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« Reply #400 on: August 27, 2009, 11:15:34 AM » |
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Finished Nineteen Eighty-Four a few days ago. Hadn't read it in English yet. Currently reading Kafka's Der Prozess and Achebe's Things fall apart.
I couldn't make it past the part where they stick the sack of rats on his head. I was really freakin' disturbed, and the book was so depressing I just couldn't make myself continue reading it after that. I guess I'm weak.  |
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A couple of water benders, a dike, a flaming arrow, and a few barrels of blasting jelly?
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« Reply #401 on: August 27, 2009, 12:35:15 PM » |
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Finished Nineteen Eighty-Four a few days ago. Hadn't read it in English yet. Currently reading Kafka's Der Prozess and Achebe's Things fall apart.
I couldn't make it past the part where they stick the sack of rats on his head. I was really freakin' disturbed, and the book was so depressing I just couldn't make myself continue reading it after that. I guess I'm weak. the thing on his head was infinitely creepier than a sack of rats... |
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« Reply #402 on: August 27, 2009, 12:50:53 PM » |
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the thing on his head was infinitely creepier than a sack of rats...
A cage of hungry rats, then? It's been a while... |
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A couple of water benders, a dike, a flaming arrow, and a few barrels of blasting jelly?
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« Reply #403 on: August 27, 2009, 07:51:05 PM » |
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I may be desensitized, as I don't actually remember the rats. Reading the first Anita Blake novel, on the recommendation of one of our own BG moderators, he shall remain anonymous unless I start to dislike the book or my character in his game dies, hehe.  |
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« Reply #404 on: August 29, 2009, 05:08:01 AM » |
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the thing on his head was infinitely creepier than a sack of rats...
A cage of hungry rats, then? It's been a while... A cage-ish mask. So technically your second guess was very much right. But the book has a really positive ending. |
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Ja vuosia myöhemmin
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kun sama keiju katossa leijailee.
Kyselevät: "Mikä päivä nyt on?
Tiedätkö sen?"
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« Reply #405 on: August 29, 2009, 11:43:43 AM » |
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the thing on his head was infinitely creepier than a sack of rats...
A cage of hungry rats, then? It's been a while... A cage-ish mask. So technically your second guess was very much right. But the book has a really positive ending. I don't know if I'd call it a positive ending. They finally broke Winston. |
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« Reply #406 on: August 29, 2009, 03:18:53 PM » |
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I'm currently reading the Blackest Night series from DC, too. It's one of those "buy comics across five different series and a couple we're making just for this!" things, so it's interesting. I missed out on the first couple Green Lantern issues, so I'm hesitant to get the ones for August, but I think I will if I can, and I need to find the Green Lantern Corps ones too. So far Blackest Night, Blackest Night: Titans, Blackest Night: Batman and Tales of the Corps have all been pretty awesome. Blackest Night: Superman was... kinda shitty... to be honest, but then, I'm not much of a Supes fan...
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« Reply #407 on: August 29, 2009, 09:47:30 PM » |
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« Reply #408 on: August 30, 2009, 04:34:34 PM » |
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Reading the first Anita Blake novel, on the recommendation of one of our own BG moderators, he shall remain anonymous unless I start to dislike the book or my character in his game dies, hehe. AC recommended it.  |
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« Reply #409 on: August 31, 2009, 11:45:55 AM » |
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Reading Master and Margarita (Saatana saapuu Moskovaan in Finnish, it means Devil arrives to Moscow) again. It is just that darn good.
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Ja vuosia myöhemmin
kalvas kaksikko lattialla motellin tihrustelee,
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Kyselevät: "Mikä päivä nyt on?
Tiedätkö sen?"
Kuiskaten laulaa keiju:
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« Reply #410 on: August 31, 2009, 12:45:46 PM » |
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« Reply #411 on: August 31, 2009, 06:28:28 PM » |
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I just finished reading Dan Simmons' The Terror. I'm probably going to go back to reading either House of Leaves or more Lovecraft stories.
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« Reply #412 on: September 02, 2009, 01:48:33 AM » |
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Excellent book, so much better than the movie. One of these days I'm going to have to pick up more Heinlein. |
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« Reply #413 on: September 02, 2009, 07:33:09 AM » |
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The Odyssey, the Fitzgerald translation for the 5th time, for class.
Background information on the Wizardwar - not WW2, though it comes up as a match at Google.
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« Reply #414 on: September 02, 2009, 12:02:13 PM » |
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I think I was there when you read it for the third or fourth time.
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« Reply #415 on: September 02, 2009, 01:01:25 PM » |
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I think I was there when you read it for the third or fourth time.
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« Reply #416 on: September 02, 2009, 07:34:59 PM » |
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I think I was there when you read it for the third or fourth time.
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« Reply #417 on: September 02, 2009, 08:05:45 PM » |
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I think I was there when you read it for the third or fourth time.
Yep, you were. In a very fetching skirt, if I recall. ...Which one of you? Zeke, naturally. I simply do NOT have any shoes that would allow me to look good in a skirt. |
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« Reply #418 on: September 03, 2009, 11:19:33 AM » |
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Excellent book, so much better than the movie. One of these days I'm going to have to pick up more Heinlein. I didn't like it. I finished it and read all the way through, damnit, but I didn't like it. That's probably because I went into it expecting a lot more action and fighting -- more along the lines of the movie but without the suck -- and not political theory. Though, if I read it now I'd probably enjoy it. I had the same problem with 1984 -- except I hated that book so much I actually paid someone to borrow it and never bring it back. But at least I finished that one too. |
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« Reply #419 on: September 03, 2009, 12:50:41 PM » |
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Excellent book, so much better than the movie. One of these days I'm going to have to pick up more Heinlein. I didn't like it. I finished it and read all the way through, damnit, but I didn't like it. That's probably because I went into it expecting a lot more action and fighting -- more along the lines of the movie but without the suck -- and not political theory. Though, if I read it now I'd probably enjoy it. I had the same problem with 1984 -- except I hated that book so much I actually paid someone to borrow it and never bring it back. But at least I finished that one too. Yeah, the book is a good book but it is NOTHING like the movie, heh. |
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