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B-but it makes you look smart! Chicks dig guys with huge racks!Korwin wrote:The best argument for an ebook reader is IMHO for hard cases like me: I dont need the huge space for physical books...
Anyway, I just had a long holliday, which gave me time for some good, old fashioned book reading.
I read Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk, and I've gotta say: Holy fuck! There I was, trying to get accustumed to the crazy-ass engrish the book's written in, and then the main character suddenly paints an american flag with rape then wipes his dick in the bible.
I don't think I've ever been physically stunned by a book before, but after reading that I had to sit still for a couple of minutes while giant fucking anvils crashlanded around me.
I also read the Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan, and I was impressed. I quite liked the story, and it's nice to read some genuinely progressive fantasy fiction every now and then.
That... is not exactly what I would call progressive at all.Wyzzard wrote:I also read the Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan, and I was impressed. I quite liked the story, and it's nice to read some genuinely progressive fantasy fiction every now and then.
EDIT: Also, people are stupid in that book for plot reasons, and it pisses me off.
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That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
Well, maybe it's just me then. I don't read a whole lot of fantasy, so I'm pleasantly surprised when what I do read doesn't turn out crazy like Sword of Truth or LoTR. Or Harry Potter for that matter.Kaelik wrote:That... is not exactly what I would call progressive at all.
What specifically pissed you off?
Yeah, I won't argue with the plot-induced stupidity, but I don't mind any more. Again, my base for comparison probably sucks.Kaelik wrote:EDIT: Also, people are stupid in that book for plot reasons, and it pisses me off.
I finished The Road recently and I'm reading Ekhart Tolle's The Power of Now on and off; I'm doing so because I hit the first real step in "enlightenment" recently and it explains most of the things that have been happening as a result. On a related note I'm more of an atheist or agnostic, what ever you call it when you completely cease to care about life after death, than a Christian now.
Yes, the nook can read txt and pdf. ...what format is it in now?Korwin wrote:You would need to copy it from Sandersons HP and convert it for the nook.
Not exactly hard since (the nook can read txt or pdf files right?), just saying.
The best argument for an ebook reader is IMHO for hard cases like me: I dont need the huge space for physical books...
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
eesh. Yeah, that'd work. I thought maybe he'd sent people a pdf or something.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
At the moment I'm reading A Storm of Swords from George R.R. Martin, the third book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, in my fourth or fifth read-through. I'm having this probably vain hope that he will have his fifth book ready soon, since the filming of the first season of the TV adaption on HBO seems to have given him a motivation boost to finally finish book five.
Man, one wonders what exactly happened to make him slow down to such a crawl. I heard the first three books came out pretty fast?
Man, one wonders what exactly happened to make him slow down to such a crawl. I heard the first three books came out pretty fast?
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At the USO I picked up some Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovitch. I read her first when I still worked at the bookstore, and they're still good.
I also picked up some lousy book about a drug addicted ghostbusting witch and another about a werewolf detective.
The novelization of Infinite Crisis had it's moments, like Animal Man's lunch and Power Girl's doorknobs.
I also picked up some lousy book about a drug addicted ghostbusting witch and another about a werewolf detective.
The novelization of Infinite Crisis had it's moments, like Animal Man's lunch and Power Girl's doorknobs.
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Yeah, book 2 came out two years after book 1, and book 3 came out two years after that. Then there was a 5 year wait for book 4, and it's been almost five years again since.magnuskn wrote:Man, one wonders what exactly happened to make him slow down to such a crawl. I heard the first three books came out pretty fast?
There are a lot of theories about why he slowed to a crawl. Some think his other activities picked up and ate into his time. Some think he's written himself into a corner and is tying himself in knots to get out. If you asked me, I'd say that he reached the level of success where his publishers can't enforce deadlines and, without that pressure to produce, the momentum died.
Well, things I heard were along the lines that he decided to not do a time-skip between books three and four, which forced him to toss much of what he had written until then. Why he couldn't do the time-skip is a bit beyond me, apparently he thought that there was a female viewpoint which "had to be written". I certainly hope it ain't Brienne, because her part was the most pointless of AFFC. Also not doing the time-skip puts the kibosh on doing romances for many of the characters, because you can not really do that with ten year olds ( one would hope ).angelfromanotherpin wrote:Yeah, book 2 came out two years after book 1, and book 3 came out two years after that. Then there was a 5 year wait for book 4, and it's been almost five years again since.magnuskn wrote:Man, one wonders what exactly happened to make him slow down to such a crawl. I heard the first three books came out pretty fast?
There are a lot of theories about why he slowed to a crawl. Some think his other activities picked up and ate into his time. Some think he's written himself into a corner and is tying himself in knots to get out. If you asked me, I'd say that he reached the level of success where his publishers can't enforce deadlines and, without that pressure to produce, the momentum died.
Also he alludes to some "Mereenese Knot" he has to unravel, which goes in your direction of him having written himself into a corner somewhere in the book. And there are his side activities, including the other fiction he writes, etc.
Well, I can only hope that the prospect of the TV series catching up to his books will give him the impetus to work forward.
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Supposedly a sit-com is in the works. William Shatner is playing the dad.PoliteNewb wrote:I just bought "Sh*t My Dad Says", by Justin Halpern...while his dad is undeniably kind of an asshole, the book is filled with hilarious stuff.
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Of course it wouldn't. But network tv isn't concerned with funny, they're concerned with money. As long as they make more off of this than they spend, it'll stick around a while
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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When did Texas lower the drinking age?I deal with 11-year-olds all day
But on-topic, I just finished reading Mockingjay, the just-released finale of The Hunger Games trilogy.
Surprisingly deep for young-adult lit, and I consider it a sort of spiritual successor to John Christopher's Tripods trilogy which I read as a young tween.
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Plus or minus two grade levels, this is true for most of my generation.I voraciously read the Tripods books when I was in 5th grade.
I suspect I would be disappointed were I to reread them now, but they were great "young adult" fiction, at least before I discovered Barsoom and Dangerous Visions.
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."