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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #60 on: December 28, 2007, 06:46:11 pm »
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Quote from: DivideBy0 on December 27, 2007, 12:44:09 am
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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #61 on: December 29, 2007, 10:00:02 pm »
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Malouf- Collected Stories

I love the lyricalness of his writing
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« Reply #62 on: December 29, 2007, 10:01:36 pm »
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Malouf- Collected Stories

I love the lyricalness of his writing

Malouf?? What's their first name? I'm related to the Malouf family lol
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« Reply #63 on: December 29, 2007, 10:07:15 pm »
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Malouf- Collected Stories

I love the lyricalness of his writing

Malouf?? What's their first name? I'm related to the Malouf family lol


David Malouf- great australian writer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Malouf
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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #64 on: December 30, 2007, 01:29:33 pm »
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I just finished reading David Malouf's "Fly Away Peter" for school. I personally didn't really like it, it had some good moments, but it's not my kind of book.


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« Reply #65 on: December 30, 2007, 05:03:58 pm »
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what sort of books do you like elaine?
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« Reply #66 on: December 30, 2007, 09:38:37 pm »
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Quote from: Stefanos on December 28, 2007, 04:42:37 pm
i've read robert jordan the wheel of time series ... and ian irvines view from the mirror series ... and the well of echoes series from him as well...and harry potter series ... and now reading terry goodkinds the sword of truth series... so yeah fantasy ftw!
Ian Irvines...I like his books too. Have you read his Song of the Tears Trilogy?(only 2 of the 3 written atm though, continues on from the Well of Echoes)
I've just read I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (waiting to see the movie). I'm about to start reading Kate Elliott's Spirit Gate.
Go fantasy!
 
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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #67 on: December 30, 2007, 10:10:42 pm »
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Quote from: elaine98 on December 30, 2007, 01:29:33 pm
I just finished reading David Malouf's "Fly Away Peter" for school. I personally didn't really like it, it had some good moments, but it's not my kind of book.
yeah, i read that too for english in yr11. i personally really dislike malouf's writing style; he focuses a lot on imagery and as a result his structure and flow is shocking. there's a sentence in that book that goes for 3/4 of a page, for god's sake! shocking stuff.
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« Reply #68 on: December 30, 2007, 10:36:27 pm »
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Quote from: lishan515 on December 29, 2007, 10:00:02 pm
Malouf- Collected Stories

I love the lyricalness of his writing

Malouf?? What's their first name? I'm related to the Malouf family lol


David Malouf- great australian writer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Malouf

Lol for some reason he looks familiar... I'll have to ask my parents... definitely could be related to him
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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #69 on: December 31, 2007, 12:16:21 am »
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Quote from: humphdogg on December 30, 2007, 10:10:42 pm
Quote from: elaine98 on December 30, 2007, 01:29:33 pm
I just finished reading David Malouf's "Fly Away Peter" for school. I personally didn't really like it, it had some good moments, but it's not my kind of book.
yeah, i read that too for english in yr11. i personally really dislike malouf's writing style; he focuses a lot on imagery and as a result his structure and flow is shocking. there's a sentence in that book that goes for 3/4 of a page, for god's sake! shocking stuff.

really... I loved fly away peter... the description of the jam and then the explosion ...that was chilling stuff...
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« Reply #70 on: January 01, 2008, 12:01:18 pm »
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  I'm reading: "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" and "A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian"
 
  Both very benign titles but [so far] awesome reads.

 
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« Reply #71 on: January 02, 2008, 09:55:55 pm »
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ooh my thread got merged into here. So now I have a link to this thread stating I don't like this thread. Niice xD

Anyway, you have to keep in mind I haven't read nothing yet. For like, ever. The only thing I've considered is going through the vce english books and picking things from there (surely some of them have to be good? =/)
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« Reply #72 on: January 04, 2008, 02:20:44 am »
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a lot of chuck pahlaniuk, jm coetzee, cormac mccarthy,sartre. im trying to understand exegesis by philip k dick and and thus spake zarathustra but they are both very abstract. im pretty sure philip k was high when writing exegesis.
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« Reply #73 on: January 06, 2008, 11:27:21 am »
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I just finished reading 'The Persimmon Tree' by Bryce Courtenay. His books tend to have similar characteristics such as events and such, but I still love his books :p. I'm also a big fan of Matthew Reilly books :).
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Re: What books are you reading?
« Reply #74 on: January 06, 2008, 09:44:42 pm »
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Quote from: memka on December 30, 2007, 09:38:37 pm
Quote from: Stefanos on December 28, 2007, 04:42:37 pm
i've read robert jordan the wheel of time series ... and ian irvines view from the mirror series ... and the well of echoes series from him as well...and harry potter series ... and now reading terry goodkinds the sword of truth series... so yeah fantasy ftw!
Ian Irvines...I like his books too. Have you read his Song of the Tears Trilogy?(only 2 of the 3 written atm though, continues on from the Well of Echoes)
I've just read I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (waiting to see the movie). I'm about to start reading Kate Elliott's Spirit Gate.
Go fantasy!
 

nah i havent read the new series by ian irvine yet.. (my sister has lolz)... cause im reading another series ... so many series to read ahh
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