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Gunner Recall wrote:Also got through The Hunger Games and Catching Fire...about 80 pages into Mockingjay. I really enjoy this series, reminds me of Asimov for some reason (no robots here though...)
Very plot driven, perhaps somewhat easy to read (she's not overly verbose), but never insultingly simple like in Twilight/DaVinci


I've started on The Hunger Games, and so far it's pretty good, actually! I'd been kinda "meh" about reading it just 'cause it's got that same "young adult" label that Twilight has... that, and my mom told me it was good. Overall the story's been pretty solid, though.
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Just busted out my old Conan anthology...I need some some chauvinistic badassery after spending all day with my feminist friends.
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She never fails. It gets a little tiresome after two or three highsmiths in a row but once in a while it is an awesome read.
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I went to the library yesterday and asked for Aleister Crowley, the librian said that they had 8 books in the system, as in out of a web of 88 libraries there are 8 of his books. :facepalm:
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Simultaneously: My friends incomplete comic book script; T.S. Elliot Anthology.
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Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
and also The Velocipede, written in 1869 and full of highly entertaining made-up words. A female cyclist is a "velocipedestrienne".
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Norwegian wood...after years of avoiding it I've finally picked it up. I always get wary of literary works that are translated because the authors voice can be lost to that of the translator's. So far so good...
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Larry Krauss' A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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About halfway done with:

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I think if everyone on ILF read this we'd all be getting along :lol:
It's only 100 pages, go on, I'll wait here.
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RR Bigman wrote:Norwegian wood...after years of avoiding it I've finally picked it up. I always get wary of literary works that are translated because the authors voice can be lost to that of the translator's. So far so good...

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McSpunckle wrote:I've started on The Hunger Games, and so far it's pretty good, actually! I'd been kinda "meh" about reading it just 'cause it's got that same "young adult" label that Twilight has... that, and my mom told me it was good. Overall the story's been pretty solid, though.


I finished the last one a while back...starts strong but then :idk:
The first two and most of the 3rd were great though, miles above that twilight nonsense.

I can't wait for the movie...Jennifer Lawrence is 21 so it's not creepy for being attracted to Katniss.
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Just finished Brave New World, next is Biophilia by E.O. Wilson because me cool as fuck biology teacher recommended it. And she's cool as fuck.
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Gunner Recall wrote:
McSpunckle wrote:I've started on The Hunger Games, and so far it's pretty good, actually! I'd been kinda "meh" about reading it just 'cause it's got that same "young adult" label that Twilight has... that, and my mom told me it was good. Overall the story's been pretty solid, though.


I finished the last one a while back...starts strong but then :idk:
The first two and most of the 3rd were great though, miles above that twilight nonsense.

I can't wait for the movie...Jennifer Lawrence is 21 so it's not creepy for being attracted to Katniss.


Good good. I just finished the first book today. I think I'm gonna read Syrup, then continue the series.

Having seen the trailer for the movie, is it bad that I kinda ignored the main premise of the book (their age) and allowed myself a boner at times?
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About 350 pages into Game of Thrones right now. Goddamn is it a fucking good book. Jesus H Christ. I know it's blasphemy, but I might actually like this better than Tolkien.
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bigchiefbc wrote:About 350 pages into Game of Thrones right now. Goddamn is it a fucking good book. Jesus H Christ. I know it's blasphemy, but I might actually like this better than Tolkien.

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