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[anthyp]

Heh, I always have time for a little Beckett ... either his Collected Fiction or Complete Short Plays are always given a glance through once or twice a week.

Mm, and I brought over Paradise Lost as well, my my colleen, how I approve of your taste in books. There have been plenty of other interesting mentions in this thread as well, though in all honesty, I haven't really been reading all that much; at least not as much as I used to (and would like to).

It's hard to get books here, yeah. I still have the same ones I brought from home. And I would feel weird spending too much time cooped up indoors, reading. I mean I'm in China, there are things happening outside my door that are worth a hell of a lot of books. Even good ones (like Cien Anos de Soledad, my favorite) and not - so - good ones (hell I'd even give Catcher in the Rye another shot, I'm that desperate).

Not that posting on Dave's is much better, I guess I just need new stuff to read.

[kev7161]

I'm just the opposite. I'd rather be reading than having yet another "wonderful" China experience. Is it August yet?

[Captain Yossarian]

Bill Bryson's rather fine 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'.

[Sadken]

Finally got round to 100 years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Wondering why I put it off for so long; it's fantastic.

[Captain Yossarian]

Hi Sadken,

'100 Years of Solitude' is wonderful, but 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is even better.

A previous message was talking about Bill Bryson's 'Mother Tongue'. I read it again recently and agree that some of it appears dated; though I think this is because many of the bizarre facts he discusses (which two words end in 'gry' etc) are now well known. The fact that some of the things he states no longer hold true is an indicator of the way English has developed since its publication (1990?).

[Sweetsee]

I am currently wading through several books:

1. Venus in Furs

2. Villa Incognito

3. The Da Vinci Code

I have gone from having nothing to read to having been given 5 books, the titles of the other two escape me at the moment but I did start one of them.

Of course, I enjoy reading the DY every day!

[voodikon]

[jpvanderwerf2001]

Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco. Just finished. I don't know, it was okay. Don't know if I'd recommend it. Why am I writing this?

Anyone read A Confederacy of Dunces? THAT I'd recommend.

[Guy Courchesne]

[jpvanderwerf2001]

[Sadken]