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gonna do my own translation and be like jose arcadio (the one who does the silver stuff) and rebeca (shes the one who eats dirts if u forgot)
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reading jr by william gaddis and oh boy is it good
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im reading "searching for sasquatch" it's quite interesting. it's not about sasquatch. it's about the people who look for him and what's goin' on in their heads
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HP, did you read the 3rd book in The Stormlight Archives? I've read the first 2 and the 4th is about to come out I think. That's really the only series I enjoy from Sanderson and curious to see if it stays good or strays towards his other books. I need to dust off my goodreads thing cause I totally forget about what's current or coming out. |
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So I picked up a ludicrous bestseller by this guy at a nice pop-up library and got at it on a few breaks. It was nearly unreadable  Dozens of pages of just "Commander you are not cleared to land that plane in this airfield" being met with "You see the badge on that boy, sergeant?! That is given out to elite special secret operations operators. You do what this man says and then lie to the President about it! That's an order!"  e: Are the Tom Clancy novels this bad? I am here for a while longer and have limited material. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jun 18, 2020 ---------------- |
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Jun 18, 2020 05:46
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take the moon posted:lmao Speedreading was this weird woo class at Uni. You paid some money and they did some drills. Mostly lawyers, pre-med, and politicians. But whatever that woo was it worked. And now that just means going through garbage a fast rate Once you start you might as well finish because you are 150 pages in. Have a Netflix-cover Witcher though. ---------------- |
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I bought a book on local folklore and it turned out to be a bust. No, I don't need several pages on the history of fairies and witches. I want to know where they are in my area and how to meet them dangit.
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Jun 18, 2020 20:46
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William Edward Butttheshitmanfart III
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Bright Bart posted:So I picked up a ludicrous bestseller by this guy at a nice pop-up library and got at it on a few breaks. go for clive cussler if you can. dirk pitt novels often reach so-ludicrous-theyre-kind-of-good ---------------- |
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I finished Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides recently and am waiting for books in the mail but they will probably take a week. I’m filling the time with a biography of the guy behind MK ULTRA and the ARPA background of the internet and am now realizing I gotta find some fiction to supplement before I go insane
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I'm kinda sci-fied out and want to read some of the other genre of book, which is to say fantasy, for a bit. Just finished clockwork boys + the wonder engine because kindle kept shoving them in my face and they were on sale. They were alright, nothing amazing though. The first one was better I think. Hmm city of brass was pretty good. Wasn't there more of that setting? Oh look, book 2 kingdom of copper is on sale. Convenient, and a meaty 645 pages. That'll take a bit to chew through. |
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if you've never read To Say Nothing of the Dog by connie willis it is a really awesome summer read and kind of a genre bender
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on the indie front haunted girlfriend by james nullick is good lol
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The Last Wish is not bad bedtime reading at all. Foltest is a much more reasonable character than in the television series. And I am just upset that we don't get to see a more well rounded version of Radovid given the time the novels and stories take place. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Jun 20, 2020 ---------------- |
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free hubcaps posted:if you've never read To Say Nothing of the Dog by connie willis it is a really awesome summer read and kind of a genre bender It's genuinely funny in a way I think a lot of books struggle with ---------------- |
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Harold Fjord posted:It's genuinely funny in a way I think a lot of books struggle with absolutely. the early bit (first chapter spoilers) where ned is experiencing timelag and the symptoms are exhibited through the first person narration is probably one of my favorite little bits of writing but there are so many throughout the book |
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100 yrs of solitude was good as hell, and then i read a tolstoy novela called the death of ivan ilyich which was also good and next im reading to the lighthouse by virgina woolf wwhich i dont know anything about but im a big fan of lighthouses
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I read a robert aickman short story called the unsettled dust and it was aright but leaves you kind of disappointed but it sounds like that’s a common reaction to his work
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beer pal posted:100 yrs of solitude was good I got through Love in the Time of Cholera a few years back. It got... gross. Haven't read Lolita but I can see how a book could be disturbing even if it has strong aesthetic qualities. ---------------- |
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beer pal posted:100 yrs of solitude was good as hell, and then i read a tolstoy novela called the death of ivan ilyich which was also good and next im reading to the lighthouse by virgina woolf wwhich i dont know anything about but im a big fan of lighthouses read da woolf lol ---------------- |
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Jun 23, 2020 01:41
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Here's a throwback: Tiny hosed up Woolf |
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beer pal posted:100 yrs of solitude was good as hell, and then i read a tolstoy novela called the death of ivan ilyich which was also good and next im reading to the lighthouse by virgina woolf wwhich i dont know anything about but im a big fan of lighthouses Dude.... Your reading so many good books |
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Bright Bart posted:I got through Love in the Time of Cholera a few years back. The thing about Lolita is it's also extremely funny so it's a whole  thing
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cda posted:Dude.... Your reading so many good books i know right im on a good run https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png |
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take the moon posted:taking another stab at blood meridian this didnt work. it never works..... im doing the man in the high castle again. the scene where tagomi just totally breaks down chilton is good af made me 'noided some of my frens are doing the same to me but that would be p convoluted ---------------- |
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drat! virginai woolf is good as hell! what a beautiful novel
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So I posted some stream of consciousness about picking up the Kingdom of Copper by S. A. Chakraborty earlier itt. Well it's really really good, better than the first book the City of Brass. The characters, largely the same, are much more nuanced. The author does a great job giving depths of character flaws to all of them, making them simultaneously identifiable and repellant. Only problem with it is every chapter seems full of intruige or simmering, sometimes explosive action that if i read it to try falling asleep, instead I get all keyed up and can't. |
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hello friends sorry I didn't read the whole thread I don't know if anyone mentioned it but Normal People by Sally Rooney is extremely good and I cried
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reading is good for my shriveled inattentive brains i read between the assassinations by aravind adiga, a cool lil collection of pov stories from a fictional city in india. about class and religion and privilege and poverty and sadness and now im reading darkness at noon by arthur koestler cus i want to be sad apparently |
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Jul 1, 2020 10:10
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cda posted:Tiny hosed up Woolf |
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Jul 1, 2020 10:10
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im almost done blleding edge and also for light fare snow crash again bleeding edge could be better I kind of feel this way bout every pynchon |
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I've been reading the Finnish edition of Stephen Pile's The Book of Heroic Failures in bed and it's really weird because the translator/editor has added in anecdotes about his drinking buddies, mainly from the Finnish theatre scene back when it was published. Most of them are not about failures and IDK what why did this happen  e: they're not even amusing anecdotes  Anyway I should probably go on with reading fiction but it's been too hot for fiction. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Jul 3, 2020
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