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The New Reading/Book Thread: With That Same Ol' Bad Taste!

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    what do you want to read

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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    ender's game is reader surrogate fantasy for socially retarded 11-year-old males who are convinced they are the smartest shit ever to hit the planet

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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    ^ trufax

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Balefuego wrote: »
    what do you want to read

    books

    or possibly audiobooks I have some driving to do soon

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    YaYa go read Sunnyside by Glen David Gold right now

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    YaYa wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    what do you want to read

    books

    or possibly audiobooks I have some driving to do soon

    give me some fucking parameters to work with here

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    CD : I don't know what that is

    Bale: uhhhh something really fun and fast-paced but not tooooo dumb, soft sci-fi/pulpy stuff? also if it works well in audiobook I'd be happy

    does anyone know if I Am Number Four is any good

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    it means give me something go on

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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    redhead wrote: »
    ender's game is reader surrogate fantasy for socially retarded 11-year-old males who are convinced they are the smartest shit ever to hit the planet

    redhead realized there is no battle school.


    is now pissed

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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    YaYa wrote: »
    CD : I don't know what that is

    Bale: uhhhh something really fun and fast-paced but not tooooo dumb, soft sci-fi/pulpy stuff? also if it works well in audiobook I'd be happy

    does anyone know if I Am Number Four is any good

    it's a TEEN ALIEN HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA

    so probably not?

    Roswell was great though so I dunno man give it a shot?

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    A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Enders Game was pretty entertaining and the battle room stuff was boss.

    Some people love it too much, others act like condescending cunts about it.



    Trufax

    Edit, Yaya, The Gone Away World.

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    http://www.amazon.com/Sunnyside-Vintage-Glen-David-Gold/dp/0307454983/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1294542391&sr=8-4
    Sunnyside opens on a winter day in 1916 during which Charlie Chaplin is spotted in more than eight hundred places simultaneously, an extraordinary delusion that forever binds the overlapping fortunes of three men: Leland Wheeler, son of the world’s last (and worst) Wild West star, as he finds unexpected love on the battlefields of France; Hugo Black, drafted to fight under the towering General Edmund Ironside in America’s doomed expedition against the Bolsheviks; and Chaplin himself, as he faces a tightening vise of complications—studio moguls, questions about his patriotism, his unchecked heart, and, most menacing of all, his mother.

    The narrative is as rich and expansive as the ground it covers, and it is cast with a dazzling roster of both real and fictional characters: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Adolph Zukor, Chaplin’s (first) child bride, a thieving Girl Scout, the secretary of the treasury, a lovesick film theorist, three Russian princesses (gracious, nervous, and nihilist), a crew of fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants moviemakers, legions of starstruck fans, and Rin Tin Tin.

    By turns lighthearted and profound, Sunnyside is an altogether spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition, and the dawn of the modern age.

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Balefuego wrote: »
    it means give me something go on

    I was talking to Centi

    also Centi that sounds fucking great I am making that happen ASAP

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Amazon has officially gone insane

    "customers who bought this book also bought THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO"

    "buy this book with THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO today"

    uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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    RubberACRubberAC Sidney BC!Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I just finished reading Soon I will be Invincible by Austin Grossman
    it was really neat!
    i like superheroes and books!

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    there should be more books about superheroes!

    which reminds me, I got Kavalier & Clay for Christmas, I really should get started on that

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Yaya the best sci-fi I read in 2010 was House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

    I am not sure if that is pulpy enough for you though since Reynolds likes his BIG IDEAS

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    if you want something really light and airy, David Weber's Honor Harrington books are full of really cool space naval battles and not much else

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    DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Everyone should read Forever War. It is really good.

    Doublegood if you have read Starship Troopers.

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Centipede Damascus wrote: »
    there should be more books about superheroes!

    which reminds me, I got Kavalier & Clay for Christmas, I really should get started on that

    stop before the ending and thank us later

    also I will check out all of those thank you

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