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I'm reading Dubliners by James Joyce. Oh you wanna spout clout? your time's running out
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currently reading Kissing Carrion:Stories by Gemma Files
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Jan 17, 2022 22:05
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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. It’s a real downer
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Jan 17, 2022 22:06
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Sid Vicious posted:currently reading Kissing Carrion:Stories by Gemma Files I love Gemma Files but I haven’t read this one yet, what do you think?
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Jan 17, 2022 22:06
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ChunTheUnavoidable posted:I love Gemma Files but I haven’t read this one yet, what do you think? really good the first story is about a woman who turns corpses into marionettes which she uses to gently caress a necrophile on stage but its from the perspective of the current one being used
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Jan 17, 2022 22:08
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Blindsight by Peter Watts
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Jan 17, 2022 22:09
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Sid Vicious posted:really good the first story is about a woman who turns corpses into marionettes which she uses to gently caress a necrophile on stage but its from the perspective of the current one being used Ok I’m sold
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Jan 17, 2022 22:09
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I guess I should read isaboo’s friends like these since I own it.
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Jan 17, 2022 22:11
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I'm currently reading I Hate You, OP by myself.
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Jan 17, 2022 22:22
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'm currently reading I Hate You, OP by myself. You're one of the lesser known haters and clout chasers
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Jan 17, 2022 22:29
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I don't read books, op. High school English and lit classes ruined that for me.
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Jan 17, 2022 22:30
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Frankenstein by Dean Koontz. The premise is that neither Viktor nor his monster ever died. The origin stories we know are loose interpretations through lore, but roughly true. Viktor has been busy, we're in modern times, and there's murder afoot.
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Jan 17, 2022 22:37
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Jelly posted:Frankenstein by Dean Koontz. has he calmed down with the purple prose that was what put me off Koontz, reading about some woman being kidnapped in an RV and he tells me whats in every fuckin cupboard
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Jan 17, 2022 22:40
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Hollowed Kingdom was my latest read. Pretty dope. Features my main man poo poo Turd the Crow.
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Jan 17, 2022 22:41
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Sid Vicious posted:has he calmed down with the purple prose that was what put me off Koontz, reading about some woman being kidnapped in an RV and he tells me whats in every fuckin cupboard
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Jan 17, 2022 22:48
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I just started The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas by Leslie Gills. Only 40 pages in, but pretty interesting so far. if anyone has ready any other good books on insurgencies/counter-insurgencies, please let me know 
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Jan 17, 2022 22:52
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City of Dreams about the history of immigration to NYC.
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Jan 17, 2022 22:54
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STABASS posted:I just started The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas by Leslie Gills. Only 40 pages in, but pretty interesting so far. if anyone has ready any other good books on insurgencies/counter-insurgencies, please let me know I really liked Daniele Ganser’s book on Operation Gladio. And not about counter-insurgency precisely but very relevant and interesting is Henrik Kruger’s book The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence, & International Fascism
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Jan 17, 2022 22:54
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I'm reading Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Vaping by some guy. And a pop lit japanese novel called Cult X that at least has a nice cover.
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Jan 17, 2022 22:57
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kntfkr posted:I'm reading Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Vaping by some guy. And a pop lit japanese novel called Cult X that at least has a nice cover. I used that guy’s first book to quit smoking a couple years ago! It was kind of hokey but it worked like a charm
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Jan 17, 2022 22:58
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Gulliver's Travels. It's good so far
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Jan 17, 2022 23:00
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ChunTheUnavoidable posted:I used that guy’s first book to quit smoking a couple years ago! It was kind of hokey but it worked like a charm I had downloaded it as a free pdf but couldn't bring myself to go thru files > on phone > PDF enough to read and finish it so I went to look for the physical thing and they had the vaping one which is right on the money cuz I replaced cigarettes with 50mg salts and my chest feels not good, all the time.
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Jan 17, 2022 23:04
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ChunTheUnavoidable posted:I really liked Daniele Ganser’s book on Operation Gladio. And not about counter-insurgency precisely but very relevant and interesting is Henrik Kruger’s book The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence, & International Fascism I'll put them on my list, thanks
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Jan 17, 2022 23:07
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i tried to read alan carrs quit smoking book but my adhd and hyperfixating make it insanely difficult to focus on anything im not really interested in
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Jan 17, 2022 23:09
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kntfkr posted:I'm reading Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Vaping by some guy. And a pop lit japanese novel called Cult X that at least has a nice cover. Huh I may have to give this a shot , never heard of it before.
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Jan 17, 2022 23:09
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is there any actual method in that book, because i read some of it and it just seemed like 'believe it hard and it will be amazing' kind of stuff
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Jan 17, 2022 23:12
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roomtone posted:is there any actual method in that book, because i read some of it and it just seemed like 'believe it hard and it will be amazing' kind of stuff thats all i got from what i read lol
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Jan 17, 2022 23:12
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I am reading "The Cartel", sequel to "The Power of the Dog" and the second book in Don Winslow's Cartel trilogy. It's a sprawling series that tells the story of the of a cartel kingpin and the agent who is charge of taking him down. It's fiction but a ton of the people and events are based in reality, on things that really happened and the people who did them. It's a very entertaining read, my favorite thing to do is after you read about some particularly gruesome and outlandish-seeming event, to then go see if it's made up or if it was based in reality. For instance there really was a cartel hitman who seduced an enemy bosses wife and had her withdraw millions of dollars, then chopped her head off and mailed it to the boss which drove him nearly insane, and then the hitman threw their kids off a bridge. Good times.
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Jan 17, 2022 23:39
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I picked up The Devil in the White City at a thrift shop a couple months ago and I finally cracked it last night
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Tumble posted:I am reading "The Cartel", sequel to "The Power of the Dog" and the second book in Don Winslow's Cartel trilogy. It's a sprawling series that tells the story of the of a cartel kingpin and the agent who is charge of taking him down. It's fiction but a ton of the people and events are based in reality, on things that really happened and the people who did them. Anything by Don Winslow is good!!
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A trashy cringe fantasy web serial
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roomtone posted:is there any actual method in that book, because i read some of it and it just seemed like 'believe it hard and it will be amazing' kind of stuff It’s basically that but I decided to just not be cynical and give it a try and it worked for me even though I wanted to roll my eyes. It’s certainly nothing groundbreaking or scientific though
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Derek of the Andes posted:Anything by Don Winslow is good!! Yea he writes some entertaining stuff. It's a shame his books get optioned for movie adaptations that seem to always get caught in development hell. The only one that's been made is The Savages and that was a pretty 'meh' movie.
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Geoffrey Howe’s “Conflict of Loyalty”, signed by the man himself. I need to finish it up because I have Fante’s Bandini quartet and a book on Hungarian history on deck.
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The Tommyknockers by Stephen King 100 pages in. Oof. One of his weaker ones. The male lead acted like a drunken rear end in a top hat, ranting over nuclear power for 30 straight pages. It's interesting so far because of the history--it was one of his last junkie/alcoholic books and years later SK realized it was a whole metaphor for his own substance abuse problems. IIRC he admitted he doesn't even remember writing and working on the book at all (same for Cujo, which was good.) Please Kill Me, the punk history book Been slogging through this. Lots of people beating their own drum about how cool and great they are. Recently finished: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy. Fine and short breezy read, but for a National Book Award winner, it left me with a huge "That's it?" reaction. Listened to some podcasts, lectures, and various other YouTube content about it, but I still don't feel like I get it. Guess you had to be there. Okayishly decent.
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ProperCoochie posted:The Tommyknockers by Stephen King I can barely remember what Tommyknockers was about. Pretty sure that was in his "rambling nonsense" phase, along with Dreamcatcher. e: Apparently these books were over a decade apart, but seriously got similar vibes from them
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ProperCoochie posted:The Tommyknockers by Stephen King i read the tommyknockers in prison and i was like man i would honestly rather just stare at the wall but i finished it still
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House of Leaves. If you've ever thought, "Man, this Wikipedia article about sound traveling in a vacuum is great, but you know what would make it even better? An underlying sense of dread and mental instability!", then this book is for you. I like it!
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Grumblepuff posted:House of Leaves. my wife got me the color edition like 6 years after me mentioning off hand how much i want it, gotta read it still though
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I'm currently reading Water Sleeps by Glen Cook. Its part of the Black Company series its pretty good.
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