because I have a very short list, I have to ask that question. The Pamuk one... snow, I believe it was called, was best among the books I have finished. But I do think that the tin drum by grass starts out a lot better, and I should probably get to finishing that one soon.
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world" - Calvin.
What's the best book you've read so far this year?
- 22/02/2010 04:34:39 PM
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Re: While it was not the most clever or innovative or what-have-you
- 22/02/2010 04:44:30 PM
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Best Served Cold
- 22/02/2010 05:57:27 PM
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I will pick up Abercrombie at some point. Ben has them. <3 Ben's bookshelves. *NM*
- 10/03/2010 09:21:24 PM
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy.... In fact, it is one of the best I've read ever! *NM*
- 22/02/2010 09:03:18 PM
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In the Valley of the Kings by Terrence Holt.
- 22/02/2010 10:23:04 PM
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After googling that...
- 10/03/2010 09:23:37 PM
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It truly is great. Larry reviewed it here sometime in September or October. *NM*
- 19/03/2010 12:00:21 AM
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A Game of Thrones
- 22/02/2010 10:34:56 PM
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Re: I'm going to be that bitch
- 22/02/2010 10:44:03 PM
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I don't know whether to agree or disagree with this.
- 23/02/2010 03:17:02 PM
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- 23/02/2010 03:17:02 PM
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Re: I don't know whether to agree or disagree with this.
- 23/02/2010 03:38:13 PM
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- 23/02/2010 03:38:13 PM
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Andromaque by Jean Racine.
- 22/02/2010 10:39:12 PM
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En français?
- 10/03/2010 09:25:23 PM
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Oui. Renaissance French isn't that different from modern French.
- 11/03/2010 01:04:09 AM
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While Cloud Atlas was indeed a very fine book that I read this year...
- 22/02/2010 10:58:45 PM
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Elizabeth Bear's By the Mountain Bound was sick good. *NM*
- 22/02/2010 11:37:47 PM
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Either a Storm of Swords or Gardens of the Moon *NM*
- 22/02/2010 11:55:17 PM
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Both "Grass" by Sheri Tepper & "Pandora's Star" by Peter Hamilton *NM*
- 23/02/2010 05:15:06 AM
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If you had to recommend one of those to someone, which would you choose and why? *NM*
- 10/03/2010 09:29:23 PM
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- 23/02/2010 08:36:27 AM
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Fateless by Imre Kertesz
- 23/02/2010 10:04:55 AM
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I think I like most things you read, so that's going on my list too. *NM*
- 10/03/2010 09:30:11 PM
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The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell *NM*
- 24/02/2010 03:04:56 PM
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I've picked up Cornwell many times and then put them down again.
- 10/03/2010 09:31:58 PM
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Re: I've picked up Cornwell many times and then put them down again.
- 19/03/2010 12:08:36 AM
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War with the Newts by Karel Čapek *NM*
- 27/02/2010 10:06:10 AM
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I love the title. May have to read it based on that alone. *NM*
- 10/03/2010 09:32:23 PM
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Re: I love the title. May have to read it based on that alone.
- 11/03/2010 07:43:03 PM
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