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  • ShankusuShankusu __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    barely related, but has anyone been to a david sedaris reading? my roommate went into one two hours ago and I need to know how long before I am allowed to call him

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    The Count of Monte Cristo had moments of tear inducing boredom, mixed along with some of the greatest stuff ever.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Ringo wrote: »
    Ringo wrote: »
    I just read Water for Elephants last week. It is just a wonderful book that I feel everybody should know about.

    Also, for Orik. http://www.mondrianhotel.com/

    Dynamic Urban Resort

    you have no idea how happy this makes me

    the main character thinks of that hotel 'could you live here and still be technically homeless? i think so.'
    Spook Country is so fucking good. Did you finish it yet? I think I may have liked it better than Pattern Recognition.

    And Pattern Recognition was the best thing Gibson had written since Neuromancer.

    i'm not done with it yet, i'm not as impressed with it as PR because none of the main characters are as strong as cayce

    this is mostly because each chapter is about five seconds long

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  • JarofmoldymayoJarofmoldymayo __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    Oh my, I have no way to the library.

    My brain is starving for a book to read.

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Oh my, I have no way to the library.

    My brain is starving for a book to read.

    See if they have What A Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe. It's pretty great!

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  • JarofmoldymayoJarofmoldymayo __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    FUCK YOU!

    NO WAY TO GET THERE!

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    legs?

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  • JarofmoldymayoJarofmoldymayo __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    It's raining and cold.

    :(

    I wish they had an itunes like service for like ebooks.

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I think you already sit at home in front of your computer quite enough
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  • SchideSchide Yeoh! Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Quoth wrote: »
    Apparently there are two more books after Mistborn? My library just had Mistborn, and I really liked it

    It is a trilogy, yes. For some reason, I wasn't so blown away by the first one that I felt compelled to run out and get the others. Solid book though.

    I read the third book a few years ago and actually was hoping someone in this thread was going to bring it up. No one did so I kinda stopped reading the thread.

    Anyway, I really liked this trilogy. it has great characterization, a really awesome system of magic, and a really fun twisting plot with plenty of surprises. Honestly I liked the first book but the next two were even better and really tied everything together nicely.

    Also if anyone didn't know, the author, Brandon Sanderson is going to be writing the last book for the Wheel of Time. He's also said that he's planning on doing two more trilogys set in in the same Mistborn universe.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    should I start chronologically in discworld?

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  • oogmaroogmar Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    should I start chronologically in discworld?

    Yes. It starts with the Color of Magic and goes onto The Light Fantastic. The rest are listed in backwards (Thank you, Mr. Pratchett) in the backs of all (most?) of the books. They don't strictly NEED to be read in order, but there are certain little consistant details (like knowing who C.M.O.T. Dibbler is before reading Moving Pictures) that grew as he wrote them. It's pretty rad.

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    Rane, you lazy bastard, you can shut the hell up.

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    what kinda fag reads anything anymore

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    cool, gonna ask for the first 4 for christmas

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    i only browse forums in text-to-speech

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  • JarofmoldymayoJarofmoldymayo __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    Dresden files is soooo good dawgs.

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  • zimfanzimfan Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Fallout wrote: »
    i only browse forums in text-to-speech

    the internet is my audiobook

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  • JarofmoldymayoJarofmoldymayo __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    Man what is the deal with audiobooks?

    I mean, if you aren't blind.

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  • zimfanzimfan Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    in the car on a long drive to and from work?

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  • JarofmoldymayoJarofmoldymayo __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    Oh yeah, well, that makes sense.

    Still I get much more outa a book after a long day curling up under my blankets.

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  • zimfanzimfan Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    no I agree, but my dad works from 8am to 6pm and when he gets home he eats watches TV and goes to sleep

    so when I want him to read a book so we can talk about it (or he wants to read one) he gets the audiobook

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  • JarofmoldymayoJarofmoldymayo __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    Makes sense, thanks for clearing that up.

    No doubt that is the most comfortable way to get a story for some people.

    I dunno though I think while it would add something to the experience it might also take away that tactile sense of a story you get when you read, like you add a little of your self to the book, seeing the images it paints in your mind with a slant that makes the book somehow your own.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Man what is the deal with audiobooks?

    I mean, if you aren't blind.

    Lake Woebegon just isn't the same if you're not hearing it read by Garrison Keillor.

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  • WalrusWalrus Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I'm half way through the "Metamorphoses". There's a lot of rape.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Man what is the deal with audiobooks?

    I mean, if you aren't blind.

    Lake Woebegon just isn't the same if you're not hearing it read by Garrison Keillor.

    fuck you and fuck keillor

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Garrison Keillor owns

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    fuck CD though i'm with you on that one

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Why did I choose to start reading an 800 page book?

    Oh, I know, because Jason Aaron tricked me into reading it. The bastard.

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  • seizureorbsseizureorbs Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    aw man I need to finish catch-22 and write like six pages on it by wednesday

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Man what is the deal with audiobooks?

    I mean, if you aren't blind.

    Lake Woebegon just isn't the same if you're not hearing it read by Garrison Keillor.

    fuck you and fuck keillor

    dang, who put a burr in your britches

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Out of interest, did anyone here buy/read Beedle the Bard?

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    And seriously, it's been 400 pages so far and there hasn't been a single scalping, rape or child-murder. What kind of western is this supposed to be?

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    And seriously, it's been 400 pages so far and there hasn't been a single scalping, rape or child-murder. What kind of western is this supposed to be?
    What book?

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I downloaded the eBook of Blade of Tyshalle to get ready for Caine Black Knife.

    Fucking awesome.

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    And seriously, it's been 400 pages so far and there hasn't been a single scalping, rape or child-murder. What kind of western is this supposed to be?
    What book?

    I believe PI was just talking to himself

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    BusterK wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    And seriously, it's been 400 pages so far and there hasn't been a single scalping, rape or child-murder. What kind of western is this supposed to be?
    What book?

    I believe PI was just talking to himself

    He tends to talk toward people, rather than with them.

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    He's reading through World War Z again. Shhh

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I've started playing Dead Rising again thanks to WWZ

    also now whenever I walk nby one of those shops that sell swords I can't help but stop to stare at them and try to evaluate how useful they would be in case of an undead outbreak

    so far I have concluded the best weapon would be either a machete or a saber, not your stereotypical katanas

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Ugh, World War Z.

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Yeah. :/

    Anywho. I've been on a Robert Crais kick lately. Fun P.I and cop books.

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