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Ok, here's yet another one (geez, you guys are hard to please :)). There's a book that's written entirely without the letter 'e' called A Void, by Georges Perec. Originally written in French, it was translated into English, also without using the letter 'e' (which is really an incredibly feat...

Ok, I would probably reread Oscar Wilde. His characters say the darnest things, and it's just so funny, and so, well, quotable. Love it. I'm going through an audiobook of Dorian Gray, the beginning of which I probably read two times already. Wonderful dialogue.

Peder, thanks for persevering. :) I have no recollection of such a prank in his book, the only one i read, and if I did come across such a passage, I wouldn't be laughing either. I don't like prankish humour, more so when children's safety is concerned. A little sensitive after having my own kid.

Can't find it yet! The couple of bookstores I went to didn't have it. I picked up Ocean at the End of the Lane by Gaiman instead and now loving it instead.

That's probably why Emily died so soon after WH, that bloody elder sister of hers didn't want to share the ending!

Hmmm, interesting. This is more to do with non-fiction than fiction I guess, and I think this largely bothers me than anyone else. I think all the ripping of pages (I don't know why the word 'bodices' is floating in my mind there somewhere - I wonder what triggered this...) is a little too...

It does indeed. :) But there's really only one book and one *ending*, but the perspectives may change. :)

But none of you use book journals or anything of the sort? What about details from things like magazines? There's so much detail in non-fiction books or mags that some I wish I had a place to store them where I could retrieve them when needed.

When a man has found his love his life is complete. When he is married his life is finished. This is the difference between complete and finished. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Book And Reader mobile app

Accept it???? Nooooooooooo! Apparently Google'll solve your problem, since they are working on solving this little problem of ageing (link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24158924). Soon trivialities like ageing will be a thing of the past, and all we need to worry about is the minor...

Amazon is genius. Although I still hate them for not making their services available here where I am.

Please post interesting online book sales/promotions here to alert our community of deals! Kindle Daily Deals (link) - Everyone should already know this, but Amazon has a daily deal where a small selection of Kindle books go on sale at very low prices. Kindle Monthly Deals (link) - Monthly...

I'm interested in knowing (especially from the very well-read members of our esteemed community) whether you remember what you've read, how much do you remember, and your typical retention period of a book's contents. Whether you're keeping a record of what you're reading, and if you do, in what...

Er. I do, but very sparingly. I have too many on the shelf to indulge in re-reading!

I just finished WH, and I have to say I'm a little undecided about the book. It's so easy to write off WH as an overly negative piece of work, what with the strange structure of the entire book and the almost unbelievable antagonistic nature of the characters. Jane Eyre is like Pugsley Addams...

I travel quite a lot, and I think there's a lot to be said about getting this completely right. Take off, especially, can take longer than normal especially if traffic on the runway is heavy, and it's especially irritating when you're in the middle of an exciting scene on your ebook. I cannot do...

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Interesting. it's been awhile since I read Sedaris, but I remember reading Naked on an plane trip and the passenger next to me kept casting worried glances my way because I was quietly laughing every couple of pages (which he could have easily mistake my quaking as crying, I suppose). I...

Ok, here's another one. Hopscotch, by Julio Cortazar, is a novel that can be read in several ways, instead of the traditional way of reading from left to right (geez, that sounds weird even to me). From Wikipedia:

Meadow, White Raven, excellent suggestions! Both look fascinating... have you guys read the books? Any good? (Ok, Meadow, you probably haven't yet read it, since you don't have a copy, but you may have already read it anyway somehow...)