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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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For what it's worth, I don't think you should read HGTTG. I firmly believe it's one of those books you have to read when you're a teenager, or the window of appreciation is gone forever. |
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trying hard to be a better person
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I read Dune years ago (when I was a teenager). I don't think I could do it again...and that perfume Dune just ruined the whole concept of the word for me.
It's terrible. (sorry to those who like it, but it gives me a headache)
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infidel! cock!
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I hear them call the tide
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Far too many to mention... I have a whiole stack out of the library that i just keep renewing. Literary fiction mostly, the stuff i should read, but paperback mass-market crap is so much easier.... I've been ignoring Ovenman by Jeff Parker for over a year, and now I'm finally reading it. it's good. a little weird, but good. I'm also ignoring The Weight of Nothing by Steve gillis. it's excellent, but hard work and so i just sort of stopped, a little over halfway through. I've had that out of the library for a couple of years now.
On the non-fiction front: Making a Michigan Will ![]()
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Your Bartender
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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I've spent fifteen years, at least, studiously avoiding the Pilgrim's Progress, only to find it compulsory reading on my new history module.
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I know, right?
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![]() My SIL gave me that perfume as a gift at my bridal shower, which was also a bachelorette party. I was drunk and asked her if they made it out of giant worms. ![]() She didn't see the humor. |
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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lmao! giant worms...that is awesome!
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This is a fully functional babe lair
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I guess she didn't enjoy your spice Juniper.
I've been successfully avoiding "pop" books such as The Da Vinci Code, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Harry Potter. I don't care how "riveting" or "adventurous" or "suspenseful" you think the story is, I refuse to subject my mind to such pointless drivel that the majority population, whom I pessimistically view as idiots on a whole in literary fields, feed upon and discuss endlessly as if these books were the greatest things ever put on wood pulp. You want a good read that's actually relevant? Pick up Common Sense by Thomas Paine and just about anything by Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.
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lobber of scimitars
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I wish that I had ignored the Twilight series.
I have successfully ignored Gone with the Wind and any number of romance novels. I have ignored the Wheel of Time series. I tend to ignore the sorts of books that New York Times reviewers gush over. I have ignored anything written by Salman Rushdie. I have ignored most of what Oprah thinks people should read. I have made a few exceptions to this, and have regretted most of them. (Checking her list, I have read three, and have regretted two. Of the one I did not regret, I didn't know it was an Oprah Book at the time that I read it, actually possibly it had not been selected at that time.)
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We have to go back, Kate!
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So far, I'm ignoring Anathem. Been sitting on the floor by my side of the bed since Christmas. Reading it seems like a daunting prospect.
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I'm just digging how Stephenson can still be writing cyberpunk when he's setting his books in the 17th Century. YMMV, but I think it's totally fucking COOL.
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A way to keep track of what you're ignoring.
If anyone would like to be my friend, pm me and we can swap account information.
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dar512 is now Pete Zicato
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I have a fondness for fantasy of this sort and reread the series from time to time. I can understand that you may not like it for its Christian message or you may not like it because it is essentially a children's book. But I wouldn't call it 'pop'. Writing this post reminded me that I haven't read "The World of Pooh" since my kids were little.
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