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Reply #30 posted 01/31/03 6:58am

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IstenSzek said:

"It's quite a lot, but that's mainly due to the fact that
I've got little to no social life. Never really cared 4
one either, which is why I have loads of time to read all
those books.


Yikes, that's honest!
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Reply #31 posted 01/31/03 7:00am

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ConsciousContact said:

IstenSzek said:

"It's quite a lot, but that's mainly due to the fact that
I've got little to no social life. Never really cared 4
one either, which is why I have loads of time to read all
those books.


Yikes, that's honest!



Yeah, well, I'm alway honest. Besides, I choose to not
have a social life, so I'm really not bothered talking
about that

smile
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Reply #32 posted 01/31/03 9:45am

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IstenSzek said:

"The master and Margarita" -M.A. Bulgakov
"Pale Fire" -Vladimir Nabokov
"Ada or Ardor" -Vladimir Nabokov
"Voyage au bout de la Nuit" -Louis Ferdinand Céline.
"The Trial" -Franz Kafka
"Metamorphosis" -Franz Kafka
"Midnights Children" -Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses" -Salman Rushdie
"The Moor's Last Sigh" -Salman Rushdie
"The Flowers Of Evil [poems]" -Charles Baudelaire
"Ariël [poems]" -Sylvia Plath
"The Bell Jar" -Sylvia Plath
"Selected Poems 1947-1995 [poems]" -Alan Ginsberg
"Brave New World" -Aldous Huxley
"Wuthering Heights" -Emily Brontë
"The Brothers Karamazov" -Fjodor Dostoyevski
"The Foundation Pit" -Andrey Platonov
"The Sun Also Rises" -Ernest Hemingway
"For Whom The Bell Tolls" -Ernest Hemingway
"On The Road" -Jack Kerouac
"Faust [pt I & II]" -Goethe
"MacBeth" -Willy S.
"The Claudius Novels" -Robert Graves
"Collected Short Fiction" -Dorothy Parker
"Death In Venice" -Thomas Mann
"The Magic Mountain" -Thomas Mann
"Pride and Prejudice" -Jane Austen
"The Pickwick Papers" -Charles Dickens
"Bleak House" -Charles Dickens
"The Moonstone" -Wilkie Collins
"A Passage To India" -E.M. Forster
"To The Lighthouse" -Virginia Woolf
"Dead Souls" -N. Gogol
"Waiting for Godot" -Samuel Beckett
"Krapp's Last Tape" -Samuel Beckett
"The Cherry Orchard" -Anton P. Chekhov
"The elementary particles" -Michel Houllebecq
"Chronicle of a death Foretold" -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Middlemarch" -George Elliot
"Vanity Fair" -William. M. Thackeray
"Nostromo" -Joseph Conrad
"An outcast of the Islands" -Joseph Conrad
"Max Havelaar" -Multatuli
"The Aspern Papers" -Henry James

"The Epic Of Gilgamesh"
"Beowulf"




What!!! no Jackie Collins call yourself a reader !!!


And whats wrong with The old man and the sea?
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Reply #33 posted 02/01/03 3:55am

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jubalH said



And whats wrong with The old man and the sea?



There's nothing wrong with it, but it's just a bit
predicatble. From the moment he hooks the fish you
just know that he'll eventually catch him and loose
him again on his way home.

Still a great read, I admit, but I just like the
other ones better.
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