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June 20th, 2006, 12:31 PM
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| What do Macheads read? To kick off, here are my favourite authors: Bill Bryson (travel) Stephen Hawking (science) Henning Mankell (fiction) Best book ever read: 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee Worst book ever read: 'The Trigger' by Arthur C Clarke Toughest book to get through: 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville Funniest book (i.e causing stress incontinence): 'A Walk in the Woods' by Bill Bryson Currently reading: 'Frankie & Stankie' by Barbara Trapido
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#2
June 20th, 2006, 12:52 PM
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| Hum… difficult… I read a lot of different things. I just don't read silly stuff, like Barbara Cartland and what's her name? Ah, Danielle Steal :P I love Gore Vidal, specially the non-"historical" ones, like 'Kalki' and 'Duluth'. As for favourite book… I have more than one, I guess. All of Jorge Luis Borges short stories, specially Ficciones. Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment', Capote's 'In Cold Blood', Bret Easton Ellis' 'American Psycho' – I see a pattern here  Anything by Italo Calvino, specially 'If on Winter Night a Traveller' Nabokov's 'Lolita' José Saramago's 'All the names' But also some lighter stuff like Harry Potter and David Lodge. Ah! And I HATE Dickens!
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June 20th, 2006, 02:36 PM
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| Douglas Adams, of course. And William Gibson, of course.
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#4
June 20th, 2006, 02:44 PM
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also like sci-fi, read herbert's dune books, and liked them. also rama and space oddsey books by clarke. fave book is 'being of two minds', and i like the other books by her (pamela f. service)that i have read. also enjoy misteries, like sherlock holmes, and "the cat who..." series. also reading computer books about macs, and macaddict mag.
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June 20th, 2006, 06:36 PM
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| For the most part, I am just NOT into fiction. But I do love books that are intellectual, entertaining, or both... past reads in no particular order.... Stupid White Men by Michael Moore, Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them by Al Franken, The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs... Curent reads Getting Things Done by David Allen, The Complete A**hole's Guide to Handling Chicks by Dan Indante and Karl Marks
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June 21st, 2006, 12:25 AM
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| I like humorous fiction most of all, I guess. P.G. Wodehouse is my favorite. And Mark Twain, too. (Gotta love Project Gutenberg! Especially when you have Tofu.) I'm the only Mac user I know who HASN'T read anything by Douglas Adams, though. But he's on my "To Read" list. Some miscellaneous good books I've read lately are Faster by James Gleick, All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot, and a new favorite of mine, First Kyu by Sung-Hwa Hong.
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#8
June 21st, 2006, 07:57 AM
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| I've tended to read non-fiction, although I did like Douglas Adams' works when I read them years ago. Some of my more recent reads include: 1) "If This is a Man / The Truce" by Primo Levi 2) "The Drowned and the Saved" by Primo Levi 3) "Marcovaldo" by Italo Calvino 4) "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore 5) "Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern" by John Gray |
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