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roadwork
Joined: 24 Nov 2008
Location: Goin' up the country
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| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
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| I've been living here so long and being so isolated, I've lost touch with what is happening in the literary world. |
I know exactly what you mean. I was like that for a while. Just gotta order books from Amazon or Whatthebook.
Way too many folks do TEFL in Korea and wind up utterly braindead layabouts. |
Exactly. I find myself speaking to other foreigners and struggling to find the appropriate vocabulary words.
Now that I have my debit card from the US I can order books again. Not sure what to order though. |
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beercanman
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 12:38 am Post subject: |
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| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
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| A Thousand Splendid Suns was too traumatizing for me to have enjoyed it. What those women went through, and what women continue to go through in Afghanistan is horrifying. But I loved The Kite Runner. |
Husseini is a great author. Anyone know if he has other books?
I just finished 3 John Grisham books last week. This week I'm reading
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam |
I couldn't finish this one. Far too upsetting. The author committed suicide. I'm not surprised. |
Same here, years ago, could not get more than halfway through it, too harsh. Then later I got "The Good German of Nanking" (diary of John Rabe) and could not get near halfway through that, even harsher, brutal photos. Watched some of the DVD "Nanking" with Woody Harrelson and others, could not finish that either, just more misery unabated. |
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jahson4
Joined: 17 Feb 2009
Location: Jamsil
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 6:17 am Post subject: |
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- The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
- Residence on Earth
- Early Greek Thinking
- Easy French Reader |
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Location: Robotting Around the World
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:20 am Post subject: |
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Daves ESL Cafe Korea Forums
msnbc.com
The AP. |
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harlowethrombey
Joined: 17 Mar 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Robot_Teacher wrote: |
Daves ESL Cafe Korea Forums
msnbc.com
The AP. |
That stuff will rot your brain, man.
(in the background, my lunchtime ritual 'worst person in the world. . .')
Also, recently I reread Armor, books 9 and 10 in the WOT series, the and the first two books in Conn Igluden's Caesar and Genghis Khan books. Sorry for the mispellings, I'm too lazy to use google at the moment. |
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ubermenzch
Joined: 09 Jun 2008
Location: bundang, south korea
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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forbidden colors by yukio mishima and ernest hemingways collection of short stories.
forbidden colors gets really good toward the end. i struggled for a while with it though. |
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Bloopity Bloop
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul yo
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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The Goon by Eric Powell
The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman
100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello |
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Kurtz
Joined: 05 Jan 2007
Location: ples bilong me
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:39 am Post subject: |
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Just finished Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, I can only describe the experience of reading that book to pushing out a turd that never wants to come out
Reading now Black Light by Stephen Hunter, a real page turner
Sitting in the cargo bay is Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami |
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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 10:32 am Post subject: |
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"You Can't Win" by Jack Black (the turn of the century hobo, not the comedian)
"Great Russian Short Stories" various - got it off project gutenberg
"Tropic of Capricorn" - Henry Miller
Hmmmm I can't help but notice a trend in my reading habits. I guess I should balance it out and read some Ayn Rand like mentioned previously. I need some cognitive dissonance in my life. |
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movybuf
Joined: 01 Jan 2007
Location: Mokdong
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| alphakennyone wrote: |
| "You Can't Win" by Jack Black (the turn of the century hobo, not the comedian) |
That book is on my all too long "to read" list.
Now I'm reading Bound For Glory by Woody Guthrie. |
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madhusudan
Joined: 30 Jan 2006
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I have a bunch or random books that were given to me. Stuff I wouldn't have chosen for myself, but I'm enjoying branching out a bit.
Now reading The Nighmare of Reason - A Life of Franz Kafka by Ernst Pawel. Before that it was Alaska by James A Michener. |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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This past weekend I finished off Thunder and Ashes by ZA Recht (book 2 of the Morningstar Strain series)
Then on Sunday I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K Dick followed by Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut.
Monday I read We Can Build You also by P.K. Dick.
I read the first 50 pages of Contact by Carl Sagan... and as much as I love totally awesome scientists, his writing was too bland. Now I'm slowly making my way through Halting State by Charles Stross. It's a bit tough, but unlike anything I've ever read before. It's in second-person which I haven't encountered outside of Choose Your Own Adventure Books.
Androids really had a profound effect on me. I found it to be infinitely better than the film.
I love sci-fi and classic dystopian fiction. Suggestions for more are welcome (especially with an emphasis on existentialist philosophy or progressive politics). |
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hexagonsun
Joined: 28 Dec 2007
Location: ROK
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| 100 Years of Solitude |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Nineteen Eighy-Four (again), I teach literature in Korea.
Looking forward to the prequel to Shadow of the Wind by Ruiz Zafon, named The Angel's Game. |
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Buff
Joined: 07 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 11:23 am Post subject: |
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| Here Be Dragons- Sharon Kay Penman |
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