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backwardsvoyager wrote:Bump because I've been interspersing recommendations from this thread with other reading for a few months now (bugger all to do so I'm smashing 3~4 books a week) and there is so much fantastic stuff here that I probably wouldn't have come across otherwise.. very grateful..
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Also just passed the halfway mark towards reading every published Murakami book (in Japanese - there are 70+ volumes, most of the nonfiction/short stories/miscellanea are untranslated)
backwardsvoyager wrote:Recent favourites:
jirodreamsofdank wrote:I'm the only lifelong Trekkie who's never read much sci fi, so I bought THE BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION edited by Jeff Vandermeer (of Annihilation and Borne), sci-fi short fiction from HG Wells onward.
MrNovember wrote:Yeah I'm excited for the movie; it was one of the reasons I finally decided to tackle the book. I also tried to watch Lynch's Dune and was horribly confused
the_bright_undead wrote:Also keep trying The Left Hand of Darkness but can never seem to finish it, sort of too dense for reading on the subway.
cosmicevan wrote:I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I am close to completing the longest book I've ever read...and it's a book I've been reading to my 7 year old son before bed...the 4th Harry Potter - Goblet of Fire. It's 700+ pages!!!
It's a departure from the weird and wild stuff I love like Tom Robbins and Tim Sandlin...or the business/career books I read, but I've been digging the Potter books, plus the bonding time is untouchable.
neonblack wrote:Do you ever just sit back and take a good look at yourself and realize all your riffs are shit and you're a garbage musician?
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