" -- unknown

#143

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:15pm

I HAAAATED The Devil Wears Prada. L. Weisberger is the most boring writer. Talk about wasted opportunities. That experience is a goldmine of laughs, and I just found it very trying.

I'm currently halfway through The Corrections. I love aspects of it, but overall I'm torn.

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#144

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:19pm

The Devil Wears Prada was a big old bore. For great trash, I much prefer Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes.

#145

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:23pm

I've been meaning to read Bergdorf Blondes! I'll take it on my trip to Paris next month.

For fluff reading, I love the Shopoholic series.

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#146

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:26pm

I took Confessions of a Shopaholic out of the library a while ago but never got around to it.

Bergdorf Blondes is perfect light trip reading. You could probably finish the whole book on the plane!

#147

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:26pm

My fluff reading has consisted of going through all the Fables trades over and over. :) Seriously, I'm an addict. And the next one isn't out until December! Gah.

#148

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:33pm

Thank God New Yorkers read. Everytime I visit friend in L.A., they have no idea what I'm talking about.

One of my smart friends (well, I thought so) actually asked me who Sylvia Plath was.

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#149

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:35pm

I want to get "Nocturne" by Adam Rapp from the library.

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And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps... What did she realize, Kitten? That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had... Where? On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.

#150

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Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:49pm

Just finished Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Now, it is goodbye to Phaedrus and hello to Christopher Johnson McCandless in Into The Wild.