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What notable/memorable books did you read over the summer? Which were your favorites?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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Rushdie x 2 - Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children
Camus - The Plague
Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Javier Marìas: Corazon tam blanco (A so white hart). GREAT!I asked to ILB people opinions...nobody answer me...but it's great!

― Bed (Bed), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I enjoyed reading Vernon God Little this summer.

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Doing It was a good, fun summer read.

― selfnoise, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Patricia Duncker's "Hallucinating Foucault" was short, brilliant and filled with things that I want to memorise and quote randomly.

― Tinka, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Parts One and Two of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy-Part Three is due out in a month.

― Sredni Vashtar, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been able to find one single satisfying novel during the whole summer, and let me tell you, it's terribly frustrating.

― misshajim (strand), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Lots of books, lately!

― the chimefox, Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:19 (twenty years ago)

I am floundering a bit recently, sinced I finished Norman Rush's 'Mating'. I have been flicking through Chekhov short stories and Auden's 'Collected Shorter Poems'.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Of the books I read this summer, two stand out. David Stevenson's "Cataclysm" is an EXCELLENT history of the First World War, one that puts many things about the conflict into perspective while illuminating many long-overlooked elements about it.

I also made the time finally to read Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" -- and I wished I had done so sooner. Not only is it a great book, but it really made me think about the value of reading (I started reading more "literature" as a result).

― Mark Klobas, Friday, 10 September 2004 06:24 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

waz up

― lizzy macreze, Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Planning on:

Brudenbrooks
Lots more Carson McCullers
Faulkner?
Somerset Maugham?
AD&D 1st Ed. Monster Manual.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 28 May 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

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