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the last one i read was bill the galactic hero, a military and scifi satire it was short and to the point and quite good terry pratchett was also a fan of the book
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I most recently gave up on book #3 of the Commonweal series by Graydon Saunders. Now I'm reading The Seven And A Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton which is a 20s British manor murder mystery time loop thing. It's good so far OP
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to kill a mocking bird for the 5th or 6th time
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Aardvark! posted:I most recently gave up on book #3 of the Commonweal series by Graydon Saunders. whats the commonweal about
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ChubbyChecker posted:whats the commonweal about what if magic but science. the first book is about a military campaign and magical artillery and then it becomes about wizard school and public works projects done using Majick
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Aardvark! posted:what if magic but science. the first book is about a military campaign and magical artillery and then it becomes about wizard school and public works projects done using Majick yeah, the murder mystery sounds more like something i'd like
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i'm slogging my way through a HP Lovecraft compendium. Someone mentioned in another thread where they HAVE to finish a book they started. That's where I'm at right now, with this. i'm ready for something much lighter and quick, after this. AND HE WAS THE GHOST THE WHOLE TIME BOOWOWOOWOOWWOOOOO don't get me wrong, i've definitely enjoyed some of it -minus the racism blight rhino fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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blight rhino posted:i'm slogging my way through a HP Lovecraft compendium. when i was younger i finished all the poo poo books i started, but these days when i just can't spend all days reading i'll quit easily if it seems like poo poo, and if the premise was interesting i'll check online how it ended
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ChubbyChecker posted:when i was younger i finished all the poo poo books i started, but these days when i just can't spend all days reading i'll quit easily if it seems like poo poo, and if the premise was interesting i'll check online how it ended totally feel that after this slog. jesus, he does not make it easy to read his stories. i'll be happy to put it behind me.
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re-read confedracy of dunces for the first time since i was a teen. i thought it was funny then, still do, although maybe not as brilliant as i used to think because it does drag on a bit but it's still funny. it is crazy how similar ignatius is to online nerds of the 21st century though. it's basically what if a guy with terminal posting disease lived in an era where he could not post. so he ends up making a spectacle of himself on the streets.
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. It was ok. A lot of sciencey brain stuff. The last chapter was about fake gurus and awesome drugs which was nice. I'm currently reading Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. Another book based on brain science. I read it a long time ago but don't remember any of it. In fact I don't remember most books I read. I like non-fiction books. A lot of what you might call "self-help" but not like Tony Robbins "Just think positive!" stuff. I like the physical/chemical science behind things. For fiction I have next to my bed "If It Bleeds" by Stephen King. His latest short story book. I LOVE King short story books. Just long enough to keep my attention span and make me feel like I accomplished something by finishing it.
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38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End by Scott W. Berg. Turns out Minnesota is rooted in evil, too. Now I'm slogging my way through The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama.... this book is weird.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. It was ok. A lot of sciencey brain stuff. The last chapter was about fake gurus and awesome drugs which was nice. last brain book i read was brain rules by john medina it was about exercise, survival, wiring, attention, short-term memory, long-term memory, sleep, stress, multisensory perception, vision, gender and exploration quite interesting stuff
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ChubbyChecker posted:last brain book i read was brain rules by john medina i'll give this a look. i've read a few books which sound like this on the surface but have ended up being self-help books which really offer nothing but platitudes and anecdotes, but since you say it's interesting stuff and i am interested in this kind of thing i'll give it a go. so many times this year i've left books half-finished because something completely different distracted me, only to then get distracted from that and move on again. i'm not really sure if it is a problem that this is becoming a habit. the books aren't even boring most of the time i just think ehhh had enough of this subject/story, what else. i suppose i can always return to them when i feel like it. the memory of what came before tends to re-emerge quickly so books aren't too bad to pick back up even months later.
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roomtone posted:i'll give this a look. i've read a few books which sound like this on the surface but have ended up being self-help books which really offer nothing but platitudes and anecdotes, but since you say it's interesting stuff and i am interested in this kind of thing i'll give it a go. the book is filled to brim with anecdotes, but not really platitudes imo, though it does have some self help stuff too but the science stuff in it is based on peer revieved studies, and is referenced it has stuff about distractions and memory, so you'd probably be interested in it
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ChubbyChecker posted:last brain book i read was brain rules by john medina Added to my Amazon list!
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The Kingdom of Little Wounds by Suzann Cokal. Everyone had syphilis and the king had diarrhea constantly. Eventually he had some sort of rupture in his guts while engaged with his prime minister/lover in the bedchamber that made him poo poo blood until he died about 12 hours later. This is a problem because the king's only son has just died of syphilis and the dynasty is now in danger. But there's hope, since the queen is near term with her last pregnancy. Alas, the child, while male, had congenital syphilis and died shortly after birth. The two heroines save the day by stealing one of their newborn half-brothers (who doesn't have syphilis) and giving it to the widowed queen to let her perpetuate the late king's dynasty by passing him off as the king's. They then make their escape by murdering the prime minister, cutting off the prime minister's dick and stealing it because there were a bunch of gemstones sewn under the skin of his dick to protect him from contracting syphilis. (The prime minister was famously amorous and had had sex with both against their wills at different times, thus their awareness of his bodymod choices.) After extracting all of the gemstones the two women feed the severed penis to some alley cats. Finally they sailed off to Copenhagen to see if they could find one of their ex boyfriends. It was a gross book and I don't recommend.
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Me again. posted:The Kingdom of Little Wounds by Suzann Cokal. Everyone had syphilis and the king had diarrhea constantly. Eventually he had some sort of rupture in his guts while engaged with his prime minister/lover in the bedchamber that made him poo poo blood until he died about 12 hours later. This is a problem because the king's only son has just died of syphilis and the dynasty is now in danger. But there's hope, since the queen is near term with her last pregnancy. the aristocrats!
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roomtone posted:re-read confedracy of dunces for the first time since i was a teen. i thought it was funny then, still do, although maybe not as brilliant as i used to think because it does drag on a bit but it's still funny. He really is the Proto-Goon. I really need to finish reading this book.
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I just finished a book called Murder Machine about a mob slaughter squad. Pretty good
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I am reading a collection of Washington Irving’s short fiction and it’s great, he is very funny and creates a sense of place incredibly well. My favorite story of his so far is The Stout Gentlemen, about a neurotic man recovering from an illness in a mid-budget rural inn. He is bored out of his mind and can’t leave because it’s been pissing rain all month. He becomes obsessed with a new guest who he can’t catch a glimpse of no matter what he does, and spends hours trying to figure out what kind of person he might be based on the sounds he hears from his room, the kinds of food he orders and the way the staff reacts to him. At the end of the story the mystery guest is checking out so he sprints downstairs to try to catch a glimpse of him but only sees his huge rear end as he climbs into a carriage. 10/10 brilliant story ChunTheUnavoidable fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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an instruction manual to put together a shoe shelf
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Aardvark! posted:I most recently gave up on book #3 of the Commonweal series by Graydon Saunders. I might check this out I read a lot of golden age and shin honkaku type stuff
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A book called Headcrash by the guy who invented the term cyberpunk. It's like ready player one but the dude sticks something in his rear end as part of the 3d world interface. It is really bad. I have to stop ready paperbacks out of the 3 for 1 pile.
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I'm working on the Brothers Karamazov and Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch. Enjoying both--the book I finished before was Moby Dick, which was also quite good.
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most recently Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control which made it pretty clear that there never would've been a hippie movement if it weren't for the CIA i recommend reading CHAOS:Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties afterward for the speedrun any% path to tinfoil paranoia about the CIA
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I just finished Sue Grafton's V is for Vengeance and started After 1903, What? by Robert Benchley. Edit: People keep recommending the Kennedy Toole book, Confederacy of Dunces. I should read it. gleebster fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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Kitty Kelly's book about Elizabeth Taylor It's less salacious than her book about Sinatra and at times seems more like a defense of Elizabeth Taylor. In the beginning you kinda feel bad for her because she's exploited by the studio system and barely has a high school education but then her career takes off and she becomes this bloated symbol of excess and ridiculousness so you're rooting for a plane crash or something to wipe out all these people who don't do anything for the world except look attractive. Thank you for reading about Elizabeth Taylor, land of many contrasts.
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ChubbyChecker posted:the last one i read was bill the galactic hero, a military and scifi satire bill is a good book imo. i first read it when i was pretty young and didn't really get the joke about him lying in his hospital bed with nothing to do but shake hands with himself the last actual new book i read was Inhibitor Phase by alistair reynolds. it's fun hardish scifi. i kind of bounced off Ghormenghast but will return to it shortly
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It was a big fat porno that made me shoot a cum
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Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb I really enjoyed it. The head of astronomy at Harvard walks you through good scientific reasons to think Oumuamua, an extra solar object that passed through our system in 2017, might have been something manufactured.
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Howls moving castle for whatever reason. Was good.
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DUNE for the epic WIN OP
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epic random user posted:DUNE for the epic WIN OP nice pity that the sequels suck
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