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Just started S by Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams. Basically it's a more-involved House of Leaves type book. Three chapters in and it's pretty great (though I love this kinda thing).
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S was an enjoyable book but some rear end in a top hat kids had written all over my copy.
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Sep 8, 2014 14:49
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Brave new world revisited. Read BNW a long time a go but not this one.
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Sep 8, 2014 15:02
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SgtScruffy posted:Just started S by Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams. Basically it's a more-involved House of Leaves type book. Three chapters in and it's pretty great (though I love this kinda thing). oldpainless posted:S was an enjoyable book but some rear end in a top hat kids had written all over my copy. Did either of you ever figure out what the code wheel is for? I'm still bothered by this and I read the book earlier this year.
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Sep 8, 2014 18:21
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screenwritersblues posted:Did either of you ever figure out what the code wheel is for? I'm still bothered by this and I read the book earlier this year. I'm only on chapter four, but I remember in Chapter 2 or so, Eric mentioned something about the code wheel and how he's included it... though it wasn't tucked into the pages of chapter two. I'm guessing it comes up again later though.
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Sep 9, 2014 12:14
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Just began (and already halfway through) The Dinner by Herman Koch. Nasty little book--I get a very Gone Girl vibe from it. Enjoying it for the most part. At first, I was annoyed by the main character's strange, meandering tangents, but it starts to make a lot more sense as the book progresses.
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Sep 9, 2014 15:29
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A A 2 3 5 8 K posted:I started The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell because whatever it is you call Cloud Atlas, I want more of that. Liking it so far, 50 pages in. Pretty much this for me. I'm 200 pages in and enjoying it. Though I'm about a third-way in, it just came out last week so I'll still call it "a book I just began/bought."
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Sep 9, 2014 22:19
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Just started Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and it's loving amazing so far. I'd just about given up on dystopian novels but this one is so far above the cut to anything else out there right now and honestly, straight up moving and beautiful. Can't wait to finish it.
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Sep 11, 2014 15:42
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Started Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino last night. Anyone trying to write about/create fantasy worlds and cities should check this out. So much imagination.
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Sep 11, 2014 21:31
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tonytheshoes posted:Started Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino last night. Anyone trying to write about/create fantasy worlds and cities should check this out. So much imagination. It's really good and everyone should read it, imo.
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Unfortunately, I'm going to have to put Invisible Cities on hold for now because the e-book edition is a mess. For example, "faces" shows up as "feces" every time, and needless to say, it creates some... interesting moments. I have a hold on a physical copy from the library so I'll continue then.
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Sep 12, 2014 16:20
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Picked up some Dick at a charity book sale (and a Vonnegut)
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Sep 13, 2014 09:42
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Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.. It's the greatest guy-fantasy book ever, amirite dudes? comes highly recommended.
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Sep 13, 2014 19:27
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Been buying/reading the Hannibal series, in order of events On Silence of the Lambs now, which is pretty good... and I can see the movie didn't take much liberty with the plot either. However it's a horrible copy (Ebook, loads of spelling mistakes, and sometimes 1/4 of the page is missing off the edge of the 'book')
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Sep 13, 2014 21:25
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I stopped by Goodwill today and found Me Before You by Jojo Moyes and The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes . I've heard good things about both and not a bad deal for eight bucks. I love buying books at Goodwill, just have to ignore the shelves of James Patterson and Janet Evanovitch novels.
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Sep 14, 2014 02:23
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I just started The Causal Angel -the third book of the Quantum Thief series by Hannu Rajaniemi. I read the last one quite some time ago and I have no idea what is going on. 
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Sep 15, 2014 23:14
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And now onto Hannibal Seems a much better formatted copy than Silence was, and so far again the movie seems to have not deviated at all from the plot
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Sep 15, 2014 23:19
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Madd Addam by Margaret Atwood. Yes I read fiction slowly, because reading and writing is so much a part of my day job I have to unplug at night
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Sep 22, 2014 06:13
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I've been reading this lately. It's scifi with some time travel in it but it's not the usual mess that books involving time travel are. The main character is also a woman which is a nice change of pace from most scifi books.
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Sep 22, 2014 20:42
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Just preordered Peter F. Hamilton's The Abyss Beyond Dreams. I can not wait to read more of his commonwealth universe.
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Sep 23, 2014 04:24
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At The Mountains of Madness, by HP Lovecraft. My first audiobook - unless you count James Earl Jones reading The Raven - listening to the BBC version by Richard Coyle. It's an interesting story so far, and the guy reading it is both engaging and suitably British, but the only chance I get to listen is at like 1am each night so I keep falling asleep and having to restart that chapter the next night.
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Sep 24, 2014 14:38
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My last round of pick ups for a while. From Powell's Indiespensable program.  The Bone Clocks  Magic for Beginners From The Strand two weeks ago after a walking tour  Acceptance  Making the Mummies Dance  Role Models (it's marked as used, but it's signed. So someone made a mistake) From The Brooklyn Book Festival  The Gods of Gotham  The Vacationers  New Jersey Noir  Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics  Brooklyn Was Mine  10:04  So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures  Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian  How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets Yeah, I have somewhat of a problem.
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Sep 24, 2014 14:54
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screenwritersblues posted:
Speaking of which, I hope you read the first two...
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Sep 24, 2014 15:04
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funkybottoms posted:Speaking of which, I hope you read the first two... Of course. I just finished all of them. Pretty good series.
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Sep 24, 2014 18:01
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Just started on Atlas Shrugged. Wow this book is going to take forever. And so far it's pretty terrible. I mean I see what point she's trying to make but no real human beings would actually utter any of these dialogues.
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Sep 29, 2014 21:52
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Zephyrine posted:Just started on Atlas Shrugged. Be sure you don't have a gun and alcohol nearby. John Oliver ripped her a new one on his show last night.
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Sep 29, 2014 22:55
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 I had the fortune of meeting Timothy Snyder two years ago. I sat through one of his courses and attended a few of his presentations when i was in the Connecticut area. I was really impressed and picked up his book Bloodlands the next day but never got the chance till now to actually start it in earnest. The book is not an easy read. It's very dark by nature of its source material and i often find myself putting it down after a chapter and having to do something else for a little bit as not to dwell on the casualness that a very long and endless laundry list of atrocity is presented to you. The book is incredibly informative and i highly recommend it to anyone who has an interest in History, specifically for those World War II history buffs.
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Sep 30, 2014 00:02
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I decided to bite the bullet and shell out double for the "American Gods" 10th anniversary edition. It's sublime. Then again, I've been reading The Dresden Files for a while now, so it's like going from McDonald's to a really good steakhouse.
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Benny the Snake posted:I decided to bite the bullet and shell out double for the "American Gods" 10th anniversary edition. It's sublime. Then again, I've been reading The Dresden Files for a while now, so it's like going from McDonald's to a really good steakhouse. Zephyrine posted:Just started on Atlas Shrugged.
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Sep 30, 2014 04:54
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bowmore posted:Save yourself a whole lot of bullshit and set fire to it then forget about it. Mister Kingdom posted:Be sure you don't have a gun and alcohol nearby. I managed to get through "Mein Kampf" as another one of those "at least I can say I read it" books and lord of the rings**. which was an even bigger bore than mein kampf If Hitler can't defeat me then surely Ayn Rand won't be able to.. Will she? Though comparing the two side by side... Hitler might be up against his biggest enemy to date. **Seriously a third of Lord of the Rings must be scenes of the characters eating. And what do I need dozens of pages of song lyrics for?
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Zephyrine posted:I managed to get through "Mein Kampf" as another one of those "at least I can say I read it" books and lord of the rings**. which was an even bigger bore than mein kampf
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bowmore posted:I guess the worst thing that could happen is you end up liking Atlas Shrugged I agree with part of the message but none of the characters strike me as even resembling human beings. They are all just extremes on either end of the "scale" And it feels like whenever a character risks developing some personality then the author comes out with a stick and beats it back into line. Some of the rants are pretty terrible too. Like the guy that suggests that the government should keep oil companies from drawing too much oil in order to give the competition a chance. And barely a paragraph later he complains that there was no fuel at the gas station for his car. The book does remind me a lot of a mail I got once in Eve online. I was doing logistics work and providing ships on contract for the Alliance. Then I got this letter from an Alliance CEO. (This was my old Alliance. Not my current one) quote:I've noticed that you've been active putting up at least Guardian and Scimitar contracts and that is just awesome, keep up the good work, but I would like to make one humble request though. I had a markup of 5% all the while paying for my own fuel to get the ships to our deployment. The official logistics department had a markup that I estimated at around 15% and they had all their fuel supplied for free by the Alliance. Fuel cost for moving the ships is about 5% of the total cost.
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Zephyrine posted:Some of the rants are pretty terrible too. Like the guy that suggests that the government should keep oil companies from drawing too much oil in order to give the competition a chance. Can you see the point Rand is making by this? Do you think the book would perform its job as propaganda better if it hid the punchline 3 chapters later?
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Mr. Squishy posted:Can you see the point Rand is making by this? Do you think the book would perform its job as propaganda better if it hid the punchline 3 chapters later? Yes of course I see the point and the hypocrisy and the irony and I recognize the real world similarities but the way she presents it is like a puppet theatre. I mean the book is over a thousand pages. She took more than enough time padding it. She didn't have to make every single socialist in the book into a parody. On multiple occasions the socialists are refereed to as just flat out evil. Literally "evil" and she puts no effort what so ever into trying to explain why socialism is as dangerous as it is and why it's so appealing. She just throws a socialist mascot at us. Paints a big sign over his head that says "evil" and then he parrots lines like "thinking is bad, rationality doesn't exist. I'm entitled to a rail road. I'm entitled to a factory. It's not fair. It's not fair" Her characters aren't believable in the least and she thinks so little of her targetted audience that she delivers her message with a baseball bat. The idea itself is sound but her delivery is dumbed down to the point where it's embarrassing to say you agree with it.
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Oct 1, 2014 16:40
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Zephyrine posted:She just throws a socialist mascot at us. Paints a big sign over his head that says "evil" and then he parrots lines like "thinking is bad, rationality doesn't exist. I'm entitled to a rail road. I'm entitled to a factory. It's not fair. It's not fair" Yep, that's pretty much it.
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The idea is pretty much sound? Is that it? Are you sure fb?
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Oct 1, 2014 18:52
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Mr. Squishy posted:The idea is pretty much sound? Is that it? Are you sure fb? Her interpretation of government and socialism and how it plunders people who work for the "good of the community" That doing well is seen as some sort of sin and that robbing people of their work in order to give it away to others is somehow seen as noble.
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Oct 1, 2014 19:53
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Mr. Squishy posted:The idea is pretty much sound? Is that it? Are you sure fb? No, sorry, I was agreeing with the rest of the statement.
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Oct 1, 2014 20:37
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You agree with Ayn Rand? Hahaha you are going to fit in well here. e: wait just saw the EVE Online part so I guess it's probably just a gimmick.
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The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti. He reached his peak last decade. However the idea of the "metaphysical mutant," was interesting. This first story came across as depression porn, rather than the incredibly unsettling and insightful horror he usually writes. The second story is quite funny. So I'd give it an 8 out of 10, because he is still one of the best living writers, and greatest horrorists in history. bowmore posted:Picked up some Dick at a charity book sale (and a Vonnegut) I'd recommend reading Flow My Tears The Policeman, Martian Time Slip, and Man In The High Castle (but expect something very different). Some Dick books are pretty bad even to his biggest fans, you got a few pieces of coal in your stocking. God Of Paradise fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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