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Book thread: Distractions welcome

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus The machine is broken. The universe is broken.Registered User regular
    I've never read any L'Amour, but a few days back in some thread or other I mentioned I had a Louis L'Amour tape? It was a gag gift (along with Midwest Polka Band Hits) but it was actually totally awesome. Like, the best possible thing to listen to on a road trip. And then I found out that my grandfather loves Louis L'Amour, making him even more awesome than he already was.

    I guess what I'm saying is I miss that tape, and I can't scoff at the Westerns section at the bookstore anymore.

    My dad has an entire bookshelf dedicated to Louis L'Amour.

  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius Registered User regular
    I have every Louis L'Amour novel ever written. I kid you not. Got them from my folks. I have read every single one.


    Quoth - There's a series by a dude named Simon R. Green that's pretty decent. I didn't like it as much as Dresden, but it's pretty ok. It's set in the "Darkside" of London, which is basically a magical underworld version. Oh, and the amount of Dresden Files ripoffs in them is pretty funny as well.

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    My grandfather also has every Louis L'Amour book. I have only seen a few of the Tom Selleck movies though.

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User
    Key update: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is great

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance Registered User regular
    What you've been is not on boats.

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    "Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    What you've been is not on boats.

    That is one of my favorite scenes in the play, and any time I'm hanging out with a certain group of friends the whole script ends up being quoted extensively

  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate Registered User regular
    The foot, on the other hand. . .

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Registered User regular
    AMP'd wrote: »
    Key update: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is great

    it is essentially a better version of waiting for godot, which is one incredible accomplishment

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User
    This is good, because I'm reading Waiting for Godot later

    Also there is so much innuendo that you could cut it with a butter knife

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Registered User regular
    waiting for godot is fantastic

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger Registered User regular
    Fiz wrote: »
    Adding books to my kindle is fun. If you like Fantasy or Science Fiction and want to suggest stuff feel free to do so.

    For some reason, three of the four books in this one series are available for the Kindle. The first, second, and fourth. Why not the third? Still a fun little toy

    Check out Neal Asher and Richard Morgan.

    I play games on ps3. My PSN is DouglasDanger.
  • zimfanzimfan Registered User
    The last few things Pip and AMP'D said are all true

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  • Satanic JesusSatanic Jesus In a library with broken glasses Registered User regular
    My collection of unread books grows. I bought The Graveyard Book, Lirael and The Hobbit yesterday. Since they were part of the 3 or 2 deal, and I had 8 euroes on my Waterstones card, they only came to 10 euroes total. I now have 26 books on my shelf I haven't read (not counting The Hobbit since I've read it before.)

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Lirael is the sequel to Sabriel, right?

    I loved Sabriel and only recently became aware of the other books

  • Satanic JesusSatanic Jesus In a library with broken glasses Registered User regular
    Yeah, it is. I should read it before I forget everything that happened in Sabriel.

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance Registered User regular
    Man I have, without doubt, well over a hundred books that I own but have not yet read

    Anyway, you can totally read The Graveyard Book and Lirael in one day's reading. So get on that! I occasionally go through periods of not allowing myself to be distracted by library books or new books, just so I finish older unread things at some point in my life.

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    "Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Man I have, without doubt, well over a hundred books that I own but have not yet read

    Anyway, you can totally read The Graveyard Book and Lirael in one day's reading. So get on that! I occasionally go through periods of not allowing myself to be distracted by library books or new books, just so I finish older unread things at some point in my life.

    Or by the need to sleep apparently.

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance Registered User regular
    I've given it up

    My leg is like, fucking, Jacob Marley's chain he forged in life, right now

    just draggin' around with a big ol bandage rattling about how crappy life is as a ghost, that's me

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    "Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Check yo email ebeneezer

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    Hey people that were talking about The Scar a little while ago; do you need to have read Perdido Street Station first or will it make sense without it? I read King Rat thinking that was first and just got The Scar and realized that PSS was related to it and preceded it.

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  • IoloIolo Registered User regular
    Hey people that were talking about The Scar a little while ago; do you need to have read Perdido Street Station first or will it make sense without it? I read King Rat thinking that was first and just got The Scar and realized that PSS was related to it and preceded it.

    You can read The Scar without reading PSS first. Anything you need to know in the second book is explained (eventually). But if you can it is well worth it to do PSS first, both as a standalone enjoyable read and as a significant enhancement to your The Scar experience.

    EDIT: And neither have any relation to King Rat, other than being written by the same dude. He grew a lot as a writer after KR, his first novel. I enjoyed it, but I think it's pretty clearly his weakest book.

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    Thanks Iolo. Now I have to decide whether to wait for PSS to come in from another library (both copies in the system are checked out so it could be a while), or just read The Scar and not worry about it. I guess the first thing is finish these last 300 pages of The Bonehunters and then decide.

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  • IoloIolo Registered User regular
    Oh shit - I went on Amazon to try to tempt you with some preposterously cheap, used version of Perdido Street Station only to find that he's got a new book coming out June 29 -- Kraken! (Exclamation point mine. It's not a broadway musical... yet.)

    That is awesome news, and unexpected since The City & The City just came out last May.

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    a broadway musical called Kraken! would almost certainly be awesome.

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  • celandinecelandine Registered User regular
    I would watch that.

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User
    Langly wrote: »
    a broadway musical called Kraken! would almost certainly be awesome.

    BREAK YOUR BACKS AND CRACK YOUR OARS MEN

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  • ButlerButler Registered User regular
    Hello book thread, I was looking at some Doctor Who books in the library yesterday and I just wanted to say how truly awful some of them are. The best ones are pretty good, but the worst ones seem to latch on to the most obvious 10th Doctor cliches - using the sonic screwdriver like a magic wand, "timey-wimey" descriptions of alien phenomena, "zany" behaviour - and just pour them on in buckets. The way they portray him it's a wonder he doesn't burst out of the TARDIS on a sonic pogo stick going YIPPEEE!

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    it's time to Go Galt

    sexually
  • Lost SalientLost Salient generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance Registered User regular
    I was just gearing up to watch the last episodes of the last season over here because I have been semi-desperate for new Who. Not desperate enough to actually go ahead and pick up any of the books yet but it's close to that point.

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    "Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
  • ButlerButler Registered User regular
    Apparently the next season has an episode where he meets Vincent van Gogh, with Van Gogh
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    being played by Tony Curran.
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    Rolo wrote: »
    it's time to Go Galt

    sexually
  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    Alpine wrote: »
    I finished the new Wheel of Time book last night

    I know, I know, braid tugging and sniffing and skirt smoothing, but the best thing to happen to that series was Robert Jordan dying, the new writer picks up the pace and runs with it

    I really liked it
    but isn't it going to take another 3 books to finish the series?

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  • ButlerButler Registered User regular
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    Alpine wrote: »
    I finished the new Wheel of Time book last night

    I know, I know, braid tugging and sniffing and skirt smoothing, but the best thing to happen to that series was Robert Jordan dying, the new writer picks up the pace and runs with it

    I really liked it
    but isn't it going to take another 3 books to finish the series?

    Jordan himself was pulling that "just a couple more books" bullshit since way back in the day.

    And then he'd be all "Oh but there's just so much story to pack in I'm going to have to make it a couple books more, but before I even write those I'm going to go back to the first book and split that into two books and write like one new chapter for each."

    Jordan could have lived to be 98 and still not finished this fucking thing.

    Rolo wrote: »
    it's time to Go Galt

    sexually
  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    @mattufford: R.I.P., Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger. Maybe their funerals can be grossly overrated, too.

  • Baroque And RollBaroque And Roll Registered User regular
    NotACrook wrote: »
    @mattufford: R.I.P., Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger. Maybe their funerals can be grossly overrated, too.

    That's a pretty sick burn.

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    Fucking aye

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  • YaYaYaYa ... ...wanna fight?Registered User regular
    man, sort of a bummer about Salinger

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    The dude was 91 and a hermit. It's not like he was writing the next great american novel or anything.

    edit: lost it in the database error: Although, looking at his wiki, it seems like him dying is the best thing for people who like his work. He did write, he just never published, and now it's all going to come out.

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User
    Maybe one of his unpublished novels will be better than Catcher in the Rye

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Registered User regular
    wait both zinn and salinger died?

    dang

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    Now they can finally make a Catcher in the Rye movie, starring Shai Lebooof

  • UmaroUmaro Registered User
    Now they can finally make an A People's History of the United States movie starring teefs, Howard Zinn's emaciated corpse and a doublesided dildo.

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