Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
edited January 2011
Welp
Laughed so hard my dog thinks I'm choking and is now attacking me
Mission accomplished, GG
And re: Master & Commander, yeah, I've only read the first three, myself. They were completely great, but then I got distracted by the fact that I have over 50 books here that I own already and haven't read yet.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
LS I know what else you should be reading right now
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I actually read it already! Which will probably drive you even more mad, because I started writing my thoughts about it but I haven't finished and now I'm going to walk the dog and head to the bar for the night. But tomorrow I'll have something for you!
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
LS I know what else you should be reading right now
hint
I actually read it already! Which will probably drive you even more mad, because I started writing my thoughts about it but I haven't finished and now I'm going to walk the dog and head to the bar for the night. But tomorrow I'll have something for you!
don't bother I just exploded out of sheer rage
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My mom bought me Dresden Files Side Jobs, should I read the whole thing tonight y/n?
I greatly enjoyed this book except for the very last story that takes place after Changes. So yes, at least read up to the last story.
I also enjoyed Name of the Wind.
That is such a good book.
The new one is only a few months away.
Blauraughg.
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ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
edited January 2011
Hard to pin down a favorite book for me last year. I read The Terror and Raw Shark Texts and Hyperion and actually those are the only non-school books I can remember reading. Oh, also all of the Temeraire books
It was excellent. Some of the best writing I've seen for a while, and properly funny. Good news is it's the first of a trilogy. Bad news is the second one probably won't be out until 2014, which is a crazy wait.
just watch Smof
he's gonna start three more series' just to annoy his fans
he already wrote a very average young adult book!
Are you referring to the Last Dragonslayer or whatever it's called? I had a look at that and wasn't wowed by the summary on the back. I now have the Big Over Easy by him, to read once I've finished the book I'm on now. Detective story featuring nursery rhyme characters, which sounds pretty good.
In other news I'm getting near the end of the Yahtzee Croshaw book and I'm happy to say it's actually pretty good so well done him.
The Last Dragonslayer is basically "I can't be bothered writing more mythology into the Jurisfiction universe so here is a half-assed book full of quirk"
do any of you smart reading people want to give me notes on a (very) short first draft of a play I wrote as part of this weird concert thing that's coming up
Man reading the Terror, its like, oh god, I know none of you make it.
Also I was watching 'Creation' and Charles Darwin references one of the dudes in the Terror, who also references meeting charles darwin on one of his earlier voyages. Blending history with horror is fun!
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Finished Tokyo Vice. I think I found the depictions of Japanese corporations and work culture to be the most interesting parts, but overall it was a good read. Surprising, interesting, and sad in parts.
Starting up The Last Boy, a biography of Mickey Mantle. I'm hoping it's good, player bio's can be hit or miss.
I just finished Tokyo Vice today. I, too, found his descriptions of the job - especially breaking in - to be most interesting, considerably moreso than the yakuza stuff. I also found the tidbits about Japanese culture to be interesting, but I am a gigantic weaboo. (Also, most of the Japanese racism against gaijins is amusing when I'm reading about it in the USA.)
Yeah, I saw the original post, looked this book up on Amazon, and I have now reserved a copy at Barnes & Noble to pick up tomorrow. Sounds interesting,
Yessss soon we will all have read this and my plan will be complete.
I am currently reading the Ballad of the White Horse by GK Chesterton, on loan from the collection of one J. Langly Awesomeguy, esq.
For christmas I got The Fort and The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris, and the HG Wells collection from Munkus for SS.
So I've got some good reading ahead of me.
At work, I'm using our expansive online technical library/learning center/certification tool thingy to read about programming artificial intelligences for games. It might be a slight misappropriation of the tools at hand, but it's either that or I watch a progress bar move across a screen.
My mom bought me Dresden Files Side Jobs, should I read the whole thing tonight y/n?
I greatly enjoyed this book except for the very last story that takes place after Changes. So yes, at least read up to the last story.
I also enjoyed Name of the Wind.
That is such a good book.
The new one is only a few months away.
Blauraughg.
General spoilers about the main character of Name of the Wind
He is such a Gary Stu, but I like to think it gets made up for by the amount of times he gets the shit beat out of him in some form or another.
I still don't know that I'd call him that
I mean, motherfucker makes all kinds of mistakes, and has a bunch of terrible shit happen to him, and does not know how to handle women at all
Besides, think about the premise of the book. You can't very well have him not be good at things sometimes!
Yeah this. I mean I get the Mary Sue/Gary Stu thing and how it's annoying but I'd hardly call Kvoth a Gary Stu, it's pretty clear that by the time the book opens he's kind of a mess.
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edited January 2011
i have heard that squirrel seeks chipmunk is incredibly dark and depressing
i have heard that squirrel seeks chipmunk is incredibly dark and depressing
I read the first short story. It was kind of dark humor in that it was about a person (animal) in the service industry trying to tell a client what they wanted to hear just to ensure their business, but there wasn't much depressing about it. I guess you could draw some parallels to using casual racism too.
A Man on the Moon is what the miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" was based on, and it is seriously the best book on the Apollo program ever written. I consider it a must read for any space program enthusiast.
i have heard that squirrel seeks chipmunk is incredibly dark and depressing
I read the first short story. It was kind of dark humor in that it was about a person (animal) in the service industry trying to tell a client what they wanted to hear just to ensure their business, but there wasn't much depressing about it. I guess you could draw some parallels to using casual racism too.
Point is, it was funny.
i think i heard one at least is about child murder
his approach, if i remember correctly, was to sort of mimic certain african stories, inclusive of the really horrible crap that happens to people in them
I am currently reading the Ballad of the White Horse by GK Chesterton, on loan from the collection of one J. Langly Awesomeguy, esq.
For christmas I got The Fort and The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris, and the HG Wells collection from Munkus for SS.
So I've got some good reading ahead of me.
At work, I'm using our expansive online technical library/learning center/certification tool thingy to read about programming artificial intelligences for games. It might be a slight misappropriation of the tools at hand, but it's either that or I watch a progress bar move across a screen.
would you mind me asking which hg wells collection that is?
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I am currently reading the Ballad of the White Horse by GK Chesterton, on loan from the collection of one J. Langly Awesomeguy, esq.
How do you like it? I really liked The Man Who Was Thursday. Have you read it? I haven't read Ballad. I'm flying across the Atlantic in a month, so I'm going to need a decent read.
I am finally taking the plunge and reading Ulysses
a few pages in and I was afraid I'd react to it like I did The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (that is, fall asleep)
fifty pages in and I'm not asleep! all is well.
I just finished You Shall Know Our Velocity! and was pretty happy with it. I have friends who are all up on eggers and I can understand that, but it is not a long-lasting work, I think. That might not have been the point, though
I am currently reading the Ballad of the White Horse by GK Chesterton, on loan from the collection of one J. Langly Awesomeguy, esq.
For christmas I got The Fort and The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris, and the HG Wells collection from Munkus for SS.
So I've got some good reading ahead of me.
At work, I'm using our expansive online technical library/learning center/certification tool thingy to read about programming artificial intelligences for games. It might be a slight misappropriation of the tools at hand, but it's either that or I watch a progress bar move across a screen.
would you mind me asking which hg wells collection that is?
I am currently reading the Ballad of the White Horse by GK Chesterton, on loan from the collection of one J. Langly Awesomeguy, esq.
How do you like it? I really liked The Man Who Was Thursday. Have you read it? I haven't read Ballad. I'm flying across the Atlantic in a month, so I'm going to need a decent read.
Langly let me borrow both the Ballad of the White Horse and The Man Who Was Thursday, but I'm so busy I haven't had a ton of reading time.
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Hope it's good!
Laughed so hard my dog thinks I'm choking and is now attacking me
Mission accomplished, GG
And re: Master & Commander, yeah, I've only read the first three, myself. They were completely great, but then I got distracted by the fact that I have over 50 books here that I own already and haven't read yet.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Yeah, I know
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I actually read it already! Which will probably drive you even more mad, because I started writing my thoughts about it but I haven't finished and now I'm going to walk the dog and head to the bar for the night. But tomorrow I'll have something for you!
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
it's implied that he's having a threesome with the idiot and a little girl towards the end of the book
don't bother I just exploded out of sheer rage
I greatly enjoyed this book except for the very last story that takes place after Changes. So yes, at least read up to the last story.
I also enjoyed Name of the Wind.
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That is such a good book.
The new one is only a few months away.
Blauraughg.
General spoilers about the main character of Name of the Wind
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Are you referring to the Last Dragonslayer or whatever it's called? I had a look at that and wasn't wowed by the summary on the back. I now have the Big Over Easy by him, to read once I've finished the book I'm on now. Detective story featuring nursery rhyme characters, which sounds pretty good.
In other news I'm getting near the end of the Yahtzee Croshaw book and I'm happy to say it's actually pretty good so well done him.
I didn't mind the Big Over Easy though
LS did it before it was cool and we all love her!
I'm not going to but I would like to
I never get sigged
it's just, I'm reading all the books I wish were available to me when I was a kid
if I had these when I was fifteen I could've worked through a looooooooot of issues
to be fair, I'm totally over my magic dragon issues!
I wish there were more books like this and almost perfect; they kind of hit close to home
i'm a big weepy girl though, don't mind me
Also I was watching 'Creation' and Charles Darwin references one of the dudes in the Terror, who also references meeting charles darwin on one of his earlier voyages. Blending history with horror is fun!
I still don't know that I'd call him that
I mean, motherfucker makes all kinds of mistakes, and has a bunch of terrible shit happen to him, and does not know how to handle women at all
Besides, think about the premise of the book. You can't very well have him not be good at things sometimes!
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Yessss soon we will all have read this and my plan will be complete.
For christmas I got The Fort and The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris, and the HG Wells collection from Munkus for SS.
So I've got some good reading ahead of me.
At work, I'm using our expansive online technical library/learning center/certification tool thingy to read about programming artificial intelligences for games. It might be a slight misappropriation of the tools at hand, but it's either that or I watch a progress bar move across a screen.
Yeah this. I mean I get the Mary Sue/Gary Stu thing and how it's annoying but I'd hardly call Kvoth a Gary Stu, it's pretty clear that by the time the book opens he's kind of a mess.
something informative and cool
maybe about science or technology or something
i just read a novel so i feel i wanna switch it up
I read the first short story. It was kind of dark humor in that it was about a person (animal) in the service industry trying to tell a client what they wanted to hear just to ensure their business, but there wasn't much depressing about it. I guess you could draw some parallels to using casual racism too.
Point is, it was funny.
Sam Harris - The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Moral Values
Donald L Miller - The Story of WWII (Not really about science or technology, but the best retelling of WWII from personal accounts I've ever read)
Andrew Chaikin - A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
A Man on the Moon is what the miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" was based on, and it is seriously the best book on the Apollo program ever written. I consider it a must read for any space program enthusiast.
i think i heard one at least is about child murder
his approach, if i remember correctly, was to sort of mimic certain african stories, inclusive of the really horrible crap that happens to people in them
That book is like 800 pages long, but pretty worth it and split up into nice confined segments.
would you mind me asking which hg wells collection that is?
How do you like it? I really liked The Man Who Was Thursday. Have you read it? I haven't read Ballad. I'm flying across the Atlantic in a month, so I'm going to need a decent read.
a few pages in and I was afraid I'd react to it like I did The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (that is, fall asleep)
fifty pages in and I'm not asleep! all is well.
I just finished You Shall Know Our Velocity! and was pretty happy with it. I have friends who are all up on eggers and I can understand that, but it is not a long-lasting work, I think. That might not have been the point, though
It is quite pretty.
Langly let me borrow both the Ballad of the White Horse and The Man Who Was Thursday, but I'm so busy I haven't had a ton of reading time.