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Trying to get thoroughly into William Faulkner.
DW, Reading your post gave me a start. Just the other day I was thinking about a statement you made about liking depressing novels. I was wondering how serious you were and why if true, you might be drawn to depressing works. And then I thought, "ah, he needs to read William Faulkner's "Sound and the Fury." I loved this book, so beautiful and so tragic. And here you are reading Falkner.
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I've enjoyed a few of Pratchett's "disc world" books. He's a very funny writer. I was sad to hear that Pratchett was recently diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's.
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Today, I have bookmarks in various positions in:
The Dragon Reborn ~ Robert Jordan
Stardust ~ Neil Gaiman
House of Leaves ~ Mark Danielewski
The Phantom of the Opera ~ Gaston Leroux
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currently reading:
''eesti rahva ennemuistsed jutud'' by kreutzwald . haha . it translates as ''fairytales of estonian people''. and it's in my school readinglist. but before that i read ''Jane Eyre''. Again.
i LOVEE jane eyre! i had to read it for school and i thought it would be borng but as it turns out, i find that edward rochester is the best character everr! (ok maybe he goes after edward cullen, who is named after mr rochester according to meyer herself )
anyways, im currently reading "thanks for the memories" by cecilia ahern who also wrote PS i love you .... its very funny and is fast paced which is always good it was recommended by my cousin who is more of a bookworm than i am ..
i also have my bookmarks on the revolutionary road and someone like you .. i have just finished reading breaking dawn about 2 hours ago .
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I'm reading The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Gabriel García Márquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude. Still struggling to get through Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, though...
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I absolutely adored One Hundred Years of Solitude. I am now moving on to War and Peace and The Count of Monte Cristo for history class - to get a good idea of the 'Zeitgeist' in the (post) Napoleontic age.
After that, I don't know. Does anyone have good suggestions?
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So you mean that you haven't read The Battle Of The Labyrinth yet?? I'm waiting for The Last Olympian to go to paperback so that I can buy it. When I was in Tampa, I bought 5 or 6 books so I'm ocupied. Plus my school library offers great books that I can't wait to dig into.
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Lol im sure as soon as i get back into school ill ge re-pre-occupied with books once more. We have to read 12 different genres of books each quarter and write reports on them so my newfound love for books ever since i joined this forum should help a lot
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it was recommended by my cousin who is more of a bookworm than i am ..
I'm waiting for The Last Olympian to go to paperback so that I can buy it. When I was in Tampa, I bought 5 or 6 books so I'm ocupied. Plus my school library offers great books that I can't wait to dig into.
so my newfound love for books ever since i joined this forum should help a lot 
