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Watership Down is an amazing book. I can remember crying buckets!

I've just finished Perfume by Patrick Suskind. Beautifully written with fantastic language and setting, though I did struggle with it because I just couldn't connect to the central character, Grenouille, at all. But the descriptions and language around scent are fantastic - so realistic that I found my allergies stirring up!

I've just started She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb.
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LoveHatesYou wrote:oh what is that? i am intrigues by anything that involves death. Morbid I know. Ever read the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers? It follows everywhere a corpse can go when you die, and what the body can do when donated- it made me put that little pink donor sticker on my id
Is a novel with a very good first chapter but then it decays. If you can look for the first chapter, do it. You can find it as a short story itself.
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NYLee wrote:
LoveHatesYou wrote:oh what is that? i am intrigues by anything that involves death. Morbid I know. Ever read the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers? It follows everywhere a corpse can go when you die, and what the body can do when donated- it made me put that little pink donor sticker on my id
Is a novel with a very good first chapter but then it decays. If you can look for the first chapter, do it. You can find it as a short story itself.
Love the pun NYLee!!
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Invisible Monsters
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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman, which, 150 pages into it, is decidedly meh.
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I had to give up on She's Come Undone, I just couldn't connect with it at all. Too many other books I long to read more, so I don't finish books I'm not enjoying.

At the moment I'm reading The Best Travel Writing 2006: True Stories From Around the World edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger and Sean O'Reilly. I love a good travel book, and this one is full of some impressive authors.
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im starting The Decameron. i have no school for a week so hopefully i can get some reading done.
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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I'm just about to start The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
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i've heard a lot about that book. let me know what you think about it =)
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Brown's Requiem by James Ellroy. I should finish it tonight.
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I just started a second book, I do like to have more than one on the go. I'm also reading Open Season by Linda Howard.
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haha same here, i'm also reading catch-22
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