CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn't do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud.
"Inventory" by The Onion
"On Killing: The Psychological Cost of learning to kill in War and Society"
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"Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced the Working People"
Halfway through On Killing and it's pretty awesome. I'm glad someone in this thread made me aware of it.
Also I read like 75% of "Inventory" before realizing it's basically just "Televison Tropes: the book".
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God, this chapter on the color white is killing me
Fucking transcendentalists
Needed a few things to fill up my cart on Amazon for free shipping, so I got Catcher in the Rye and all Salinger's other short stories. I haven't read Catcher since I wrote a report on it in high school, excited to read it again. It's about the only book that I read in high school and thought was good, along with Great Expectations.
Plus I got the Portrait of Dorian Grey, because everyone says that Oscar Wilde is so good.
Classics, right? Good stuff.
Oh, and Dublo, about Wheel of Time - Jordan meant for there to be just one more book in the series, called A Memory of Light, but when the he died and the new writer got the notes, he decided it needed more space I guess. Typically, yeah, I'd be a bit wary that he took one book and spread it out into three, but this one was a joy to read. It tied up a lot of storylines that had been dragging on since book 7, and never really felt like there was unnecessary filler like other books.
Oh, and by the way - I will boycott a Catcher in the Rye movie preemptively. The entire world is cynical; to put out Catcher in the Rye right now would be a cash-in and an affront to the themes of the novel entirely. I sincerely hope that the rights to the book have been inherited by someone with enough respect to never let anyone ruin it.
Oh, and Dublo, about Wheel of Time - Jordan meant for there to be just one more book in the series, called A Memory of Light, but when the he died and the new writer got the notes, he decided it needed more space I guess. Typically, yeah, I'd be a bit wary that he took one book and spread it out into three, but this one was a joy to read. It tied up a lot of storylines that had been dragging on since book 7, and never really felt like there was unnecessary filler like other books.
what.
how
how is it possible to need more space in the WoT series?
Oh, and Dublo, about Wheel of Time - Jordan meant for there to be just one more book in the series, called A Memory of Light, but when the he died and the new writer got the notes, he decided it needed more space I guess. Typically, yeah, I'd be a bit wary that he took one book and spread it out into three, but this one was a joy to read. It tied up a lot of storylines that had been dragging on since book 7, and never really felt like there was unnecessary filler like other books.
what.
how
how is it possible to need more space in the WoT series?
the whole fucking thing is space and white noise
well that was actually the problem, Jordan had left so many loose ends the new guy couldn't wrap them all up in just one book supposedly.
The first threeish books were excellent, I will brook no argument to this. Just pretend the series stopped after that and everybody won or died, it's what I do. It's like the West Wing, there were really only 4 seasons, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
I totally agree that the (large) middle of the series is worse than the beginning, but based on the latest book, it seems like it's worth it to read whatever book summaries you need to and pick it up again, if you liked the beginning of the series.
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Startlingly, my library system doesn't have Pornucopia but we do have Stork Naked, The Color of Her Panties, and Swell Foop. Piers Anthony officially writes my favorite titles.
I'm reading Brandon Sanderson's Elantris, by recommendation of a colleague. So far the intrinsic mysteries are... intriguing, but the writing seems clumsy at parts.
Anyone read it? I suspect there'll have been a wave of interest what with the whole Wheel of Time thing (which I haven't read), but I wasn't familiar with the author before.
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"Inventory" by The Onion
"On Killing: The Psychological Cost of learning to kill in War and Society"
and
"Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced the Working People"
Halfway through On Killing and it's pretty awesome. I'm glad someone in this thread made me aware of it.
Also I read like 75% of "Inventory" before realizing it's basically just "Televison Tropes: the book".
Fucking transcendentalists
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you have been reading teef's fanfiction I see
Plus I got the Portrait of Dorian Grey, because everyone says that Oscar Wilde is so good.
Classics, right? Good stuff.
Oh, and Dublo, about Wheel of Time - Jordan meant for there to be just one more book in the series, called A Memory of Light, but when the he died and the new writer got the notes, he decided it needed more space I guess. Typically, yeah, I'd be a bit wary that he took one book and spread it out into three, but this one was a joy to read. It tied up a lot of storylines that had been dragging on since book 7, and never really felt like there was unnecessary filler like other books.
Oh, and by the way - I will boycott a Catcher in the Rye movie preemptively. The entire world is cynical; to put out Catcher in the Rye right now would be a cash-in and an affront to the themes of the novel entirely. I sincerely hope that the rights to the book have been inherited by someone with enough respect to never let anyone ruin it.
I really liked that book! I much preferred it to the savage detectives.
just finished the book of chameleons by jose eduardo agualusa and enjoyed it. it's a pretty fast read.
what.
how
how is it possible to need more space in the WoT series?
the whole fucking thing is space and white noise
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well that was actually the problem, Jordan had left so many loose ends the new guy couldn't wrap them all up in just one book supposedly.
Holy fuck
don't worry about it dawg, it's not worth the effort.
Know nothing about either man but piers apparently wrote a book called "Pornucopia" so I'm with Quoth.
he is like the male ayn rand
at least piers anthony has some good ideas, goodkind doesn't even have that
although to be fair, anthony came up with the worst character nickname ever
GAW-TWO
you know, in theory
and then it gets all weird and kind of misogynistic but at least it's not rapefest with evil poultry
KILL
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about hackers in virtual reality games, which is also a cool concept
he is such a giver, writing books with characters who are paragons that i can look up to and try to emulate
misogyny
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Piers Anthony was pretty much my introduction to fantasy
Anyone read it? I suspect there'll have been a wave of interest what with the whole Wheel of Time thing (which I haven't read), but I wasn't familiar with the author before.
that silly goose managed to invent a new system of magic and ooh it just gets my knickers in a twist
But I do like the sound of new magic.