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hannaugh said:
That would be awkward to have to take back and forth to class.  I would have to put a My Little Pony book cover on it or something so people wouldn't know what it was. 
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That's such a good idea. I also have to listen to tons of nazi songs and songs adopted by the nazis. Like take this for example: It's like being stomped on by the big boot of national socialism. I actually started singing the words to one randomly without knowing... Hope I don't do that for too long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4PwSVW5Aak
 
For those of you with children, here are some recently recommended books from Oprah...

1. You Are Different and That's Bad
2. The Boy Who Died From Eating All His Vegetables
3. Dad's New Wife Robert
4. Fun Four-letter Words to Know and Share
5. Hammers, Screwdrivers and Scissors: An I-Can-Do-It Book
6. The Kids' Guide to Hitchhiking
7. Kathy Was So Bad Her Mom Stopped Loving Her
8. Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence
9. All Cats Go to Hell
10. The Little Sissy Who Snitched
11. Some Kittens Can Fly
12. That's It, I'm Putting You Up for Adoption
13. Grandpa Gets a Casket
14. The Magic World Inside the Abandoned Refrigerator
15. Garfield Gets Feline Leukemia
16. The Pop-Up Book of Human Anatomy
17. Strangers Have the Best Candy
18. Whining, Kicking and Crying to Get Your Way
19. You Were an Accident
20. Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will
21. Pop! Goes The Hamster...And Other Great Microwave Games
22. The Man in the Moon Is Actually Satan
23. Your Nightmares Are Real
24. Where Would You Like to Be Buried?
25. Eggs, Toilet Paper, and Your School
26. Why Can't Mr. Fork and Ms. Electrical Outlet Be Friends?
27. Places Where Mommy and Daddy Hide Neat Things
28. Daddy Drinks Because You Cry
 
elfro89 said:
hannaugh said:
That would be awkward to have to take back and forth to class.  I would have to put a My Little Pony book cover on it or something so people wouldn't know what it was. 
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That's such a good idea. I also have to listen to tons of nazi songs and songs adopted by the nazis. Like take this for example: It's like being stomped on by the big boot of national socialism. I actually started singing the words to one randomly without knowing... Hope I don't do that for too long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4PwSVW5Aak
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That's totally freaky.  When I went to Germany with my husband and inlaws, we went to the big Nazi fairgrounds where Hitler gave all those huge speeches in Nuremberg.  Talk about friggin creepy.  There's a museum in the unfinished Nazi capital building. 
 
Reviving this topic.

Recent reading include:
- Ben Bova's "Jupiter", was decent enough but nothing spectacular
- Terry Pratchett's "I Shall Wear Midnight", very good and probably the best Tiffany Aching book yet
- Katharine Kerr's "Days of Blood and Fire", another very good book and the seventh set in Deverry. I really enjoy how she gradually expands both the horizons of the story and the characters in it, as well as lets her readers discover more and more of the world. I have the next book waiting for me on the shelf!

Right now reading Douglas Adams' "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". Why have I not read this before?! Hilarious :icon_jokercolor:
 
I'm still working on John Mauldin's "End Game". For a book on economics, it's fairly approachable, but it's still frustrating as economics is so often unintuitive. I find myself re-reading sections just to make sure I caught it right the first time.
 
Economics and chemistry cause my brain to shut down. Literally! I instantly fell asleep during chemistry at university to the degree that I stopped going to the lectures. There was just no point to it.
 
hannaugh said:
Anyone read the Dark Tower series?
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I tried to years ago when he published the first one, but just couldn't stay interested in it. They said for years that King could publish his laundry list and it would sell millions of copies. Well, with the "Dark Tower" series it seemed as if he'd finally taken that dare.
 
hannaugh said:
Anyone read the Dark Tower series?
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I've read all but the final book.
I'm currently reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (most famous for his 5 book trilogy (yes) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe).
 
Cagey said:
hannaugh said:
Anyone read the Dark Tower series?
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I tried to years ago when he published the first one, but just couldn't stay interested in it. They said for years that King could publish his laundry list and it would sell millions of copies. Well, with the "Dark Tower" series it seemed as if he'd finally taken that dare.
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Except... almost everyone I know who read it and a lot of the regular critics seem to think it is the best thing he ever wrote.

I want to read it.  The whole sci-fantasy mixed with cowboys thing is really interesting to me. 
 
hannaugh said:
Except... almost everyone I know who read it and a lot of the regular critics seem to think it is the best thing he ever wrote.
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I'm not surprised. Don't you work in a comic book store? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it does speak to what kind of audience you're exposed to and whose reviews you'd likely read.

Of course, I'm no authority and certainly no one to talk. I mean, I read Cracked.com regularly <grin>

I have read everything else Mr. King did, and enjoyed it thoroughly. But, the Dark Tower stuff just doesn't read like his other work at all. It's like it's a different author's writing that King just slapped his name on so it would sell in big numbers.
 
I'm talking about my friends from college, not random idiots who come into the shop to buy Street Fighter comics.  The shop isn't my life either, I only work there a few hours a week to pay the bills. And I don't hang out with anyone from the store.

I don't really care if it is anything like his other work, and it doesn't have to be.  I just want a good story, and I like weird fantasy. 
 
Just finished "The Alchemist" for the first time... and thought it was quite good, for a light read! Definitely not what I was expecting from the title.
 
I've been reading the Ethshar series from Lawrence Watt-Evans.  It's really good stuff, interesting stories, and while you don't have to read one to get the one after it, they have little nods to the other stories in the series.  I'd recommend starting with The Unwilling Warlord.

(The review that convinced me to start reading LWE is here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/s7/lawrence_wattevanss_fiction/)
 
Time to resurrect this thread. And what better way to do it than by hyping my new favourite book: The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick DeWitt.

Ostensibly a Western, The Sisietsr Brothers has everything of an allegorical novel (think The Alchemist with Winchesters), plus a touch of dark humour, casually brutal violence à la Tarantino and a bit of existentialism thrown in for good measure. I've seen it described as "cowboy noir" and that sounds about right. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Proze and everyone should read it. Preferably before they turn it into a John C. Reilly movie. Shudder.

Since then I also read Louise Penny's A Trick of the Light, the third instalment of the Millennium trilogy, and The End of the Wasp Season, by Denise Mina. But those don't really matter.  :laughing7:


 
Reading......?

The want ads for work. I got laid off on 4/01/2011 and haven't found work yet...  :-\
 
I'm just indulging in fantasy/fiction in the form of the latest Pro Gear (Sweet water) catalog and Scott Turow's "Innocent".
 
currently reading Dune by Frank Herbert and Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erickson, the latter is the start of a ten book series, I hope I know what I'm getting into...  :tard: haha

I have a bunch of Sci-Fi on my reading list that I'll never have time to get to, one can dream I suppose...
 
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