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[dreamer_easy]

Half-read books, unread books, not including Hunter S. Thompson's Kingdom of Fear which is in my backpack, nor Magnus Mills' All Quiet on the Orient Express and Zadie Smith's White Teeth which I borrowed in a fit of weakness and will probably have to return unread

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[some-stars.livejournal.com]

i spy gilgamesh! possibly two!

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

Plus a knit Marvin. <3

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I see why you're gafitating at the moment. That's a lot of good solid reading. Please let me know what the Aboriginal spirituality book is like.

[nnwest.livejournal.com]

Oh, Cryptonomicron! Love that book. Another Life I found to be disappointing, but Inside the Hub is interesting.

[travlr1.livejournal.com]

hey, maybe i should post my reading pile sometime... Lucky you for getting Torchwood books there... I'm in NYC and I can't find any...

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Everyone should post their reading pile.

I ordered the first three Torchwood books from the UK! (They've just started to show up in bookshops here.)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

... *squints* Is that a *tattoo* of Thoth?!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

My dad has read Cryptonomicon. I figured I'd better hurry up and read Jon's copy!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

A treasured gift and occasional bedfellow. :-)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

That's the Penguin edition, which I've read lots, and Stephen Mitchell's more recent translation, which I have yet to open. (Behind the actual pile is the Ancient Near East part of my mythology collection, much of it woefully unperused.)

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

mmmm. the Penguin--that's the skinny one, prose, right? that was the first one I read, in my textbook, and then I went and got George and...Frayn, I think? One I like for the translation of the main text and the other for the translation of the related poems in the appendix. I also own Mitchell actually but it was a bit too modernized for me. I like my lacunae unreconstructed!

[off_coloratura]

I take it he's already been read, then.

[off_coloratura]

My reading pile is more of a reading scattered layer.

[tysolna]

Is that Marvin hand-knit and if so, could I have the instructions please?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Bought from Woolworths in the UK!

[tysolna]

Ah, darn!
OK, in that case, could I get a full frontal view? ;)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Now what are you doing all this Gilgameshing for?

[tysolna]

Oh, hang on, never mind - I'll have a look around Woolworth's. *grins* I stil have some leftover black and white yarn; this looks like a project for rainy evenings.

[nnwest.livejournal.com]

It's worth the read to a computer/tech geek like me. But Stephenson does tend to ramble on. From a pure narrative/storytelling standpoint, it could tightened a heck of a lot. Most of the background info and side stories could easily be shortened or lost and the story he's trying to tell would be unaffected. It just depends on how much you like how Stephenson rambles. *shrug*

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

at first I was writing a paper, and then I fell in looooove. :D

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Ishtar kicked that boy's ass.

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

well, I did like Enkidu more, really. *g*

[tlttlotd.livejournal.com]

Do you have a Library Thing (http://www.librarything.com/), account, by any chance?

[tlttlotd.livejournal.com]

Oh, and apologies for the extraneous comma. My bad.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

OH THE TEMPTATION

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Shockin,!

[tlttlotd.livejournal.com]

Very much so, yes.

It's great for organizing one's book collection, and for searching for things in a hurry. And you can download copies of your book lists to back them up, which is always a plus.