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jigger
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 Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:05 pm |
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 fuck books, they r4 crooks.
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Comm.BA
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:22 pm |
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Adnelle wrote: I'm currently reading the Hunger Games Trilogy. I'm working 9 hour shifts for 7 days straight and having something fast paced to read helps me not want to slit someones throat.
I'm going through about one a day so far (Starting and probably finishing the last book today) and they aren't too bad. It's a balance between Fighting/Politics/Romance and I think there could be a bit less romance, but it's legitimately about kids brutally killing each other. I'm annoyed at how I see the love triangle forming and can see how it's going to be exploited in the movies though. I dread seeing "Team Peeta" "Team Gale" Tshirts and bumper stickers... But since I'm just putting in about 6 hours a day on the books and they help distract me, I really can't complain.
Also, it seems the movie is going to have a pretty bad ass cast... So I'll probably still watch it...
TL;DR: 70% Battle Royal, 15% Twilight, 15% 1984. 6.5/10. You forgot x% Lord of the Flies
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 4:42 pm |
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Has anyone read the Dresden Files? The new book was freaking amazing. If you haven't you really need to get on that shit.
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 5:20 pm |
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There is this book called "Fragment" that is reminiscent to Michael Crichton's style of writing without it actually being Michael Crichton. It's got sci-fi, action/adventure, blood and awesome descriptions of attacks and stuff, and it's just a blast to read. I highly recommend it.
And for those who like real life biographies, "Chinese Cinderella" is actually an extremely interesting read. I sympathized with the main character and really followed her throughout the whole story; I looked her up later and learned more about her because it was so enthralling.
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MegaPhantasy
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:00 am |
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I'm reading through the A Song of Ice and Fire series right now. Gonna read the whole thing and watch the show. I'm loving it so far. About three hundred pages into the third book.
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:37 am |
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My wife loves that series. I was gonna try to buy her the graphic novel prequels for Christmas but they are all out of print and cost upwards of $100 each for used copies.
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MegaPhantasy
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 6:06 pm |
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Martin is so cruel to so many of the characters. At first I hated Sansa Stark, but now I just feel really sorry for her. And some part of me really wants to like Daenerys, but I just can't do it. I just can't.
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:04 pm |
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I've read a few books. How do you pronounce that? Bukes, bachs, bo-ok? It's a dated form of entertainment and I still mispronounce macabre every time I say it out loud.
The Twelve, it's the sequel to the viral vampire apocalypse epic The Passage. It's a good read but the climax is a little... shitty.
I also started reading the admiral Thrawn trilogy, but that's gonna get retconned so fuck that noise.
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:48 pm |
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Nearly done with Northanger Abbey. I'm not really into Jane Austen as a general rule, but this one is hilarious.
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Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 10:27 am |
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I've been told that Karen Traviss writes some decent clone-based Star Wars stories. I'll give some of those a read, because they probably not getting retconned.
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Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 3:48 pm |
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holycrapman wrote: I've been told that Karen Traviss writes some decent clone-based Star Wars stories. I'll give some of those a read, because they probably not getting retconned. They were already retconned when The clone wars show came out. Her books glorify the mandalorians as a still warrior race and the show depicts them as peace loving wussies. And the show is what's considered canon.
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Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 4:02 pm |
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Canon doesn't count if canon is stupid. The cooler version is always the right one!
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Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 4:46 pm |
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Well, whatever. I do watch the show (though a little behind know), but I thought the Republic Commando Delta Squad was featured in the intro of an episode. I miss those dudes.
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Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 5:06 pm |
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I've actually grown to dislike anything by Karen Traviss. I also seem to be disliking any books based on an established license. So I don't read star wars books anymore. Nor do I read the halo books which are becoming necessary to understand anything in the game.
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