*sigh* Kids today just don't appreciate good literature.

Well, I suppose Frankenstein is debatable (it's a bit heavy-handed), but Thomas Mann is utterly brilliant, and Doctor Faustus is one of the best interpretations of the Faustian myth, The Master and Margarita aside, in existence.

And that's my pretentious rant for the day.

I finished Kuroi Senji's Gunsei ("Life in the Cul-de-Sac" though that isn't a literal translation), the other day. Good stuff, I love the Japanese introspective movement. The imagery in the second-to-last vignette was particularly brilliant, though it's kind of odd that wells appear so often in modern Japanese literature... I wonder if it's a lingering influence from the whole emphasis on well spirits in old Okinawan religious practices? Or maybe I'm just missing a more contemporary point of origin.

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You are kind of boring - Blackorion
Congratulations! Ur an asshole! - tokyo_homi
Your awesome!!! - Cherelle_Ashley
NightSwan also said that she wanted to peg me, once, but I'm not sure whether to take that as a compliment or a threat...

I'm about to finish "The Tale of Murasaki".

I try to find time to read. I don't read as much as I did when I high school - maybe one novel every 2 months?

I just finished A Brave New World Aldous Huxley, last night. I found it fascinating (I don't understand why everyone said that the start - where they explain their process of manufacturing babies- was boring. It was really quite interesting) although I don't feel like I understood some of the finer nuances of meaning near the ending, but that was probably because it was getting quite late, and I was tired. It's something I'm going to need to re-read. This one was kinda scary though, because I could actually picture something similar to this happening in the future. (Highly unlikely... but it could happen... not the baby manufacturing or anything, but where shallow happiness doesn't need to be achieved, or worked for; it's instant and constant. We kinda already have it actually, in TV. )

And then I read Fahrenheit 451 last week. I understood the meaning of that one, but the fact that I still don't understand the digital 'families' still is really bugging me, even if it's not very important, nor is it the point of the book.

So, basically I've been reading books about "ideal" Utopian societies where everyone thinks they're "happy" but in reality no one really is. I found it interesting comparing the two versions of happiness.

And then I'm planning to read 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale soon. I've been on a dystopian(sp?) kick lately.

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yesterday around 3 o'click (it was nighttime) i finished reading Rumour Has it by Jill Mansell in about 10 hours...

i read books quite often, lots of them...

but Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol i'm reading like almost a year now, somehow i just cant finish it 'cuz some places yeah, they're great but some are so boring that i simply cant continue...O.o when i bought it i thought i'd finish it in one days time, 'cuz usually when i like some book and it's interesting i finish it in 1 day...

now i'm gonna re-read some Judith McNaught or Kat Martin's book...^^

hey, does any of you have Kat Martins The Fire Inside (2001) or Fanning the Flame (2002)...?i wanna read them but cant buy nor find them...T_T

hmmm...i think i'm gonna read some detective or horror book later, ya know, where somebody gets kild, just to get out of all these happy endings...^^

aaah...i'm also reading Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, you know...i'm waiting when the last (6th) book will come out and also Inheritance Cycle's last(4th) book by Christopher Paolini
and also Vampire Diaries books by L. J. Smith... and and i found out that my fav tv series Roswell was actually (more or less) on books aswell...yaaaaaaaay, i'm gonna find and read them too...

i like romance, detective,horror, fantasy, historicals (especially them), some poetry, science, nature and animals...

you know, i'm actually a manga and book freak...lol, among my friends i've read the most i think, they tease me about that...^^

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Yesterday I finished rereading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis for the umpth time.

Really should have read 1984 first, that is like the quintessential dystopian novel. I prefer the unhappy, you know your unhappy...but there isn't anything you can do about it, dystopia. I dunno, 1984 just seems like a more realistic approach to the whole topic. Huxley is brilliant though.

Currently reading as I try and type... Tales from the Thousand and One Nights.


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Probably, but I hadn't any of idea of it (beyond seeing it at the bookstore a couple times before) before I read Fahrenheit 451, which I had picked up at random at Barnes and Noble.

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yesterday ^^ i just finished Notes From Underground...quite awsome

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Today. I read soooo many pages of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison for my summer assignment book. It's pretty brilliant.

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Just finished reading books 2 and 3 from Darren Shan's The Demonata series. I don't think I've ever read a book targeted at teens that had such vivid gore in it as these two, but I liked it. A lot.

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I read Pattern Recognition last week, just started Spook Country. Pattern Recognition was a lot of fun.

months its been busy for me since summer starts because we were moving to a new house- i wish i could start readin soon

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A few days ago: An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green. Not all the way through it, yet, just taking a break XD.
Before that I read Paper Towns, by the same author, and finished that one within three days <3. (I still need to read Looking For Alaska by him.)

Last night.

I finished reading Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran a few nights ago.