What'cha Readin'?
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
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by noncredo » Jun 08, 2015 8:12 pm
Anyone read "The God Haters" by Don Boys? I downloaded the sample from iBooks, and the little I read was pretty funny. I wasn't sure if he was being serious, or sarcastic...though I fear he is serious. Either way it is a fun read. If you read the whole thing try counting the forced alliterations; this guy must really love them.
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3642 by NamelessFaceless » Jun 09, 2015 2:40 pm
noncredo wrote:Anyone read "The God Haters" by Don Boys? I downloaded the sample from iBooks, and the little I read was pretty funny. I wasn't sure if he was being serious, or sarcastic...though I fear he is serious. Either way it is a fun read. If you read the whole thing try counting the forced alliterations; this guy must really love them.
I just read one of the two reviews, and the three related comments, on Amazon and it was hysterical!
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3643 by willhud9 » Jul 03, 2015 11:50 pm
One of the best fantasy books I have read in a long time. The way the author writes is well done and the content is engaging.
5/5 would highly recommend this to any serious fantasy lover.
Fear is a choice you embrace
Your only truth
Tribal poetry
Witchcraft filling your void
Lust for fantasy
Male necrocracy
Every child worthy of a better tale
Your only truth
Tribal poetry
Witchcraft filling your void
Lust for fantasy
Male necrocracy
Every child worthy of a better tale
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3644 by orpheus » Aug 03, 2015 1:34 pm
Ok, updating my post on p.179. I've now read one and a half volumes of "My Struggle" by Karl Ove Knausgaard (or Knausgård, to give his name the proper Norwegian spelling).
Get it. Read it. Now.
Three quotes:
Zadie Smith tweeted: "KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD. MY STRUGGLE. It's unbelievable. I just read 200 pages of it and I need the next volume like crack."
"...reading My Struggle is like opening someone else’s diary and finding your own secrets." (Evan Hughes, in The New Republic)
Get it. Read it. Now.
Three quotes:
Zadie Smith tweeted: "KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD. MY STRUGGLE. It's unbelievable. I just read 200 pages of it and I need the next volume like crack."
"...reading My Struggle is like opening someone else’s diary and finding your own secrets." (Evan Hughes, in The New Republic)
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3645 by Mitts » Aug 10, 2015 9:07 pm
Recently finished The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. Nice and spooky...
Started the first volume of Game of Thrones.
Started the first volume of Game of Thrones.
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I used to be catholic but I'm better now. Torchwood: Miracle Day
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3646 by Macdoc » Aug 11, 2015 10:17 pm
hard science, wild imagination....
•••
The Wright Brothers
Written by: David McCullough
Narrated by: David McCullough
Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.
On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why?
very very impressive.
and a followup that is a marathon - more and more impressed with Teddy Roosevelt as his path crosses my reading
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EO Wilson in On Human Nature wrote:
We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3647 by NamelessFaceless » Aug 13, 2015 2:55 pm
I just noticed Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is being made into a movie. Can't wait!
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3648 by Fallible » Aug 13, 2015 8:49 pm
I recently got the second volume for US's birthday, haven't read it yet though.
She battled through in every kind of tribulation,
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3649 by UncertainSloth » Aug 13, 2015 8:55 pm
NamelessFaceless wrote:I just noticed Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is being made into a movie. Can't wait!
ooh, excellent - i liked that book rather muchly...the second is my next-to-read....
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3650 by NamelessFaceless » Aug 13, 2015 9:30 pm
I actually didn't like the second one nearly as muchly as the first. It was a little on the dry end of the enjoyable book spectrum. 
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3651 by Fallible » Aug 13, 2015 9:31 pm
BOO!
She battled through in every kind of tribulation,
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3652 by UncertainSloth » Aug 13, 2015 9:33 pm
NamelessFaceless wrote:I actually didn't like the second one nearly as muchly as the first. It was a little on the dry end of the enjoyable book spectrum.
hush thy doomspeak....
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Tolkein
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3653 by Animavore » Aug 13, 2015 10:18 pm
willhud9 wrote:
One of the best fantasy books I have read in a long time. The way the author writes is well done and the content is engaging.
5/5 would highly recommend this to any serious fantasy lover.
This is actually rather good. Its succinct style is an antidote to R.R. Martin and it has brilliant pacing. I just raced through the first six chapters.
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3654 by Fallible » Aug 13, 2015 10:19 pm
Yes, good book. Reminds me, I must get the others.
She battled through in every kind of tribulation,
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3655 by Animavore » Aug 13, 2015 10:20 pm
There are others?
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3656 by Fallible » Aug 13, 2015 10:24 pm
She battled through in every kind of tribulation,
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3657 by Animavore » Aug 13, 2015 10:26 pm
I notice on Wiki the book is influential on a Nightwish song. Where did Will hear of this book I wonder?
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3658 by Fallible » Aug 13, 2015 10:27 pm
She battled through in every kind of tribulation,
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3659 by smudge » Aug 16, 2015 8:06 am
This Changes Everything; Capitalism vs the Climate, Naomi Klein.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche.
Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. (re-read)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche.
Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. (re-read)
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Re: What'cha Readin'?
#3660 by Moonwatcher » Aug 30, 2015 12:44 am
I just finished "11/22/63" by Stephen King, the first King book I've read for thirty years. Pretty decent. I was drawn into it although I personally found the ending very unsatisfying.
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