What Are You Reading Now.

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  1. Oscar Leigh

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    Oh, what luck...
     
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    Yes, lol.

    By the way, that webcomic's adorable so far! Also. There's a character like me...I LOL'd way too hard.
     
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    Which character? Sarah?
     
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    Yes. She also had my legal first name and that was the nail in the coffin.
     
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    *GAAASSP* You have entrusted me with your deepest secret. I will protect this knowledge with my life. :superyesh:
     
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    Just finished Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. Now reading The Thin Man. Both books are miles better than the films (which I also enjoyed).
     
  7. Iain Aschendale

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    Me too!
     
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    We shall be the Guardians of the Name!
     
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    Just read a bunch of Elfquest stuff. The early stories are better than the later ones - the later ones suffer from too-many-characters-itis and are a bit hard to follow because of that. Still, Wendy Pini's elves are sexy as hell (!). So I'm done treating my inner teenage comic-fantasy geek for a while, and it's time to grow up again. I'm now reading James Karman's biography of Robinson Jeffers, along with some essays on the poet's work from a book called The Wild That Attracts Us, edited by ShaunAnne Tangney. Generally, I hate reading literary criticism because even the titles are deliberately comically incomprehensible (an essay in Tangney's book is called "Praxis, Gnosis, Poeisis: Inhabitation as Performative Myth in Thoreau and Jeffers", a title that says "Give up now, you simple-minded engineer") but I make exceptions for work on Jeffers because, hey, Jeffers!
     
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    I feel like I need to do something about this.

    I'd say it's a good thing I'm changing my name, but I've also revealed the the name I plan on changing mine to in another thread...

    ...oh, bother...lol
     
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    YOU'RE COMPROMISED!! TAKE COVER; THEY'RE COMING!! I'll hold them off for now. :fight:
     
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    I have bed sheets. Do those count as a cover?
     
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    Finished reading the Godfather's revenge by Mark Winegardner.
     
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    Currently, I'm reading Push by Sapphire.

    This book is fucking horrific, but not the writing. The content is horrific. I have a pretty high tolerance for fucked-up goings on in fiction, but this one is testing those limits.
     
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    Been reading a lot of neurology stuff as of late...not all that interesting to many, haha. But I have been wondering about the Dune series. Honestly, with so many books I'd have to read, I find the idea daunting, but my reading buds tell me its worth it.
     
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    I'm reading Newtown. Has anyone here read it? It's a little hard to read. I've literally thrown the book across the room. I want to read it, but I'm having a hard time, knowing it's just going to get more difficult. I would love to talk to anyone else who has read it. It's well written, and I think an important story. It's because the writer did such a good job that's making it hard to take.
     
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    Die Last by Tony parsons
     
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    The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho. It’s short but a sweet tale.
     
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    I’ve had this one in my amazon shopping cart for more than a year.
     
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    King Rat by China Miéville.

    I've tried reading this author before and never quite engaged with his writing. But this one snuck up on me. In fact, I don't even remember how it got onto my Kindle. But it's busy whacking me over the head with a cudgel on every page, and I am totally hooked. I wouldn't say 'captivated,' because that implies a kind of gooey cuteness. This is gooey, but definitely not cute.

    I am quite pleased. He is a writer I've always wanted to rate. Now I do. This is one hell of a tale. It doesn't even matter how it ends. I'm sure I won't be disappointed, because I have no expectations. I'm about halfway through, and am along for the ride/leap/flight, whatever you call it.
     
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    Is this the one by Matthew Lysiak, about the Sandy Hook shooting? I just looked it up on Amazon, and was horrified to see that it's only got just above a one-star rating BECAUSE most of the one-or-two line 'reviewers' are fantatical anti gun control people. Many of them are claiming that Sandy Hook never even happened.

    What have we become?
     
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    Go with his Kraken next then, IMO even better, and in a similar vein.
     
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    I'll keep that in mind. Thanks.
     
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    I used to procrastinate with this one. It me took years before I finally picked up the book. Now I’m glad I did. You should get round to it one day (I won’t give you spoilers).
     
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    A friend was moving and gave me a bunch of books so I never looked up reviews, but that's the one. It's really well done and extremely emotional and engaging. I highly recommend it. It's really sad that all the sick and crazy people are coming out. This is a horrible thing that happened, but it did happen. Anyone who thinks otherwise should be thrown in the Atlantic.
     
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