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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #60 on: July 27, 2007, 04:19:00 pm »
Dignity is a commodity that is basically always for sale.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #61 on: July 27, 2007, 05:30:54 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on July 27, 2007, 04:17:58 pm

HELL OF SPOILERS GET THE HINT PEOPLE DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW, CHRIST!

I was all disappointed when I heard that the epilogue doesn't tell you what they all did when they grew up aside from get married and have kids.  This story would clear that up better if I actually remembered what the Auror Department is.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #62 on: July 27, 2007, 06:01:42 pm »
basically they are the wizard FBI. they find the bad guys and do magic at them real hard.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #63 on: July 27, 2007, 06:18:24 pm »
Stop spoiling people!!!
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #64 on: July 27, 2007, 07:39:42 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on July 27, 2007, 06:01:42 pm
basically they are the wizard FBI. they find the bad guys and do magic at them real hard.

I find the phrase "do magic at them real hard" extremely charming.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #65 on: July 27, 2007, 08:36:21 pm »
it's good to know that that was appreciated. I often spend way too much time trying to make purposely awkward/silly phrases.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #66 on: August 02, 2007, 06:02:22 pm »
so.

just finished Zodiac, then Cryptonomicon. Enjoyed both. Now torn apart by desire to learn to play piano, learn computer programming (which I was pretty awesome at, the two times I took a class), and take advanced science and math classes.

I REALLY DOUBT JAPANESE MILITARY CODES IN WWII WERE IN ENGLISH! JESUS, NEAL!

um, so now I am not sure what to read next. I feel that I had a stack of books I meant to read, but I forget what they were.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #67 on: August 02, 2007, 07:32:35 pm »
Read the Baroque Cycle.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #68 on: August 02, 2007, 08:23:44 pm »
I finished a dumb hacker-thriller paperback my father-in-law sent me.  It was full of twists!  and turns!  and twists on twists!  And double-crosses!  Damn, it was annoying, but it was OK bathroom reading.

I also finished Jim Collins' Good to Great, which more than anything makes me wish I worked for a better company.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #69 on: August 02, 2007, 08:26:35 pm »
I couldn't get through the Baroque Cycle. I have this thing where... I can't remember any of the characters, I kept confusing them.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #70 on: August 02, 2007, 09:04:07 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on August 02, 2007, 08:26:35 pm
I couldn't get through the Baroque Cycle. I have this thing where... I can't remember any of the characters, I kept confusing them.

Have you read Diamond Age? It's way way waay shorter and really good. Except the man can't write an ending to save his life.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #71 on: August 03, 2007, 01:45:03 am »
I have noticed that about the endings.

but, yes, I have read everything he's ever written, except The Big U and the Baroque thingy.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #72 on: August 03, 2007, 03:34:03 am »
I happened to pick up Catch-22 and start re-reading it for the first time since high school.  Wow is it good.  Even better than I remember. 
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #73 on: August 03, 2007, 03:57:24 am »
Yeah, Catch-22 is hilarious and good.  Really, really good.  But also hilarious.
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Re: Exciting New Book Thread
« Reply #74 on: August 03, 2007, 09:48:58 pm »
Quote from: CortJstr on August 02, 2007, 09:04:07 pm
Have you read Diamond Age? It's way way waay shorter and really good. Except the man can't write an ending to save his life.

Daniel, that makes me feel better because I could never get through the Baroque Cycle either. I bought The Confusion and couldn't get through it. It just wasn't as readable as Cryptonomicon or the Diamond Age. Cryptonomicon has a lot of the same family lines as the Baroque Cycle, but I just couldn't get into the Confusion.
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