I guess I've never really been enchanted by reading.
Harry Potter was cool when I was a kid, but other than that, noooope.
I'd rather spend my commutes listening to music than reading.
It really is a habit best acquired young.
If you dont build a love for reading as a kid, it is hard as shit to acquire as an adult.
edit: I had a well-worn library card as a kid.
I find it interesting folks also get very specific tastes in books. A buddy of mine hates fiction. Won't do it. Says it bores him to death. But holy shit, how too books and historical stuff. He eats that shit up. He'll read an in depth account on the rise of Lee Iacocca. But damn if I could get him anywhere near a Stephen King or Jim Butcher novel.
tbf stephen king is garbage
He's so prolific he's bound to have stinkers
I remember the the few I read (over a decade ago) being quite good, but I don't remember the name
I do remember trying to get away with reading one for a monthly book reading assignment, and my teacher flipping through it, then giving me a "Um. Are your parents OK with you reading this?" I lied of course and said yes. Now I know why she was concerned, though she didn't need to be. I wasn't 100% sure what "flaccid penis" meant anyway, so I just glossed over it.
He's a fairly good writer. He is a terrible editor.
i will take your word for it. I was not very good at sophisticated literary criticism at 12 years old
I have read all three of the Adventu8re Time comic trades I bought and won't be able to buy 4 and 5 until next month . Life is inconvenience .
GET FIONNA & CAAAAAKE
Also cause I am the worst, I can also recommend Playing With Fire, a lil' spinoff focussing on Flame Princess. It's a physically smaller book, and in black n' white only. But it's greeeat. FP has to traverse a dungeon to save Finn, and she's just like "fuck these traps" and torches everything.
Eh, I don't see a point in getting an adventure time book that isn't in color.
i feel like we say that now because ofc having kids now would be a fucking disaster
but I'm open to my lifestyle choices changing over...u know....my life
hakks, long after you've left pa and the city behind to go frolic in some suburban oasis with your crotchlings
i will be here, being a dink
Ok see liek I am at a point in my life where I can't see myself with any damn crotchlings even in the future, mostly because I can't see y future past the end of this year
I guess I've never really been enchanted by reading.
Harry Potter was cool when I was a kid, but other than that, noooope.
I'd rather spend my commutes listening to music than reading.
It really is a habit best acquired young.
If you dont build a love for reading as a kid, it is hard as shit to acquire as an adult.
edit: I had a well-worn library card as a kid.
I find it interesting folks also get very specific tastes in books. A buddy of mine hates fiction. Won't do it. Says it bores him to death. But holy shit, how too books and historical stuff. He eats that shit up. He'll read an in depth account on the rise of Lee Iacocca. But damn if I could get him anywhere near a Stephen King or Jim Butcher novel.
tbf stephen king is garbage
Nah, not the old stuff. Rough on the endings. But still really solid.
The Shining was good all the way through, as are most of his shorter novels like Cujo and 'Salem's Lot, but IT, for how good most of it is, had the most shit ending of shit endings.
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Ebooks got me back in the game really hard. Now I can read on my work PC in between tickets. It's really nice.
i feel like we say that now because ofc having kids now would be a fucking disaster
but I'm open to my lifestyle choices changing over...u know....my life
hakks, long after you've left pa and the city behind to go frolic in some suburban oasis with your crotchlings
i will be here, being a dink
Ok see liek I am at a point in my life where I can't see myself with any damn crotchlings even in the future, mostly because I can't see y future past the end of this year
but liek this attitude is so annoyin
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as people's lives change they prioritize things
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I have read all three of the Adventu8re Time comic trades I bought and won't be able to buy 4 and 5 until next month . Life is inconvenience .
GET FIONNA & CAAAAAKE
Also cause I am the worst, I can also recommend Playing With Fire, a lil' spinoff focussing on Flame Princess. It's a physically smaller book, and in black n' white only. But it's greeeat. [snip]
Nice spoilers, DRX
ALSO SMOOCHIN
D'AWWWW
Oh brilliant
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I guess I've never really been enchanted by reading.
Harry Potter was cool when I was a kid, but other than that, noooope.
I'd rather spend my commutes listening to music than reading.
It really is a habit best acquired young.
If you dont build a love for reading as a kid, it is hard as shit to acquire as an adult.
edit: I had a well-worn library card as a kid.
I find it interesting folks also get very specific tastes in books. A buddy of mine hates fiction. Won't do it. Says it bores him to death. But holy shit, how too books and historical stuff. He eats that shit up. He'll read an in depth account on the rise of Lee Iacocca. But damn if I could get him anywhere near a Stephen King or Jim Butcher novel.
tbf stephen king is garbage
Nah, not the old stuff. Rough on the endings. But still really solid.
The Shining was good all the way through, as are most of his shorter novels like Cujo and 'Salem's Lot, but IT, for how good most of it is, had the most shit ending of shit endings.
Oh god yes. I was so jazzed. IT was one of the last old one's I hadn't read. And it was looking so good. Awesome even. Then... Then... 0_0 What the hell was he thinking.
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i feel like we say that now because ofc having kids now would be a fucking disaster
but I'm open to my lifestyle choices changing over...u know....my life
hakks, long after you've left pa and the city behind to go frolic in some suburban oasis with your crotchlings
i will be here, being a dink
Ok see liek I am at a point in my life where I can't see myself with any damn crotchlings even in the future, mostly because I can't see y future past the end of this year
but liek this attitude is so annoyin
is jork
as people's lives change they prioritize things
is cool
i kno is jork but is arrogant jork said often with great sincerity
I know I will get my chance to laugh at the irony when "fuckin breeders!" people end up with kids when they turn 40 but god dammit I don't want to wait 20 years for my payoff
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Even his (King's) recent works have been lots of fun.
I love his worldbuilding, but I am not always a fan with how he ends things.
His work is at its absolute best when kept under a hundred pages. His short story collections are national treasures as far as I am concerned.
Anyone who hasn't ready any owes themselves at least a readthrough of Hearts in Atlantis. It's one of my favorite reads of the past ten years.
edit: oh shit 15 years? fuck Im an old.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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I had a beautiful time on Sunday lifeboat was just a bit unfortunate
I liked cthulu and the company
I dont know why I like games that are rage fests, but I do.
Throwing chum when everyone gets tossed overboard. my god.
Deebs, are you getting a divorce now after your first game of lifeboat?
no. we did play resistence on saturday though. Raz gave me the secret under-the-table "pick me. Im not a spy" foot tap. I did not pick her, because she was totally a fucking spy. She was mad I didn't trust her. It apparently doesn't matter as much that she was lying!
I guess I've never really been enchanted by reading.
Harry Potter was cool when I was a kid, but other than that, noooope.
I'd rather spend my commutes listening to music than reading.
It really is a habit best acquired young.
If you dont build a love for reading as a kid, it is hard as shit to acquire as an adult.
edit: I had a well-worn library card as a kid.
I find it interesting folks also get very specific tastes in books. A buddy of mine hates fiction. Won't do it. Says it bores him to death. But holy shit, how too books and historical stuff. He eats that shit up. He'll read an in depth account on the rise of Lee Iacocca. But damn if I could get him anywhere near a Stephen King or Jim Butcher novel.
tbf stephen king is garbage
Nah, not the old stuff. Rough on the endings. But still really solid.
The Shining was good all the way through, as are most of his shorter novels like Cujo and 'Salem's Lot, but IT, for how good most of it is, had the most shit ending of shit endings.
His later books are wonderful though. Insomnia was fantastic. The Dark Tower series got better and better every book. Needful Things was great!
I love his short stories too. King is a great storyteller, and his characters are more lifelike than maybe any writer currently working.
OnTheLastCastlelet's keep it haimish for the peripateticRegistered Userregular
Stephen King's first book, the long walk, should be read by everyone too. I'm honestly surprised it's not a national classic. I guess because he has such a long career that it's overshadowed/forgotten.
English in high school killed my love of reading, ugh.
The thought of picking up a book and getting another Fitzgerald or Hemingway novel is enough to kill the mood instantly, even though I'm no longer being graded on it.
What a terrible way to get kids to read.
AP English Senior Year.
Summer Reading.
Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
Twenty page reports on both due 1st day of school.
Fuck that shit.
I'd have dropped that course instantly.
I liked to go camping and shit.
Summer reading was not my bag.
I always refused to do that.
I had a teacher try to call me out on my bullshit once. I looked her straight in the eye and said, "Whatever you think is fair, I won't admit that I didn't read this book. I had more important things to do."
Even if the more important things to do was jerk off and play Dark Age of Camelot, they don't know me.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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I had a beautiful time on Sunday lifeboat was just a bit unfortunate
I liked cthulu and the company
I dont know why I like games that are rage fests, but I do.
Throwing chum when everyone gets tossed overboard. my god.
Deebs, are you getting a divorce now after your first game of lifeboat?
no. we did play resistence on saturday though. Raz gave me the secret under-the-table "pick me. Im not a spy" foot tap. I did not pick her, because she was totally a fucking spy. She was mad I didn't trust her. It apparently doesn't matter as much that she was lying!
WTB Marriage Counsel. PST
This is great.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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I had a beautiful time on Sunday lifeboat was just a bit unfortunate
I liked cthulu and the company
I dont know why I like games that are rage fests, but I do.
Throwing chum when everyone gets tossed overboard. my god.
Deebs, are you getting a divorce now after your first game of lifeboat?
no. we did play resistence on saturday though. Raz gave me the secret under-the-table "pick me. Im not a spy" foot tap. I did not pick her, because she was totally a fucking spy. She was mad I didn't trust her. It apparently doesn't matter as much that she was lying!
WTB Marriage Counsel. PST
here is sekrit relationship advice
game of marriage moar important than game at hand
game of marriage is being pop tested when Resistance goes down
I almost dumped Beast for killing me in Coup
watch ur back
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Hmm that doesn't look bad in B&W. I might pick it up.
Yeh, is a "graphic novel" series. FP is the first book, a buncha c-tier princesses team up in the second, the third n' final one is a Marceline story. They're cheaper than the comic trades too, like £5ish each.
Oh brilliant
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So like when people say really asinine politically charged bullshit on Facebook, I feel this moral obligation to educate them. Like this dude railing on "liberals" and "social justice people" because of "what [he's] been reading about GamerGate." Such vague bullshit but I can only intuit what he means at this point.
Anyway, I'm getting tired of that feeling of obligation and soon I'm just going to start fucking deleting people to get their shit out of my feed.
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i will take your word for it. I was not very good at sophisticated literary criticism at 12 years old
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Eh, I don't see a point in getting an adventure time book that isn't in color.
I dont know why I like games that are rage fests, but I do.
Throwing chum when everyone gets tossed overboard. my god.
but liek this attitude is so annoyin
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The Shining was good all the way through, as are most of his shorter novels like Cujo and 'Salem's Lot, but IT, for how good most of it is, had the most shit ending of shit endings.
Deebs, are you getting a divorce now after your first game of lifeboat?
Get Tutu mod then
opens up all the BG2 option in BG
is jork
as people's lives change they prioritize things
is cool
ALSO SMOOCHIN
D'AWWWW
Wait, you can't?
Didn't you keep some from the before-time?
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Now there's a one-note author.
Oh god yes. I was so jazzed. IT was one of the last old one's I hadn't read. And it was looking so good. Awesome even. Then... Then... 0_0 What the hell was he thinking.
i kno is jork but is arrogant jork said often with great sincerity
I know I will get my chance to laugh at the irony when "fuckin breeders!" people end up with kids when they turn 40 but god dammit I don't want to wait 20 years for my payoff
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I love his worldbuilding, but I am not always a fan with how he ends things.
His work is at its absolute best when kept under a hundred pages. His short story collections are national treasures as far as I am concerned.
Anyone who hasn't ready any owes themselves at least a readthrough of Hearts in Atlantis. It's one of my favorite reads of the past ten years.
edit: oh shit 15 years? fuck Im an old.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
no. we did play resistence on saturday though. Raz gave me the secret under-the-table "pick me. Im not a spy" foot tap. I did not pick her, because she was totally a fucking spy. She was mad I didn't trust her. It apparently doesn't matter as much that she was lying!
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His later books are wonderful though. Insomnia was fantastic. The Dark Tower series got better and better every book. Needful Things was great!
I love his short stories too. King is a great storyteller, and his characters are more lifelike than maybe any writer currently working.
I did. All the queer ladies I know are in relationships, and it doesn't really help with guys though.
Literally all I know about him is from Family Guy when Brian hits him with a car.
What's wrong with Jenna Marbles?
I'd have dropped that course instantly.
I liked to go camping and shit.
Summer reading was not my bag.
I always refused to do that.
I had a teacher try to call me out on my bullshit once. I looked her straight in the eye and said, "Whatever you think is fair, I won't admit that I didn't read this book. I had more important things to do."
Even if the more important things to do was jerk off and play Dark Age of Camelot, they don't know me.
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This is great.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
here is sekrit relationship advice
game of marriage moar important than game at hand
game of marriage is being pop tested when Resistance goes down
I almost dumped Beast for killing me in Coup
watch ur back
NNID: Hakkekage
Yeh, is a "graphic novel" series. FP is the first book, a buncha c-tier princesses team up in the second, the third n' final one is a Marceline story. They're cheaper than the comic trades too, like £5ish each.
So you can have crotchlings, just not right now...
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I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
i ain't no subscriber but I like her shit yo
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If I date women...
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