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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #75 on: July 20, 2010, 07:14:41 pm »
my dad has a kindle, and swears by it. he has to travel A TON for work, and says it has basically saved his life. Buy a few books before a trip, read them, delete them. If he finishes them he can always get another one using wifi.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #76 on: September 02, 2010, 05:50:35 am »
If you feel like paying for a book, I recommend picking up a copy of The Ask by Sam Lipsyte and then reading it. Hell of funny, and topical but timeless. I'm kidding, it's mostly just really funny.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #77 on: October 26, 2010, 02:02:34 pm »
You know, if Jesus did in fact appear periodically as an enormous, talking lion, and helped one defeat their enemies, I bet Christianity would be REALLY popular.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #78 on: October 26, 2010, 02:45:49 pm »
Tolkien and Lewis disagreed about the usefulness of allegory in storytelling. Tolkien's writing was strongly influenced by the wars in Europe and was awesome. The Jesus, The Devil, and The Door to Metaphor was a straight allegory and was terrible.

There I said it.


The Screwtape Letters was pretty neat. Were pretty neat? What's the verb agreement rule here?
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #79 on: October 26, 2010, 03:42:48 pm »
Is anybody else participating in the "get Machine of Death to #1 on Amazon today" initiative?
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #80 on: October 31, 2010, 05:38:32 pm »
Just catching up on old threads. I like Vonnegut just fine but I'm really surprised to hear anyone here say he's their favorite author. Fun reads, though.

I'm trying to make my way through Red Mars. It's great, but for some reason it's taking a long time to get through. I did recently read the graphic novel series 100 Bullets. That was striking - beautiful and horrifying and very well written, I thought (there's supposedly a game coming, but it's in development hell). I'm also continuing to stay up on Walking Dead, and I'm pretty much furious I won't be home to watch the premiere (taking place at the Bagdad, and presented by Cort and Fatboy, but probably not our Cort).
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #81 on: November 01, 2010, 01:07:47 am »
I love 100 Bullets. I've taken a break about halfway through the series  because I didn't want to get through it too quickly. I've also been enjoying some Ed Brubaker. Right now I'm reading The Executioner's Song. It's fantastic, but I'm more than halfway through and have like 500 pages still. It's not slow, just long and I haven't had a lot of time to read lately.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #82 on: November 01, 2010, 01:51:02 am »
I really liked 100 bullets, one of like 3 series I've actively collected, but I kind of lost my connection with it somewhere after Milo's story, which was probably the highpoint of the series for me. I feel like they either needed more room to flesh out the stories in the second half or needed to cut out a lot of the fat. Still has a hell of a lot of style though.

That said I got into it not knowing it even had an over-arching storyline so I would have been happy with one shots of agent Graves entering people's lives basically forever.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #83 on: November 01, 2010, 02:36:34 am »
nothing special.  i just finished the first of stephen kings darktower series.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #84 on: November 01, 2010, 02:41:48 am »
man i sure wish he'd finished off the series after the first three.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #85 on: November 01, 2010, 02:59:19 am »
I just finished a bunch of Horatio Hornblower novels.  They were good.  Now I'm reading some Pahluniak book about the world's deadliest joke or some such.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #86 on: November 01, 2010, 04:04:38 am »
I am reading Chuck Klosterman IV (I have gotten over the idea that reading Klosterman would be A Thing) and the new Good Eats book.

All kinds of middle-brow up in this house.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #87 on: November 01, 2010, 04:09:58 am »
I like Klosterman, but I've only read Fargo and the one about dead rockers. Well, and his online stuff.

Pahlaniuk's a Portland guy! Have you read that non-fiction essay thing? It's ok.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #88 on: November 01, 2010, 07:21:56 pm »
Listening to Jimmy Carter's White House diaries. The optimism about mid-east peace is depressing. Also Jimmy Carter is not only an American President, he's also the president of his own fan club.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #89 on: November 02, 2010, 11:51:15 pm »
The Girl Who Played with Fire.  Since my morning radio DJ mentioned the other day that he's reading Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, I exempt my statement from any claims to Literature.
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