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I toughed it out through the first half of "Outlander" and felt like I was gonna die because it seemed so boring but ended up getting really hooked on the series. Tell me more about "The Star Wars Chronicles" please? Mr. Kitty has just about all of the Star Wars Novels in his library. I don't recall seeing that one though. We don't have the graphic novels either. |
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey and trying to finish the rest of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and World War Z by Max Brooks.
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I am highly amused by the extreme level of Star Wars geek that has suddenly appeared around here.
Currently writing a paper on Coraline, so I just keep reading it over and over. Not that I'm complaining. |
Coraline? As in the girl with the button eyes? I liked that movie. The ladies with the dogs freaked me out though.
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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie.
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Agatha Christie? You disgust me!
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Just finished rereading "Something Rotten" - Jasper Fforde.
Now I'm trying to decide between starting "The Hobbit Trap" - Maciej Henneberg and John Schofield... "Islam (its law and society)" - Jamila Hussein... or "Javascript in easy steps" - Mike McGrath. |
I like my java with flavored, liquid creamer.
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I'm told Java Script isn't worth learning, but figured I'd have a passing looksy anyway just for fun... as I haven't coded at all before. (Except passing one unit by rote memory after missing prerequisites, which didn't teach me a thing.)
I've done "Hello World" which is basically the equivalent of potty training, now I want to see if I can make it do sums. If I can't get basic competence, I will simply use the knowledge I have to make the strings form disgusting and anatomically improbable statements. Hee ^_^ |
Anyone ever read any Anne Rice? I never have but it seems like the best case scenario for the moment...
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I wouldn't recommend her to anyone. Her prose is fine but there's just something really lifeless about the way she writes, in my experience. I've only read Interview With A Vampire and Servant Of The Bones though, and to be fair the first half of Servant was actually good.
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Hmm maybe I'll put a little effort into my search..
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Ah, missed that. Ha! Found Michael Crichton's Sphere, never read anything by him before justI vaguely remember a movie so it is what I'm going with.
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The thing with Anne Rice is that she writes with lavish detail, but the plot tends to meander. She also works the interview-as-story device quite a bit...
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Reading Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist. So far I don't love it as much as I loved Let The Right One In, but its still pretty good and I can't put it down, which is inconvenient since I have to get up early. |
R.A. Salvatore's Promise of the Witch King. Interesting seeing Artemis Entreri in the lead role for a change.
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With Let The Right One In, the pedophilia thing I didn't enjoy, obviously, but the whole point of the book was to scare the shit out of you and scare the shit out of me it did, like vampire book should. |
Well that makes sense. I was comparing them purely from a squickiness factor and was surprised at your preference. I didn't know any of Larsson's background. My mom found the Girl trilogy in a bookstore in Sweden a while ago, and I read them all up rather delightedly but never did any research on them. Now they're available here and I suddenly have people to discuss them with, which is sort of awesome. I keep hearing completely different interpretations and it's making me want to go back and re-read.
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I read it earlier this year after it was pumped up as the most feminist thing ever, so you can imagine my disappointment.
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Yeah, most people read Lisbeth in a way that I find confusing. I mostly just see her as a badass Machead.
Currently reading A Jealous Ghost. It's surprisingly engaging. |
J. G. Ballard - Drowned World. A lot less freaky than I was expecting after Crash - seems like a straight up sci-fi so far. Good though.
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Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
A commentary on women in North Africa with a subtly post-apocalyptic, magical-realism twist. Beautifully written and quite gripping! |
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