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What are YOU currently reading? (5)

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plutoaintaplanet

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Well reading and re-reading, cause these are the texts I'm doin for my Eng Lit for 'A' levels (in the midst of it right now..)

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
The Guide by R.K. Narayan
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Collection of War Poems by Wilfred Owen
 
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I'm reading Daily Life In China by Jacques Gernet, for my history class. So far it's boring, I hope it gets more exciting. I noticed that it was written originally in French, so it does have a few weird things about it from the translating.
 
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Just finished Flaubert's Madame Bovary
leaves me with an ambiguious feeling. Like, nothing is clear cut. What Bovary does is wrong, she has illusions about what life is about, yet I couldn't tell her in any satisfacroty way how else to live...
A must read for young naive teenagers. And yet they wouldn't like it, or understand it enough.
 
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Just checked out James Baldwin's Tell it on the mountain.

It's an interesting autobiography but that is still changed a bit, so as to get rid of superfluos details. Like Jame's father was a step father, but John (the main character) has a real father as bad as Jame's step father. So far interesting.
 
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I love that book...and need to re-read it soon :D

It's my first time reading it. I'm about half way though, I think I've only read one other book by this author before.

I'm not sure what I think of the book yet.
 
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
I read that whole series when I was a kid.. Pretty good stuff.
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I will be finished "Lonely Planets" by David Grinspoon tomorrow on my flight to new york...only have about 10 pages to go. Excellent book if you're into non-fiction. Basically just a discussion on how likely it is for extra terrestrial life and intelligence to have evolved and that sort of stuff...
 
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I read that whole series when I was a kid.. Pretty good stuff.

Cool. :) I plan on reading the next books.


Right now I'm reading Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer.
 
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