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Post by andreaisabbbw on Mar 6, 2012 23:07:03 GMT -5
I still haven't finished reading GoT. I'm being a lazy ass right now with all my reading. I did, however, just acquire a huge selection of Christopher Pike books and am having a blast rekindling my earlier reading days...I just didn't expect most of these books to be so bad.
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Post by Kori on Mar 8, 2012 1:21:37 GMT -5
I've just started on Brave New World. For some reason I'm on a huge dystopia kick lately, but I'm enjoying it. ^^
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Mar 8, 2012 1:26:58 GMT -5
I've just started on Brave New World. For some reason I'm on a huge dystopia kick lately, but I'm enjoying it. ^^ This kick bears the official Nora Seal of Approval. |
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Post by sammybluejay on Jun 5, 2012 13:21:04 GMT -5
Augh, Brave New World is FANTASTIC. Easily one of my favourite modernist books EVER.  I'm halfway through the Children of the Earth series by Jean M. Auel - Clan of the Cave Bear is the first one, but I finished that and Valley of the Horses and am halfway through The Mammoth Hunters. I read these books YEEEARS ago and remembered really liking them, though going through them now I'm amazed my parents let me considering there's a gratuitous sex scene every single chapter. They're good, though, and really good for people interested in ancient history considering it's all about like the neanderthals and mammoths and stuff. I'm doing a shit job describing it, but they're good. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 5, 2012 22:25:08 GMT -5
Oh, I'm glad to hear that! Clan of the Cave Bear has been on my shelf, waiting to be read, for over ten years. And yeah, I'm surprised my mom let me get it, if it's so scandalous... But hey, I'll bump it up the to-read list.
I'm currently rereading old favorites, BECAUSE I CAN and because I lost interest in American Gods, which I'm in the middle of and will return to soon, I promise. Reread Sabriel first -- hadn't in about a decade, and had forgotten most of the plot, but adored it still. Then the sequels, Lirael and Abhorsen -- enjoyable together, but incomplete apart. Hoping to get my hands on Garth Nix's collection of short stories in Sabriel's universe ASAP.
Currently rereading Kushiel's Dart (speaking of gratuitous sex scenes!). I read it first only two years ago, so I remember it all in great detail, but I'd been wanting to revisit it, and then Felicia Day told me to, and who am I to question Felicia Day? Anyway, mostway through that now, and having a bunch of fun.
I'll finish up American Gods after, really I will. Maybe. Urgh.
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Post by sammybluejay on Jun 6, 2012 7:49:14 GMT -5
Oh, I'm glad to hear that! Clan of the Cave Bear has been on my shelf, waiting to be read, for over ten years. And yeah, I'm surprised my mom let me get it, if it's so scandalous... But hey, I'll bump it up the to-read list. Actually, Clan of the Cave Bear is probably the book in the series with the LEAST sex. It's in the third one, the one I'm on now, that it starts to show up really heavily. Also, that doesn't sound good about American Gods. D: I have it on my kindle and I was going to read it after I finish this series - what are you finding boring about it? Like is the plot just not holding your attention? |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 6, 2012 17:11:57 GMT -5
Also, that doesn't sound good about American Gods. D: I have it on my kindle and I was going to read it after I finish this series - what are you finding boring about it? Like is the plot just not holding your attention? Yeah... I'm about halfway through, and so far the plot is extremely slow. I have the feeling it'll pick up eventually, but I'm also not terribly invested in the main character, so I found I just didn't care enough to slog through the slow stuff. But enough people have spoken highly of it that I'm not writing the whole book off. Plus, many of the side characters are intriguing... The narrator, though, doesn't hold me. |
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Gina
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Post by Gina on Jul 10, 2012 9:36:05 GMT -5
I'm reading It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. It's my summer reading assignment. ;D
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jul 10, 2012 14:44:00 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300] ANNOUNCEMENT[/glow] I've started Fifty Shades of Grey.And I'm tumbling my progress, line by line, with commentary, at fiftyshadesofreason.tumblr.com. You should all go look, because this book is so terrible and the commentary is so scathing. Also, we have ridiculous tags, such as "a very small man can cast a very large foreshadow" and "hyphen! you can remember it because it sounds like HYMEN". Goooo looooooook. |
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Jul 14, 2012 4:08:20 GMT -5
By GODS. I salute your valiant endeavor in reading that ~book. I read the last page, laughed my ass off, tried flipping through a few scenes and laughed some more, and then quit the ~book. Have you reached the tampon scene yet? EWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEW
Also: I AM ALMOST DONE WITH GoT. I AM HAVING ALL OF THESE JON SNOW FEELINGS FOR SOME REASON.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jul 15, 2012 0:53:17 GMT -5
By GODS. I salute your valiant endeavor in reading that ~book. I read the last page, laughed my ass off, tried flipping through a few scenes and laughed some more, and then quit the ~book. Have you reached the tampon scene yet? EWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEW Also: I AM ALMOST DONE WITH GoT. I AM HAVING ALL OF THESE JON SNOW FEELINGS FOR SOME REASON. Ugh, Jon Snow, I am so sick of you. All he ever does is complain. I am sort of looking forward to seeing what happens in his storyline next book, though... Too bad we have to wait for-freakin'-ever to read it. |
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