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« Reply #540 on: December 04, 2010, 11:53:15 AM » |
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I'm working my way through a collection of Clark Ashton Smith stories and my girlfriend is bugging me to read The Book of Lost Things. I'm also conidering reading The Road to see if the book is anywhere near as depressing as the movie-- my girlfriend says it is a very hopefully story, while grandpa says it's, and I quote, "depressing as shit"
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altpersona
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« Reply #541 on: December 04, 2010, 11:31:45 PM » |
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finished Towers of Midnight, top 5 in the series, 13 down 1 to go. woot woot
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« Reply #542 on: December 05, 2010, 08:17:31 AM » |
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Just read The Ghost King. Last book in the Drz'zt series so far. Warning: Major Spoilers if you haven't read it |
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« Reply #543 on: December 05, 2010, 12:10:29 PM » |
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Finished Towers of Midnight, currently reading the two new Dark Sun rulebooks.
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« Reply #544 on: December 05, 2010, 02:12:21 PM » |
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Picked up thee newest book in the fate of the Jedi series vortex
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« Reply #545 on: December 06, 2010, 03:08:47 AM » |
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finished Towers of Midnight, top 5 in the series, 13 down 1 to go. woot woot
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The mind transcends the body. It's also a little cold because of that. Please get it a blanket. I wish I could read your mind, I can barely read mine. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill
To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
There is no higher price than 'free'. "I won't die. I've been ordered not to die." |
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« Reply #546 on: December 11, 2010, 01:41:53 AM » |
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so far that top 5 is the first three and the last two, i (an i assume everyone else) have so much invested in that last book, it better be It.
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« Reply #547 on: December 13, 2010, 10:02:34 PM » |
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Went to the libaray tonight and got a number of books, I finally picked up The PRincess BRide,lol
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« Reply #548 on: December 19, 2010, 07:16:54 AM » |
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Finally found the time to start reading The Foundation (Asimov, of course). Been meaning to do that for a few years now
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Who cares for realism when you can be awesome?
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« Reply #549 on: December 19, 2010, 02:24:36 PM » |
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World War Z
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« Reply #550 on: December 21, 2010, 12:14:29 PM » |
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Found Shelley's Frankenstein from a discount bin and I am about to start that. Thank god for vacations, they give me time to lick my wounds and just relax. And drink, obviously.
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Ja vuosia myöhemmin
kalvas kaksikko lattialla motellin tihrustelee,
kun sama keiju katossa leijailee.
Kyselevät: "Mikä päivä nyt on?
Tiedätkö sen?"
Kuiskaten laulaa keiju:
"Tämän elämän viimeinen."
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Bi-Curious George
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« Reply #551 on: December 22, 2010, 03:20:46 AM » |
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the facebook API, can I drunk WOO00oo here?
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« Reply #552 on: January 17, 2011, 09:26:16 AM » |
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Just finished Sanderson's The Way of Kings.
It was a damn good book and I highly recommend it. It was 1000 pages of great reading. I'm very much looking forward to the next in the planned 10 book series. Too bad probably won't get it 'til '12.
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« Reply #553 on: January 17, 2011, 03:06:32 PM » |
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Currently reading The Art of War.
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« Reply #554 on: January 17, 2011, 03:54:39 PM » |
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I'd like to be reading Changes from the Dresden Files. Except the bookstore here doesn't have it. Guess I'll have to order it online.
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« Reply #555 on: January 17, 2011, 05:12:52 PM » |
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" " order " " it online
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The goal of power is power. - idk We are not descended from fearful men. - Murrow The Final Countdown is now stuck in your head. Anim-manga sux. |
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« Reply #556 on: January 17, 2011, 07:43:50 PM » |
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Currently reading The Art of War.
which edition? |
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« Reply #557 on: January 17, 2011, 08:06:46 PM » |
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There's only one edition by the translator I'm using. Then again, it's been translated and published by a looooooooooot of people.  |
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« Reply #558 on: January 17, 2011, 10:30:54 PM » |
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There's only one edition by the translator I'm using. Then again, it's been translated and published by a looooooooooot of people. Lol, I have the edition that's black has a slip cover and has The Prince and Frederick the great's orders to his general |
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« Reply #559 on: January 18, 2011, 01:09:34 AM » |
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Recently finished reading Machiavelli's The Prince. Machiavelli was surely a very intelligent man, and he pointed out a lot of truths that remain true even today, but I take issue with the fact that his treatise on how to be a good ruler mostly translates to "how to stay in charge", surely at least in part due to the time it was written in. Still, altpersona might want to give it a read, lest the "nobles" of the forum usurp him...  Next up, some more Nietzsche. After that, Discworld.  You may have already noticed it, but the Prince was biting satire. This guy gives some context http://www.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/Ren/flor-mach-mattingly.htm |
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