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Sundae · 03-11-2010, 06:19 AM

Meh - my copy is from the library. I'd hate for someone to PAY for this and encourage the author.

The only reason I am still reading it - yup, plugging away - is because I have no more books to read. I'm off to the library on Saturday to get a new batch for my trip to the 'Dam.

wolf · 03-11-2010, 10:18 AM

Hostage - Don Brown (2nd book in the Navy Justice Series)

Trilby · 03-11-2010, 11:55 AM

Dracula. last fookin' book by a 19th C brit I shall ever, Ever, EVER read.

I hate 19th C. British literature - all of it. ALL OF IT! DO YOU HEAR? IT ALL SUCKS!!!

I hate it from Coleridge to Austen, from Wordsworth (the candy ass) to Disraeli, from Darwin to Collins, Bronte (Charlotte) to Bronte (Emily) to Bronte (Anne) To Byron To Shelley!!! I've hated them all -

except Keats. I liked Keats.

classicman · 03-11-2010, 12:55 PM

lol - Tell us how you really feel Bri.

Trilby · 03-12-2010, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman

lol - Tell us how you really feel Bri.

k.

My tolerance for pretentious, arrogant, fuck-tards with delusions of somebody-gives-a-fuck schmuck's has gone down in the past year.

Keats is ok, though.

srsly, though. I'm really hatin' on these types. All this "I'm Not REALLY a genius I just Play One on TV *wink wink* but have I shown you my Pultizer? It gets me laid quite a bit..." is getting ON MY NERVES. Fake Gee-Whizery. Gah.

monster · 03-12-2010, 09:49 AM

Just finished The Hunger Games as I was recovering. What a load of unoriginality. Now recovered, i started to try and read the sequel. 5 pages was too much -I realized how ill I must have been to make it all the way through the first book. I guess all the teens who are raving about it haven't come across Running Man, 1984, Handmaid's tale, Brave new world....

Does anyone ever write a book these days that isn't part of a series? Jeeze.

Gravdigr · 03-12-2010, 12:45 PM

Dean Koontz' "The Face". Fairly entertaining.

DanaC · 03-12-2010, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

Dracula. last fookin' book by a 19th C brit I shall ever, Ever, EVER read.

I hate 19th C. British literature - all of it. ALL OF IT! DO YOU HEAR? IT ALL SUCKS!!!

I hate it from Coleridge to Austen, from Wordsworth (the candy ass) to Disraeli, from Darwin to Collins, Bronte (Charlotte) to Bronte (Emily) to Bronte (Anne) To Byron To Shelley!!! I've hated them all -

except Keats. I liked Keats.

I am not a fan of 19th C literature (Brit or American) on the whole. Never been able to get into the Brontes at all. Byron and Shelley leave me a little cold mostly. I do like some Coleridge, but mainly that's just Kubla Khan. Dracula I quite liked: but if I had to study it I'd hate it. I read it as a kid, at night, when the rest of the house was sleeping :P No need to worry about subtext or cultural indicators when you're ten. Got the same kind of kick from that as from reading Lovecraft or Edgar Allen Poe.

The only two 19th C authors I can truly say I love ( beyond historical interest which is something else entirely) are Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I've read pretty much everything those authors ever wrote.

Clodfobble · 03-13-2010, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

Does anyone ever write a book these days that isn't part of a series? Jeeze.

If they do, then their editor tries to convince them to make it a series before they'll publish it.

Trilby · 03-17-2010, 07:21 AM

I have a week and a half.

What should I read? (NO FUCKING SCI_FI!)

glatt · 03-17-2010, 08:09 AM

My wife recently read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. She thought it was really good, and she reads a lot and isn't easily impressed by a book.

It's the trendy book to read these days.

I can only recommend SF, so that's why you get this second hand recommendation.

Trilby · 03-17-2010, 11:05 AM

thanks, glatt - but no slave narratives, either. I've read so many damn slave narratives that I wonder that there was any slaving going on for all the writing those guys were doing....

ha ha. j/k all you PC types!

thanks for the recommed, though. all you guys are big, fat SCi-Fi nerds, aren't you?

Yes. Yes, you are.

wolf · 03-17-2010, 11:21 AM

The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson.

You'll need more than a week, though.

DanaC · 03-17-2010, 01:50 PM

The First Casualty, by Ben Elton: a murder mystery set in the trenches of ww1. Very good book.

The Horse Boy (author, i can't recall) written by (and in audio narrated by) the father of an autistic boy and telling their story. It's beautiful.

Nation, by Terry Pratchett. It's written for a young adult audience, but is really rather good. It's a departure from his discworld stuff and is set in the real (more or less) world. It's a lovely story. A girl from England in something like the Edwardian or Victorian era, is shipwrecked on Island. Also alone on this island is 'Nation' an adolescent boy who is the sole survivor of his people (hence taking on the name Nation), his whole tribe having been wiped out by a freak tsunami whilst he was alone on a different island undergoing a solitary coming of age ritual.

They have no language to link them. But they grow a close friendship. It's really wonderfully written. Funny and poignant by turns. I highly recommend it to anyone.

Pooka · 03-17-2010, 06:22 PM

Texas Hold 'Em: How I Was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, and Came Back As a Horney Toad, By Kinky Friedman, John Callahan

It is an unconventional autobiography. Very Funny... I lol too much for Flint while lying in bed reading it.

03-11-2010, 06:19 AM	#1696
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Meh - my copy is from the library. I'd hate for someone to PAY for this and encourage the author. The only reason I am still reading it - yup, plugging away - is because I have no more books to read. I'm off to the library on Saturday to get a new batch for my trip to the 'Dam. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-11-2010, 10:18 AM	#1697
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Hostage - Don Brown (2nd book in the Navy Justice Series) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-11-2010, 11:55 AM	#1698
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Dracula. last fookin' book by a 19th C brit I shall ever, Ever, EVER read. I hate 19th C. British literature - all of it. ALL OF IT! DO YOU HEAR? IT ALL SUCKS!!! I hate it from Coleridge to Austen, from Wordsworth (the candy ass) to Disraeli, from Darwin to Collins, Bronte (Charlotte) to Bronte (Emily) to Bronte (Anne) To Byron To Shelley!!! I've hated them all - except Keats. I liked Keats. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

03-11-2010, 12:55 PM	#1699
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	lol - Tell us how you really feel Bri. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

03-12-2010, 09:49 AM	#1701
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Just finished The Hunger Games as I was recovering. What a load of unoriginality. Now recovered, i started to try and read the sequel. 5 pages was too much -I realized how ill I must have been to make it all the way through the first book. I guess all the teens who are raving about it haven't come across Running Man, 1984, Handmaid's tale, Brave new world.... Does anyone ever write a book these days that isn't part of a series? Jeeze. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-12-2010, 12:45 PM	#1702
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Dean Koontz' "The Face". Fairly entertaining. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

03-17-2010, 07:21 AM	#1705
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I have a week and a half. What should I read? (NO FUCKING SCI_FI!) __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

03-17-2010, 08:09 AM	#1706
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	My wife recently read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. She thought it was really good, and she reads a lot and isn't easily impressed by a book. It's the trendy book to read these days. I can only recommend SF, so that's why you get this second hand recommendation.

03-17-2010, 11:05 AM	#1707
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	thanks, glatt - but no slave narratives, either. I've read so many damn slave narratives that I wonder that there was any slaving going on for all the writing those guys were doing.... ha ha. j/k all you PC types! thanks for the recommed, though. all you guys are big, fat SCi-Fi nerds, aren't you? Yes. Yes, you are. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

03-17-2010, 11:21 AM	#1708
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson. You'll need more than a week, though. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-17-2010, 06:22 PM	#1710
Pooka Your Invisible Rabbit Friend Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Betwixt and Between Posts: 528	Texas Hold 'Em: How I Was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, and Came Back As a Horney Toad, By Kinky Friedman, John Callahan It is an unconventional autobiography. Very Funny... I lol too much for Flint while lying in bed reading it.

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