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RedTonic posted:Got a softcover Perdido Street Station to start this weekend. I've been told I'll either really dig it or really hate Mieville's style. If you're fan of reading RPG source books, you'll enjoy Perdido . Mieville was a big fan of those in his youth, and it shows.
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Just bought Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser. Came highly recommended and the series looks pretty fun. I'm a huge fan of historical fiction, so there is that too.
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Feb 9, 2015 00:38
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I just started reading the first book in the Dresden Files. The writing is not very good and reading that the first three novels have similar writing is incredibly discouraging. I could be reading three well-written books instead! Still, I bought it and kinda like the premise so I'll stick with it a little longer.
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Feb 9, 2015 09:34
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I just bought and started Golden Son and drat, it's already awesome.
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Feb 9, 2015 22:52
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Just started the Sword Art Online light novel. My first light novel, so I hope it's gentle.
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Feb 10, 2015 02:18
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After about ten years since I last read one I decided to pick up a Chuck Palahniuk novel. I chose Rant. I'm about two chapters in and a ten year old boy is walking around sniffing used condoms and going "Yeah that smells like my priests dick."  Is it even worth persevering?
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Feb 11, 2015 15:34
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Eau de MacGowan posted:After about ten years since I last read one I decided to pick up a Chuck Palahniuk novel. I chose Rant. He's an authorial one-trick pony. The closest book to literature he's written is likely Invisible Monsters, the rest is shock-junk. Put it down and read some Irvine Welsh of you need that kind of thing.
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Feb 11, 2015 15:41
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Bingo. Dude made a career out of being "that guy" who's always going to have some super shocking gross out thing like when we were kids on the playground.
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Feb 11, 2015 16:56
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 I got a bunch of stuff today: The Man Without Qualities, from a friend who is moving away so now I can finally read part 3 and the posthumous stuff suck it asian librarian Dancing Arabs, from same friend The Honorable Company, was recced it forever ago by history thread First half of The Book of the New Sun, lyle recced it when i asked for good fantasy and i trust him What is History by edward carr an illustrated dictionary about mayan and ancient mexican gods and stuff it was $.25 and its sweet as hell
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Feb 14, 2015 01:37
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I picked up The Martian because of all the hype behind it, and because it's going to be a movie at the end of the year. I'm about a hundred pages in, and it's living up to all the critical love. It's like the purest distillation of "exciting page-turner" ever.
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Feb 14, 2015 22:12
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Stravinsky posted:
I'm very jealous of your pic of Thomas "Ruggles" Pynchon.
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Feb 14, 2015 22:55
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Captain Hotbutt posted:I picked up The Martian because of all the hype behind it, and because it's going to be a movie at the end of the year. I'm about a hundred pages in, and it's living up to all the critical love. It's like the purest distillation of "exciting page-turner" ever. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, but I have my doubts about the movie.
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Feb 15, 2015 03:11
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Captain Hotbutt posted:I picked up The Martian because of all the hype behind it, and because it's going to be a movie at the end of the year. I'm about a hundred pages in, and it's living up to all the critical love. It's like the purest distillation of "exciting page-turner" ever. I read this over an evening and found it...underwhelming. I completely get its appeal, and enjoyed the Robinson Carusoe-esque elements of problem solving and survival. It just didn't do it for me. On the other hand, I think it'll make a great movie because there's not a whole lot of nuance to capture. Bought Norwegian Wood today, my first Murakami. I've been putting off reading him for a while, but am looking forward to spending my long weekend with it.
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Feb 15, 2015 23:40
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Picked up Paradise Lost by John Milton from my local library earlier today. Although I've always found the story very interesting (especially due to the way Milton decided to deliver it in), I've never had the time nor the will to actually sit down with it for a longer period of time. However, now that I have both in quite some abundance, it'll be fun to see whether or not my prejudices will be confirmed or not.
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Feb 16, 2015 17:10
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I just started reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. I suppose this is technically a reread, but the last time I had read it I just glazed over it (I was reading it on my kindle to just pass the time and was not reading closely at all). Manifestations of race in literature has always fascinated me, and this book has always been recommended to me as a canonical text that explores this issue.
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Feb 17, 2015 01:36
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After numerous goon recommendations, I picked up City of Stairs. It's different, but intriguing so far. For some reason, though, it refuses to sync up properly on my Kindle Fire. It always choose the next-to-last bookmark which forces me to keep a post-it note with the last location on it.
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Feb 20, 2015 03:37
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Feb 20, 2015 17:12
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Mister Kingdom posted:I thoroughly enjoyed the book, but I have my doubts about the movie. I don't think Matt Damon is the right choice at all. I know he can be funny but I don't know if he can capture the same type of humor as in the book.
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Feb 21, 2015 21:16
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I've begun working my way through Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay. So far so good. I don't really know the goon consensus about him, but I dig his stuff. I've read a couple of his already (Ysabel - his YA novel - and Tigana) and I really, thoroughly enjoyed them Kay seems obsessed with the idea of memory and knowledge in all the stories I've read so far - which makes sense since he's ripping from history - and this one is turning out to be similar. I like that aspect of his writing, so I'm looking forward to seeing this adventure to the end. I've also picked up Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley, his first post-Scott Pilgrim output. I really, really, really liked Scott Pilgrim but I feel like if I re-read it, I'd be annoyed by it. This story seems a little less adorkable and reference-filled and more grownup. It'll probably take less than a day to get through.
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Feb 24, 2015 16:51
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Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann.
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Feb 24, 2015 18:41
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Started ever so slightly on goon-recommended Hunger by Knut Hamsun.
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Feb 24, 2015 19:15
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ulvir posted:Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann. Hevo posted:Started ever so slightly on goon-recommended Hunger by Knut Hamsun. Both are so good. Enjoy.
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Feb 24, 2015 19:43
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Just started I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell, one of the original punks. Always been interested in the early punk movement and I've been meaning to pick up one of the autobios from the people who shaped that era of music. I'm only a few chapters in so far and I like the casual tone of it. It feels like an interview minus the questions.
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Feb 26, 2015 00:07
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Picked up this for $30 and my local used bookstore Had no idea who this was until I checked out. I just liked the prologue! Just another reason I love my store. Find poo poo like this all the time.
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Axel Serenity posted:Picked up this for $30 and my local used bookstore I couldn't get through it.
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Mar 1, 2015 05:21
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I was just at my local bookstore (Bullmoose, I live in northern New England) and I saw the new Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles book on display Prince Lestat which I was surprised to see, as I'd forgotten she had abandoned her brief period of gung-ho Christianity and gone back to the dark side. I know that she's cheesy and awful, but I always had a soft spot for the first three novels in the Vampire Chronicles (Interview, Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned) and also really enjoyed another book she wrote in the series, Memnoch the Devil, which I felt was a really fascinating and wonderful comment on western religion and spirituality. So it was very disappointing to me that she very rapidly deteriorated as a writer after that. So I wasn't going to buy it because I assumed it would be loving awful, like the last several Vampire Chronicles books she wrote. Then I saw that amongst the copies on display for $18, there was a *signed* copy amongst them that was being sold for the same amount. And I thought, well, OK. I will look on amazon and if this book got 4 stars or more I'll buy this signed first edition (it was the only one left) and give it a chance. And lo and behold, it was at just above 4 stars, which is honestly pretty shocking for a recent Anne Rice book. Apparently it contains a lot of the great older characters from Queen of the Damned that she just abandoned, so I was really happy to pick it up. I've barely started and it's pretty drat good so far, and totally accessible it seems to someone like me who hasn't really finished or enjoyed a VC novel since Memnoch and missed all the crossover stuff with Lestat and the witches. I'm hoping she brings the homoerotica. It's funny that I'm fine reading Anne Rice books but I'd still never touch Stephanie Meyer on principle. Anyway. I am now the proud owner of a signed first edition Anne Rice novel with "Lestat" in the title. Yes, she's batshit insane, but for $18 isn't that a decent bargain?
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Stravinsky posted:
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I found out about China Mieville from lurking these forums back in the day and hearing about how neato his books can be. I tried starting Perdido Street Station but I couldn't find the time to get through it while finishing school, etc. Now that I have a lot more free time, I started The City & The City and I'm about 1/3 of the way through. It's got the same problem I found with Perdido, which is that the beginning is molasses-slow. I'm getting through it, though. It's decent so far and the concept is definitely super-unique and interesting. I like the spooky idea that there's some unseen, always watching, everyone-in-town-is-scared-of-it force deep in the background who have a lot of policing power and I hope it becomes a way bigger deal by the end of the story.
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Mar 7, 2015 20:38
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Hevo posted:Picked up Paradise Lost by John Milton from my local library earlier today. Although I've always found the story very interesting (especially due to the way Milton decided to deliver it in), I've never had the time nor the will to actually sit down with it for a longer period of time. However, now that I have both in quite some abundance, it'll be fun to see whether or not my prejudices will be confirmed or not. "Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and puts down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.""
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Mar 8, 2015 03:29
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About 5-ish chapters in Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself So far I'm really enjoying it. Not really feeling the young nobleman captain main character yet but the other two are very intriguing.
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Mar 9, 2015 12:20
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I just bought Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe and its really really good. I kept passing it up as generic sci-fi trash for years due to the cover art.
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Mar 11, 2015 15:22
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Four new books are en route to me: Ubik and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K Dick. Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne ... This has been on my list to read forever, and a good friend just finished it and strongly recommended it.
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Today i got a few books I've been looking forward to. I got the first book from the Dune series by Herbert, Gai-Jin by James Clavell, Grass Beyond the Mountain by Hobsell, EVIL by Morrow, and Legacy by Susan Kay. I'm not sure which I will start first but I am definitely looking forward to all of them.
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Demicol posted:About 5-ish chapters in Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself If you stick with it, he has a pretty awesome character 'arc'. If something feels like it's a cliche in a Joe Abercrombie book, know that he knows it too and he's going to do something surprising (and probably horrifying) with it.
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Silvergun1000 posted:If you stick with it, he has a pretty awesome character 'arc'. If something feels like it's a cliche in a Joe Abercrombie book, know that he knows it too and he's going to do something surprising (and probably horrifying) with it. Alternately, if you stick with you will discover an absurdly huge plot hole and get tired of what is actually fairly poor writing. Sand is a pretty interesting character, though.
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 A good haul from the local second-hand shop. I reckon a harsh winter killed a couple of lit-fans. There are currently 3 separate copies of The Magus if anyone wants them. I'm pretty excited for The Conformist, had no idea that was originally a book. And I picked up Libra because, though I'm not a big fan of Delillo, I am a big fan of the assassination of JFK. There's also an advanced copy of a book I've never heard of by a person I've never heard of, which looks to be all about sex and Christ. Speaking of, it didn't come across in the photo but the priest on that cover of that Updike has a head made out of naked women. This post is dedicated to Christopher Cumo and Michael Apted.
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Mar 18, 2015 17:26
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IS that a Werner Herzog biogrtaphy????
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Mar 18, 2015 20:15
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Currently reading The Furnace by Timothy S. Johnston. In just a few pages in but already it's a page-turner. Space survival horror seems to be In this year.
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Mar 24, 2015 06:17
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Stanislaw Lem's Solaris should be here today. On a scifi kick and want to delve further into S Lem and V Pelevin. I managed to only buy 15 books in 2014, and I've already surpassed that this year. My next move is going to be miserable.
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Getting into Greg Bear's The Forge of God. So far it's good, but it's funny reading sci-fi with out-dated tech.
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