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A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving, which my sister gave me for my twenty-fifth birthday, all those moons ago, and i still haven't finished reading it. so far, though, it is good.

That is a great book, along with The World according to Garp & Hotel New Hampshire, I love John Irving's books

i adored The World According To Garp, and the only reason this book has taken me so long to read is that i've simply dropped out of the habit of reading fiction in the last couple of years. i've brought it to work with me now so i can take it on my lunch breaks. hopefully i'll actually get round to reading it and finishing it!

I PROMISE THAT I WON'T START TALKING LIKE THIS THOUGH.

reading how dogs think..grrruf

mostly harmless by douglas adams

One Child, By Torey Hayes.

I've gotten into reading biography types, started with Dave Peltzer's A Child Called IT.

Now I'm reading Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. A bit lighter reading as the last book made me cry a lot!

(bringing this thread up because a similar one just popped up on another forum I'm on)

Last week, I read:
Natasha: and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (as always, he had me laughing out loud)
Taft by Ann Patchett (I found this disappointing compared to the other books of hers that I've read)

I'm currently working on:
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson

And I feel like I'm forgetting to mention something... weird.

did i miss this thread?

the time traveller's wife, by..... uh sorry, can't be bothered to go check. it's very good tho.

Dave, it's just a slow thread

Just finished Night Watch by Terry Pratchett again. The lilac tree on the way to my son's creche was in bloom and the date was right.

Currently reading The Alchemist by Iain M. Banks. Finding it heavy going

Oh, and every English paper with a sports section

Edit. Of course that should be The Algebreist by Mr. Banks

I haven't noticed this thread before either.

At the moment I am reading, or actually studying (for my uni entrance exams,) Tristes Tropiques (that's the original name of it, I'm of course reading it in Finnish and here it's called Tropiikin kasvot) by Lévi-Strauss. For those who don't know, Lévi-Strauss is a famous French anthropologist. This is from Wikipedia:

This book was essentially a travel novel detailing his time as a French expatriate throughout the 1930s. But Lévi-Strauss combined exquisitely beautiful prose, dazzling philosophical meditation, and ethnographic analysis of Amazonian peoples to produce a masterpiece.

I myself just think that the book is really weird (sometimes in a fascinating way, but often also in a boring way), since the author frequently starts either describing or philosophizing about the oddest things. The book is also heavy on the scientific lingo, which makes it a difficult read.



Oh and I love The World According To Garp too!

On the train down to Windsor, I read Douglas Rushkoff's Ecstasy Club which was a good way to pass the time, but not much else.

On the way back I started Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost - I've been meaning to read it for a while (I think I bought it about two and a half years ago, that's embarrassing... then again, I do buy a lot of books). [/url]

I'm reading 'The Adventure Of English: The Biography Of A Language' by Melvyn Bragg. Very interesting, but you can tell he's a TV journalist and not a professional history writer. It's written like a fun adventure story about the English language, rather than a detailed explanation of its origins.

Funky Dung

lol @ kvagga!

I'm reading the same bloody book for the same (bloody) exams!!!

I thought of asking you before what you were planning to study, but I don't have to guess anymore. Hehe.

Oh, but that's too cool though!

I've already had my exam for English philology in Helsinki, but I still got two exams to go - including the one with Levi-Strauss. Tsk, you go around you come around.

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Aside from study books, I just finished reading "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner, about John Carmack and John Romero of Wolf3d/Doom/Quake fame. That was bloody fun, pardon my pun (oh, that rhymes).

I'm reading the same bloody book for the same (bloody) exams!!!

Wow, it's a small world...

I really doubt that I'll get in this year though, since I've been really lazy with the reading (haven't even finished the first book yet and the exam is in just a few days).

Heh, what are you gonna go and study there then? Japan/Japanese?

(sorry for those who don't care: skip skip skip)

oh, I haven't even started those books yet, not at all...

Look, I already had an exam for English philology, I guess that's my safest bet. I have spent the closing year in Tampere as an English student, but I feel like moving to Helsinki.

My second best bet is philosophy, but since there were three slots to fill (if you wished) in the e-form I decided to pick an interesting third subject, just for the heck of it really...

What am I gonna study more precisely if I get in? Oh, I don't know... Probably whatever has the most interesting courses!
Was japan on the list? cool... I thought maybe egyptology or something of that sort. Who knows!

See you there then...

I'm off to our summer cabin, for some peace and quiet.