I've read alot of those Star Wars novels. Some of them are quite good skiffy.

how can you not love shakespeare!!!!

he is the god of english!! his words are so ........ sexy!



er, at the moment I'm reading.....



virginia woolf -- to the lighthouse

faulkner -- go down moses

various ts eliot

a book on the history of greek cuisine

the last days of socrates

virgil's aeneid (in the original latin -- it's so beautiful! so menacing when you read it, kind of makes me feel inadequate)

Last book I read (well, actually, in the last 2 weeks I've re-read Stephen Kings 'It' and 'Tommyknockers' and Neil Gaimens 'Fragile Things') but the last one that really stuck out was called 'World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Wars' by Max Brooks. It's like this completely serious faux-historical document about the zombie apocalypse. The guy who wrote it, Mel Brooks son, also wrote the Zombie Survival Guide, a totally serious book about what to do if the dead start coming back to life. Both of were so deadpan, so scholarly, they were hilarious.

I've seen the Zombie Survival Guide, quite sweet, but I've not the other. Thanks for the heads up.

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I've seen the Zombie Survival Guide, quite sweet, but I've not the other. Thanks for the heads up.

Yeah, I passed it around to my sister and brotherinlaw, and they both loved it. There's some real biting social commentary in WWZ. oh god, I made a pun, someone kill me.

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how can you not love shakespeare!!!!

he is the god of english!! his words are so ........ sexy!

I cannot say I do love his work,

nor can I say that I do not love his work.



I am a victim of Shakespeare through education. It has taken me a while to recover from that experience.



I intend to rediscover the Bard's work.

As i'm doing a lot of homework for my new job , i'm reading " A long walk to freedom" , Mandela's Autobiography. I can really recomend it to everybody , not only if youre selling his sketches ;)

It shows how amazing this man is and how fucked up apartheid was. It really makes you think " how on EARTH can people be such racists" But unfortunatly , thats the way it was and very often still is. Really intresting book.

Yeah he is an absolute legend, I have so much respect for the fella...he worked so hard for his cause and spent 25 years or something in jail, then came out, became president and pretty much ended apartheid in South Africa. Now if only the current government could solve the AIDS problem there...

Yes, Mandela put the wheels in motion that eventually led to apartheid's end. I remember growing up it was a hot news topic. The message was further spread through music to heighten awareness... It seemd as though Cape Town was permanently affixed in the news radar, too. There were boycotts, sanctions, plenty of international pressure put on South Africa. I remember it was my senior year in high school in 1990 when the world began to see apartheid being dismantled. Then like every other hot news topic, it pretty much dropped off the radar. Well hey, if apartheid's gone then everything's just great! Wrong!!



The problems with South Africa today are multi-faceted and too overwhelming to bring up in a quick post. I admit I haven't been keeping up with this topic like I did years ago, so I'll refrain from throwing opinions out there based on half educated modern guessing. What I do know is South Africa is still very marginalized , the government is corrupt, violence is on par with the violence per capita in the US and there are so many problems woven into the fabric of South Africa socially, politically and economically - all which have cost black and white south Africans dearly in recent years. And to top it off with a disease that's ravaging an entire continent - it's all part of the ugly legacy left behind by apartheid. But how to fix it...?

South Africa is a fascinating place and for me the apartheid-era is a personal interest. Especially the issues of identity for the white Afrikaaners, particularly those who were opposed to apartheid but were essentially prevented from being open with their feelings.



A good friend of mine who lives here now is South African. She says she'll take me on a tour one day.

Just finished Deathly Hallows. imo great end to the series! loved it. i'd say the movie will be fantastic, but after what they cut out of OOTP i'm not so sure.

I just started Stephen King's - Dark Tower series.

I tried to get the new Harry Potter last night at around midnight, but I didn't want to go to a bookstore. The last Harry Potter that was released we went hunting and found a deserted grocery store (open 24 hours) that had a massive stack of them and no line with people dressed as wizards and Hogwarts wannabes. But last night I wasn't so lucky. I'll probably pick it up today.

I stood outside until 1:45 A.M. just waiting for the Harry Potter book. One guy got it before 12:00. (Lucky. T_T)

I've never read a Harry Potter book or seen any of the movies. I'm sure they're quite good but I don't quite get all the fuss.

I'm rereading Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. Very enjoyable, moreso than the first time.

i just got all my Richard Scary books back from my mom... i love his cartoons. i feel like i am four again

ZOMFG SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!!!!

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I finished it thrusday.

brilliant ending to an awesome series.

Now to read them all again back to back. That'll make like 10 times I've read the first and 3 times for Half Blood Prince.

Not HP for me because I never read past the fourth. I might some day, but it's too much catch-up work to do.

HOWEVER, I finished the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky last week. It's fucking beautiful. Now I'm reading The Cave and The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, both by Jose Saramago. Fucking amazing novelist.