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« on: August 09, 2007, 09:42:23 PM » |
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Alright, I'm making this because I know such a thread existed on PCF, and I just finished The Silmarillion and want to brag about it.
So yeah, long read. Started it up again beginning of the summer after having attempted a year or two back, right out of my Sci-Fi kick with Chanur and Vorkosigan. Last segment made the whole of LotR seem so simple, "So then Gandalf was right and some Hobbits threw it in a volcano. Also: Radagast." Could have used more about the Wizards, like who any of them besides Radagast, Gandalf and Sauruman were.
Anywho, yeah.
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« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2007, 11:24:06 PM » |
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On Basilisk Station
next is Hamlet, for school u_u
after that is Enders Game, and then The Confusion 1 and maybe 2 if I can manage
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« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2007, 08:13:05 PM » |
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Harry Ptter: Deathly Hallows (lol)
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« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2007, 08:46:37 PM » |
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I cheated and finished Ender's Game.
Holy crap, awesome book.
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Citizen Nine
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« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2007, 01:10:57 AM » |
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Reading Heart of Darkness at the moment. Peace.
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All this guerrilla warfare in Arabia is cutting into my drinking... :: Cuaron, Coppola, Hitchcock, Kazan, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Lean, Scorsese, Welles, Wilder ::
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« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2007, 01:16:02 AM » |
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Restarted Cryptonomicon yesterday as my mom returned it to the library last week. I got unbelievably lucky as I got the same copy again and it still had my bookmark in it.
Also going to read Ender's Game (same copy, no bookmark) and Animal Experimentation: Cruelty or Science? for a speech I'm working on.
The last thing I finished from cover to cover was Brave New World, and that was pretty cool.
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DOMON KASSHU!
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« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2007, 03:26:35 PM » |
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I finished reading a TPB actually. I finished reading Batman's The Long Halloween. This is Batman at one of his darkest moments, and it makes for an amazing read. There's a lot of nuances and great subtlety. War.
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« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2007, 07:32:51 PM » |
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The Vampire Hunter D Series, i'm up to volume 3!
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« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2007, 08:42:17 PM » |
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I finished reading a TPB actually. I finished reading Batman's The Long Halloween. This is Batman at one of his darkest moments, and it makes for an amazing read. There's a lot of nuances and great subtlety. War. TPB = ? And Long Halloween is awesome.
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« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2007, 08:59:01 PM » |
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A TPB is a Trade Paperback. When they gather a bunch of Batman comics into one book of the arc they're supposed to portray, that is a TPB or a Graphic Novel. Graphic Novels are usually drawn and written with the large size in mind, so they are designed to look more like one big book, while TPBs look like a bunch of comics spliced together. War.
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« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2007, 05:45:19 PM » |
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Does manga count as books? Cus i've just read the second volume of Rozen Maiden.
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« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2007, 06:01:01 PM » |
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Does manga count as books? Cus i've just read the second volume of Rozen Maiden. I'm sure manga count as books desu. War.
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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2007, 01:15:05 PM » |
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i just finished with eclipse. by stephanie meyers. i reccomend it. though i'm not sure how guys react to it. start with twilight, then new moon end with eclipse, wait for midnight sun(grr). i cried. i love crying in books.
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Ninomiya sucks at dancing, but everything else is perfect......
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