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e_xitmusic

The smell of the warm summer air.

Jun 13, 2006 00:15

"The list", I guess you can call it.

[x] Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
[x] Company, Max Barry
[x] Buddhism, A Concise Introduction, Smith, Novak
[x] A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
[x] Catch-22, Joseph Heller (Alex)
[ ] Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
[ ] The Bible Unearthed, Finkelstein, Silberman (Angela)
[ ] Syrup, Max Barry (Em)
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books, to-do lists

Comments 13

therelientweez June 13 2006, 12:53:42 UTC

Good luck with Crime and Punishment. I had to buy it at Wonderbook because FCPL only has about 5 copies collectively and they're always out. Also, it's hard to get into, but now I'm on Part II and it's good. Haha.

It took me 2 1/2 years to read Catch-22, but I finally did it, and it was great.

e_xitmusic June 14 2006, 13:31:29 UTC

No wonder I haven't been able to get a copy of Crime and Punishment through FCPL for the past year! I actually read the first 100 pages in one sitting during a trip to Border's (in which my aunt and uncle thought that they lost me, hah).

Catch-22 is also hard to find. Even at UMD, I could only find commentary on the novel. I hope I get to read it soon!

confusionebella June 13 2006, 16:01:37 UTC

You read middlesex? Now there's one of many books I've never gotten around to finishing.. how was it?

e_xitmusic June 14 2006, 13:33:06 UTC

Middlesex is not bad, but some of its 524 pages seemed to drag on. I think it was slowed down by the high usage of similes and metaphors (sometimes literally in every other sentence). It's pretty interesting though.

confusionebella June 13 2006, 16:02:38 UTC

Oh, apparently "Apathy and other small victories" is good. I've still yet to read it.. I'm looking for new books to read to. I've gone through about five in the last month and a half.

e_xitmusic June 14 2006, 13:34:32 UTC

Was that book featured on Max Barry's blog? I can't find it anywhere in our public libraries system. However, Max Barry's books seem to all be in the library near where my internship is located. I'm excited to read them all.

confusionebella June 14 2006, 15:41:46 UTC

Yep. With the stickman shooting himself. I still say Syrup is the best of the trio..

e_xitmusic June 15 2006, 19:05:41 UTC

Shh! Don't spoil anything for me yet! I'm probably going to get that book at the end of next week.

Thread 6

here are 2 to maybe try monarck76 June 14 2006, 15:10:08 UTC

Freakanomics, just started it...it's a quick and interesting read...

Also, read Paradise Lost by Milton, but that took me forever to get through.

Re: here are 2 to maybe try e_xitmusic June 15 2006, 19:06:18 UTC

They're added to the list.

P.S. I slept in AGAIN this morning. Agh, I didn't mean to! Do you hate me now?

Re: here are 2 to maybe try monarck76 June 16 2006, 01:26:55 UTC

um, nope...as I slept in also. But tomorrow...tomorrow we MUST both get ourselves out of bed and run, otherwise this 20 days to make it a habbit has been well, only like 6 days or something :-D