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    Proust Questionnaire

    What is your favorite word? Yes What is your least favorite word? Funky What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Assertiveness What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Selfishness What sound or noise do you love? Cello What sound or noise do you hate...
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    Upcoming Summer Movies

    Its not upcoming its old but very very funny- I just received monty pythons complete collection and i envision it will be a very slow week. Very slow indeed ;)
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    Do you take book notes?

    The first time i read Proust i read him for an acedemic course - i took notes and thought it was the most boring piece of writing ever! THEN i realised it should be read like a novel - so got some tea and biscuits and sat in bed and read it like a novel and now i love the man! I guess different...
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    Clockwork Orange: Movie Vs. Book

    It is a hard one as i love both but i read the book before the film so i guess will always think that its the "original" and so better. . .
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    Stephen King

    Well folks it may seem obvious to you but if you have also read it you would understand that it´s pretty horrifying, especially if you use your imagnation hard enough! I wanted to read it cos its a real classic and think its one of those books that you shuold read before you die but at the same...
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    Who is your favourite author, and why?

    I bought most of my copied online - The wind up bird chronical can be found on hitmesiter (although its a german site most books are in english - just cheaper than other sites), also i am currently reading the Wild Sheep Chase & Dance Dance Dance - which i got off amazon and comes as one bookso...
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    Spare time activities

    I thought they were just the standard, default activities of everyday life. In addition to these, knitting, jogging, yoga and internet pottering are among mine . . .
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    I'm rediscovering me love affair with...

    Must be good for you to stay up that late - was it a week night too? lol
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    The Shining and symbols

    Just a story or a complicated discourse of symbolic references and hidden meaning - its brilliant either way.
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    Sat at my desk at home, thinking about time travelling to the year 1920s, where gentlemen wore hats and ladies smoked cigarettes out of long sticks!
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    Stephen King

    Why did i start reading it or why am i regretting it??
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    Stephen King

    I have just started reading IT and i think i may have regretted it already!!
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    What are you listening to Right now?

    Death Cab for cutie - narrow stairs 10/10
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    Socially relevant Non-Fiction?

    No but i have read some of noam chomsky and some other linguistics who talk about language and society - i find it quite a fascinating subject.
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    Books everybody has read except you

    Happy Potter of any kind . . .
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In reality I am at work. In virtual reality I am sitting on a green hill eating a braeburn. In hyperreality I am being consumed by the image of an office similar to that featured in The Office.
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    Childhood books

    Everthing Roald Dahl and Where the Wild Things Are!
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    Books that made you...

    1) One Book that made you read it More Than Once: Where the Wild Things Are 2) One book you would want on a desert island: The Oxford English Dictionary 3) One book that made you laugh: The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat 4) One book that made you cry: The Time Travellers Wife...
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    Who is your favourite author, and why?

    Haraki Murakami writes in such a way that I think he work can be identified by most people - despite is often Japanish settings - the narratives have somewhat universal messages.
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    best book title ever!

    On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored by Adam Phillips:)
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