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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #195 on: March 17, 2013, 04:10:35 am »
Quote from: Choop on March 16, 2013, 05:50:59 pm
and so is reamde. same universe, different series. semantics.

How is reamde about the gold?  There's no gold in reamde. 

The gold that everybody is chasing after in Crypto is literally the same gold that everybody's chasing after in Baroque Cycle, right?

I'd argue that Baroque Cycle : Crypto :: Hobbit : LOTR.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #196 on: March 17, 2013, 04:11:11 am »
Quote from: miles on March 17, 2013, 01:19:09 am
Please tell me that when you say "working on" you mean "writing."

I wish.  Just reading.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #197 on: March 17, 2013, 05:13:56 am »
Quote from: miles on March 17, 2013, 01:19:09 am
Please tell me that when you say "working on" you mean "writing."

No, but he is searching for a heart of gold.. in the Baroque Cycle, or something.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #198 on: May 01, 2013, 12:33:11 am »
Debt, the First 5000 Years is absolutely fantastic. The anthropological history of the idea of "debt." I am just getting to the part where it gets all Political, so we'll see. I'm either going to stop liking the book, or develop some opinions no one likes.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #199 on: May 01, 2013, 02:39:28 am »
Quote from: Asherdan on April 30, 2013, 11:20:19 pm
So I wonder if I'm gonna wind up liking this Billy Pilgrim dude.

So it goes.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #200 on: May 08, 2013, 01:45:13 am »
Anyone have a good lead on a book for a mother from a son on mother's day? As expected all the sales are on <12 boys. My mums needs a long book. She reads pathologically on the pool.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #201 on: May 08, 2013, 01:55:15 pm »
No one? No one has a book for mom day?
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #202 on: May 08, 2013, 02:01:02 pm »
I'm such a curmudgeon about books these days that I can't think of anything I've read lately that I'd actually recommend.
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« Reply #203 on: May 08, 2013, 02:05:21 pm »
just go to a local bookstore and find something by tony bourdain or some other food writer she doesn't already hate
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #204 on: May 08, 2013, 03:57:31 pm »
Quote from: Arachno-capitalist on May 08, 2013, 01:55:15 pm
No one? No one has a book for mom day?

Carrie?
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« Reply #205 on: May 08, 2013, 06:13:12 pm »
Quote from: wombat on May 08, 2013, 02:01:02 pm
I'm such a curmudgeon about books these days that I can't think of anything I've read lately that I'd actually recommend.
I bought her your book for pool reading. She said it was slow. Slow for 'pool reading'
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« Reply #206 on: May 08, 2013, 06:36:34 pm »
Well that gives us an idea of her tastes. What can we all come up with that is more what the literary agents refer to as "relentlessly plotted"?
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« Reply #207 on: May 08, 2013, 06:44:09 pm »
She digs on anything erin brockovich writes, but has recently expressed a renewed interest in Grisham novels. Help me help her.
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« Reply #208 on: May 08, 2013, 07:02:15 pm »
Hmm, mostly I like things that are more humorous. Has she read Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books?
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« Reply #209 on: May 08, 2013, 08:10:59 pm »
Quote from: wombat on May 08, 2013, 07:02:15 pm
Hmm, mostly I like things that are more humorous. Has she read Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books?

Along the same lines, The Spellman Files series is good.
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