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Unread 22 Jan 2003, 23:11   #1
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This week, I shall be mostly reading...
The Buisness by Iain Banks.

First mainstream novel of his I've read. It's great.

Also, Cosmonaught (sic) Keep by Ken MacLeod.

Quite good. Even though he is a commie scumbag.
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i read the Wasp Factory by Iain Banks on recommendation by a friend. was the first book i've read all the way through for years so it must have been good.
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i read the Wasp Factory by Iain Banks on recommendation by a friend.
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i didn't listen to the Steve Penk show for 5 nights! now i'm listening to it again i have become just so commercial
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Currently, im reading "Zen and the art of motor cycle maintenance", by a Robert M Pirsig.

And im on book 6 in the wheel off time series.
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Re: This week, I shall be mostly reading...
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The Buisness by Iain Banks.
imo its his worst.

Walking on glass is good, but strange.

The bridge is good.

And Iain M Banks isnt a bad author either (o:
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Currently I am reading 'Black House' by King/Straub, The Fellowship of the Ring by you know who, the first book of the wheel of time, and Underworld by Graham Hancock.

Although not all at the same time.
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Thucydides - History of the Peleponnesian Wars (or whatever he called it heh)

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a History of the Balkans, 1802-2001.
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i just finished pericles' funeral oration and his last speech, the melian dialogue, and a couple other chunks o that. how long is the whole thing (the book i'm reading has about 50-60 pages of it)?
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heh just finished the business and bought the wasp factory yesterday. Half way through, shaping up quite nicely.

Player of Games is still his best book imo.
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i just finished Porno by Irvine Welsh,

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heh just finished the business and bought the wasp factory yesterday. Half way through, shaping up quite nicely.

Player of Games is still his best book imo.
'apparently' his earlier books are out of print in the us.

a copy of 'consider phlebas' goes as high as $250 on amazon.com.

which isn't very cool. but i found out that i can get them from the canadian amazon, which sounds very much like a geographic location, for a reasonable price. and that's what i did. and i got into a struggle of LIFE AND DEATH in the middle of the CANADIAN AMAZON. i won of course. but that's a different story.
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i just finished pericles' funeral oration and his last speech, the melian dialogue, and a couple other chunks o that. how long is the whole thing (the book i'm reading has about 50-60 pages of it)?

Just over 500 pages in my copy, but you can scratch about fifty of that for introduction, glossary etc. 470 I guess.
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'apparently' his earlier books are out of print in the us.

a copy of 'consider phlebas' goes as high as $250 on amazon.com.

which isn't very cool. but i found out that i can get them from the canadian amazon, which sounds very much like a geographic location, for a reasonable price. and that's what i did. and i got into a struggle of LIFE AND DEATH in the middle of the CANADIAN AMAZON. i won of course. but that's a different story.
Consider Phlebas is ok, But you should make sure to read player of games, it really is a brilliant book.
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