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Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!
« Reply #330 on: March 28, 2010, 09:58:33 pm »
brighton rock by graham greene.

it's about a seventeen year old sociopath who heads a local gang.  he kills a guy and spends the entire book trying to cover his tracks.  it was...really damn interesting.



i started to re-read battle royale, but i am SO not up for that yet.  too intense.  an absolutely AMAZINGGGG book, though, and one that you should all go read immediately.
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Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!
« Reply #331 on: March 29, 2010, 08:29:17 am »
I really want to read /I am Not a Serial Killer/.... but my library doesn't have it and I'm not buying a book I haven't read that isn't part of a series I know I love ... :(
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Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!
« Reply #332 on: April 01, 2010, 03:10:37 pm »
Le Petit Prince. One of the books - if not the book - I sorely regret reading after growing up...
“That's it. I'm just following my nose and waiting to see what comes up.”
“Welcome to the club.”
“Club? What club is that?”
“The International Brotherhood of Lost Dogs. What else? We're letting you in as a certified, card-carrying member. Serial number zero zero zero zero.”
“I thought that was your number.”
“It is. But it's your number too. That's one of the beauties of the Brotherhood. Everyone who joins gets the same number.”

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Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!
« Reply #333 on: April 12, 2010, 08:11:28 am »
I am Not a Serial Killer- Dan Wells (other brother bought it for meeee)

basically a kid who knows he's a sociopath tries not to kill people while trying to catch a serial killer.

I'm so excited.
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Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!
« Reply #334 on: August 30, 2010, 10:55:37 pm »
i read the entire hunger games series in three days, and i really liked it.  though the end was really depressing and then rushed to make slightly less depressing, which i didn't appreciate.  it would have been more satisfying to read a hundred more pages if i got a better described, more fulfilling ending.  but still a good series.

doesn't compare to battle royale, though.  re-read that one recently, and it freaking blew me away.
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Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!
« Reply #335 on: August 31, 2010, 11:05:23 am »
Paul Auster's The Music Of Chance.
“That's it. I'm just following my nose and waiting to see what comes up.”
“Welcome to the club.”
“Club? What club is that?”
“The International Brotherhood of Lost Dogs. What else? We're letting you in as a certified, card-carrying member. Serial number zero zero zero zero.”
“I thought that was your number.”
“It is. But it's your number too. That's one of the beauties of the Brotherhood. Everyone who joins gets the same number.”

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Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!
« Reply #336 on: August 31, 2010, 06:30:32 pm »
I'm reading Mockingjay today but I started Hunger Games last night and Catching Fire I finished this morning. Yesterday, before I started Hunger Games, I finished The Way of Kings. I got lucky with that (since it only came out today) because I won an advanced copy from an online drawing. So cool :D
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Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!
« Reply #337 on: September 01, 2010, 09:12:09 pm »
advanced copies are super awesome.

what did you think of the hunger games?
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Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!
« Reply #338 on: September 02, 2010, 02:36:35 pm »
I loved the first book and liked the second. Mockingjay I think could have been a  good amount better. The ending was too cute and I really REALLY am just waiting for a YA novel with a love triangle and a huge teen following to throw everyone for a loop and embrace polyamory.

Like srsly.
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Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!
« Reply #339 on: September 02, 2010, 11:22:11 pm »
i felt pretty much the same.  mockingjay was sort of joyless the whole way through and then suddenly at the end--in like two pages!--she summed it up and gave it some sweet little finale.  it felt false and stupid.  i still liked the book as a whole, i think, but yeah.

and what are you waiting for?  write that damn book!  i'd read it and give it a starred review.  and many, many people would care about my review because i'm such a big deal, you see.
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Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!
« Reply #340 on: September 03, 2010, 04:37:50 pm »
obviously. I mean, I've even heard of you.
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Re: What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!
« Reply #341 on: September 04, 2010, 11:30:29 pm »
exactly!
"Whatever you end up doing, love it."  --Cinema Paradiso