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Book Talk » 27 and 28 December: What are you reading this weekend? » The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
rascalapache 15 yrs ago | 1 replies
& Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas
Book Talk » Longest book you've ever read? » If you like doorsteps
rascalapache 17 yrs ago
then check out Neal Stephenson's 'Cryptonomicon' and its follow-up 'Baroque Cycle' trilogy - all over 900 pages. Just started 'Against the Day' by Thomas Pynchon - 1000+ large pages with small type - only 60 in and enjoy…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » *Closed* 'The Master and Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov - International Bookray
rascalapache 17 yrs ago | 7 replies
Satan and his retinue visit havoc upon Moscow whilst Margarita searches for her author lover, the Master, and Pilate seeks redemption from the condemned Jesus. Bulgakov's extraordinary Stalin-era satiric fable is simply …
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » *Closed* 'Cryptonomicon' by Neal Stephenson - International Bookray
rascalapache 17 yrs ago | 5 replies
I originally intended to start this bookray a year ago, but due to personal circumstances was unable to do so. My apologies to anyone who contacted me at the time and got no reply. This time it's for real... Check out…
Book Talk » What is your nemesis - multiple attempts to read and determined to achieve! » Re: What is your nemesis - multiple attempts to read and determined to achieve!
rascalapache 17 yrs ago | 9 replies
> Mine are: 1. Foucaults Pendulum (Umberto > Eco) - I have tried this one 4 times and > have got further than the bookmark each > time I tried. Soon I will reach the end! Yup, I'm on Foucaults Pendulum for th…
Book Talk » Looking for Graphic Sex!!! (Suggestions?) » 69 Things to do with a Dead Princess
rascalapache 17 yrs ago | 1 replies
He could try the aforementioned book by Stewart Home. It details the psychosexual adventures of a young woman in Aberdeen. There's a hell of a lot of Situationist/Marxist/Post-Hegelian discourse which I suspect would not…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » 'Cryptonomicon' by Neal Stephenson - International Bookray
rascalapache 18 yrs ago | 8 replies
Check out http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3421428/ But don't just take their word for it - it's a brilliant, rambling 900-page slab of a book - not quite sf, more like fictional history with a twist. Anyon…
Book Talk » Arthur C Clarke » 'The Nine Billion Names of God' (the short story)
rascalapache 18 yrs ago
It has the best last line ever (with the possible exception of 'Candide').
Book Talk » Poetry - - - - What do you recommend? » W. B. Yeats - he sometimes needs a bit of decoding
rascalapache 18 yrs ago
but is just wonderful. Any 'starter' collection of his work would do.
Book Talk » Harold Pinter Nobel laureate in Literature! » I thought the captions were funny too
rascalapache 18 yrs ago | 1 replies
I was just trying to crack a weak joke about 'Pinteresque pauses'. Sorry if you thought I was dissing your humour.

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