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What book are you reading now?

Ableton Live 5 Tips and Tricks (PC Publishing)
Ajax Hacks
The Art of RAW Conversion (No Starch)
The Art of SQL
Atlas: Rough Cuts Version
Best of Ruby Quiz (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
The Book of Visual Basic 2005 (No Starch)

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love_books

Creative Computer Crafts (No Starch)
Don't Get Burned on eBay
Enterprise Integration (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Enterprise Services Architecture
Fixing Windows XP Annoyances
Flash 8 Cookbook
Flash 8: Projects for Learning Animation and Interactivity
Flash 8: The Missing Manual
Google: The Missing Manual
Head Rush Ajax

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love_books

HTML Utopia (SitePoint)
Intermediate Perl
iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual
iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual
ISS X-Force: Next Generation Threat Analysis and Prevention (Syngress)
The JavaScript Anthology (SitePoint)
JUNOS Cookbook
Keep it Simple with GarageBand (PC Publishing)
Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005
Learning UML 2.0
Linux Annoyances for Geeks
Mapping and Modding Half-Life 2 Complete (Paraglyph)
Music Projects with Propellerhead Reason (PC Publishing)
MySQL Stored Procedure Programming
Nagios (No Starch)
PGP & GPG (No Starch)
Photoshop CS2 RAW
Practical VoIP Security (Syngress)
Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Pragmatic Ajax (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
Programming PHP
Rails Cookbook: Rough Cut Version
Repairing and Upgrading Your PC
RFID Security (Syngress)
Scripting VMware Power Tools: Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration (Syngress)
SQL Pocket Guide
Steal This Computer Book 4.0 (No Starch)
UML 2.0 Pocket Reference
Use ClickOnce to Deploy Windows Applications
Visual Basic 2005 Express (No Starch)
Visual C# 2005 Black Book (Paraglyph)
Write Great Code, Volume 2 (No Starch)
XAML in a Nutshell

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non-centrally acting

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angels and demons- dan brown

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greeniev

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darth_vader05

angels and demons- dan brown

I read like part of the book a while ago... :rolleyes:

really need to catch up in time before the film comes out :biggrin:

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Genna

Finished The Ghost Writer by John Harwood, and am going to start reading In Cold Blood by Trueman Capote which I've been eager to read since seeing the film.

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happydinosaur

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Over the last few days I have re-read Making History by Stephen Fry for the second time. The little twists always seem to take me by suprise. Probably not the worlds most sensible book to read though whilst trying to revise for an exam about the rise of national socialism in Germany..I now have the fictional slightly altered Fry version of events stuck in my head :redface:

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centime

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Over the last few days I have re-read Making History by Stephen Fry for the second time. The little twists always seem to take me by suprise. Probably not the worlds most sensible book to read though whilst trying to revise for an exam about the rise of national socialism in Germany..I now have the fictional slightly altered Fry version of events stuck in my head

Lol, maybe your examiner will be a fan of his! :biggrin:

I'm actually reading a play at the moment- Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. it was recommended by my English teacher for it's symbolism but so far it just seems like semi-psychotic gibberish, :confused:

and I can't imagine sitting through it as a 2hr play!

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**noooni**

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Lolita
and
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky - both of which iam going through very slowly as am reading school books at the moment as well.

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happydinosaur

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centime

Lol, maybe your examiner will be a fan of his! :biggrin:

I'm actually reading a play at the moment- Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. it was recommended by my English teacher for it's symbolism but so far it just seems like semi-psychotic gibberish, :confused:

and I can't imagine sitting through it as a 2hr play!

It is semi-psychotic gibberish!! Beckett falls into the category of theatre of the absurd. So in a way there is a reasoning behind it all :smile:

It all relies on using metaphors and symbolism to present the innermost states of the mind hence why it has that strange dreamlike/nightmare quality. By having characters doing silly meaningles things, like the whole hat swapping buisness the audience can gain a sense of living in a world which doesn't make sense. I went to see it a few years ago. It was really good. At times it was very fustrating but also it was quite captivating..just watching these people and waiting with them for whatever to happen. The set was really cool to, the stage was not very deep at all. Just the very front of the stage with a big backdrop of the sky which slowly changed colour.

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Elements

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

Reply 1371

**noooni**

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Elements

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

Oooo thats what i want to read next.

Reply 1372

greeniev

3

Elements

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

Read that for English... Not too bad, but sometimes a bit... intimidating... :p:

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**noooni**

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greeniev

Read that for English... Not too bad, but sometimes a bit... intimidating... :p:

Like how?

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AlmostInsane

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, to see if it differs from the film at all.

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foxo

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I'm reading (yes, reading) Talking Heads by Alan Bennett. Absolutely fantastic.

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happydinosaur

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AlmostInsane

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, to see if it differs from the film at all.

I quite enjoyed Choke :biggrin:

Haven't thought of reading fight club..

I'm reading (yes, reading) Talking Heads by Alan Bennett. Absolutely fantastic.

Its been a few years since I read it but it was a wonderful reading experience. Might read it again.

Reply 1377

simatemcprimate

I've just finished both Seven Ancient Wonders and Temple by Matthew Reilly. Temple is an amazing book!!!!!!

I've gone on to start reading Notes From a Big Country by Bill Bryson again.

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Hashshashin

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AlmostInsane

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, to see if it differs from the film at all.

Another book that has lain dormant on my Amazon wishlist for far too long. :smile:

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Zebrastripes

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I'm reading Great Expectations. I'm not even half way through, but i'm loving it. Yet i do always switch my mind to whether i like Pip or not. But i found that with Emma, they are neither the perfect character (i'm not even half way through, i may be disproved).

What book are you reading now?

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