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I'm currently trying to read "The Lens and The Looker" by Lory S. Kaufman, but it's gonna hafta do something pretty quick or I'm gonna bail.
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09-23-2012, 06:02 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
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I think westerns have ruined books for me. It's all I can read and enjoy seems like.
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10-03-2012, 01:56 PM
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Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB.
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Gone Girl
Mrs Z got me started on it. It's a page-turner but there's no one to like in this book. This must be the latest thing. I'm reading a copy from one of Mrs. Z's friends, but I checked the library and there's 13 copies and 400 something holds.
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10-03-2012, 02:12 PM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth. Interesting book. It has a vivid description of the future, but an all but nonexistent plot. Written in 1976, it has a passable, if quaint, prediction of the internet.
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10-03-2012, 04:40 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
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"Birdman" by Mo Hayder
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10-04-2012, 05:43 AM
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Encroaching on your decrees
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Can I include audiobooks here? It's all I get time to "read" just now. If so, then I've just finished The House of Silk, by Anthony Horovitz. A Sherlock Holmes story which I found to be excellent. Now I'm enjoying I Found my Horn, by Jasper Rees.
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10-04-2012, 05:48 AM
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Encroaching on your decrees
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Glad you're enjoying the Kindle  haven't finished the Etymologicon myself yet ...Sent by thought transference
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10-04-2012, 08:28 AM
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The worst is probably Rendezvous with Rama, where the entire plot is following explorers as they explore an abandoned alien space ship and catalog everything they learn. |
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10-21-2012, 08:50 PM
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Been reading Charles Mccarry, Mo Hayder.
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10-22-2012, 07:04 AM
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodward gets into our regional belief systems. It is interesting in that he attempts to give background to what I see as varying definitions of liberty among different groups of Americans. It shows how embedded in regional culture it is, which may explain why people can't seem to respect each others values in our failing state.
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10-22-2012, 11:20 AM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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I'm listening to the audiobook of Mogworld, by Yahtzee Croshaw, at the moment. It is making me laugh out loud.
It's set in a standard fantasy type MMO game, like World of Warcraft. Told from the perspective of Jim, formerly a trainee mage, now an undead minion. He's an inhabitant of the world, unaware of the existence of players. As a young mage he dies in battle, and is buried, Some 60 years later, his spirit is rudely yanked from the eternal light and bliss that surrounded it and back into his dessicated corpse. In the decades since his death the world has changed utterly. People no longer die. Those who died before the change, if brought back can no longer return to death. They sort of die, then are shunted back into their corpses (now most likely even more battered than they were before) to continue. Everyone else, the ordinary living inhabitants of the world, die and are helped back to the world and fresh new bodies by priests. All Jim wants is to die properly. In order to this, he has to figure out what the fuck is going on....what the fuck are those angel type creatures who go around deleting things and forcing errant souls back into bodies, why an entire coastal town appears to have gone quite mad, with people speaking random jumbled up...scripts whilst attempting to walk through walls and suchlike, but most all, why everybody stopped dying, and how to get things back to normal? The standard trope of a dark forboding castle keep, filled to the rafters with undead ghouls and zombies all intent on preventing you, the adventurer, from getting to the really interesting treasure chests, takes on a very diferent hue when one of those zombies is telling the story.
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12-03-2012, 10:37 PM
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About 3/4 of the way through Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein.
It's a non-fiction book about the effects of the "girlie-girl" culture on young girls. All that pretty pink princess stuff... does it come at a price? (A: Yes.) Topics so far include Disney princesses, American Girl dolls, beauty pageants, Lohan/Spears/Cyrus, superheroes and the differences/similarities between girls and boys. At times funny and often unsettling, it's been a very interesting read. |
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12-03-2012, 10:52 PM
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Psalm 91 Gods Shield of Protection...
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12-04-2012, 05:20 AM
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Larger than life and twice as ugly.
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Trying to fight my way through "Morals and Dogma" by Albert Pike, again.
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We have to go back, Kate!
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