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Sal Paradise Posted Nov 9, 2002
Monash, the largest university in the Southern Hemisphere 
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Sal Paradise Posted Nov 15, 2002
Well, okay, it's no Oxford I admit, but it's good enough for us 
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Sal Paradise Posted Nov 20, 2002
Well, it's based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, but it has campuses (campi?) all over the place - Malaysia, South Africa, and about 40 more coming to a city near you...
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friendlywithteeth Posted Nov 20, 2002
Cool 
Are you at the Melbourne campus? [Neighbours!]
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friendlywithteeth Posted Nov 25, 2002
Damn! Got me there! Reading God of small things by arundhati roy...quite good!
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Sal Paradise Posted Nov 25, 2002
Oh, did I mention I was reading that? Just finished it last week... great book! Rather confusing though... unfortunately it was a friends copy, so I had to give it back - I really want to read it again, get it worked out! I'll have to find a copy of my own... where're you up to?
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friendlywithteeth Posted Nov 25, 2002
...only chapter two! I only started reading it yesterday!
What other good books've you read?
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Sal Paradise Posted Nov 30, 2002
So how's it going now? 
Ah... just recently "Candide" by Voltaire, "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami and a short story called "1986" by a Chinese avant-garde writer named Yu Hua. I'm still making my way through the Murakami...
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friendlywithteeth Posted Dec 6, 2002
Got a bit further: not much time as I'm juggling two jobs at the moment...
They both sound cool though
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Sal Paradise Posted Dec 13, 2002
The Murakami's very odd... quite interesting for the first half, then you sit there wondering what the hell's going on, but the ending, I thought, brought everything together quite nicely - you just have to be willing to get there
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friendlywithteeth Posted Dec 15, 2002
SOunds cool!
I'm over halfway through Roy's...but I don't want to read any further, because I know that the Terror's in the next chapter! It's a very immersive book.
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Sal Paradise Posted Dec 24, 2002
The terror?
I've read Andre Gide's 'The Counterfeiters' in the meantime... very dark, nihilistic book! Every character has a different a more demeaning view of every other character than the previous, every coincidence always turns out for the worst... really makes you glad to be alive it does!
Oh, and Merry Christmas!
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