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Annadog40 said
^ I reccomend Misery by Steven King.
Good stuff, it is on the TBR list- along with about 40 other books 
I’m (hopefully) getting 13-16 books for Christmas (they’re all used before anyone thinks I’m rolling in it) so Misery will be pushed down a fair bit but I’ll get around to it sometime!
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Offline I’m reading E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith. It’s by this guy who believes there is going to be a religion focusing on Elvis.
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Offline ‘It’ and ‘ The Shining’ are my two favourite King novels, and ‘Misery ‘ is fine too. Enjoy Applescruff.
Finished James Ellroy’s new novel, Perfidia, yesterday, then met the great – and slightly unhinged (in a good way) – man at a reading at the Mitchell Library last night. One off the bucket list: meet and chat with the greatest (imo) living crime writer…
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Offline @Father McCartney, is that the Mitchell Library in Glasgow by any chance?
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@Father McCartney, is that the Mitchell Library in Glasgow by any chance?
That’s the one, @meanmistermustard. Was a great night. Are you local to it?
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Offline I just finished reading Blood of Olympus. 
You were right @LittleBeatlemaniac, I loved it. The whole story was epic and the final battle was just beyond cool.
It is sad that this is the last book, however. But, I guess, All Things Must Pass …
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@Beatleva I’m glad you liked it. My friend thinks that they come back in Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, because there was no an epilogue. Whose you favourite character? Mine’s Leo.
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Offline King Lear for English class. Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler for English class. Night, by Elie Wiesel for English class. Sensing a theme?
(By the way, all 3 are excellent, and come with recommendations, although Barney’s Version comes with the caveat that you need to be prepared to read about a lot of obscure hockey scores from the 1950’s.)
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
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beatleva I’m glad you liked it. My friend thinks that they come back in Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, because there was no an epilogue. Whose you favourite character? Mine’s Leo.
I would love them to come back in Magnus Chase and the gods of asgard, but that is about Norse mythology… Maybe ‘Magnus Chase’ could have something to do with Annabeth Chase?
I don’t really have a favourite character, I just love all of them. But if I would have to choose I’d go for Annabeth, I think.
Edit: I just looked it up and found out that Magnus Chase is Annabeth’s cousin. So, yes I do really hope that they’ll reappear there.
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mr. Sun king coming together said ?
(By the way, all 3 are excellent, and come with recommendations, although Barney’s Version comes with the caveat that you need to be prepared to read about a lot of obscure hockey scores from the 1950’s.)
I like a lot of Mordecai Richler, especially “Duddy Kravitz” but I’ve never gotten around to “Barney’s Version” yet. I tried to watch the movie at my mom’s place awhile ago on direct-tv but it was late at night and I fell asleep (I’d probably been drinking with my sister and bro-in-law lol)
Just finished “The Road to Woodstock” by Michael Lang, the guy who basically put the festival together.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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Offline mr. Sun king coming together said
King Lear for English class. Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler for English class. Night, by Elie Wiesel for English class. Sensing a theme?
(By the way, all 3 are excellent, and come with recommendations, although Barney’s Version comes with the caveat that you need to be prepared to read about a lot of obscure hockey scores from the 1950’s.)
Sounds more like a pro than a con to me
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Offline vonbontee said
mr. Sun king coming together said ?
(By the way, all 3 are excellent, and come with recommendations, although Barney’s Version comes with the caveat that you need to be prepared to read about a lot of obscure hockey scores from the 1950’s.)
I like a lot of Mordecai Richler, especially “Duddy Kravitz” but I’ve never gotten around to “Barney’s Version” yet. I tried to watch the movie at my mom’s place awhile ago on direct-tv but it was late at night and I fell asleep (I’d probably been drinking with my sister and bro-in-law lol)
Duddy Kravitz is gonna be my Christmas break read. I just have to get to Christmas first.
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mr. Sun king coming together said
King Lear for English class. Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler for English class. Night, by Elie Wiesel for English class. Sensing a theme?
(By the way, all 3 are excellent, and come with recommendations, although Barney’s Version comes with the caveat that you need to be prepared to read about a lot of obscure hockey scores from the 1950’s.)
Sounds more like a pro than a con to me
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Offline mr. Sun king coming together said
King Lear for English class. Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler for English class. Night, by Elie Wiesel for English class. Sensing a theme?
(By the way, all 3 are excellent, and come with recommendations, although Barney’s Version comes with the caveat that you need to be prepared to read about a lot of obscure hockey scores from the 1950’s.)
I read Night for my English class recently. We spent over a month on it, dissecting the included techniques. Despite being such a short memoir, it carries a powerful message.
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Offline Boys and squirrels, I’m looking for a recommendation of any fiction book set during the 1960’s preferably featuring on youth culture in American/Britain?
Anyone know of any such gems? (Except for the excellent ‘A Song From Dead Lips’ by William Shaw of course)
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Offline I’ve started reading the occult and metaphysical books in Elvis Presley’s library. Currently I’m working on The Impersonal Life by Joesph S. Benner. Next will be The Infinite Way by Joel Goldsmith.
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Offline The Fab Forum. 
No, really, it’s mostly stuff for my World Literature class. Last month we read The Merchant Of Venice, which was the most fun I’d had all year, pretty much, because I’m dead keen on Shakespeare (
to you,). This month it’s Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. So I’m bouncing between that and a manga series which I discovered as a result of the same class (the December reading was pick-your-own-manga, which really scared me ‘cos I never, as a rule, read manga and I had no idea where to begin). It’s called Bakuman, and it’s good fun.
And now I really have to stop rattling away at the forum because one of the class requirements is that we do an analysis of each month’s book, and it’s due in a week and I haven’t even started yet!!!! 
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Offline Cailín Amaideach said
The Fab Forum.No, really, it’s mostly stuff for my World Literature class. Last month we read The Merchant Of Venice, which was the most fun I’d had all year, pretty much, because I’m dead keen on Shakespeare (
to you,
And now I really have to stop rattling away at the forum because one of the class requirements is that we do an analysis of each month’s book, and it’s due in a week and I haven’t even started yet!!!!
I love ‘The Merchant of Venice’, studied it 2 years ago for my Junior Cert (my favourite character was Gobbo).
At the moment I am reading The Godfather, I’m 470ish pages in out of 593 and I hope to have it finished tonight (it’s taken me a week and a half to get through as I wasn’t into it for the first 100 or so pages and now I really like it) as I plan to only read French/German/Irish books until my Leaving Cert then I can piss off with attempting to be cultured.
Then I’ll go back to my classics, ‘Vanity Fair’ is calling me…
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