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I like to read a few books simultaneously. I started Grave Peril - Dresden Files 3 and Why Fantasy Football Matters. Two drastically different books that provide a good break from each other.
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Got a $100 gift card to Amazon (thanks credit card points!) so I bought a few books last night. I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me and Blank Spots on the Map by Trevor Paglen. These books talk about the super secret world that the government hides from us. I Could Tell You is a collection of patches of secret underground military divisions. Blank Spots is about government installations and projects that "don't exist." Both seem very interesting, looking forward to reading them. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. I've heard so much good poo poo about it, I had to pick it up. I read The Road something like 10 months ago. I'm reading No Country right now and flying through it. God Save the Fan by Will Leitch. Deadspin is one of my favorite sites, so I've wanted to read this for a long time. Never been able to find it in stores. Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. Don't know a ton about this, but there was a thread here not long ago about it being pretty good. It was 10 bucks, so I won't be broken up if its not fantastic. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. I just finished Neverwhere and the Sandman series. I read Coraline awhile ago. Basically, I like everything I've read by Gaiman so far and this sounds like it should be great.
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May 24, 2009 22:24
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I finally started the Dexter series and I'm flying through. I'm about halfway through the second book and I've absolutely loved it so far.
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Sep 19, 2009 16:10
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I got John Dies At The End as an early Christmas gift from one of my students. It actually looks kind of entertaining. I understand it was some sort of internet thing before it was a book, I guess. I have high hopes, however.
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Dec 8, 2009 23:54
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Went to B&N with the gift cards I received for Christmas. Got The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington, The Book of Lost Things by John Connelly, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury, and War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, and America in a Time of Unrest by Michael Rosenberg. I've been on a sci-fi kick lately so I'm looking forward to getting a little history and sports mixed in.
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Dec 29, 2009 23:37
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juliuspringle posted:I used to LOVE Harry Turtledove as a kid. I'm not entirely sure why though. Thinking back, I can't think of any of his stories that I really enjoyed all that much or anything interesting that came from his writing. I think the only one that I would recommend would be Guns of the South.
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Jan 26, 2010 00:38
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Just started Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. The story is about a society where your place is determined by what colors you can see. For instance, Greens are ranked higher than Reds and Greys are at the bottom. Very funny and interesting, so far.
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Feb 23, 2010 03:41
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Just started War As They Knew It. It's basically the history of the OSU vs. U of M rivalry and ties in with how hosed up the country was with Vietnam at the time. A couple chapters in and I'm completely hooked.
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Apr 7, 2010 07:01
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Just finished Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk. I've never thought of him as a particularly good writer, but I always find his stories interesting. Some of the poo poo he thinks up is pretty neat, in my opinion, and this story was no different. Not the best writing, but the plot was enough to keep me engaged. One of the better Palahniuk books that I've read.
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Jun 28, 2010 15:53
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I just bought The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack and The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man both by Mark Hodder. They appear to be some kind of steampunk London stuff. I've never really been interested in steampunk, but something about these seemed very appealing. I'll be reading them soon.
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