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| Topic Started: Mar 5 2012, 11:23 PM (4,044 Views) | |
| paige5999 | Apr 5 2012, 01:16 AM Post #46 |
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I'm a smart, strong, sensual woman
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I'm reading Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and Room by Emma Donoghue. I only just started Room, but it's pretty interesting so far. It's told from the perspective of a five-year old boy whose Mother was kidnapped by an old crazy guy and they are both kept in a small room. The boy has lived in this room his entire life, as the old man had impregnated his mother while she was kept there. |
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| Outlaw454 | Apr 6 2012, 01:57 AM Post #47 |
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Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies
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Two of my favorite books of all time. I'm about to re-read for about the 31423412346871236th time The Silmarillion, my absolute favorite book ever. Morgoth makes Sauron look like a pussy. |
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| Snowman | Apr 9 2012, 05:55 AM Post #48 |
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Berserker
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Finished reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. I have mixed feelings about it. Gonna comment on something now that some might classify as spoilers, but if you've heard of Captain Nemo or the Nautilus then it's really not spoilers, but eh. Better safe than sorry I suppose. Don't wanna ruin anything. Also, everything mentioned here is also mentioned in the plot synopsis on the back of the book so I knew about it before I even got to it too. [spoiler=Possibly spoilers.]I personally didn't like that a good middle chunk of the book -- pretty much everything taking place on board the Nautilus -- didn't really have much to do with the plot at all. For example, in one very brief page or two, two characters see the ruins of Atlantis. That is literally all that happens. They see Atlantis and then leave. Kinda understandable due to the fact that their suits have limited air, but still, it had nothing to do with the plot. I guess all/most of the other seemingly unconnected "adventures" each showed a little about Captain Nemo and/or the Nautilus, but it didn't seem like much. And even in the end, Captain Nemo is a mysterious guy that you never really learn that much about.[/spoiler] There was one thing I really did not like about the book. The description was too much. Yes, I like description. I like to know about the setting so I know what to visualize and maybe even to set the mood a little, I like to know what the characters look like, etc. But this just mentioned so many different fish, coral, and algae species across the whole book and, having never heard of many of them, it really didn't help and kinda just annoyed me because I didn't know what to think of all of it. That might just be me though. I don't know, maybe other people liked it because of that or something. Overall... Yeah, it's good, just not my type of thing really. I prefer stories with more direction, but -- at least from the information given to the reader -- there isn't much direction. The protagonists really don't have any choice about anything that goes on, and since it's in first-person the reader doesn't have much information either. If you're interested in it, I don't mean to discourage you from reading it, but if you're not interested I probably wouldn't bother with it. |
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| Outlaw454 | Apr 10 2012, 12:04 AM Post #49 |
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Keep in mind when that was written, and that Jules Verne is a master of researching the subjects of his books. He really liked to show his work. Here's a little bit about him. |
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| Snowman | Apr 10 2012, 02:32 AM Post #50 |
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Yeah, I understood that all that description (especially in machinery) would have been pretty amazing when it was written. And I don't blame him for doing research -- it bothers me when a high school student like me knows "now that's just not possible" (every time I mention this, someone says it's science fiction, it doesn't have to be possible, but it bothers me anyway). I have other sci-fi I want to read next (after A Song of Ice and Fire), but do you have any other Verne recommendations? I think you said you were a fan of him once. But when looking at lists of good sci-fi, one of the popular authors seems to be Philip K. Dick, so I'll probably read something of his and Asimov's before going back to authors I've already read, just to see some different stuff. Also, I didn't know TVTropes did, well, not TV stuff too. Somehow I've been able to force myself off of there long enough to post here. Of course, now I'll end up back on there reading stuff on everything. |
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| BigMac | Apr 10 2012, 02:46 AM Post #51 |
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Real Trill Shit
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I remember reading Journey to the Center of the Earth and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I hated them. When I read a book, I want a story. Not a godam manual on everything they encounter. |
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| Outlaw454 | Apr 10 2012, 04:57 PM Post #52 |
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Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies
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I've only read 20,000 and Journey to the Center of the Earth. I liked them, mostly because I've always been a fan of in depth explanations of things like that. Probably why I like Tolkien so much.
This is why I wind up stuck there for years. |
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| Snowman | May 5 2012, 09:17 PM Post #53 |
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Hmm so it's almost been a month since the last post here. SO I'm about to finish up The Walking Dead Compendium 1. Also, since I saw The Avengers last night and already had an interest in reading some comic before, I'll probably do that while I wait for TWD Compendium 2 in the fall. I'm leaning towards either Iron Man or The Avengers, but probably just IM for now. I know I'm a comic book noob, but it kinda annoys me that every time I look at one that I want to get into it says "first mentioned in issue x of this series, and later appeared in issues y through z of this other series, and another appearance in something else, this character got his own series and then 48329 spinoffs and then they made this other one that..." Sooo yeah. I don't like the idea of getting into, say, Iron Man comics and then missing out on half the stuff if I don't read "Iron Man and Captain America" or "The Avengers" or "Avengers vs X-Men", or because I didn't get all his appearances in random other stuff. |
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| BigMac | May 5 2012, 09:41 PM Post #54 |
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Real Trill Shit
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I just finished the Hunger Games series. I didn't hate the ending, it's more that it just....ended. It didn't leave an impact, it was so abrupt. I closed Mockingjay and was just like....wut. |
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| MilkAndCookies | May 6 2012, 01:19 AM Post #55 |
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sadjan stevens playing the world's saddest song on the world's saddest banjo
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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. I like. |
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| Asfan | May 6 2012, 01:57 AM Post #56 |
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The Sanest Fisher
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Russian Foreign Policy: The Return to Great Power Politics, 2nd edition, by Jeffrey Mankoff. Just me and this baby until Monday morning. And Russian Foreign Policy: Sources and Implications by Olga Oliker, Keith Crane, Lowell H. Schwartz, and Catherine Yusupov. Aww yeah. |
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| BigMac | May 27 2012, 12:17 PM Post #57 |
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Real Trill Shit
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Hey this thread's dead, and this is crazy, so here's my post so revive this maybe? Anyways, I've been rereading the Inheritance cycle. Does anyone remember these? Or even know what they are? I can't be the only one. Anyways, I'm on Eldest, which will take a bitch long time to read, but whatever. |
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| Snowman | May 27 2012, 04:52 PM Post #58 |
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I never did get to the last book. :P |
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| SaiyanShredder | May 27 2012, 06:45 PM Post #59 |
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Saiyan gon...
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Currently reading The Things They Carried for English class. I'm about halfway through the book. |
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| Snowman | Jun 8 2012, 09:24 PM Post #60 |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick -- I liked it. The book has a good pace, it keeps you interested. I liked it a lot more than the movie (Blade Runner), but I think that's mainly because the movie was trying to just be a sci-fi action movie and the book was also about humanity and other not-action stuff. Actually, when action did happen, it wasn't really drawn out at all. As for the characters, well, there's only two that I would call main characters. They're described well enough. Hmm... Yes, I would recommend this to a friend. If that friend liked sci-fi. |
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