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Topic: What are you reading these days? (Read 70298 times)
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Mr. Teatime
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I submitted a story for that, and it was rejected, so now I'm bitter and angry and boycotting them.
Nah I'll pick it up and get to it when I'm done with A Song of Ice and Fire (which will be sometime next year).
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Roger Smith
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Have you tried being an unfunny internet personality? High rate of success with that one.
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Mr. Teatime
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What do you call what I've been doing here for the past 10 years?
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HomeStarRunnerTron
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What do you call what I've been doing here for the past 10 years?
Not only being a funny Internet personality, but being an incredibly prolific one, who also happens to be a shape-shifter and also sometimes a non-shape-shifting robot.  |
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bethskye
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There's a bogey on your tail! Use the brakes!
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I'm reading Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies. It's thought-provoking (expected), vulgar (expected), and a bit reminiscent of Haruki Murakami (not at all expected). I would happily recommend it if you enjoy topical essays and humorously harsh invective.
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The bigger, the much.
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Little Sampson
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Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies... reminiscent of Haruki Murakami (not at all expected).
Huh. Well. Huh. I was going to pass on that, but I guess I'll have to check it out now. |
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« Last Edit: July 17, 2013, 03:26:22 pm by Little Sampson »
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Deputy Laser Action
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Just letting everyone know that This Is How You Die, the "sequel" to Machine of Death, is coming out tomorrow (Tuesday). And by all accounts, it's even better than the first.
If you aren't excited you are wrong.
This is easily the best purchase I've made all year. |
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And that's that.
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anakinjmt
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Right now I'm in the middle of re-reading Revan, which makes me want to replay KOTOR and KOTOR II, and reading The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling). Cuckoo's Calling is really good so far. MUCH better than Casual Vacancy. If you liked the HP books, this one I think you'll actually like, unlike TCV.
Also, has anyone read the Divergent and/or Mortal Instruments series? I want to know if they're as good as people say they are.
And I recently read the Son of Sobek short story by Rick Riordan, which has Carter Kane from Kane Chronicles meeting Percy Jackson from...well, you know. AWESOME. I only wish we'd gotten some from Percy's point of view though, because it's all from Carter's POV. Also, that ending is way too big to be left to more short stories. There needs to be a whole series just on the crossover.
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 Before you know it, I'll always look the same, and Alexisonfire will be American |
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Mr. Teatime
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I didn't mind Casual Vacancy. Yeah it felt a bit melodramatic-for-melodrama's-sake at times, like she had a check list of terrible things that needed to happen to the characters, but I don't think it deserved all the hate it got and I can kind of understand her wanting to showcase the darker side of humanity after seven massive tomes of "love conquers all."
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Little Sampson
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I read a book:  But I also read a book that wasn't for a Victorian Lit class:  It's really really good, even if you're not a David Byrne/Talking Heads fan I'd imagine. Bonkava at least should probably check it out |
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« Last Edit: February 04, 2014, 10:22:22 pm by Little Sampson »
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Bonkava!
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I know I'll get it, read the introduction, then shelve it for years and talk as if I read the whole thing.
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anakinjmt
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I've heard Ready Player One is a really good book, so I want to check that out.
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Before you know it, I'll always look the same, and Alexisonfire will be American |
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Roger Smith
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I somehow ended up reading it and wasn't overly impressed. Seemed to be more about making 80s references than interesting characters or story.
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