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Currently working on Phantom, the next-to-last novel in the Sword of Truth series (don't judge it based on Legend of the Seeker!) And next up is Transformers:Exodus, the novel tying into the War for Cybertron game, both of which are the backstory for the new TF:Prime TV series.

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I haven't read anything for over two years now, I think, apart from one book that we had to read for school (and it was pretty bad, as usual). But I won a Kindle 3 in a competition, and started loading it with books. I've started reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" in Dutch (Dutch title: "Mannen die vrouwen haten" aka "Men who hate women"), and I love it!

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I usually prefer reading in English because most Dutch translations are quite bad, but since the book is originally Swedish I went with Dutch (my mother tongue). The plan is to read it in Swedish next year as part of my preparation for studying and working in Sweden for a year (and hopefully the rest of my life).

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Trying hard to read Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami at the moment. An excellent book by a favourite author of mine, but it's a bit heavy/depressing at times so I keep putting it down after only a few pages.

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Trying hard to read Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami at the moment. An excellent book by a favourite author of mine, but it's a bit heavy/depressing at times so I keep putting it down after only a few pages.

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How does it compares to the likes of Mishima or Haruki Murakami?

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I haven't got round to reading any of Haruki Murakami's stuff yet, but the only way I can describe CLB as is; Deep, harrowing and real.

Sounds pretty much like HM, and that's great. What book do you recommend as a starting point?

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Sounds pretty much like HM, and that's great. What book do you recommend as a starting point?

The first one I read was In The Miso Soup, followed by Piercing. They're not as hard going as CLB, and shorter so definitely a good place to start.

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