What are you currently reading?

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  1. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    It's actually The Histories...I've read it.

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    I'll say the neurosurgery one.
     
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    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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  3. Jude96

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    I just started reading Helter Skelter... gives me the chills
     
  4. Ged

    Ged Tits and Thigh Man.

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    Gogol - "Dead Souls." I just picked up a lot of the Russians for £10 in the charity shop.
     
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  5. Piaf

    Piaf Senior Member

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    Nice.

    What did you get?

    I love Gogol.
     
  6. Ged

    Ged Tits and Thigh Man.

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    Dostoyevsky "Netochka Nezvanova."

    Gogol "Diary Of A Madam And Other Stories."

    Turgenev "Fathers And Sons."

    Pushkin "Eugene Onegin."

    And "Crime And Punishment" and "Anna Karenina", both of which I have read but lost when I sold around 700 books to a book dealer for £120. Many, many beloved books were lost but it was kind of cathartic to let them go.
     
  7. Ged

    Ged Tits and Thigh Man.

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    So yes there must of been around £10 000 worth of books there so I got right royally ripped off. But I actually wanted to get rid of them, and needed the money that very moment.
     
  8. Piaf

    Piaf Senior Member

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    I have a lot (although not quite 700 yet), and I wouldn't part with them easily.

    I understand your pain.
     
  9. TipsyGypsy

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    Gogol is great. Love Russian lit.
     
  10. Piaf

    Piaf Senior Member

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    Did you read it?
     
  11. Piaf

    Piaf Senior Member

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    Oh and to be on topic

    Still my man Guy de Maupassant
     
  12. Aerianne

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    I haven't gotten around to it.
     
  13. jpdonleavy

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    HOLLYWOOD CROWS, by Joseph Wambaugh (companion to HOLLYWOOD STATION

    The First World War, by John Keegan (who's an old hand at this sort of thing)

    The Granta book of American Short Stories (which is very long)

    and a few others - I admit - sometimes I lose track and have to back up a bit
     
  14. jpdonleavy

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    I read that last year - almost gave up a few times -
     
  15. jpdonleavy

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    I'm in the process of doing that with yard sales (garage sales/boot fairs call them what you will) and giving a few to the local OXFAM equivalent and the odd one to friends and some as donations to the local library which maintains both a fre and a for sale table - two shopping bags worth gives soupcon of catharsis - you call them carrier bags to get more syllables going
     
  16. Meliai

    Meliai Banned

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    I'm still reading Anna Karenina. Its never taken me so long to read a book

    I dont get the hype.
     
  17. fjdreams

    fjdreams count chocula

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    i told you keira knightley dies at the end
     
  18. Meliai

    Meliai Banned

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    Thank god, she's insufferable
     
  19. Piaf

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    Mein Kamm
     

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