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 Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:58 pm Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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| BROUSER wrote: | | Hey, Rabbit...HBO is making a mini-series based on American Gods. |
Yeah, I'm excited about it.
Gaiman's writing a sequel to American Gods because of it, too. |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:21 pm Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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Jennifer Egan's "A Visit from the Goon Squad"
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:35 pm Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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The New Golden Bough.
I love when the Springfield/GC has the book sale.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:13 pm Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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| BROUSER wrote: | The New Golden Bough.
I love when the Springfield/GC has the book sale. |
I have a 1940 printing..interesting as hell..Frazer was the consummate "armchair anthropologist"
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:30 am Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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Just starting the third book of the Star Wars: Darth Bane trilogy.
I gotta say, I never had any desire to read these sort of books at all. Always expected them to just be cheesy rip offs based on the movie. But these 3 novels from this author are amazing.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 1:02 pm Post subject: Re: RE: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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| SubLunar wrote: | | So far (Goethe's) Faust is pretty awesome. Too bad it'll take me forever to finish it now that I'm working and don't have endless time to spend reading anymore... |
This book was a huge disappointment. The first 1/3 of it was a true masterpiece. Vivid details and excellent storytelling. It was awesome!
But then it totally crapped out and the storyline became nonsense and didn't seem to progress or do anything interesting. Finally towards the end it seems to be attempting to wrap up and tie the loose ends but it went in such a lame direction that it's really not holding my attention anymore. I'm down to the last 100 pages and I don't even know if it's worth finishing. Damn. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:10 pm Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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I hear Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin is good.
I just finished The Osiris Ritual by George Mann which is the 2nd in the series and now I'm starting the 3rd: The Immorality Engine.
Pokey, you'd probably like these books... as would anyone else who enjoys mysteries in a lite-steampunk Victorian England.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 8:33 pm Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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I'm reading Stephen King's new one. Still thumbing through the Golden Bough (I keep it in my truck for times I have to wait places. I hate waiting.) Also reading some of Joseph Campbell. Not the one with Bill Moyer. Some lectures he did. Joseph Campbell is the bomb.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 12:14 am Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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What's King's new one?
The last one of his I've read was Under the Dome.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:58 pm Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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11/22/63. Short, dorky description: A guy travels back in time with the express intention of stopping the JFK assassination. But it is much more than that. Statements on the world that was, the world that is, and how we got here from there. And, of course, King's observations on the lives of everyday people. Nobody that sells as many books is doing it better.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 1:31 pm Post subject: RE: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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| Go the Fuck to Sleep bedtime children's audio book narrated by Samuel L Jackson |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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Hilarious. I read that for the first time in a bookstore in Richmond Va. My wife walked away from me because I wouldn't stop giggling.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 6:12 pm Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 9:56 pm Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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I just finished The Wild Through the Keyhole by Stephen King. It was nice to return to Mid-World for a spell.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:51 pm Post subject: Re: The "What are you reading?" thread |
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I got that too. It was kind of nice. Almost makes me want to go back and reread the series.
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